The Truth About What The NFL Banned From Madden 

Code RAY on Underdog Fantasy will double your first deposit up to $100! play.underdogfantasy.com/pc-BCezXrjizx

The NFL must’ve also banned franchise mode from being great again.

I understand that the NFL wants to be separated from concussions but I fully believe that by hard removing them, it makes them seem LESS serious, and the same applies to career-ending injuries. I knew how bad concussions and career ending injuries were because of how they effected franchise in the PS2 era. Seeing a lack of actual concussions and career-ending injuries just makes me think that the NFL wants to act like a brutal sport is a lot safer than it actually is.

Tell EA to add back the feature where you can assign corners to receivers by their NAMES. The "By Speed, Height, Overall" options do not always give you what you want. The feature was perfect and shouldn't have been removed. Removed over 10 years ago

Bring back tattoos WTF

The "bruised sternum" injury represents the concussion in game.

8:07 You know what’s funny about that. the announcers will say that people are leaving early if it’s a blow out but the stadium is full

NBA killing them in terms of collaborating with emersion

Remember when NCAA Football not only existed, but had suspensions for behavior and academics?

Pat Summerall - Madden 92'/93' "OH NO.... THERE'S A MAN DOWN" Then it'd be the ambulance pickup on the field..

They Need To Back Create A Team Back... Or Atleast allow the Player to create our own uniforms for the relocation team they are using...

When EA have these things in the game, it made the game so much fun to play. I Miss the helmet's poppin off and the ambulance coming out there player injury reports.

Bring back when the commentators could recognize CREATED PLAYERS NAMES 💯

The lack of customization doesn’t excuse the ability to put different team color ways on cleats or gloves like we see in the game. The NFL also promotes “My Cause My Cleats” and they’re missing an opportunity to use this in a way that can promote these causes and the game. EA can use a micro transaction, that if someone wants to use a particular player’s cleats or package a bundle deal that uses all the players cleats involved, and send proceeds to these players causes. The lack of innovation or trying to immerse the user is what kills me. Meanwhile, I’m seeing videos of PC modders do what they say “they can’t do” or “it’s on their list.” We still have the same cleats from the last three or so years. They messed up the team color spats (still don’t have secondary colors) that they had in last year’s game. This game is incomplete! There’s promise, but this was nowhere close to being ready! They’re constantly giving us gimmicky features that aren’t that important and really mess the game up time and time again. There’s no aesthetic polish to the game, which in my opinion, should be a given. When College Football comes out I’m done with Madden until they can give us what we see on Sundays! Hopefully they don’t mess CFB up too!

I just realized that concussions weren't an injury anymore, I've never noticed that

Im shocked they even allowed the undershirts in the last 2 maddens

On of these days I wanna be able to re-sim a players career just like KOT4Q and Clique. "What if Calvin Johnson stayed in the league?" "What if Adrian Peterson never got injured" "Michael Vick if he stayed with the Falcon" "How well would Marshawn Lynch do during the 80s Run-Run-Run-Pass era?" "Can Vince Lombardi lead 2008 Detroit Lions to a Super Bowl run?" I wanna do these types of thing in the games to come.

Meanwhile we get a thousand Torn Labrum injuries

Maybe they should do heavy rain, & heavy snow in Madden, do rain & snow bowls.

I forgot about the dynamic attendance feature….that was 🔥🔥🔥…..They need to bring it back!!!

I want to see teams actually run different offenses and defenses. Outside of baltimore most teams run the exact same plays.each team throws 70 to 80 percent of the time. Make ratings actually matter.

the dynamic attendance goes back to the ps2 madden, when they introduced owners mode if your team wasnt playing well you'd have low turn out and at the end of the game if it was a blowout in going into the 4th q the audience would have less ppl. i think it was in ncaa as well

Trying to change a game that’s just naturally dangerous will never make sense 💀

Man being able to bring back retired players was crazy

the helmet popping off tackling was in madden 06. it was so fun, i used to use a running back hitting the db while running the ball and knocked off the helmet of the db.

Madden: *uses the word concussion* The NFL: "By golly, we're all going to die!"

ESPN needs to bring back their games 🎮🎧

Knowing that the dynamic attendance issue was complained about by the Jaguars owner, knowing it's Tony Kahn, makes sense. Cause the way they try to hide low attendance on AEW IS FUNNY!!! 😂😂😂😂

Cant remember which one, but I forgot to sign a medical team during the offseason. No warnings. Lost half my team to career ending injuries.

I’ve yet to see the cart come out in 24 just them walking to the locker room or on the bench in the sideline or Getting stretch out on the table

A feature I'm not sure ever existed but I wish would exist is having the ability to run the clock out and have realistic reactions where both teams know the game/ half is over and walk to the locker room. And another one would be where if there's less than 40 seconds on the clock left with the clock running and the teams come to the middle for their post game handshakes and jersey swaps etc

So, if the NFL has banned this in this game, let's be honest with ourselves here, if the new 2k football game ever does come out, it is not going to be exempt from the No fun league curse and is likely doomed to be completely ruined of everything by these awful creative restrictions of the league. and 10 years from now there is a gonna be a boom of indie devs will be creating football videogames that truly gives what players want from the small gritty details to the full customization of teams and players, maybe going nuts with the physics engine with a destructible interactive sideline, maybe strong modding support like nba2k. and the game just being fun in general. and not rely on a big corporate sport league that uses ulterior motives to keep its brand successful as a business.

Tell EA… Tell EA to give up the NFL contract 😂

Removing career ending injuries may just have been a gameplay issue. The game has begun to focus more and more on advancement of the players on your team, so it's pretty crappy if you could lose all of the effort you've put into a player over years of in-game time just because of some RNG.

I'll take the return of create a team if it's like with the 360 gen Maddens. No NFL logos can be used and no switching divisions. Though if they bring back create a team, I hope they finally get rid of those stadium options that have been around since Madden 25 (2013). The futuristic stadium still kinda holds up, but SoFi Stadium flipped the script in terms of domed stadiums.

I hate what they done with the cpu. I like that they made them smarter and work harder but I hate the bs they get catching in traffic between 3-4 defenders making diving catches with low ovr wideouts. The quick slant low point passes without gunslinger. And hit sticks are the worst it seems whenever you hit stick on all madden user or cpu they always bounce off the tackle and gain more yards. I don’t see any hit stick tackles anymore

Need to bring back hold out cause that’s actually fun

That's crazy, I've owned every Madden since 2000 until 2020 (even a few before 2000) and never knew about career ending injuries.

I miss being able to create a team, starting a new franchise and being able to fully customize the team uniform and colors was a blast.

The No Fun League is so frustrating to be a fan of. I really wish they didn’t have a monopoly on the sport of football.

Bruised sternum is code for concussion 💯. Never heard of a player getting knocked out a game with a bruised sternum.

Can we just appreciate the kadarias toney drop at 2:48 😂

Noti gang .. big fan keep up the good work

I remember as a kid I only used to load up madden to hit stick the refs or the people doing the chain game😭😭 so mad they took that out

5:20 Madden 92!!! 🐐

2k has a half time show would be cool to see madden do something like that also team intros would be cool

It is nuts to see the older games and how far the graphics have come since then

Hell, even the NHL games have dynamic attendance, to the point that x amount of sellouts is actually a season long goal for you franchise mode

I was surprisingly mad about the tattoo removal 💀

Tbf Career Ending injuries has little to no place in Madden, or at LEAST it should be toggleable.

Always a great day when I get that noti that EricRayweather uploads

I would absolutely love to realign the conferences not all of them just some of them because some of them don’t make any sense

I miss being able to sub special teams players on kickoffs. Bring that back as well!

Back in 2006 or 2007 I lost Troy Polamalu to a career ending concussion.

Maaaan create a team in Madden 05 was so dope

Had my first concussion at 9 years ild playing kill the man with the ball lol...caught a knee to the temple

Man i was playing a madden online franchise many years back first game my rookie player suffered a career ending injury first game.

I never seen nobody get injured on madden in years .. I wanna see the cart come out !

I have Madden 13 on my PS vita and there is a few players who retire very young due to a career ending injury but they don't show during the injury report I don't think but after the season you can see some names of the injury for the players some have 9 experience or a little bit older but there is a few younger players and you are awesome EricRayweather and when I had my Xbox one the past version I saw some players getting concussions I don't know if you mentioned this but I feel like they should have sideline reporters after every injury this even goes for the none control player or after every halftime to tell people what the Head coach said to make their team better and during the super bowl and maybe the NFL players walking with the vice lombi the super bowl trophy to the potem like what happened before and I feel like you should be able to make people a offense conider like Josh McDaniels I know that the cpu can do that but you can't and I feel like players becoming a coach like in the past or maybe a scout can be a Head coach maybe

Iv had some injuries that went for 24 weeks 48 weeks and 52 weeks all in madden 24

Did they also ban having any genre of music that isn't hip hop? Honestly mute the tracks after about two days.

Helmets popping off was taken out in Madden 2004, the Hit Stick didn't appear until Madden 2005.

All I want is a good franchise mode and less animated tackles as animated tackles ruin the game and QB’s they make them fumble way to much especially when someone like Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson run.

I remember in 1998 Madden the ambo was removed this is why I played GameDay instead from 98-00

I can see the player hold out being taken out. It could be like how some actors play a fictional role so well people start to call the actor by the name of the character they played.

The only problem with dynamic attendance is that the stadium would be half empty in the playoffs if it was raining

I remember playing Madden 2000 and have the ambulance come and taking players off the field if the injuries were bad enough.

What’s the point of having injuries if there’s no concussions might as well remove injuries entirely atp

I aint play madden since 2018, i grew up on madden 08 that game was🔥

I want the crowd pump up back !! Make a n** screen shake 😂

The best years of madden are behind us and Im fine with that. Just wish I could import the current roster to madden 06 or 13

Smh, in FIFA the fans leave when you’re winning 4-0 and the stadium is half empty, I don’t know why the NFL wouldn’t do half empty stadiums

What about a trophy case?? Like the trophy case in 2k5 was awesome

Do you have sources for any of this or is it just all assertion

Did they fix the leaderboard and why do the old games not have online anymore

EA need to added back cheerleader and mascot and shine line report to Madden

The NFL had late hits taken out of NFL Blitz. Another example of a No Fun League

At this point, I'd rather play a game with no ties to the nfl, good graphics, and give me those fun features and visuals back. It's a video game! Let the consumers play and have fun.

Back in the day probably madden 06 (not the crap 360 version) every once in a while you would get 'career ending' injuries. As the GM of those teams I don't miss the feature being gone but in real life shiiii happens.

Alvin Kamara’s Christmas cleats were tough🔥

I got a concussion in mlb the show it they said it was a concussion I was done for the whole year lol was pretty cool

I need back the user defined camera. Let me control height/zoom levels

They need to add tattoos and body types like on 2k u can have slim athletic burly fat so on so on

Create a team was EA removing it for wtvr reason like alot of good features

career ending injuries are still possible. a friend got one with his running back on madden 24. he posted it to reddit, i will see if i can link it here.

@1:17_ so troy polamalu had the helmet with the hair attached to it. 🤨🤨

On madden 95' after you tackle someone you could hit someone 2 or 3 times and possibly injure them or you could be unlucky injured lol

I would not like to see career ending injuries in Madden lol I’m used to hate when my best players would get a career ending injury cuz it seems like it mostly happened to them rather than low rated players

i've been saying thiss for years now bro people get mad at ea for removing things not knowing that most of the things that get removed is the nfl's doing

I still find it the funniest thing that concussions don’t exist in Madden lol

I say Madden needs to pull out something big next year

I remember the hit stick made the whole screen shake

Didn’t you used to be able to hit people a step or two out of bounds before? Now you just have the magic magnet pull you back, no matter how much momentum you’ve got going

Bring back being able to be traded in franchise when your the player

Custom plays....which makes sense. Folks would be unstoppable.

Yeaa I never got the "free play" when I signed up an used your promo code

I think Bruised sternum is just basically just concussion

I never see the cart come out and take injured players

They need to add back dog piles from Madden 10

This is proof that the NFL is responsible for the current state of Madden. They won't allow EA to have total control and make it the most realistic/best game possible. The NBA however could care less about what 2k does as long as the fans love it.