Game 2 of Saints CFM, vs Bucs in the Dome. I'm not sure if this game was just an anomaly or what but I've never had a game like this on Madden before. It was a good game for the most part but Brees was just in another stratosphere. And it wasn't the drive goal bug because he was on fire from the first play. I have seen Rogers I think have a game like this once in real life but it is very unusual. He went 22/23 for 284 yds, 3 TD, no picks. The ground game was actually very realistic, all the yards were hard earned and I was seriously pounding the rock in the whole second half just trying to chew the clock after taking a nice lead into the locker room. I had one drive where I never threw the ball once, it ended in a FG.
This is with all the latest updates except CPU INT at 42 and of course I made the change of CPU PDR to 4 from 8 where I accidentally had it for the previous game. Maybe I need to put it back to 8! What was the reasoning for moving USER TAK to 45, Tampa had a much harder time running the ball that the Cards and that was the only change that could have affected that I think.
Auto subs seemed pretty good, 13 carries for Spiller is quite a bit. Not sure how to really tell about the other players, is there a way to see who else is being subbed? I mean I can occasionally notice some defensive players being subbed but it's hard to tell about the OL on field.
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints |
| Jan 1, | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | SCORE |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-1) | 0 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 23 |
| New Orleans Saints (1-0) | 3 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 37 |
| Team Stats Comparison |
| TAM | NOR |
| Total Offense | 284 | 479 |
| Rushing Yards | 42 | 218 |
| Passing Yards | 242 | 261 |
| First Downs | 11 | 24 |
| Punt Return Yards | 0 | 0 |
| Kick Return Yards | 209 | 77 |
| Total Yards | 493 | 556 |
| Turnovers | 2 | 0 |
| 3rd Down Converstion | 5-8 (62%) | 6-6 (100%) |
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| 2-Point Conversion | 2-2 (100%) |
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| Red Zone Touchdowns/Field Goals | 1/0 | 3/3 |
| Penalties | 1-15 | 3-15 |
| Posession Time | 18:12 | 41:48 |
| Scoring Summary |
| OVERTIME SCORING | TAM | NOR |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | | PASSING | C/A | YDS | TD | INT | | Winston | 18/26 (69%) | 251 | 2 | 2 | | RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | | Martin | 7 | 21 | 3 |
| | Winston | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 1 | | Rainey | 2 | 16 | 8 |
| | RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | | Martin | 5 | 12 | 2.4 |
| | Evans | 5 | 98 | 19.6 |
| | Shepard | 3 | 68 | 22.6 | 1 | | Jackson | 2 | 36 | 18 | 1 | | Williams | 2 | 21 | 10.5 |
| | Stocker | 1 | 16 | 16 |
| | DEFENSE | TACK | SACK | INT | TD | | McDougald | 14 |
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| | Verner | 10 |
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| | David | 12 | 1.5 |
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| | Lansanah | 14 | .5 |
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| | Carter | 6 |
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| | Conte | 10 |
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| | Swearinger | 6 |
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| | Johnson | 4 | .5 |
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| | Shepard | 1 |
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| | Martin | 1 |
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| | Smith | 4 | .5 |
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| | Banks | 4 |
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| | Melton | 2 |
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| | KICKING | FG | XP | PTS | LONG | | Suisham |
| 1/1 | 1 |
| | PUNTING | NO | YDS | AVG | IN20 | | Lanning | 2 | 84 | 42 |
| | KICK RETURN | RET | YDS | AVG | TD | | Banks | 7 | 183 | 26.1 |
| | Shepard | 1 | 26 | 26 |
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| | New Orleans Saints | | PASSING | C/A | YDS | TD | INT | | Brees | 22/23 (95%) | 284 | 3 | 0 | | RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | | Ingram | 30 | 115 | 3.8 | 1 | | Spiller | 13 | 98 | 7.5 |
| | Brees | 2 | 5 | 2.5 |
| | RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | | Ingram | 6 | 37 | 6.1 |
| | Watson | 5 | 60 | 12 | 1 | | Cooks | 4 | 98 | 24.5 | 1 | | Colston | 3 | 45 | 15 |
| | Coleman | 2 | 32 | 16 | 1 | | Spiller | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| | Charles | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| | DEFENSE | TACK | SACK | INT | TD | | Jean-Baptiste | 6 |
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| | Williams | 3 | 1 |
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| | Lewis | 2 |
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| | Kikaha | 2 |
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| | Hawthorne | 5 |
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| | Browner | 4 |
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| | Charles | 1 |
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| | Vaccaro | 2 |
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| | Jordan | 1 |
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| | Bush | 2 |
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| | Jenkins | 1 |
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| | Edebali | 1 |
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| | Sanford | 5 |
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| | Byrd | 5 |
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| | Johnson | 1 |
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| | KICKING | FG | XP | PTS | LONG | | Hopkins | 3/3 | 4/4 | 13 | 25 | | KICK RETURN | RET | YDS | AVG | TD | | Cooks | 2 | 53 | 26.5 |
| | Spiller | 1 | 21 | 21 |
| | Morgan | 1 | 3 | 3 |
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