In the current Madden it's a mess with each head coach (sans Belichick), with Madden 23 ltds quicksell coins some fake coaches in the pool of free agents. When the season comes to an end, the game will be in franchise mode you'll have to remove your realism blinders.
A possible bridge to fully-integrated coaching staffs might include players to become coaches. People who retire and become head coaches is more common in basketball and baseball than football, therefore I'm not sure how this could work without a full team.
While it was a great feature 15 years ago, I think this could've been better tuned. The majority of players who are coach in the NFL aren't the biggest stars of the five previous seasons. But in Madden we were constantly watching Brett Favre, Randy Moss and Ray Lewis as the next big coaches.
Holdouts are an insignificant thing which could have been included in the engine for scenarios but they added the fact that you cannot afford to pay less for the best players, and feeling happy about it. Free agency with restrictions was an element of the game, and it caused little problems, but it also reflected the real-life nature in the NFL. Both of these issues are so minor and yet they had a significant impact. It's still a mystery to think that they could have been taken away.
Customized draft classes are in the market currently, and I think this is a fantastic feature. There was something fascinating concerning bringing players who you've just completed during your college career to the NFL and not knowing what they'll be graded or, in certain cases the way they'll appear like.
However, one thing that was evident during the PS5 time period was that the players' ratings didn't change in the same way as the college versions. Reggie Bush came into Madden already with a 99. One reason for this was Madden not scaling ratings for rookies from the United States. The bigger problem was that a lot of second cheap madden 23 coins -string players were judged overly high right from the start. Both of these were corrected later on in the next generation console.
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