Art Shell should have been on the cover of this dud.
This software is so full of bugs that the game is unplayable. I actually enjoyed the draft... too bad I never saw the fruits of my labor - and labor I did. The level of management detail is spotty but time consuming. Choosing your staff is a great idea, but the process is needlessly laborious. Interviewing assistant coaches is a waste of time as they all spout the same invariably vague dialog and you end up hiring them based solely on stats. Dealing with agents is a nice feature, but is just as botched as the staff hires. Basically this entire game is an animated overlay pasted onto a buggy version of Madden's management model. The simulation of actual games is entirely and utterly broken. The fact that this game even shipped is proof positive of just how little EA thinks of it's customer base. EA is willing to trade what credibility it has with gamers by turning out broken code and charging you to beta test it,.. and since you can't return video games anymore, EA is laughing all the way to the bank.