Brother, you speak the truth. I started out with my skill when I got the game, and the first few games were great. I am an outstanding passer in Madden. After a while the game just got waaaay too hard. One thing you can do is when you find the right My skill settings, just don't save your user profile anymore.
I ended up having to use custom sliders. I started at All Pro, but had to raise some sliders up to All Madden level and take some down like CPU INTs and User INTs. CPU pass rushing needed to be increased in order for me to not tear apart the CPU with my passing game. Now if I could just get better at pass defense
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