First thing you will do in franchise mode

[FreshAppleJews]

Will you do a fantasy draft or keep it original? What team will you be? Any key players your looking to acquire? Are you excited to use some of the rookies this year?

[Shroom]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

I'll take my Chargers to the Super Bowl. Can Norv Turner. Then look towards the future.

[codyj123_321]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Give Brady Quinn the chance he deserves.

[Sdrawkcab321]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

i take the browns. first thing i do is look at the free agents. i try to not sign anyone too highly rated that will really effect the games to keep it true to life. mostly just backups.

[FreshAppleJews]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

I'll take my Chargers to the Super Bowl. Can Norv Turner. Then look towards the future.

Haha good luck against my Dolphins! I will use my Dolphins and try to get a couple more players I think we need(free safety and probably a better tight end). Hopefully I can win rookie of the year for Daniel Thomas, shut up the Henne haters, and win the AFC East! I'll import rosters from NCAA and then draft B.J Daniels from USF to have a speedy quaterback and hopefully use him on a couple of downs

[Faizon]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

First thing I think I'll do is start a 32 team franchise and spy on all the potentials, then

Real teams
Seahawks
Trade for Jake Locker - feel obligated to trade Carpenter for him so it was really like he's the first round pick

Or maybe I'll take a look at Josh Portis's stats and roll with him

[sharebear420]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Draft barry sanders.. if there will be legends in fantasy draft like 10 that is...

[FlyEaglesFly3]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Nnamdi, DRC, Asante.

Trade Asante for some LBs. Most likely 2. (Asante, 1st and 2nd for Patrick Willis?)

I always like to get my favorite draftees I wanted the Eagles to get.

Da'Quan Bowers
Nate Irving
Kelvin Sheppard
Rodney Hudson

Keep the rest of my offense as is.

[SFNiner]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

-Create Andrew Luck (Nothing crazy, making him high 70s, low 80s..Probably copy the ratings of someone like Kolb...Refuse to play with Alex Smith again)

-Create myself at Tailback (do this with every Madden game I play. Again, nothing crazy like 99 across the board. Actually losing talent at this position because Gore is higher rated.

-Putting Gore on the trading block for pick(s)

-Releasing Moran Norris

-Moving Delanie Walker to FB

[WindyCityFanatic]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Play as the Bears, Like I have ever since I first started playing Madden when I was nine years old...

-See if Mike Brown is in the game so I can sign him to mentor Major Wright

-Commit to running the football

-Keep Jay Cutler upright with drafting a RG and a C

-Drafting a Sam Backer to complement Urlacher and Briggs

-Draft a physical CB

-SWEEP the NFC North and take the Bears to a Superbowl.

-My final thing is keeping all my coaching staff and downloading that cheat to come out of retirement for Urlacher so he plays till he is 20 years pro.

[WindyCityFanatic]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Give Brady Quinn the chance he deserves.

or jimmy clausen

[NYJin2009tm]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Cut 80 yr old Mark Brunell from my Jets and get a real vet backup qb. Somehow get Cotchery back too.

[kjjnesb]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Sign Drew Brees to an extension

[Zastrin]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Playing as the Panthers - cut Derek Anderson and bring back Jake Delhomme.

[X12Celtics3]

Re: First thing you will do in franchise mode

Play as the Patriots. First thing will be to look through the free agent pool to see if there are any former Patriots or players that I just happen to like available. Second thing will be to explore the possibility of trading Brandon Meriweather, but I probably won't actually trade him until I see how he does in real life this year. Then I'll play the pre-season games and begin scouting... I always start by scouting the rare players who are sized to play OLB or DE in the 3-4, it seems like 80% of the players at those positions are 4-3 guys.