Xbox 360: Madden 2010: Franchise Sign-Up

[Stormtrooper]

The Jets win. I was down 31-24 with 3 and a half minutes left in the game and i had the ball at his 30. I dump it off to Beanie Wells who brings it to the 24 yard line but he gets stripped and fumbles which lead to him winning 38-24. It was a good game. Congrats.

Thanks, it was a hell of a game.

Even though I gave up a boatload of yards (438 total offensive yards), I won because of my defense. Kerry Rhodes caused 2 fumbles (1 returned for a touchdown by Bart Scott), 2 interceptions returned for a touchdown (Bryan Thomas and Darelle Revis), and another interception (Lito Sheppard) returned to the 1 yard line. I only had 113 yards of total offense, but scored 28 points without the use of my offense.

Now, for the victory youtube clip.

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This was a great season. Hopefully next season will be even better.

 

[Moon Knight]

Hopefully next year I'll win it all. Not sure when I can do the draft, maybe busy for a few days.

 

[TheOneBigWill]

Well everyone, it looks like we’ve finally completed One Full Season. Congratulations to Big P and his Jets on winning WZ’s First Ever Superbowl! 38-24, over El Ratjar’s Arizona Cardinals.

Now we’ll be moving onto the Off-season. Within this Off-season there will be TWO very important rules and I will post about that specifically in a post all its own, but first.. As per every year there are some sad retirements. Here are the key retirements of all our Human players. (The full list of everyone who is retiring is also available online in our league, if anyone was interested.)

Key Retirements: (Human Players)​

(El Ratjar)
Warrick Dunn

(TheLuvSongWrita)
Todd Bouman

(Big P)
Marvin Harrison
Derrick Brooks

(TheOneBigWill)
John Kasey
Muhsin Muhammad

(Moon Knight)
Tedy Bruschi
Joey Galloway

(Brian)
Matt Stover
Lawyer Milloy
Ty Law
Ethan Albright
Sam Madison
Todd Collins
Phillip Daniels

(Marquis)
Mark Brunell
John Carney

(Ty Burna)
Brett Favre

 

[TheOneBigWill]

Now then, the rules of the Off-season are as follows.

FIRST: NO ONE is allowed to sign anymore players until we’ve decided a proper list between all of our human players. From this point, everyone will go in order and select ONE Free Agent at a time until they’re fully happy, or at a desired position with their team to stop. Once the official season begins, anyone can sign whoever from the FA pool - but as always, please try to keep it realistic.

SECOND: While I haven’t noticed it available to begin with, if someone else finds a way to trade for more Draft picks.. DO NOT do so, unless you give up an 85 or higher, especially for 1st-3rd round picks. 75 or higher for 4th-5th, and finally 65 or higher for 6th-7th.

As far as the Draft itself goes, I have the ability to pause it and unpause it, which means (THANKFULLY) we don’t all have to be online at the same time..

But to be honest its 7 rounds, with picks that can happen as quickly as 15 seconds between cpu teams, so it shouldn’t logically take more than an hour (if even that) for all of us to pick a time and get online together.

I DO NOT have the authority as Commissioner to give anyone specific Draft spots, so that is done solely by the cpu. My guess is off records, which means Big P will be 32nd overall, El Ratjar 31st overall, and then from there possibly best record 30th-worst record 1st.

As it stands, I would like to get our Draft going sometime next week, possibly Wednesday. Big P has informed me that he’ll be away until next week, which is why I’d like to wait until then. If everyone is okay with it being next week, we need to decide a time. I would suggest 7-9p.m. (central time) which is usually when almost, if not ALL, of us are online. If anyone has any suggestions or requests, please let me know in here or on xbox live.

If everyone would rather we just do it one by one, I'll have to be on to start and repause each time. Thats fine, but it'll likely be more difficult than to just get on all at the same time.

FINALLY: To everyone who has shown interest in joining.. NOW is the time to let me know, so you can pick a team and be involved with the Draft as well. Let me know, A.S.A.P.

 

[Ty Burna]

Favre hasn't retired yet, he'll be flip flopping all off season and decide he's ready for one more run .

 

[TheOneBigWill]

Ty. Unfortunately my kicker and 2nd WR are retiring, and the "stat improvments" didn't help the rest of my WR core too greatly. (2nd WR; D.J. Hackett is like 67 along with Dwayne Jarrett) Looks like I know where my 1st Draft pick is heading. lol

As for my kicker, Kasey was very accurate.. but Lloyd is very powerful. 55+ yd FGs, here I come.

 

[Minor League Brian]

I just got fuckin' rocked...

 

[TheOneBigWill]

LMAO Brian, when I seen all your retirements I counted and was like "Well fuck, he'll have to use all 7 Draft picks just to replace the players he lost ALONE".

The bigger question was out of them, how many were used by you though. Because I'm noticing a couple bench-warmers in that list.

 

[Minor League Brian]

Stover and Milloy I do believe, and Law I think in my larger DB sets. But the Progressions killed me as well. Collins also showed so much potential as a good number 2 vs Ty.

 

[Ty Burna]

Stover and Milloy I do believe, and Law I think in my larger DB sets. But the Progressions killed me as well. Collins also showed so much potential as a good number 2 vs Ty.

Collins is a solid backup, so that hurts. Meanwhile I believe I'm in the market for a new QB, as me with Tarvaris could be either potentially lethal, or more than likely disastrous. With the 30th pick, I doubt I'll get a solid QB unless EVERYONE passes on one and the CPU's pick only a couple.

Yeah.....I'm fucked.

 

[TheOneBigWill]

I'm honestly pissed. Everette Brown went from a 75 to an 81. The guy had a CAREER season, and in complete honesty - a record setting, never likely to be broken, season with sacks. He had over 50 that I recall, and he only gets a 6 pt advancement in his overall. DeAngelo Williams barely went up, albeit the odd thing is Stewart jumped up quite a bit for barely playing.

The truy funny thing is.. Duke Robinson, my back-up Right Guard leap frogged my starting RG, and he didn't even play to my knowledge - ever. Guess I'll be starting Robinson this season.

 

[Minor League Brian]

Humans should get first pick over the CPU...

 

[Minor League Brian]

Dude, Orakpo's only up to an 82 overall for LOLB, I can't see what he'd be for an end yet. I'll be moving Brooking over the MLB I do believe as Fletcher's down to an 82. My team was too old to get any better. Even my "stars" last year got worse this year. Fuckin' gay.

Rodgers also went up 1 point. FUCKING 1?!?!?!?

 

[Moon Knight]

I don't need those two. I was going to trade Galloway anyway. I am free next week anytime for the draft, just not this week.

 

[Moon Knight]

I'm honestly pissed. Everette Brown went from a 75 to an 81. The guy had a CAREER season, and in complete honesty - a record setting, never likely to be broken, season with sacks. He had over 50 that I recall, and he only gets a 6 pt advancement in his overall. DeAngelo Williams barely went up, albeit the odd thing is Stewart jumped up quite a bit for barely playing.

The truy funny thing is.. Duke Robinson, my back-up Right Guard leap frogged my starting RG, and he didn't even play to my knowledge - ever. Guess I'll be starting Robinson this season.

Its based on potential not season stats. I also think the limit for 1 year progression maybe 6 for a person with A potential. Not sure.

 

[Stormtrooper]

I'm honestly pissed. Everette Brown went from a 75 to an 81. The guy had a CAREER season, and in complete honesty - a record setting, never likely to be broken, season with sacks. He had over 50 that I recall, and he only gets a 6 pt advancement in his overall. DeAngelo Williams barely went up, albeit the odd thing is Stewart jumped up quite a bit for barely playing.

The truy funny thing is.. Duke Robinson, my back-up Right Guard leap frogged my starting RG, and he didn't even play to my knowledge - ever. Guess I'll be starting Robinson this season.

The progressions have nothing to do with stats. I was in another franchise where Adrian Peterson got like 5000 total yards, and a few of his ratings went DOWN. The system isn't arbitrary, but it doesn't seem stat-based.

Be happy with 6 up, thats about the most I have seen in any player. And with the other 2 guys, they are probably young with A or B potential, which is why they made big improvements. Your starting RG may have gone down if he is old, causing the leapfrog.

Onto my teams progressions.

What I'm happy about:

• My 2nd and 3rd Corners (Lito Sheppard and Dwight Lowery) became respectable
• Vernon Gholston's overall went up 4 or 5, yet to see what his DE overall is. Last year he was an 86 there, so maybe that went up too.
• The Sanchize is an 81. I thought he would go up more, but 81 is acceptable.
• Shonn Greene, he went up 6 (73-79), and is A potential. The Jets will have a 3 headed monster at HB with Tom Jones and Leon Washington.

What I'm Disappointed about:

• Jerricho Cotchery's overall didn't change (81)
• My O-line didn't change, besides Alan Faneca going down 6 (96-90)
• Big Kris Jenkins went down to 89 unfortunately. I don't know why, other then the fact that he is "360 pounds" and 10 years in the league.
• David Harris (79 to 81) still hasn't caught up to where he is on the current Roster Update (84-85).
• Darelle Revis is 3 years into the league, had a phenomenal year, and is an A potential. Why he didn't move up at all (he may have even gone down) is weird.

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Will, I will be back Monday late afternoon, so any time after then to do the draft should work for me. Just so you know, I will be away again for Thanksgiving (Wednesday to either Saturday or Monday).

Happy drafting/free agent signing.

 

[Moon Knight]

Finished my draft board, nothing but crap FA's so no need for anything there. Hightower went up so I am pleased. Not sure how the rest went, I know and expected Taylor to drop. Other than that I cant see much moves. Both my SS I think are now 80's. HAHA! Sadly we can't trade draft picks I think, maybe during the draft f will pauses. I jsut hope who I really want is still there,

 

[TheOneBigWill]

I put a few guys on my Draft board. Overall, I'd like to have a QB to mold once Delhomme is gone.. but my big concern may just be at WR. Infact, I wouldn't be shocked if depending on the rest of the pool once I get around to a 2nd pick.. if I don't just go 2 straight WRs.

I don't think the QB I desire will be available by the late 20's-30 pick, so I'll have no choice but to go WR which is my big issue. I also have problems at OLB, and DT with age and lack of talent.

I'd like to hope something comes up in FA as well, as I don't want to be fully dependant on the Draft. You know, busts and all being big in this year's version.

 

[Moon Knight]

You want fred taylor will. A late 30's RB on the decline?

 

[TheOneBigWill]

No, MK, I think I'm good with DeAngelo Williams (95 ovr) & Jonathan Stewart (91 ovr), but still 5 yrs and under in experience. They should be a dominate 1-2 punch for Carolina for quite some time to come.

 

[Baller]

Only lost warrick dunn. I am trading forte if anyone wants

 

[The Love Song Writer]

All I lost was Bouman my backup QB. Garrard didn't go up any

Strangely Mike Walker went up 5 without catching a pass. No one on my team really improved ugh!

 

[Stormtrooper]

I am trading forte if anyone wants

What do you want for him?

 

[Moon Knight]

Only lost warrick dunn. I am trading forte if anyone wants

The Jets already have a decent RB, my pats however don't. I need him, what do you want for him?

 

[Baller]

I would prefer a LOLB in the 90s for sure because Forte is now a 95. So a LOLB and any type of lineman or cornerback would do.