Your Madden Career MVP.
 

What player in your career playing (offense and defense) Madden do you think you've accumulated the most stats with?

Mine is probably Matt Hasselbeck thanks to the fact that I've ran some intense franchises with the Seahawks the past few seasons.

Although I played a TON of seasons in Madden 2001 with the Bucs and dominated with Warrick Dunn.



On defense I'm going to say Derrick Brooks. I could get a sack every other play with him in Madden 01. He was a beast.

Re: Your Madden Career MVP.
 

Donovan McNabb. Easily, the guy was my team's QB from Madden 2000 until Madden 11 came out.

Re: Your Madden Career MVP.
 

Probably showing my age here a little bit... But as far as hours played, my heyday was probably back during the Sega Genesis era. So my choice without a doubt is Randall Cunningham. He was simply the man for a span of a few years in the early/mid 90s.

Re: Your Madden Career MVP.
 

I was going to say Randall as well, I used to destroy people with him in Madden 95. I can't really think of those old games as real "Madden" because of the graphic changes haha.

Re: Your Madden Career MVP.
 

Brian Westbrook and Donovan McNabb

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Back when a friend of mine and I played Franchise mode on Madden 03, Cunningham was in the default rosters [pre-internet roster updates.] We wanted to be "the worst teams in the game" and Atlanta and the Texans were the lowest rated by OVR team ratings. I took Huston. I also took Cunningham to be my back up QB and made the joke, calling him my "Carr" insurance. As luck would have it, week 1 against the Cowboys near the end of the 1st quarter, David Carr goes down for what would end up being 11 weeks. Cunningham takes over and he ended up becoming league MVP that year. I also had traded the Lion for a favorite receiver of mine, former SF 49ers Tai Streets to be my #3 man on 3rds downs like in real life. I also made a move with the Titans for Frank Wycheck. So, rookie Andre Johnson with Frank Wycheck at TE and a 3rd down target I could trust, I was tearing it up offensively. We lost in the first round of the playoffs. When David was healthy, I told him to ride the bench like I should have from the start with a rookie QB.

Now, since then, Vernon Davis has been my man. Since his rookie year in Madden 07, Vernon has been the best TE in Madden. If I take my default rosters and take Davis [which I obviously still have my 07 and play it from time to time] and only raise his Run Blocking from it's default 53 or so up to a still low 68, his OVR rating shoots up from 86 to 93 OVR, and that just makes him tied as the 10th best run blocking TE in football, where in real life experts are calling him #1 and have for a few years. Vernon weaknesses are hard to determine in Madden. His attitude was one weakness that didn't change until Singletary. He was also hurt for a large part of his first two years in the league, but not in Madden. In Madden, he was better than Alex Smith let him be. You had to go into training camp, or throw a lot of short accurate passes in the first 5 weeks to get Alex's throwing accuracy to raise in the progression [for week 5] high enough to get Davis the ball deep on those play action flag routes. Once Alex could hit Davis in Stride on Flag Routes and over the top on Texas plays, it was over. Nobody could cover him. Too fast for line backers, too big for corners to tackle.

That doesn't mean I went 16-0 in my games, or that Davis got a million trillion TDs, but playing on adjusted All-madden like sliders, Davis would often come through in the clutch for me many times. Him and Gore would get me at least a TD each in a game. in those close games, that was sometimes just enough to get the edge. maybe a big catch down field to get my into FG range? I know RMoody is no longer here at OS, but he told me how he would trade for Davis to get him on his Colts and tear it up.

Anyone who didn't know about or use Vernon Davis all these years was really missing out.

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OMG yes on the Vernon points. I really liked last year when his OVR dipped, and you could get him cheap.

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Oh yeah, in that franchise I was talking about, my friend was the falcons but Vick's accuracy was so bad he couldn't throw to save his life. My friend benched him and went with his back up [the guy before Matt Schaub, Doug Johnson?] I asked if I could trade for Vick, offering a lot, and he said "with what you do with Cunningham, [bleep] no! I'd rather he rot at the bottom of my depth chart than deal with that every other game." Lols.