Just bought Madden last night. Spent last night playing a Career with a free safety. But today set up my Broncos franchise and used these sliders and settings. All-Pro, 15 minute quarters. This was my first game. Keep in mind this is the first full game I've played on Madden 15. Didn't own Madden the last 2 years.
| Indianapolis Colts at Denver Broncos |
| Jan 1, | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | SCORE |
| Indianapolis Colts (0-1) | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Denver Broncos (1-0) | 7 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 33 |
| Team Stats Comparison |
| IND | DEN |
| Total Offense | 222 | 394 |
| Rushing Yards | 99 | 144 |
| Passing Yards | 123 | 250 |
| First Downs | 12 | 20 |
| Punt Return Yards | 12 | 11 |
| Kick Return Yards | 72 | 40 |
| Total Yards | 306 | 445 |
| Turnovers | 1 | 0 |
| 3rd Down Converstion | 4-11 | 8-13 |
| 4th Down Conversion | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2-Point Conversion | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Red Zone Touchdowns/Field Goals | 1-0 | 3-1 |
| Penalties | 0-0 | 2-10 |
| Posession Time | 25:30 | 34:25 |
| Indianapolis Colts | | PASSING | C/A | YDS | TD | INT | | A. Luck | 22/30 | 150 | 1 | 1 | | RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | | A. Bradshaw | 17 | 93 | 5.4 | 0 | | T. Richardson | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 0 | | RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | | R. Wayne | 6 | 53 | 8.8 | 0 | | C. Fleener | 8 | 43 | 5.3 | 0 | | H. Nicks | 3 | 18 | 6 | 1 | | T. Hilton | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | | D. Rogers | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | | S. Havili | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | | A. Bradshaw | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | | DEFENSE | TACK | SACK | INT | TD | | R. Jean Francois | | 1 | | | | A. Jones | | 1 | | | | R. Mathis | | 1 | | |
| | Denver Broncos | | PASSING | C/A | YDS | TD | INT | | P. Manning | 23/26 | 278 | 2 | 0 | | RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | | M. Ball | 29 | 115 | 3.9 | 0 | | R. Hillman | 5 | 29 | 5.8 | 1 | | RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | | W. Welker | 5 | 99 | 19.8 | 0 | | E. Sanders | 3 | 69 | 23 | 0 | | D. Thomas | 5 | 44 | 8.8 | 1 | | J. Thomas | 5 | 35 | 7 | 1 | | M. Ball | 4 | 16 | 4 | 0 | | V. Green | 1 | 15 | 15 | 0 | | DEFENSE | TACK | SACK | INT | TD | | T. Knighton | | 4 | | | | V. Miller | | 1 | | |
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Some thoughts:
- The 4 sacks for Terrance Knighton is obviously alarming. I have read a little bit on this board that the pass rush seems to be broken no matter what you do with the sliders, is this true? If anybody was going to get 4 sacks on Denver it would be Von or DeMarcus Ware.
- Conversely, Indy did sack me 3 times, but they were all my fault, holding the ball excessively long. They never got to me within a reasonable amount of time.
- At first I was worried that the running game just wasn't going to work for me with these sliders. I averaged like 2.5 yards per carry in the 1st half. But I figured it out in the 2nd half and ripped off some nice gains consistently. It feels pretty good.
- Luck refused to throw the ball further than 12 yards down the field. As you can see by his numbers, and the fact that he threw 10 of his 22 completions to TE's or RB's. His interception did come on a deep pass.
I'll give these some more usage and see if I can't get a QB to throw for a solid 250-275 on me. I doubt it will be Alex Smith, and the Seahawks will probably be content to rush for 200 yards on me, but we'll see what happens.