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Madden 21 Cycle Outlook / Expectations

by Brees4TheWin9 | 4 years ago | 1 Comments

Redzone!

In light of today's festivites (if you Adel's explosive presser as such), I felt the need to look forward to next cycle as we wrap up our final games of the Madden 20 tenure. If you missed my Madden 20 recap, feel free to go back through it as we highlighted our most memorable moments of the year. (Can be found under blogs if you just clicked the link in Discord). Without further ado, let's get into it. 

Team Draft 

The team draft is set for May 30th, with a release of a general draft order on the day prior. There is that buzz around the league of excitement, as well as the anxiety that accompanies where you may fall in the order. As Adel elegantly stated in his presser this afternoon, a member's media contribution, as well as their activity in chat influences where they fall, just like last year. The difference is, the released draft order (or general idea) is going to cause some more chatter. Be on the lookout for some surprises (which are not really surprises for those who don't do much), like the veterans that came back and always do a great job in contributions. You'll also see some complaining, and stuff of that nature. Going to be very interesting to see how it goes. 

A couple of predictions I am going to make, for the record:

- Astin will end up with the Panthers, due to their lack of success in prior cycles. He will have his usual success, unfortunately.

- The Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Chargers will be off the board by the 5th pick. Not a hot take, but it's also randomly generated, or is it? 

- Moji is going to end up in a divsion with White Greg, if there is a God out there. 

- The last pick of the draft will either go to ManS or Vanosdol. (could be wrong but who knows)

How is EA going to respond to the OP Pass Rush?

Well, I believe the obvious answer is to make pass blocking abilites balance out the pass rush abilites. Is that the proper way to do it? Probably not, but as we all know, EA is here to make their money. The abilities need A LOT of tuning for the sim community, but they are not the priority. I did see, however, a tweet from someone who is involved with EA about possibly incorporating a stronger possibility of injury as a RB's usage increases. This is a step in the right direction obviously, but we are a sim league, striving for a realistic football experience. I believe that pass blocking is going to be "the move" next cycle. 

Current state of RedZone from my perspective?

I have only been here from the middle of the Madden 18 cycle, so I do not have the insight like most of our veterans do. What I do know is, is that media is a massive part of what makes this league stand above the rest. If you go look at my twitter accounts, you won't find much. I've never produced a podcast, but I like to contribute in ways that I can. After hearing Adel's "state of the union", I definitely feel the urge to be more active in that way. With that being said, I feel that the end of this cycle has been tough on folks, but we as a league can be better, myself included. We all are from different places, have different mindsets, and are in different stages in life, so we may see things differently. This is a strong community of guys, and I'm proud to be here. 4

I'm pumped for Madden 21 with you guys, so let's knock it out of the park, and go back to the roots of why this league exists. 

I'll soon be posting a link for question submissions to do a mailbag, so send those in, and I'll do another write-up. Thanks for reading fellas!