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A Few Tips

In Owner Mode once your team has been to a Super Bowl, the following season you can trade your draft picks to sorry teams and they are always willing to do this. You can receive 1st 2nd and 3rd round draft picks for one 1st round draft pick.

Also in Owner Mode if you have a player you want to get rid of but don't want to have a cap penalty, at the end of the season, before you go to off-season mode you resign them for a one year deal. At the beginning of the off-season their contract will be up.

Once you begin the draft, draft the player you want and then go to trade and trade 2nd and 3rd round picks for another 1st round pick. After doing this DO NOT go back into the draft. Instead, go to the rookie signing portion of the off-season menu. The trade will give you their 1st round pick but the team you traded with will not get the picks you traded to them. You won't be able to choose your other draft picks but the computer is usually pretty good about addressing your team's needs.

Submitted By: Mike

Change Music

Hold square and press L1 or R1 to change the music on the game.

Submitted By: Corey Kem

Game Strategy Players Become Coaches

Great players that retire in franchise mode can come back to be coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.

Submitted By: NICK OZELLA

More Fans in Stadium

On create a stadium make everything except for one or two luxury boxes and press boxes to get more money in owner mode.

Submitted By: flip42059

Onfield Mismatches

While picking your play hold the o button to set up your strongest players against there weakest players on the field.

Submitted By: white11986

Help Lower Salary Cap

To help lower the salary cap,when you sign people sign them for 7 years and raise the signing bonus, it will raise your cap until a certain point then will lower it,raise it to the point when it gives you the most cap and there ya go as Madden himself would say BOOM.

Submitted By: J-Train

EA Bio

Build up your EA Bio by playing other EA Sports games or completing specific challenges to unlock Madden Cards like these:

Level 2: #204 Bingo! Cheat
Level 4: #246 1990 Eagles Classic Team
Level 6: #186 Steve Spurrier Coach

Two-Minute Drill Points

Accomplishment Points
Go out of bounds on a play with positive yards 50 pts
Special bonus for every 5 yards past 21 on a 30+ yard completion 100 pts
4-yard run (or more) 100 pts
First Down 100 pts
10-yard completion (or more) 100 pts
Extra Point 150 pts
Special bonus for every 5 yards past 16 on a 25+ yard run 200 pts
Special bonus for every Field Goal 3 yards past 41 yards 250 pts
15-yard run (or more) 300 pts
21-yard completion (or more) 350 pts
Two-point conversion 375 pts
Fumble recovery 375 pts
Field Goal 525 pts
Field Goal 31 yards or longer 675 pts
Field Goal 41 yards or longer 850 pts
Score 15 or more points +15%
Score 22 or more points +30%
Play at Pro Skill Level +50%
Play at All-Pro Skill Level +100%
Play at All-Madden Skill Level +200%

Submitted By: Scott B.

Various Hints-n-Tips

In Owner Mode, when you get to the Playoffs you should raise your ticket prices, food, merchandise, and parking over the expected prise. The Fans may complain, but they will pay up to see your team play in the Playoffs (You need to have the homefield advantage to do this).

Also in Owner Mode (will be referred to as OM from now on) at the end of your season SAVE YOUR GAME, before advancing to the off-season. Take a look at your retired players, not restart your system and trade them off for some draft picks, or whatever you can get.
NOTE--This will only work if you turn OFF the trade deadline option.

In OM your advisors may mislead you. When I raised prices they told me that fans were grumbling about high prices (Don't make them too ridiculous!). If you only raise them a few over the expected, fans will still continue to come. However, if you notice a considerable drop (over 5%) of people not attending you should hold a fan appreciation day. The best ones are the ones like tame atographs, team movies, etc. Anything that has to do with the team will be big. If you happen to see nothing that has anything to do with the team, just go back to the OM menu, and go back to the fan appreciation day menu. Each time you go back and forth you get new options.

You may not think that this matters, but it DOES. Each time you play a game look at the teams roster you are playing. Take a look at their weaknesses and strengths. Now go under coach options and see you gameplain to the opposite of the opponents teams strengths (ex. if the team you're facing has a strong running back, set your team to worry about the run more, if the opponent has a weak secondary, set you O gameplain to be passing). Now that you've done that go to management and tell all of your players exactly how they are to play. If you want to pass rush set you D-line to the pass-rush side of the bar, if you want them to stop the run, slide the bar to the other side. Do this to all of your players, and you will be a LOT more successful in your game.

In OM if a star player is starting to get old do not hesitate to trade him for draft picks. I suggest you do this. While in the short term you lose a star player, in the long term your rookies will be developed into stars when your opponents start to worry about getting new players. You will be one-step ahead of the CPU. For example, if you play as the Rams (go RAMS) you see that Bulger is much younger than Warner and will be as good with a couple more years of playing time under his belt. You should trade Warner for a butt-load of draft picks at the end of the year to the team that gets to pick first. I got all of the Cardinals picks for Warner, and 5 out of those 7 are starters in my second season, 2 out of those 7 are on the road to the pro-bowl, and my rookie CB, is nominated for the rookie-of-the-year award. Trust me, you need to do this.
WARNING-Don't trade all of your star players, your rookies play better with a veteran to look up to.

Submitted By: John Doe

Touchback

First get a fast QB that can scramble (i prefer Vick), and when u score a touchdown, go for 2. Run the ball with your QB and slide once u reach the endzone. If done correctly, you'll hear whistles blowing and then you will kick the ball at the 1.
-This also works in 2-minute drill. Go for two and slide with your QB. If u slide, u will get the ball on the 1. It's an ez 2000 points.

Submitted By: Ant

More Tokens

Use Football 101 and run through all the plays in your playbook to tack on alot of tokens which are used for madden cards

Special Plays

If you are leading the ball game late in the fourth quarter and your opponent has the ball always make sure you play a quarter defense (the one with five cornerbacks). I assure you, the opponent will play a hurry-up offense and they'll score a td because you didn't have enough cornerbacks and someone was left open.

Best Created WR and RB

If you are creating people and you want them to be the best this is what u must do. IF you are making a running back do this, make him as short as possible and as fat as possible and of course make him a 99 everything and make him young as well and make his body big and pas too!! For the best WR make him young, as tall as possible and a heavy as possible and the best atributes(99) and make his body and pads as big as possible as well!! It sounds crazy but ive been doing it this way for all of the madden years. These created people will do everything and if you make them a 99 on everything you can play them at any position and they will be the best! Have fun winning!

Submitted By: Kurry Wood

100% Attendence and ALOT of Extra Money

Before u do this tip make sure you do not have the last game in the week. go into the owner box thing raise the advertisement all the way up on all of the things. then play your scheduled game for the week. then DO NOT SIM THE REST OF THE WEEK. go back to the owner box and you will see the attendance should be 99-100% and you have gained a lot of money. go to the advertisement thing again and bring it all down to 0.then you can sim the rest of the week. you can do this as many times as you want you will have good fan support and a lot of extra money to spend.

Submitted By: Spenten

Run QB, Run

If you have a good running QB and you are doing a pass play, and if you don't see anyone open or you see a big hole to run through press L2 and take off. You usually pick up some good yards. But your QB might fumble or the defense of lineman might break lose and sack you, or you cold get hurt so don't try it to much. (QB's to try running with are, Michel Vick, Jeff Garcia, Donavon Mcnabb) also when you draft a QB in franchise mode the speed on the QB might be good. You don't even have to go past the line of scrimmage you can run also just to get away from a defense of line man so you don't get sacked. Oh and don't try this with a slow QB.1 more thing if you r a bout to get hit hard when you are playing press square and slid or dive.

Submitted By: Eraser97

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