Yes Indeed! If you like team building and can stand watching some rough football....then try it. It's honestly the most fun I have playing Madden. It is even better if you can get multiple friends to play as well, which is what we have going.
Couple things to note: We had 6 teams going into this that had to cut players...which all then signed with the CPU. The CPU teams are pretty stacked after taking most of our top end talent. Marshall/Thomas/Haden/Revis/Hilton just to name a few who hit the market.
One guy in our league choose to save Andrew Luck...we then proceeded to cut his entire o-line, most of his WRs, his HB, and his TE. I think his best WR is ~60 overall and he has all of 2 seconds to throw the ball. Aside from Luck...he has 0 talent on the offensive side of the ball. Even after cutting all of that...we still managed to get a few of his top defensive players.
Watching each other struggle is just as fun as struggling through it.
Like I said...my first season game against the Eagles was a narrow 13-10 win. On 6 min quarters...the Eagles had the ball for 4:30....I had it for the other 19:30. I methodically worked my way down the field with Kessler at QB, and using 3 different HBs. I had 7 different players catch the ball.
As for defense...it's intense. My D-Line just gets train wrecked currently...we aren't getting any pressure without the blitz...even then...my best Dlinmen is a 74. I normally ballhawk as a roaming OLB or Safety. I use a mix of 4-3, 3-4, Nickel, and Quarter in order to make up for lack of talent. I think Wentz had 10 seconds on one play to throw....Play calling is extremely important.
On the Eagles touchdown play...their WR broke 2 tackles and managed to outrun the third guy. It often takes 2 or 3 guys swarming to the football to take down the better players. In addition, I recall making 2 TD saving open field tackles as well. Again...having severe talent deficiencies often puts you into some rough spots.
Best of luck and let me know if you gonna try it!
One last note...the only current real issue I forsee going foward is that the offseason may be too easy....I currently have $100 million in cap space.