This is an area where The Show gets it, I think.
When I take a bad team over in The Show, it's several years before I'm able to make the playoffs. I did a Braves franchise this past year, and it took me 7 seasons, I think, to make the WS. The first 5 seasons were abysmal.
I would love it, personally, if it were possible to have a decade-long playoff drought in Madden, and if it were possible to play 20 seasons and not win a SB.