AI is about to take over the NFL and there is only one man left for the job who can try to stop it. Me. Not too intimidating, I know.
Let's move on. In front of you is a board of tiered players. The better that they are, the more expensive that they cost.
Right now, me and Mr AI have blank lineups that we have to build our best teams, but we only have $50 to spend. The question, who will come out on top? I'm going to build my lineup first because I don't want to be influenced by what AI does whatsoever.
And here's my thought, right? I feel like I have an advantage because I have been around the block. I know what positions are more important.
I feel like I know where to spend my money. And you know what? I don't want to overthink this whatsoever.
We all know the most important positions quarterback. So, let's just go straight for that. So, looking at this board immediately, I feel like we can knock off Levis, Wilson, Rogers, May.
I'm not taking any of those guys. That leaves us with our top six. Let's talk about Stout.
So, my man is all the way down here at an 81 overall, but we have to remember he's 23. He has a superstar. He will upgrade tremendously throughout the year, and he's pretty cheap for what he costs.
Now, I think Daniels would be pretty good. Also, he has the X factor already. He's 24.
Dang, he's actually a year older than Stra. And he's also going to cost a little bit more. Oh, man.
I know this might not be smart, but with the importance at the position, am I stupid? Yes. To take the best quarterback that I can.
I think we're going to do it, man. We're spending up on a 99 overall X factor quarterback, the best in the game, Josh Allen. Welcome as our first player to our team.
Since I spent up big, I'm going to have to skimp out at one of these positions. And I kind of want to get that out of the way now. And what I'm thinking is that we just go straight for safety.
I'm not going to spend up big money on Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch. As much as I would love to do that, without a doubt the best safety core in the game, honestly at $4, Kevin Byd and Jaquan Brisker are the pretty solid pair, but it's not going to make up for how much money that I just spent on Josh Allen. So, how about as of right now, we're going to spend $1 on safety and pick up Jaylen Hawkins and Kyle Duggard.
And let's go ahead and add them right now. So, again, this is kind of the sacrifice that we have to make to be able to take a quarterback that we did. My budget has now went from 50 to4 to $39.
We have many more positions to fill. And dude, right away I I think I have an idea that I got to go for. Truly, besides quarterback, the most important position in my opinion is the offensive line.
Okay, do we want to go best of the best? Get the Eagles at that $10 spending point. This is what we're looking at here if we go for them.
And man, I mean, it is that's so expensive, though. I don't know if I'd be able to recover if I did that. I'm going to say this.
I'm going to roll out from the $6 spot all the way to $1. We're talking about adding five players here. I don't want to add a lower tier offensive line.
At the $7 spot, we have the Colts. At the $8 spot, we have the Broncos. And I mean, their offensive line's good.
It really is. There there's a couple gaps, though. But, you know what?
I don't think it's going to be too much of a downgrade. If we go with the Colts, we'll save oursel a dollar and we will end up with three really solid offensive linemen, including a superstar at left guard. And I decided to go for Tummaine Edmonds for $3.
Yeah, there you have it. A 6'5 middle linebacker with some speed. And we're going to kind of make up for the little bit of extra that we spend on that offensive line.
See, I'm trying to do my best balance here. Get something good, replace it with something that's not so expensive. The question though, what do I do next?
You know what? Let's go ahead and look at tight end. Again, I hate to, but I think this is another position where we can save some cash on.
All right, so first and foremost, George KD 10 bucks. >> Have you lost your minds? >> There's no way I'm spending this much on a tight end, and I don't think I'm going to do it for even one of these young guys either.
So, those are off the table. Now, there are two guys that come to mind on this board, and it's Isaiah Likely and Tucker Craft. Likely's $4.
He's 2580 overall. I feel like he'd be pretty decent. Tucker Craft right under him.
A year younger, a little bit less expensive. 88 speed. You know what?
I think I might have just found a guy for three whole dollars. I think we're going to take Tucker Craft and Adam as our tight end. Okay, so so far we spent 24 of our $50.
I'm not going to lie, I think I'm going to have to make way and get ourselves some more cash to spend in big places. Dude, I really hate to do this. I I think we're going to have to go defensive tackle.
And I'm not saying that this position is not important, but if I get some good edge rushers, I won't think it will matter as much. We're going to go $1 Giron Reed at DT. After adding Mr Reed to our lineup, I decided to save ourselves some more cash.
And that was at the running back position where I spent only $2 to get Tank Begsby. Yeah, I mean, he's nothing special. 77 overall star on the younger side.
It's just a position I feel like that's a lot more replaceable. and behind a good offensive line. I'm hoping that he upgrades.
And those moves right there were nice because it's gonna allow us to spend up at wide receiver and at edge rusher, which I think is just so important. You know, I'm just going to go straight for it. Let's go edge rusher first.
Now, we're looking at the big board here. We're getting a combo of left and right edge rusher. At the top of the list, we got TJ Watt, Alex Highmith combo.
Below them, Micah and Gary. Ooh, Abdul Carter and Brian Burns. I know how much that Abdul will upgrade.
I know he's starting lower at $7. Miles Garrett's great, but Isaiah Maguire, he's a low overall. So truly, I am between going Steelers and getting TJ Watt and Alex Highmith.
Let's check with the Giants cuz I think I'm going to like what I'm seeing [music] here. Abdul Carter 81 overall rookie and Brian Burns superstar 86 overall. And it's going to save us a buck.
I can't believe I'm doing it. Let's go Gman on this one. That right there though, that's going to cost us $8, but we kind of have the budget to be able to do that.
So, I'll be honest, up to this point, I didn't really know how I was feeling about the lineup, but after adding these two guys, I'm gaining a little bit of confidence. Now, granted, we're definitely going to need to go big on corner. Now, we have what I believe to be $15 left to spend.
Wide receiver also incredibly important here. Would I rather spend a little bit more money on cornerback or wide receiver? I'm trying to think of combos that we could do here.
Oh boy. Hey, look at this. I tell you what, I kind of like this.
There aren't too many teams where you're going to get two solid cornerbacks and their number three is a rookie. Is he hidden? He's hidden.
He is. Oh, yeah. Okay, that might be what we go for.
I kind of like it. I kind of like it a lot. You know what?
Let's do it. So, to round off our team, we ended up going with the Philadelphia Eagles at wide receiver, blessing us with AJ Brown, Devont Smith, Jan Dodson, and a few others. And for our final $6, we went Cowboys for corner, giving us Don Bland, Diggs, and Revel Jr.
at the three spot. And look at it. The team's been done.
We spent exactly $50 to get here. I I really like it now that I added these wide receivers. Dang.
Honestly, I'm not going to lie, it could be better. We spent a lot more on offense than we did on defense, that's for sure. I have had one idea.
I think we're going to go weak at middle linebacker and trade out Edmonds and get Dion Jones and save two bucks. And then with that extra $2, let's look back at the board. I kind of want to upgrade the offensive line even more and go from the Colts to the Vikings cuz I know how important that is.
Is this a good idea or not? It It's more solid. There's less holes.
This is the final team, fellas. So, what we're going to do now is just hop into a quick game with these guys to see how they perform. Like I said, we're going to get a little taste of this and these guys and really see what they're all about.
Hey, it's a good stop. We're only going to give up three our first drive. We tank big to get a cap.
Oh, he didn't. Are you kidding? We're going to go for it here.
We're risking it all, ladies and gents. Oh jeez. AJ Brown, Josh Allen.
That's the connection. It's going to have to happen a lot now. Tank got a little bit of speed.
Hopefully, we can get outside. Oh, no help here. Truthfully, we got to take advantage of our really stacked wide receiver core.
Let these guys get us to where we need to be. And there's Bixby. First touchdown of the season.
It goes down. There we have it. Moving forward here in our first game.
Josh Allen not doing too bad. Making life easy on him. We're nearing our second touchdown.
We're going with the pass. And our Titan was open. Oh, we missed him.
Are you kidding me? I couldn't risk it. No.
Touchdown. I don't even know who it was to. Gerald Everett gets us one.
We're about to be up 14-3. Now we're just going by key moment with our defense holding its own. don't even really have to play with them.
So, that's really nice to see. It really, really is. Um, we're going to go AJ Brown middle again.
It's just open room for us. Let's call our first timeout. I'm going to run the ball with Tank.
It's a free first. I'll take the timeout here. Devont Smith, the guy I'm looking at.
Oh, I don't love it. Who the heck is this? Is that Everett again just putting in work?
Wait, wait, hold on. We don't have any timeouts left. Did I just use the last one?
I think I did. I don't know. Okay, [music] no, we didn't.
We got to go. Hurry up. Oh, we got to do it quick.
I'm wasting way too much time. Cancel that, Josh. Make a move.
I'm going to have to throw this away. I wasted so much time there. Hey, we got to stay calm, though.
We can still get ourselves in the end zone. Here's what the play's looking like. We going to force it.
Back corner. Back corner. Back corner.
AJ. If we don't get this, I'm calling my timeout. [music] I think it's there.
Oh, that's where the wide receivers's got to step up if I spend up on him. We're going to settle for a field goal right here. Almost got blocked.
173. Scratch. That is now 17-10 after halftime.
Quite literally all offense for us. Devonte Smith, make it up for me. There's the hands.
See the offense. It rolls. It's nice.
I like it a lot. Honestly, I probably should be giving more credit to the defense as well. Oh, shoot.
Dude, we got a game. First and 10 for us. Josh Allen.
Do your thing, sir. This is why we drafted Josh. It's a pretty good game so far.
Really, my dream from the beginning was to just pair up a really solid quarterback with a crazy wide receiver court. I might blow this game. Hey, I'm not going to lie.
I just thought he was automatically going to be open there. Hey, I'm terrified now. We could very well end up losing this game.
Great coverage downfield. Huge, huge, huge third down. We're on Dion Jones locking up middle.
All mine. Oh, come on. What more do you want me to do at Gold Carter?
Brian Burns, where are you at? The best part about our defense is failing us the hardest. Remember here, guys, a touchdown and we lose.
Like, it's so real. And it's looking like it could happen. We need to get pressure.
We need to get it fast. >> Oh, what's my linebacker do? See, now I feel like an idiot.
We're selling out for Traymond Edmond. Hey, all I got to say is this. If they're going to score, I'm hoping that they do it fast.
We do have timeouts. They're going to throw the ball here. Out route.
Get him down. Come on. Am I calling timeouts right now or no?
Probably should, shouldn't I? I'm not doing it, though. Oh, Brian Burns.
Finally. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, flip.
Yeah, that's exactly what we needed. Dolphins take their last time out. Jeez.
Oh, man. How insane is that? All right, player in motion.
Big third down and 12. Let's hold them off here. Ta can run.
Get them down. They're going to rush to the line. We're going to switch to a cover two defense and we are going to hope and pray that we can do this.
A touchdown and we lose. Don't forget it's verticals, boys. It's actually Wow, that's 100% my fault, too.
Well, we're down by one. I am going to say this. It is definitely not over yet.
Hope we can get that. Oh, Devonte Smith, if we can get that. Dude, no shot.
What an insane game that we're a part of right now. We have timeouts. I think we're in field goal range.
I might recenter this ball real fast and go for it. I hope this is worth a risk. We're going to kind of reenter this ball.
Get some more yards. Time out. Make the field goal easier.
Absolutely absurd. Going straight for it. Game winner at the end.
Oh, this team makes me question everything because Miami is not a good football team this year. But a win is a win. First and foremost, we have to build a prompt.
You have $50 to spend and must make one selection from each position group. Build me the best lineup possible. We're going to go ahead and copy and paste the prompt and let's generate that in 3 2 1.
Okay, this is actually working. This is awesome. Shoot.
Let's hop straight into it. Up first and foremost, a player I almost took, CJ Strad. The cost $5.
Their justification, elite arm, maturity beyond years at $5. He is the steel of the quarterback group. For the wide receivers, they went for the Rams for $7.
Puka Nua and Oh, see they messed up here. No more Cooper Cup, but Devonte Adams takes his place, so it kind of cancels out. Adams and Nua kind of a even tradeoff there.
At tight end, they did what we They went Tucker Craft. Nice. So, not flashy, but solid.
Allows us to save cash without a total sacrifice in production. Very interesting here for the offensive line. They went middle of the pack, $5.
They went Atlanta Falcons. Strong run blocking unit, good balance and cohesion, solid mid-range option. What you're thinking about the offense?
Honestly, I like my offense quite a bit better. Defensive tackle. They spent up on Quinnon Williams.
Game recorder on the interior. We invest here for disruption up the middle. Worth every dollar.
Shoot. All right. So, they're loving this Quinn and William pick.
After that, we were considering it at edge. They went Pittsburgh Steelers. They pick up TJ Watt and Alex Highmith.
Elite sack production and QB pressure. Defensive cornerstone. This is where you spend big.
Middle linebacker Blake Cashman. $4. Emerging stud and a tackling machine.
Huge value here. reliable in coverage and run defense. Then we have the Ravens second $10 pick at quarterback.
[music] They go Baltimore Ravens. Best group in the league. Elite shutdown corners.
Spend big here to neutralize top wide receivers. They're not wrong. They're getting Marlin Humphrey, Jier Alexander, and Nate Wiggins as a number three.
And this right here is your defense, man. They have superstars on this side of the ball. as you're seeing an 87 offense, 83 defense, 85 overall.
Might even like him a little bit better than my team. That pains me to say, but uh hey, time will tell, right? Up next, just like our team, we're going to hop into a very quick game with AI's squad that they built.
I like a lot of things about this team. I really do. They actually went quite a few options, including CJ Stout, who I was highly considering.
Then again, there are other picks like Quinnon Williams and James Connor, who I didn't even consider. All right, Stout has the ability. We should be able to hit Nua here across the middle.
Quick slant for a first down. Straoud's going to be great for this team. Truly thinking about it now.
I probably should have picked him with how he upgrades, but we're not going to live in fear here with our team. We're going to let it just ride out. See what the future holds for us.
Come on, Connor. I Why did I just do that on third down? I am sorry.
I'm not trying to lose with this team. We'll go ahead and start ourselves with a field goal. Up three nothing to start the game.
Hey, let's check it out. We got the defense now. Oh, they got the big first down.
On third down, he's still going. Truly, I'm not expecting or at least I shouldn't be expecting a ton of scoring from the Dolphins and they get a touchdown like it's nothing. Big third down for us.
We're going to have Craft middle. Straoud laser beam to them. We get the lead right back real quick for you.
We're also going to add another field goal on get ourselves a seven-point lead. And here we are, more offense a little bit later in the third quarter. Now the simple mesh play, hookah.
Oh, I messed him up there. That's my bad. All right, what are we doing here?
Oh, we're all the way into the fourth quarter. Oh my gosh, what a massive third down. We're up by eight points.
Trying to keep that in mind. And Tyreek Hill was just left wide open. Shoot.
Once again, third down. Tight end in motion. I believe it's Darren Waller.
He nearly cost us my game. Oh, we're right there. That would have been picked if he got the throw off.
And you all know exactly what time it is. Fourth and six. Game on the line.
Dolphins are [music] going for it. We need to stop now. We need it bad.
And that's the big DB core stepping up. Huge. Jire in the coverage that time.
Do we have an offense that has a run game that's able to close games out? Maybe not. They're going to force me to throw here.
Playaction pass. Straoud's going to roll. Oh, I didn't see him there.
Nula gets smacked again. That's my bad. Genuinely thought I had him there.
Do we have this? That's tough pickings, man. Do I go for this?
Oh, and I know it, too. You guys are going to be furious at me and I didn't get it. That was the worst ever.
I'm sorry, guys. I'm playing like garbage right now. Oh, anel and eligible receiver downfield.
Nice. Penalty helped us out there. We got a screen pass now.
Come on, TJ. Get over there. Just like our other game.
Of course, they got to make things interesting. Dolphins have a chance to tie. Quite honestly, after all this, we are in a better spot than what we were in our first game, but still a terrifying spot nonetheless.
I'm not touching anything. Batted down again. Tyreek Hill getting clamped and an X factor on this right here.
Jens's game. Waddle in motion. Why are they calling play action in this situation?
TJ, WHAT? NO, it was Highmith. I stand corrected.
GG's. That'll be a win for us. 157.
Very defensive. Now for the fun part. We're going to see where each of these teams make it as far as our season record goes.
We're going to send them to the playoffs. We're going to go AI team first. I'm sure they'll probably make it here, right?
We just made it here. Moment of truth. Oh, wait.
Our record's not showing up. Is that because we got a first round buy or we didn't make the playoffs? It's one of the two.
Oh, number one seed for AI. NFL standings number one in the NFL with 13 and four. Let's see how the team upgraded throughout the year.
See what I'm saying? Straoud 94 overall. Connor went up as well, dude.
Puka was a 97. Yo, and Craft went up to an 85. This is a really good offense.
Now, on the defensive side, it was already good. It got a little bit better. Even Cashman went up a bit.
AI knew what they were doing. Before we go through to the playoffs, we're going to back out and go into our franchise. Now, little did I know at this point that I would run into one of the most stupid issues I've ever seen in Madden.
>> The whole thing deleted. Like both leagues literally deleted whenever I backed out. What are why this game's so stupid?
>> All the amount of time that it took to do that and everything got deleted. Hey, >> literally that playoff run that we were about to be in deleted, too, cuz I backed out of franchise. Is that what we're doing now?
After taking way too much time to readjust our team, we are finally here and ready to go. All right, here we go. Straight to the playoffs.
the record. We're looking to beat 13 and four. Let's close it out.
OH, we're 10 and seven. The question, what did the team turn into? Bam.
There you have. Wow, AJ Brown actually went down big. And defense, Carter didn't go up as much as I was hoping that he would.
Defense isn't bad, though. We definitely didn't upgrade as good as AI, that's for sure. Well, here here's the thing.
At the end of the day, in order to make it where AI is, we have to at least win our divisional game. So, let's Oh my gosh, we got smoked.
