Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

[ReMeDy]

Has this happened to anyone? Brady retired at the same time as Randy Moss, so I like to think they retreated to an island getaway. I'm confused why Brady retired at such a age, considering he's not super old. Must have been an unlucky roll of the dice.

Ironically, Peyton is still playing despite being older than Brady. Peyton won his team the Superbowl last season against, ironically, the Seattle Seahawks, so I wonder if maybe his Superbowl win kept him from retiring too.

Charles Woodson for my Raiders team ended up retiring fairly young due to a career-ending injury, which I thought was a cool feature, but also sad I lost such a valuable player.

Ray Lewis ending up coming out of retirement. I jumped on him quickly, even though he doesn't fit my scheme. This led me to wonder who else could emerge from retirement. Is it possible for Brett Favre, JaMarcus Russell, or an old Barry Sanders and Jerry Rice to reenter the league?

[Robrain]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

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[PaperExplosives]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Has this happened to anyone? Brady retired at the same time as Randy Moss, so I like to think they retreated to an island getaway. I'm confused why Brady retired at such a age, considering he's not super old. Must have been an unlucky roll of the dice.

Ironically, Peyton is still playing despite being older than Brady. Peyton won his team the Superbowl last season against, ironically, the Seattle Seahawks, so I wonder if maybe his Superbowl win kept him from retiring too.

Charles Woodson for my Raiders team ended up retiring fairly young due to a career-ending injury, which I thought was a cool feature, but also sad I lost such a valuable player.

Ray Lewis ending up coming out of retirement. I jumped on him quickly, even though he doesn't fit my scheme. This led me to wonder who else could emerge from retirement. Is it possible for Brett Favre, JaMarcus Russell, or an old Barry Sanders and Jerry Rice to reenter the league?

Yeah it happens to just about everyone and it's a quite ridiculous. For me, Drew Brees retired after my first season and then came back. Like the idea, but it's executed poorly. Franchise players shouldn't retire while they're still at the top of their game/aren't even that old yet. Players come back and sometimes coaches do too (i.e. Coach Ditka). Favre and Sanders are in their mid 40s and Jerry rice is over 50, so no, they obviously won't return to the NFL.

When it comes to retirement/player signings/player releases, don't expect the game to make any logical sense.

[JulioTheBeast]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Brady retired after the 1st season of my fantasy draft team, but not Peyton.

When I simmed ahead to verify my draft class, Ray Lewis and Mike Ditka (as a coach) came out of retirement.

Lewis was 38 when he became available so I imagine he might just retire again after 1 season.

Anyways you can add hall of famers to enemy teams if you don't have a player or coach on their team already, I added one for each team.

This means you can have elway, marino, montana, young, payton, sanders, faulk, rice, irvin etc all in your league, all as rookies who will be there for 10+ seasons.

They're a lot of fun to go against.

[Masterfocker]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Yeah it happens to just about everyone and it's a quite ridiculous. For me, Drew Brees retired after my first season and then came back. Like the idea, but it's executed poorly. Franchise players shouldn't retire while they're still at the top of their game/aren't even that old yet. Players come back and sometimes coaches do too (i.e. Coach Ditka). Favre and Sanders are in their mid 40s and Jerry rice is over 50, so no, they obviously won't return to the NFL.

When it comes to retirement/player signings/player releases, don't expect the game to make any logical sense.

In my CCM's first year, Brees won league MVP, and then went onto win the SB. He then retired and got into the HoF.

^^That's kinda believable. It's really a hit or miss with Madden this year.

[PaperExplosives]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

In my CCM's first year, Brees won league MVP, and then went onto win the SB. He then retired and got into the HoF.

^^That's kinda believable. It's really a hit or miss with Madden this year.

Yeah but you can kind of sense when an NFL player is gonna retire. Like if Peyton retired after a season it wouldn't be a surprise at all, but I don't see Brees retiring for a few more years. I think EA should have made it to where they announce when the season might be their last. Players usually do that rather than waiting till the very end of the season then going "well I'm retiring. See ya!"

[JulioTheBeast]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Yeah but you can kind of sense when an NFL player is gonna retire. Like if Peyton retired after a season it wouldn't be a surprise at all, but I don't see Brees retiring for a few more years. I think EA should have made it to where they announce when the season might be their last. Players usually do that rather than waiting till the very end of the season then going "well I'm retiring. See ya!"

I don't know if there is a single factor other than age that determines the chance of a player retiring.

They could take the time to either have it vary by position and other factors, like a QB with a very high "production grade" may play into their 40's, or just manually set players like Brady, Manning etc to not retire until late in their 40's.

They no doubt thought of something like this and just said **** it

[fincofei]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

I imagine he might just retire again after 1 season.

[PaperExplosives]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

I don't know if there is a single factor other than age that determines the chance of a player retiring.

They could take the time to either have it vary by position and other factors, like a QB with a very high "production grade" may play into their 40's, or just manually set players like Brady, Manning etc to not retire until late in their 40's.

They no doubt thought of something like this and just said **** it

Late in their 40s???? Nobody plays that long

[macbranson]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Brees, Manning and Brady are all still around in my franchise and I'm in the midst of the playoffs of my third season. Manning won the Super Bowl in 2013 and I thought he might retire afterwards, but didn't. Brees and Brady are in a sharp declining phase and might retire at the end of this season. The Saints haven't been to a playoff game since I started playing and I beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl last year and Brady seems like he's just given up. His stats are pretty average. Manning is still playing at a high level. Cam Newton barely beat him for league MVP, but he's still playing great and has the second highest QB rating in the league and the most passing yards (over 5000).

I had my WR Steve Smith abruptly retire at the end of my first season. He had a good season with close to 90 receptions and over 1500 receiving yards so I don't think production necessarily impacts a olayer's decision to retire. Seems completely random.

[srtutruwsryus]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Has this happened to anyone?

[yjdykyjen]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Has this happened to anyone?

[RecordBreakerCF]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

I've had Tom Brady retire, but never in first offseason.

[GLASS87]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

I'm currently in my 3rd year as the Cardinals. I went into my first offseason and noticed Carson Palmer had vanished - so I assumed he retired. Brady and Manning both retired my first year and then both returned the 3rd and wanted 17mil for a year long contract - and got it!

[fyukfyuken]

Re: Retirement stories. Tom Brady retired in my first offseason.

Has this happened to anyone?