In response to the league-wide email from Shanks via League Daddy asking for responses on the reasoning to switch to all-Madden.
I was not even going to respond in this thread but feel I must now since the Commish ask for comments.
I am totally against switching from All-Pro or All-Madden, and question the abrupt reasoning to even consider this. As Lombardi use to say, "What in the hell is going out there?"
Hello!!!!!! All-Madden is for above average players! I, along with the majority of the league are just average players. (No offense to anyone)
PFeels just recently quit the league because he said he was tired of losing and didn't have the time to devote to the skill issues. And now there is this question of raising the bar. To just say that All-Madden is more like the real NFL is not reason enough to switch. Yes, can you believe it, a 88 or 92 speed CB can keep up with a 97 WR in All-Madden? In All-Pro, that don't happen, and it don't happen in real NFL sheet either. And to me, All-Madden does not play like '06.
Do we make rash decisions on the basis of a couple of posts that All-Madden is actually better. Better for who? I believe with the switch, manual skilled players will be even better. A switch, IMO, would only really serve the elite ballers, not the majority of the league. At least now, we average ballers have a slight chance of winning a couple of games a year, of course not against you big time rollers.
Am I to believe that because we may be too freaking lazy to figure out a way to stop the deep pass and unwilling to get rid of the rule of d-line spread that we are at this point of sliding blindly into something that next year we may be right back to square one because a couple of people are saying then, "oh, All-Pro is better than All-Madden, now we should switch back?" BTW, a rhetorical question: Is the d-line spread going to be allowed in All-Madden if we go that route?
I have this feeling that this matter is not being fully taken to heart, and therein lies the possibility of sacrificing a great many players in the league, just for the sake of two, maybe three or four at best, from what I see.
May I ask, what current All-Madden leagues do any of the members of this league are members of and can speak from experience or do they play in All-Pro leagues? Just wondering.
This is the first season of '07 and after only a few days of having the game, chicken little is yelling FIRE< FIRE< FIRE! When did this league ever get to this point? We were always a league that did not make rash decisions.
I really don't see anything of real substance in this thread that indicates that there should even be considering a major change from All-Pro to All-Madden. And as far as I can see, there is no one here that can speak from any relevant experience with playing '07 on the All-Madden level because the game just came out.
Amazing. We consider a change from All-Pro to All-Madden because chicken little yelled fire....all the while lambasting the defensive AI as horrible in All-Pro and great in All-Madden, yet we don't give even half credence to taking the cuffs off the All-Pro defense, i.e., the d-line spread!
Shanks, I have always respected you as the league owner who makes decisions based on all the facts, not rhetoric and rash requests. You are the sole person who can make the decision without question. But I remember many conversations when you always put the league first, and I'm not saying you are not doing that here. I just hope that when a decision is made, that all current members and the skill level of most are considered.
Lest we not forget that this league was built on "fun" and not on passing whims of a few. If all of us non-skilled players, as we have been abstractly referred to by some in attendance, were not around, elite ballers wouldn't possibly have as many Ws.
I will remind you of your words, "if they want All-Madden, then there are many All-Madden leagues they can join." I guess that would mean that there are also a lot of All-Pro leagues as well.
I will respect you in whatever decision you make, Shanks, but think wisely, my friend, for the harvest ye hastily reap could be your un-ripe fruit of tomorrow!