2011 NFL Thread: The Lazarus Season - Part 5

[IKB]

Hillis is a joke. An overhyped flash-in-the-pan who likely will never have an outstanding season again. And really, how impressive was his last season? He put up solid, but not outstanding, stats that didn't translate to many wins for his team.

I'm glad someone said it.

 

[Hound55]

I think they put Hillis on the cover so that there'd be no big loss...

If they talk about putting Aaron Rodgers on the cover next year I'm going to storm EA headquarters..

 

[Dr. Evil]

They'll either put Rodgers or Tom Brady on the cover next year.

 

[Hound55]

They'll either put Rodgers or Tom Brady on the cover next year.

The hell they will!

I'll scare 'em into putting Cam on there...

 

[Dr. Evil]

If Cam is on the cover of next year's Madden game, it'll mean he'll regress or get injured.

 

[Holiday]

Players on the Madden Cover since 1999:

- Madden 99: Garrison Hearst (injured in playoffs, never was able to recover from it)
- Madden 00: Barry Sanders (retired in training camp)/Dorsey Levens (injured during season)
- Madden 01: Eddie George (awful performance in 2000 Divisional Playoffs. Injuries followed the next year)
- Madden 02: Daunte Culpepper (injured, Vikings failed to make Playoffs)
- Madden 03: Marshall Faulk (injured, Rams fail to make playoffs)
- Madden 04: Michael Vick (injured in regular season)
- Madden 05: Ray Lewis (injured, Ravens fail to make playoffs)
- Madden 06: Donovan McNabb (injured)
- Madden 07: Shaun Alexander (injured, able to return but never returned to elite form)
- Madden 08: Vince Young (injured)
- Madden 09: Brett Favre (injured, and sucked during his last few games with Jets)
- Madden 10: Larry Fitzgerald (injured during playoffs)/Troy Polamalu (injured)
- Madden 11: Drew Brees (lost in Wild Card Playoffs to a team with a pathetic record)
- Madden 12: Peyton Hillis (injured)

Hearst did recover, had 1,206 yards in 2001. Was Comeback Player of the Year.

VY, McNabb, Mike Vick are running QBs who have always been prone to injury.

Ray Lewis got hurt... in week 15.

Marshall Faulk had already begun to decline before his cover. Shaun Alexander was on the back end of his career.

Fitz's started all 16 games and 2 playoff games, he only missed the Pro Bowl. Polumalu is injury prone, nothing new for him to miss some games.

The Saints made the playoffs, I give the "curse" no credit.

Peyton Hillis sucks, he shouldn't have been on the cover in the first place.

THE MADDEN CURSE IS GARBAGE!

 

[CConn]

Yeah, I agree. Even if the cursedidexost, Brees clealy broke it by not getting injured.

 

[Genesis 1.0]

Hey, Hey! You watch your moth, blaspheming against the Curse!

 

[Showtime]

Insult the man if you must, but never insult the 'stache!

It goes hand in hand. I think it hinders him.

Hillis is a joke. An overhyped flash-in-the-pan who likely will never have an outstanding season again. And really, how impressive was his last season? He put up solid, but not outstanding, stats that didn't translate to many wins for his team.

I took him as a nice flex in my Fantasy League to go with Turner and Gore, thanks for nothing.

 

[enterthemadness]

Hey, Hey! You watch your moth, blaspheming against the Curse!

There's only one way to break this curse...

Hound55: oh my goodness...he's not...

BL: he won't say...

Matt Moore clearly needs to be on the cover. The curse would get confused at this thus making Moore a good player and destroying the curse. Pure Genius...

 

[Venom'sDad]

Players on the Madden Cover since 1999:

- Madden 99: Garrison Hearst (injured in playoffs, never was able to recover from it)
- Madden 00: Barry Sanders (retired in training camp)/Dorsey Levens (injured during season)
- Madden 01: Eddie George (awful performance in 2000 Divisional Playoffs. Injuries followed the next year)
- Madden 02: Daunte Culpepper (injured, Vikings failed to make Playoffs)
- Madden 03: Marshall Faulk (injured, Rams fail to make playoffs)
- Madden 04: Michael Vick (injured in regular season)
- Madden 05: Ray Lewis (injured, Ravens fail to make playoffs)
- Madden 06: Donovan McNabb (injured)
- Madden 07: Shaun Alexander (injured, able to return but never returned to elite form)
- Madden 08: Vince Young (injured)
- Madden 09: Brett Favre (injured, and sucked during his last few games with Jets)
- Madden 10: Larry Fitzgerald (injured during playoffs)/Troy Polamalu (injured)
- Madden 11: Drew Brees (lost in Wild Card Playoffs to a team with a pathetic record)
- Madden 12: Peyton Hillis (injured)

I don't know if you can contribute Madden11 to the curse....

 

[CConn]

If whoevers on the cover of Madden 13 stubbs his toe or has his wife cheat on him, does that mean the curse continues?

 

[Genesis 1.0]

There's only one way to break this curse...

Hound55: oh my goodness...he's not...

BL: he won't say...

Matt Moore clearly needs to be on the cover. The curse would get confused at this thus making Moore a good player and destroying the curse. Pure Genius...

*Sneaks up on ETM in the wild*

Blimey! It's the rare North American Matt Moore Troll in it's natural habitat. This one's a beaut, mate.

 

[Ness]

If whoevers on the cover of Madden 13 stubbs his toe or has his wife cheat on him, does that mean the curse continues?

LOL really. The cover jinx for Madden is ridiculous. Eddie George still had a dominant season in 2000. And Drew Brees had a dominant season in 2010. So let's cut it out here. Injuries happen to everyone in the NFL.

But I guess if you have a dominant season and win the Super Bowl, the curse doesn't effect you.

 

[Ness]

They'll either put Rodgers or Tom Brady on the cover next year.

I don't see how it's not Cam Newton.

 

[enterthemadness]

I don't see how it's not Cam Newton.

Cam will tear his ACL and I'll cry with JC or worse, DA starting.

 

[Ness]

Luck has no leverage? He has one more year of eligibility. That is plenty of leverage. If it looks like a team like the Colts will draft him, only to bench him, he can just decide to stay at Stanford. That is enough to at least partially dictate where he goes. And even with the new CBA, Luck is still going to draw in a 70 million dollar contract. The Colts can't afford both Luck and Manning. Then again, Bill Polian has made stupider moves. I still say that he goes to Miami.

Teams get around the salary cap all the time. The Oakland Raiders are a perfect example of this always giving players monster contracts that never work out. If Luck goes back to Stanford he runs the risk of getting injured and reducing his chance to be the number one overall pick. And he could just pull the same stunt next year too.

 

[Ness]

FYI Andrew Luck's father is Oliver Luck, a former NFL quarterback, who has a decade or so of back-office experience in professional football and is director of athletics at WVU.

I don't doubt Luck's father will be as much of a guiding force in Andrew's career as Archie has been to Eli's.

I just think it looks better when you have a former NFL quarterback that everyone knew (does anyone even remember who Oliver Luck was in the NFL) and your brother is the best quarterback in the NFL. And what Luck's dad has done at WVU as athletics director is irrelevant. I don't see how that helps Luck.

 

[Ness]

Cam will tear his ACL and I'll cry with JC or worse, DA starting.

Carolina should look for a better backup option next season. Derek Anderson should have never been signed. I don't get that.

 

[IKB]

I just think it looks better when you have a former NFL quarterback that everyone knew (does anyone even remember who Oliver Luck was in the NFL) and your brother is the best quarterback in the NFL. And what Luck's dad has done at WVU as athletics director is irrelevant. I don't see how that helps Luck.

I couldn't care less about the appearances of it, I'm talking in terms of the actual nitty-gritty of the contract negotiations.

Having a father that understands the ins and outs of the National Football League, that has played in the National Football League and has worked back office in a professional football organisation doesn't help Luck at all? Seriously?

 

[Rowsdower!]

You know, I think I actually agree with enterthemooreness on this one. Instead of putting great players on the Madden cover and thus cursing them with injury or poor performance, they should put sh**ty players on the cover and see if it magically turns them into competent ones. They could also try putting injury-prone players on the cover to see if it heals them, and overrated players on the cover to see if they get exposed for the average joes that they truly are (this last one has proven true with the Peyton Hillis situation).

Future Madden hopefuls:

Matt Moore (turns him into a good player)
Daniel Sepulveda (manages to play consecutive seasons without going on IR)
Derek Anderson (completes more than 10% of his passes)
Tim Tebow (wins against a team that doesn't have a 0-7 record)
Rex Grossman (never throws a pick again)
Casey Matthews (grows 6 inches and becomes his brother)
JaMarcus Russell (sorry, this one is beyond Madden's help)

 

[IKB]

I wouldn't rule out the Tim Tebow one.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I wouldn't rule out the Tim Tebow one.

Good point. Given that last season it came down to a fan vote, I could see Tebow's nationwide cult voting for him to make the cover.

 

[IKB]

Good point. Given that last season it came down to a fan vote, I could see Tebow's nationwide cult voting for him to make the cover.

Wonder whether the cult will still vote him onto the cover of Madden when he's doing car insurance adverts for local TV?

 

[Rowsdower!]

LOL

"Could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? Did Tim Tebow put the final nail in the coffin for the Broncos' 2011 season?"