This is going to be a Madden blog, because I’ve been thinking about the game today and realizing how difficult it is to build a team when you start with the Browns in their present (draft pick) condition, don’t fantasy draft well, and cannot lure people to your town with free agency because you only get to play games against the other users (3) in the league, which leaves you with a max of 6 user games and the rest are sim based on the quality of your team… which isn’t good. I am coming off a 4-win season and definitely in a rebuild type of year. I don’t know what is going to happen moving forward with the team, but I seriously worry about getting fired, because we won’t win more games than we won last year. We might not win any at all and still won’t get more than a second round pick. The Browns are ruined for a while.
Needless to say this has me needing to up my stick skills. I’ve talked about this a little already, but I am working on getting better–especially this week with my boys around and the opportunity to play a few games. I’m not expecting wins, but I have to be able to compete. I have to be able to hold on to the meager talent I already have on the roster at the very least.
Part of what I need to be doing is getting my team locked in with playbooks that are aligned to their skills. I don’t think I’ve done a good enough job setting up the game to be simmed. Maybe my QB (Brock Purdy) takes some steps forward. The way our league works he does have a shot to grow given the 4 boosts a season I can delegate to my team. Not sure I can skip using one on him this year, though I do need to work on his offense line first. My defense has hopes… maybe. There is a lot for me to see what happens in this new season. I’ll get to that tomorrow.