[Analyzer52]

I believe I have an idea as to why it's being said that the game does not play the same in play now, and know how to fix it.

When you go to the global setting and change it to all madden and then enter your player skills and CPU skills it changes from all madden to custom in the global setting. The way you fix this is to enter your player skills and CPU skills as listed on the first page of this thread. After you have them entered, manually save them. Go back to the global settings, you will notice it says custom instead of all madden. Change this back to all madden. Then go back to your player skills you will notice these have changed from what you set the first time due to the global All Madden setting. To get your setting back and keep it saying All Madden in the global setting, you need to load your player skill settings and cpu settings instead of manually putting them in. Once you have them loaded back out and go back to the global settings and you should see it now says all madden with your correct player skills and CPU skills matching what's on the first page of this thread.

This should give you the same game play in play now as connected careers.