This is awesome. There are A LOT of great thoughts for additions in this thread. With a lot of game related additions, a few of note for me are a bit more usability related.
User experience in the menus
The menus...my goodness. I will say they are much more streamlined and clean this time around, but for the love of gamers please make it more user friendly. One of the biggest peeves I have is when I hit Circle or B to back out of a menu. Just let it back up one level instead of going back to the main screen or resetting.
For example, when I'm going through my roster to find which guys to cut, I sort through to a specific position let's say WR. I check WR 6's player card to check his traits in order to be able to compare him to WR 5, etc., back out of the player card, then I'm back at the full roster list of all positions...
I would love for when I back out of the player card for a WR for it to go back to the WR position group so I could continue my process without having to re-sort every time.
Player card
This brings me to my second thought, the player card. I love the new menu with all of the options on the left, huge upgrade from last year. Maybe again it's the fact that after I check the traits, it backs out to a full roster menu, but I think something needs to be done here. There has to be a more intuitive way to get this information on players. Would it make sense to add to their traits the player's development level of slow, normal, quick or superstar? I just think it's out of the way to have to go to Upgrade Player, then shift over as if you’re going to upgrade him in order to find out a player's development.
Also, maybe add something where if I hit RB or R1 while in the player card, it takes me to the next player on the roster instead of having to back out and do the process all over again??
Compare players.
If we could add to the console a way to compare two (or more) players. I know this is a feature on the website where you can compare up to 4 players, but the option to find FAs absolutely sucks online. I would love to be able to click players to compare them side by side with free agent options as well as those on my own roster. If there was something that allowed me to compare say FS A on my team to the top two free agent FSs that would be awesome. I’ve found myself on too many occasions jotting down attributes on paper to be able to go back and compare them to a FA’s attributes. Maybe something could be developed in a wishlist style comparison like what is done for the draft.
Formation Subs
Lastly, bring back formation subs. I don't think this needs much detail.