I agree, this Madden is for this year. By taking out the retired players, the team that played this year won’t exist in any of the games. That’s just stupid…

I am a franchise mode player so it doesn’t really effect me. I am playing with the Cards now and its 2011. Warner has been pulling a Favre and won’t retire. It’s great and all but I drafted a young dude who is pretty legit.

I’ve also been redoing all of the ratings myself.

so i gotta get the update.

Leinart throws the deep ball better, thats about it

The Cards are one of the better teams to play with in Madden. Offensively they are one of the best teams in Madden history. I have been playing Madden since it first came out on the PS2 (Eddie George was on the cover) and this past version of the Cardinals was one of the more lethal offensive attacks I have played with. They, for me, rank just a little bit behind the Greatest Show on Turf (Rams, circa 2000-2002) as the best offense that Madden has ever had.

I have won several tournaments killing fools with the Cards. In my opinion, the best team in Madden ’10. Their offense with those receivers and two above average backs in Hightower and Wells make them really tough to defend and they have a really good secondary (McFadden actually makes plays in the game unlike real life) along with a great linebacker in Dansby who is really good in pass defense. I use him as a robber in center field and get a lot of picks with him. Their return game with Breaston is also really good.

One of the main reasons I’m was bummed with Warner’s retirement is that Cardinals won’t be as good in Madden. A good quarterback is not as important in Madden as in real life because the player himself can compensate for that with great stick skills but it does make it harder.

Beanie’s rating will go up along with Early Doucet’s, Antrel Rolle’s and hopefully Steve Breaston and if they draft right they should get better overall in Madden.

Its funny, in all my years playing Madden the Cardinals went from one of the teams nobody ever played with to being now one of the more popular teams because of their explosive offense. If you know anything about Madden, defensive talent is not as important as offensive talent because you can hide and compensate for a lack of talent by great defensive play calling and stick skill, but a lack offensive talent is a lot harder to compensate for and hide. If your receivers can’t catch and your running backs suck there is not much you can do.