Problem arises with new rosters

[gdublotothese]

So its cool and all that they expanded the rosters. But when you start a franchise and have to cut the players, and you do the real life cuts, it doesnt let you play a game. For instance, the redskins only have erik cook backing up center and guard, but after i make the cuuts and go into the regular seas, it says "coach shanahan, you do not haev enough Guards to play a game"...this is unreal, i cant even play with the real life roster....and i kno some of you are going to say just move another lineman into that postition, but i cant, there is only 1 backup for the 2 guards and center position=erik cook. and again with nose tackle...most teams only carry 2, but the game makes you have 3..i cant stand this S

[tril]

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its not broken, either auto fix the roster or use your gm skills and release another player and sign a guard or reassign an existing player to guard in your depth chart.
its not broken. I had the same issue

[enzo21]

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The Redskins' strong safeties and free safeties are flipped for some reason with these new rosters

[juicer420]

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So its cool and all that they expanded the rosters. But when you start a franchise and have to cut the players, and you do the real life cuts, it doesnt let you play a game. For instance, the redskins only have erik cook backing up center and guard, but after i make the cuuts and go into the regular seas, it says "coach shanahan, you do not haev enough Guards to play a game"...this is unreal, i cant even play with the real life roster....and i kno some of you are going to say just move another lineman into that postition, but i cant, there is only 1 backup for the 2 guards and center position=erik cook. and again with nose tackle...most teams only carry 2, but the game makes you have 3..i cant stand this S

Yep, I knew this would be an issue. In franchise, you have to basically carry 10 offensive lineman on your roster, but no team in the NFL actually carries 10 lineman on the roster. At the most, some teams carry 9. But on the active roster, they tend to carry 7. A back up swing tackle and an interior lineman that can play G/C.

Not a diss to the devs, because I know they work hard and try, but they need some help over there. Sometimes, it just seems like they don't know enough about football to correctly develop a game. It's a shame, because consumers have no other option because they cornered the market. And now we're stuck with a medicore game when we should have an A grade game considering the market and fanbase. Sorry for the rant, just another frustrated fan here.

[gdublotothese]

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i know its not broken...it just sucks, i cant use the real life roster, its a pain in the A...previous years donny jut made the 53 man rosters n problem solved...it wouldnt ask me to sign another dt cuz donny did it...but since we have to maually cut the player it says u cant..unbelievable....so i gotta put some jo shmo on my team thats not on the team in real life...sucks

[JayD]

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agreed, they should of kept the reserve players on the rosters just for franchise mode. Now we are stuck with generated players filling out the roster, lame!!!!

[deathstryk3]

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agreed, they should of kept the reserve players on the rosters just for franchise mode. Now we are stuck with generated players filling out the roster, lame!!!!

Dido... I asked him on twitter to give us franchise players wiggle room, by just giving 75 man rosters, so when we start the franchise we have the ability to have real UDFA camp invites and we/COM can do our own cuts. At least til patch comes out to help with year 2. So sad, buy I guess EA feels they can't please everyone

[tonybologna]

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agreed, they should of kept the reserve players on the rosters just for franchise mode. Now we are stuck with generated players filling out the roster, lame!!!!

I agree but we're left with changing those players to practice squad players or real-life NFL FA's. We can edit those generated players, right? I haven't fully looked into this yet. Thanks!

[NFLfan80]

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Do you guys have the launch day downloadable rosters?

[JayD]

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Do you guys have the launch day downloadable rosters?

I wish, I saved over the old file thinking that the 75 man roster would still be there but nope. I just don't see how they think releasing a 55 or less man roster would be better than a 75 man roster? Why not use the new feature they added this year? Stupid!!!!!

[bigbob]

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You guys are acting like this is new. You've ALWAYS had to have four guards, four tackles and two centers in Madden.

[WindyCityFanatic]

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You guys are acting like this is new. You've ALWAYS had to have four guards, four tackles and two centers in Madden.

I don't know why people are complaining now instead of 6 years ago when this was still a problem. I personally HATE this. I have always and that is the one thing I have always admired about NFL2k5, that there was no roster position restrictions.

[bigbob]

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I don't know why people are complaining now instead of 6 years ago when this was still a problem. I personally HATE this. I have always and that is the one thing I have always admired about NFL2k5, that there was no roster position restrictions.

I could understand if it was new, which is what the OP is implying, but as I stated and you stated, it's been in the game for years.

[gdublotothese]

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Yes but when Donny Moore did the rosters he could override it cuz all the time last year the redskins didn't have enough lineman or DT's but since Donny did the rosters it wouldn't say add more players unless you messed with it by signing other people. So it kind of is a new problem in that now u have to cut 20 dudes b4 the season and we can't just play with the simple 53...how do we fix this...I am tired of signing a bunch of scrabini's

[Manning2Harrison]

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I've been saying for years that the arbitrary roster requirements need to be done away with. And I know it can be done because the guys at football-freaks who extended the the life of Madden 08 PC by modding it for following seasons made it so you could have 3 T, 3 G, and 1 C.