You would definitely know more than me about this stuff. We're all still in wait-and-see mode but I just continue to look back at the madden 06-10 days and know what we have today is from these new devs. Was Ian a great dev? I mean he definitely had this community really involved but those promises and blogs he would put out were just a vision and let down a lot of people. I remember momentum and wr/db interaction blogs. Stuff didn't even make it into the game because it was extremely hard to develop. Thats a whole different story all together though.
But for me, I see this team actually getting things done. Is it all perfect? of course not. But I see madden finally being on par with other sports games, which is what I've always wanted.