What team do you think has the best branding in the league? What team do you think could use a refresh? Why?
I mean it's kind of wild of me to say this, but I think Baltimore easily has the best branding in the league. I thought that back then, and I still do now. There's something about that god damn bird that I just can't get enough of as a sports logo. And they somehow made an already good logo BETTER, which is something I still can't believe. As for the branding that could probably use a refresh, as cool as I think the logo is, the Butchers could probably do with a bit of a touch-up on the logo. Currently, it just doesn't feel like an actual sports logo. It's cool, but something I can imagine on a helmet? Not entirely I admit. I don't know what exactly they'd do to change it, but I think it's a unique enough of a branding that they can definitely do more with it to make it feel a bit more fitting among the other brandings.
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Football is a game that has been going on for a while, loved by fans all over. But what if you were able to make some rule changes? Talk us through your new version of football, and what would be different and why?
I want crazier ways to score points. Football currently is very standard in the way it's played and how scoring works. That's why I enjoy a lot of these alternative leagues like the USFL and XFL since they provide unique ways to score additional points compared to the NFL, but there's still so many things they could do. For example, they could take a page or two from that backyard football mode in Madden, where you score more points for doing crazy things like triple passes and flea flickers. Encouraging more creative play calling like that would make the sport absolutely wild, and we'd see teams doing some of the wildest things possible for wins. Just writing about it makes me excited for the reality where this is going down! Oh and make playoffs a shootout always. I don't want no team just kicking a field goal and winning. I want teams to trade scores until someone can't score anymore.
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Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why?
I originally picked QB when I made this player, but working under the assumption that I wanted to be QB or LB, I'd say easily I'd want to be a RB. If you want stats galore in a rather chill position that can play in like, three different spots in any given formation, RB is easily the best. There's just so much upside to the position that it's kinda hard to not want to play it, which is probably why so many people create at the position to begin with. Though, I suppose that is the one downside, is that since so many people are making in that position you're most likely going to be splitting reps a lot more often than not. It seems like that isn't too big of a detriment for most, but it can definitely hold you back in awards for sure. Me personally though, I'd just be happy to have good stats since much of my career here has been lacking that.
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Awards have been a subject of controversy for a while in the league. Tell us your ideas on how awards process can be fixed.
I think when it comes to the award system, it's really not going to get better unless an actual committee is made for it. Currently what happens, is the people who pick who makes the ballot are people who are either really excited to do it or people who are only doing it for the money. The problem here though, is that since you have this assortment, you're going to have people who aren't doing what's fully required of the position. If you employ people who are actually fully focused on the awards (And maybe even in a more long term fashion), it would go a long way to helping with the quality control of things. It would also probably benefit things a lot if there was someone whose specific job was just to check to any errors or IA players as at least a fallback if the committee fails to do so. And lastly, for voting, HO and GMs shouldn't have a say in award voting. There needs to be an actual committee for the actual voting, so you've got people who want to do it and not some poor GMs who are trying to get it out of the way.
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I mean it's kind of wild of me to say this, but I think Baltimore easily has the best branding in the league. I thought that back then, and I still do now. There's something about that god damn bird that I just can't get enough of as a sports logo. And they somehow made an already good logo BETTER, which is something I still can't believe. As for the branding that could probably use a refresh, as cool as I think the logo is, the Butchers could probably do with a bit of a touch-up on the logo. Currently, it just doesn't feel like an actual sports logo. It's cool, but something I can imagine on a helmet? Not entirely I admit. I don't know what exactly they'd do to change it, but I think it's a unique enough of a branding that they can definitely do more with it to make it feel a bit more fitting among the other brandings.
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Football is a game that has been going on for a while, loved by fans all over. But what if you were able to make some rule changes? Talk us through your new version of football, and what would be different and why?
I want crazier ways to score points. Football currently is very standard in the way it's played and how scoring works. That's why I enjoy a lot of these alternative leagues like the USFL and XFL since they provide unique ways to score additional points compared to the NFL, but there's still so many things they could do. For example, they could take a page or two from that backyard football mode in Madden, where you score more points for doing crazy things like triple passes and flea flickers. Encouraging more creative play calling like that would make the sport absolutely wild, and we'd see teams doing some of the wildest things possible for wins. Just writing about it makes me excited for the reality where this is going down! Oh and make playoffs a shootout always. I don't want no team just kicking a field goal and winning. I want teams to trade scores until someone can't score anymore.
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Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why?
I originally picked QB when I made this player, but working under the assumption that I wanted to be QB or LB, I'd say easily I'd want to be a RB. If you want stats galore in a rather chill position that can play in like, three different spots in any given formation, RB is easily the best. There's just so much upside to the position that it's kinda hard to not want to play it, which is probably why so many people create at the position to begin with. Though, I suppose that is the one downside, is that since so many people are making in that position you're most likely going to be splitting reps a lot more often than not. It seems like that isn't too big of a detriment for most, but it can definitely hold you back in awards for sure. Me personally though, I'd just be happy to have good stats since much of my career here has been lacking that.
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Awards have been a subject of controversy for a while in the league. Tell us your ideas on how awards process can be fixed.
I think when it comes to the award system, it's really not going to get better unless an actual committee is made for it. Currently what happens, is the people who pick who makes the ballot are people who are either really excited to do it or people who are only doing it for the money. The problem here though, is that since you have this assortment, you're going to have people who aren't doing what's fully required of the position. If you employ people who are actually fully focused on the awards (And maybe even in a more long term fashion), it would go a long way to helping with the quality control of things. It would also probably benefit things a lot if there was someone whose specific job was just to check to any errors or IA players as at least a fallback if the committee fails to do so. And lastly, for voting, HO and GMs shouldn't have a say in award voting. There needs to be an actual committee for the actual voting, so you've got people who want to do it and not some poor GMs who are trying to get it out of the way.
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