Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

[Mysterious]

Hey everyone,

I always find the trade discussion threads for games are filled with a lot of people that gripe about what people do ... getting down on people because whatever they traded for wasn't realistic in their eyes and think that's somehow makes them bad people. LOL. I personally think people take playing a video game WAY too seriously ... It's a video game to be played for fun and so long as what you're doing is making you happy what's wrong with that? It's not hurting anyone. (no offence to those of you who give yourself ulcers over worrying whether the trade would likely happen in real life)

I'm always curious what people do with the franchises they choose to play. Who they chose to run with, how they chose to mould the team through trades or free agency, why they did a specific trade, etc.

So if you want to chat about your franchise, what trades and signings you did, how well or how poorly you're doing, and what you've done to try to mould your team into the team you want to play with feel free to discuss it here. There will be no criticism regarding realism or whether one trade was overweighted or underweighted. Just some fun lighthearted discussion. And maybe it might give somebody an idea for their team if you're playing the same team.




I'm running with my beloved Raiders


I don't usually do a lot of trades but I thought I'd have some fun this year trying to see if I could address the needs of my team based on what the game is saying to me and based on some deficiencies on what I'd like to play towards. I tried to find some trades that were somewhat reasonable where I could upgrade certain aspects of a position or trade for a stud by giving up a reasonable player and significant draft choices the following year. I figured if I can secure a couple players with some years left to play at a reasonable level I'd be willing to give up some future prospects


MY TRADES...

****#1****

WR Andre Holmes
SS Nate Allen
5th round draft pick next season

to the Steelers

WR Martavis Bryant
SS Shamarko Thomas

I did this trade because I wanted to get a slot receiver that had more speed. Holmes was OK but definitely not as quick as Bryant. And I like to run a lot of crossing in slot post patterns where that extra burst of speed is helpful. I also really want to get Karl Joseph on the field as a starter to see how he would progress since he's a rookie. His stats were comparable or better in some aspects to Allen so I figured I'd offload him to help upgrade my WRs.


****#2****

CB TJ Carrie
7th round draft pick next season

To the Broncos

CB Bradley Roby

This trade was basically a trade off for some added speed and some better awareness and zoneg and man coverage. Speedy slot receivers are always tricky to deal with so it seemed like a logical upgrade


****#3****

3rd round draft pick next season
4th round draft pick next season
DT Justin Ellis

To the Panthers

DT Star Lotulelei

I plan to play a lot more 4–3 then the Raiders normally do, I still will play some 3–4, but I generally prefer to start early first downs with a strong 4–3 defence which of course requires a solid centre so this upgrade was a must. Traded speed for more strength


****#4****

2nd round draft pick next season
TE Michael Riviera

To the Bills

TE Charles Clay

Really wasn't a fan of the Raiders TEs. Wanted to get one good solid starting TE that had some good speed, some good catching ability, and was a decent runningépass blocker. Traded away a decent guy and a high draft pick to try to justify it.

[rich8682]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

Hey everyone,

I always find the trade discussion threads for games are filled with a lot of people that gripe about what people do ... getting down on people because whatever they traded for wasn't realistic in their eyes and think that's somehow makes them bad people. LOL. I personally think people take playing a video game WAY too seriously ... It's a video game to be played for fun and so long as what you're doing is making you happy what's wrong with that? It's not hurting anyone. (no offence to those of you who give yourself ulcers over worrying whether the trade would likely happen in real life)

I'm always curious what people do with the franchises they choose to play. Who they chose to run with, how they chose to mould the team through trades or free agency, why they did a specific trade, etc.

So if you want to chat about your franchise, what trades and signings you did, how well or how poorly you're doing, and what you've done to try to mould your team into the team you want to play with feel free to discuss it here. There will be no criticism regarding realism or whether one trade was overweighted or underweighted. Just some fun lighthearted discussion. And maybe it might give somebody an idea for their team if you're playing the same team.




I'm running with my beloved Raiders


I don't usually do a lot of trades but I thought I'd have some fun this year trying to see if I could address the needs of my team based on what the game is saying to me and based on some deficiencies on what I'd like to play towards. I tried to find some trades that were somewhat reasonable where I could upgrade certain aspects of a position or trade for a stud by giving up a reasonable player and significant draft choices the following year. I figured if I can secure a couple players with some years left to play at a reasonable level I'd be willing to give up some future prospects


MY TRADES...

****#1****

WR Andre Holmes
SS Nate Allen
5th round draft pick next season

to the Steelers

WR Martavis Bryant
SS Shamarko Thomas

I did this trade because I wanted to get a slot receiver that had more speed. Holmes was OK but definitely not as quick as Bryant. And I like to run a lot of crossing in slot post patterns where that extra burst of speed is helpful. I also really want to get Karl Joseph on the field as a starter to see how he would progress since he's a rookie. His stats were comparable or better in some aspects to Allen so I figured I'd offload him to help upgrade my WRs.


****#2****

CB TJ Carrie
7th round draft pick next season

To the Broncos

CB Bradley Roby

This trade was basically a trade off for some added speed and some better awareness and zoneg and man coverage. Speedy slot receivers are always tricky to deal with so it seemed like a logical upgrade


****#3****

3rd round draft pick next season
4th round draft pick next season
DT Justin Ellis

To the Panthers

DT Star Lotulelei

I plan to play a lot more 4–3 then the Raiders normally do, I still will play some 3–4, but I generally prefer to start early first downs with a strong 4–3 defence which of course requires a solid centre so this upgrade was a must. Traded speed for more strength


****#4****

2nd round draft pick next season
TE Michael Riviera

To the Bills

TE Charles Clay

Really wasn't a fan of the Raiders TEs. Wanted to get one good solid starting TE that had some good speed, some good catching ability, and was a decent runningépass blocker. Traded away a decent guy and a high draft pick to try to justify it.

Man why you gotta take shots at us sim gamers?

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[Mysterious]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

Man why you gotta take shots at us sim gamers?

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It wasn't a shot... u guy have ur realistic trade thread, this is for those who are not worrying about that aspect as much

[rich8682]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

It wasn't a shot... u guy have ur realistic trade thread, this is for those who are not worrying about that aspect as much

Nah but you took shots tho. Some of us like a challenge and not going undefeated every year.

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[Mysterious]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

Nah but you took shots tho. Some of us like a challenge and not going undefeated every year.

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think u need to be a little less hypersensitive to my post.... ill be far from undefeated

[rich8682]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

think u need to be a little less hypersensitive to my post.... ill be far from undefeated

I ain't hypersensitive it's just I don't like people who sneak diss. If you got something to say, say it.

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[v0ice0freas0n]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

Can't tell if Rich is trolling or not.

[Scott]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

Both of you, just drop it.

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[Mysterious]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

I ain't hypersensitive it's just I don't like people who sneak diss. If you got something to say, say it.

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OK I'll say this ... Yeah you are, no, it was NOT directly aimed at you, it was your own prerogative to read into it. So stop being a douche bag trolling this thread. Good enough for you?


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[extremeskins04]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

So getting back on topic, I made a trade that was kinda cool although fellow Patriots fans of mine will destroy me but.....

I traded Brady to the Browns lol.

The trade was:

Patriots
Brady
2017 3rd round pick
2017 4th round pick

for

Browns
2017 1st round pick
2018 1st round pick

[fanofdon]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

I like the trade for Bryant and even though Pat fans would riot Brady trade was good for rebuilding with youth

[extremeskins04]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

I like the trade for Bryant and even though Pat fans would riot Brady trade was good for rebuilding with youth

My girlfriend was watching me play earlier and she asked where Brady was. I told her I traded him and she wouldn't talk to me for the rest of the day. She was mad! lol

I tried to explain about rebuilding and improving other areas and Garoppolo was my QB and she said "Garoppolo sucks!"

[Mysterious]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

So getting back on topic, I made a trade that was kinda cool although fellow Patriots fans of mine will destroy me but.....

I traded Brady to the Browns lol.

The trade was:

Patriots
Brady
2017 3rd round pick
2017 4th round pick

for

Browns
2017 1st round pick
2018 1st round pick

That's a trade I never thought to see, balsy

Who's your starter now?

[extremeskins04]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

That's a trade I never thought to see, balsy

Who's your starter now?

Currently Garoppolo with Brisset as his backup. Not sure yet if i'm just going to go with him and draft a LB to replace Ninkovich or a WR to add depth.

I had originally did the trade to try to get a rookie QB of the future.

Garoppolo played well first season, in game 16 now. He's at 3000+ yards, 22 td's with 10 picks.

[fballturkey]

Re: Madden 17 Franchise Trade Discussion - for those who don't care about realism

I think I'm the opposite type of team builder as you. Give me them draft picks, haha.

As the Vikings I traded John Sullivan for the Patriot's 2nd and 3rd round picks in 2018.

In the 2017 draft I had my eye on a MLB projected to go in the 7th but he went before I picked in the 5th. I checked on him after and it turned out he was a 77 OVR. He's also from my alma mater so there wasn't any team he was going to be playing for that wasn't me. I managed to package the Patriot's 2nd round pick and a 70 OVR MLB I had just drafted to snag him.

Then I didn't really need Eric Kendricks anymore, so I packaged him and Antoine Exum Jr. (Ok, also from my alma mater, but 3rd string SS? Gotta go) for the Bengals 2017 first.

In the 2017 draft I also landed a 79 OVR RB that has great agility and speed. He's a perfect compliment to AD and will hopefully be able to be the feature back in a couple years when AD is gone (or when I decide nothing is holy and ship AD away, but I kind of want to get him some TD records.) I'm trying to ship McKinnon off to someone but nobody is interested at all. Best I can get is a 5th round pick two years away or 6th next year.