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Coaching up prima donnas and checking emails

Words: Richard Grisham, GamesRadar US

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Thankfully, NFL Head Coach allows "fast-forwarding" of sorts through the most mundane of tasks, although your scouts and coaches are liable to royally botch things when serious oversight isn’t provided. If you’ve been unlucky enough to sign with a lousy team, it’s an especially bad idea to delegate many of your responsibilities.

When the season finally does gets started, you’ll be coaching your squad in actual games represented by the Madden engine. The dynamics can be tricky, just as they likely are on real NFL sidelines. Do you encourage your quarterback who's stinking up the joint, only to leave your completely befuddled assistant coach to call a few plays while doing so? Now we know why all coaches go gray. Sadly, afterwards there are no postgame press conferences to scream profanities at writers who ask stupid questions.

The console versions of the game are more or less identical. But if you've got a choice, it’s a good idea to pick up the Xbox version, as the (frequent) load screens pass by much faster. You can only read so many coach quotes on these screens until you start to get annoyed.