This is awful excuse making for Madden, IMO. 'Anything can happen' shouldn't mean a team doesn't sign their franchise QB after they win the Super Bowl. That's just bad programming and bad AI logic.
'Anything can happen' should represent teams acting logically but separate from the real world. As the Dallas Cowboys I just traded WR Michael Gallup, a good WR with nice stats at a position of which I had an abundance of talent, for S Juan Thornhill, a player that in only his second year of play is having his playing time reduced (possibly because of injury, possibly because of other things). The Chiefs needed WR help, I needed secondary help so both teams benefited and it logically made sense.
That's something that should be happening in Madden that would fall under 'anything can happen' but it still makes logical sense.
Franchise players don't want to know something will happen 100% of the time with no deviation, they just want the computer to act logically. In the case of not signing their Super Bowl winning QB, that's the opposite.
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This is a touchy subject.
Let's look over two scenarios that we NEVER thought would have happened, but did:
-Manning leaving the colts
-Brady leaving the Pat's
I remember over roughly 3-4 years in Madden that these two would end up in the free agent pool, and people lost their minds.
Point short, anything can happen. You have to investigate, salary issues, age, up and coming back-up.
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Those are 2 instances where players on the very back end of their careers (one who didn't play at all in his last season with the Colts which led to them being able to draft a generational type talent at the QB position and the other was a player in his 40s for a team that maybe knew it wasn't going to compete in 2020). Those are very unique circumstances in which those QBs moved cities and maintained a high level of play that far into their careers.
What we're talking about is a young QB who just won the Super Bowl not being re-signed. It's badly programmed AI. Unless Baker was dragged kicking and screaming for multiple years, there's no way the Browns would let him go.
Won't talk for the OP's situation but I've seen Mayfield in the free agent pool multiple times already and the main culprit is probably the salary cap and the AI's inability to cope with it. It's so broken in Madden that you get five years into a franchise and players rated in the 90s go unsigned in Free Agency so they get a revolving door of one year deals as soon as the CPU can sign them in the Preseason.
The salary cap and team management is in such a need of a redesign in Madden it isn't even funny. The AI has relatively zero ability to plan things in advance. I would bet that the Browns re-sign a lot of their own players to bloated contracts the year before they have to re-sign Baker that leaves them with not enough cap space to sign Mayfield.
Madden gives you little incentive to even play past the first year or two in CFM though so I can see why they don't really care about how teams manage themselves in the future of the mode.