 to another pack-and-play squad. Quick refresher of the rules. Rule number one, I cannot use the auction house. Every single player on this team must come from a pack or a set. Number two, every game that I win adds $75 to the bank and every playoff game that I win adds 100. And today is a very exciting episode. It is the first episode of pack-and-play where I am exclusively going for golden tickets. Last episode I tried a little bit, but there are boosted odds right now to pull golden tickets, as well as two Gold 99 Limited's, Asante Samuel and Tyler Linderbaum. Now the golden tickets that are available hilariously, there's a golden ticket, Zach Wilson. So that'd probably be my favorite pull, but probably not the best pull. There's Colin Johnson, who actually got a golden ticket in years past because he's super tall, six foot six wide receiver. There's Reggie Gilliam Halfback, kind of a weird card. There's Free Safety Julius Peppers, who is incredible. So that's what we're looking for today. Now the bad news is I have zero dollars in the bank. I used everything last episode. Granted last episode, I did get Gold 99 Larry Fitzgerald, Richard Sherman, Dante Culpepper, Russ Grimm, Elton Jenkins, Chris Hinton. We got some crazy upgrades last episode, but unfortunately we have no money. I barely even have any training. So first things first, we gotta go win a game. Now I did get those shiny upgrade tokens on our players. So here's what the offense looks like. We got Fitz with route tech, Chris Hinton with edge protector, Mark Andrews with red zone and tight end apprentice, Godwin with shorting elite, Quinn Williams identifier, Russ Grimm with nasty streak post up, Sherman with backfield master grab and go, Culpepper dashing, dead eye and past the elite, Dorel Rivas with short in elite. At defense, there's no significant adjustments other than Justin Jones who I gave inside stuff and Night Train Lane who has shut down deep out zone KO and crusher. We even went and got the shiny token for Charles Tillman so he could get pick artists for free. That's it. So all I need to do right now is go win a game. My opponent's team. He's got half back Aaron Donald, Dr. Cokter and he's got a sick gamer tag. I love this guy already. Dude, he's got Josh Dobbs at QB. What is this team? Aaron Donald half back out to the right. Gets rocked by Night Train Lane. Dude, I almost have like a full out of position team. Kyle Pitts linebacker, Devonte Adams middle linebacker. He's gonna be spamming Aaron Donald half back but no such luck thus far. Oh, he's gonna go here but I can't. Oh, I'm nice. Larry Fitzgerald rocks him, pops the ball out and he's going for it. Send in the Blitz. I gotta get over here Devonte Adams. What a lurk. Richard Sherman half backs first ever touch. Let's see it. Okay, he's gonna go for six. Let's get it. Second and five, oh boy. All right, let's pass this ball. We got Colt Pepper now. Oh, and look at Larry Fitz on this scene. Don't you think Larry Fitz is wide open? There he is. Larry Fitz, good catch. The high ball snag. First and 10, I wanna keep feeding it to Sherman. I trust him. Ooh, it was a nice cut but I'm not getting much out of him. I gotta go into a different formation if I wanna run the ball effectively. Let's try and pierce the middle here. We got good old linemen. We got really good old linemen. I should be able to do this. Oh yeah, good. Russ Grimm didn't even put up a fight. All right, well he's usuring the D linemen so somebody should be open. Let's find out. Oh, right there. Damn, Russ Grimm getting bullied. We'll take our kick. We started with the turnover so it's always exciting. Dr. Cocktor comes out for another drive here. I think this is a handoff so let's just go light this up. It is. Same right side handoff he ran before Aaron Donald. Just rocked Balamalu. This is most likely just a pass now. I don't think he'll go back to that. Oh wow, okay. Hey, and it works. It worked real well. Why does Aaron Donald look so small? You'd think he'd look gigantic. I mean, he's thick though. You know, he's the thick guy. First and 10. I'm gonna go with the man blitz here. That's a jet sweep. No, yes it is. Oh, get there. Bottled, great defense. All right, second and 11. I'm guessing pass here. Oh, this might be like a screen. Oh, I gotta get there. I'm out of blood, it's going to hit. Third and two could get a big stop right here. All right, cow pits play underneath, bosa play underneath. It's not gonna be a run. Shit, they train. I feel like this is a run. I'm gonna get on Larry Fitz and get ready for it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, what a play. Larry Fitzgerald's free safety is no joke at all. We literally are a hundred percent sure he's passing. Oh, I'm here. I'm here, I'm here. He threw such a shitty ball that I couldn't pick it up. He might go to 81. I gotta flirt with it and then go to the other one. Oh, he's got a touchdown. He missed his touchdown. Let's just get to the QB fourth and eight. Get to him! Let's go, Kyle Pitts, linebacker. All right, now we can't come up empty-handed on this drive. We gotta go get a touchdown. I'm gonna send Andrews across the middle because this is man coverage. So I think Andrews, ooh, that's not the best pass in the world. Second in inches, the two-minute warning is here. I'm actually just gonna hand this off to Sherman because I could milk this clock and score with no time left. That's probably the smartest football play. Ooh, okay. All right, 10 yards for Sherman right there. Gonna let this clock tick. Sorry, Dr. Cocktor. Let's just pack and play, baby. I need the money. I'm broke. Andrew Tate would not be proud. I'm gonna send Marky Mark underneath. Shit, that man coverage has got me good. Third and 17. All right, so we know it's man coverage. Let's see what's there. Ooh, go, Cole Pepper. He goes for the cut stick. It's fourth and five with 22 seconds left. I don't need another field goal. It's fourth and five. Richard Sherman is there, great ball. Let's go, down to the three. First in goal, I'm looking at Mark Andrews. Oh, he's there. Money, what a ball. Cole Pepper on the weak side delivers that. That's a hell of a ball. Eight, 10, oh. Come on, let me see the rage quit. You know you want to. Dr. Cocktor, first in 10. I don't really know what he could try for. Oh, no, that's so bad. I just guessed pass. He's gonna break the first one for sure. Nice play. All right, he's gotta go yard here. I hope you to, ooh, I wish he had thrown that. That might have been a pick six Devonte Adams. One final pass, he's gonna heave it up here. Okay, goes over the middle, gets rocked. Second half, baby, let's get it. See if I get this snap off, I don't think so, no. First in 15, you know who hasn't gotten any love is Chris Godwin. Oh, I can't force it. I can't force it, I don't think that would work. Second in 15, Mark Andrews is, no! Mark Andrews just ran into, I think Larry Fitzgerald. I don't know who he ran into, but that was a touchdown. I'm gonna go Larry Fitz, I don't know, yes, got it. Another tough fourth down though, fourth and four. Let's just see what happens here. Go call Pepper, no, he had everything bottled. That was great defense. Damn, all right, I expect a run play. There it is, everybody's there. Okay, good stop, good stop. Second and seven, a slip screen. That was a ballsy, ballsy play call. Third and seven, what's he gonna go for here? He looks over the middle, maybe it's Aaron Donald? No, nobody's open, nobody at all. Let's go, great defense. Fourth and eight, we get the sack. Does he come out and get the field goal? Fourth and eight, he's gonna look over here to the left side. He's got to, there's nothing there. He goes with dubs, I hit him, but just a little late. What a play. It's first and goal, he's definitely running it. Let's get on Larry Fitz, stretch left or right. I think it's, oh, right up the middle. The boys are there, but not after Aaron Donald picks up two. Second and goal, let's do the same thing. Let's just get up there and get ready. I'm gonna go on Palomalu here. He might pass, oh he does. And that's the exact guy that Palomalu was manned up on. Dude, ballsy play from my opponent pays off for him. He's gonna make it seven to 10. I took some big balls, I'm not gonna lie. All right, first and 10, I am putting a ton of man-beater routes out there and one of them's gonna get open to Ravis. He's got a little more, got the spin too. Hey, let's go. Come on, Colt Pepper, let's show him what we're made of. I'm gonna put Fitz on a whip route. I think Fitz's whip route here might be the money. Ooh, it did get in front of him. I honestly don't know how that works, but it did. Second and three, hey, we don't complain. We get yards and we do not complain. Staying in this play-action, look at, breathe this and look at Colt Pepper dashing dead eye. I don't use dashing dead eye very often, but Colt Pepper had it for free. So I took it and it pays off right there. First and 10, I'm staying right in this. Let's see if he finds a way to stop it. Does he follow X? He won't follow X. Oh, under pressure, couldn't get that one off, okay. The run has been relatively effective. I don't think I should give up on it too early. That is crazy. How he just completely ignored that block is crazy. That's a gold 99 over there. I think this is man coverage, but I just can't tell. Oh, I got him. I got him, literally fits. What a big play. Ooh, that's a huge play. Going into the fourth quarter with that, because if I can get the touchdown into two possession ball game, I'll make things huge. Ooh, great run here out of Sherman. Taking us down to the 21. So I'm gonna do it again. Let's go to Richard Sherman. He's got Jamal Charles, middle linebacker. Just follow your blocks. Ooh, Sherman. Look at a little beefy up there, third and one. Gronk, I need a good push out of you, buddy. This could determine the game right here if we can get this one. Third and one, an amazing push for my offensive line. Incredible push. We are in the driver's seat. Let's close this one out, boys. We're talking to the hot chick. We gave her our number already. She's ready to have sex with us. Now we just need to close. Second and nine. Down to the two minute warning. I'm gonna go with the stretch here. I'm gonna cut this one up, cut it back. Ooh, what a beautiful move. Clock continues to tick. No fumbles, no fumbles. Great work. It's second and goal. I'm gonna go ball carrier conservative. You know what's funny is even if I don't get this, I think I go for it anyway and I make him go 96 yards, no timeouts for a touchdown. But let's try and get it first. Third and goal. She's bringing everybody down. I think I'm gonna try and run this in with Culpepper. One second, we snap it. Is that a rage quit? I don't know if I should count that a rage quit. There's 44 seconds left, it's two possession game. Somehow I got a small egg from that though, so let's open this first while I contemplate whether that was a rage quit or not. The small egg has a 90 Michael Crabtree who will sell for 10,000 training. That's not bad at all, I'll take that. All right, the survey's in. We're counting that as a rage quit and I'm taking a pack. So for my rage quit, I'm opening this pro end game elite pack. Ooh, that's not good. That might have been my 94 right there. That might not, ooh, just talking so highly of this. Ooh, shit, what the fuck? Oh my God, James Smith Williams. A gold 99 left end. Dude, by the way guys, I'm actually a moron. I learned after last episode that you can use these remix coins on the 92 overalls to make them gold 99s. Shows you how much Madden I play. I'm actually a casual, this is so hilarious. Quick sold everybody else, put me up to 71,000 training. My current left end is 94 overall Mad Max Crosby. So this is actually a massive, massive upgrade. My only gripe with these gold 99s is they have no free abilities. Everything's discounted, which is nice, but I don't know, I'm such a snob. I'm so spoiled by the free abilities that I just, I can't be bothered to spend the AP on an ability. We also earned a pro game day pack from the field pass. You never know when you'll randomly pull a golden ticket and some shit like this. 92 Patrick Willis, Jamal Williams, Anthony Nelson, Khalil Mack. Hey, that's a lot of training actually, 40K. All right, so $75 in the bank. Technically, I should play another one. Once again, the $150 is the best value. But I wanna go for golden tickets right now. So I'm just gonna use the 75. It's not efficient, but I'm impatient. And now I gotta decide what pack I'm gonna get. There is the all pro star fantasy pack, but it's almost all my Madden cash. You get one of two 94 plus and three of five 96 plus. But I think this is my most guaranteed way to upgrade my team. It's bold. Like that's a lot of my cash. But I'm going for it. All pro star fantasy pack. We start out with a redox 98. Amazing news, this is a 94 plus. Start out with a 98 overall. I didn't even know Kenny Pickett had a card. Compared to Culpeper, he's a little slower. Better accuracies, but keep in mind, Culpeper currently has that program boost. So Kenny Pickett is actually 96 speed. So Kenny Pickett is actually faster. All right, so first one is Kenny Pickett's second one. No way, it's a gold 99 teensy remix. Oh my. How is that possible? How out of every card in this game, how is that possible? This has happened on every pack and play episode. That's crazy. So technically I could get James Smith Williams, quick selling for the remix coins and use him on a 92 to make it a gold 99. Or I take Kenny Pickett and sub him in and quick sell Culpeper. It's actually a really difficult decision to make, but I'm not gonna lie. I feel like it'd be hilarious to have Kenny Pickett at QB. So if he gets even halfway decent abilities, I think I'm gonna rock Kenny Pickett. Kenny Pickett's abilities, he gets pass lead elite for zero. Yes. Oh, fuck yeah. Kenny Pickett's a dog. I'm taking Kenny Pickett and the golden ticket. My first golden ticket of nine and 23 is gold 99 Collin Johnson. Six foot six, he'll be 99 speed with the boost, 99 catching traffic. Holy shit. Our second option is a free agent, 98 Tony Pollard. Our third option is probably a gold 99 remix. I already have you, Elton Jenkins. Good try though. Our fourth option is a draft player. My God, are you kidding me? Right now I'm still leaning towards Collin Johnson, 99, 98, 99, 99. I get through, oh my God, I get three picks. Shit. Okay, Pollard is really good. So I kind of am leaning towards Pollard, Collin Johnson. I already have Jenkins, so I really can't do that. Anthony Richardson, I'd rather use Kenny Pickett. Fifth and final is a backyard baller. This is a predicament. So if I went with Elton Jenkins, I would have enough remix coins to fully gold 99, a player of my choice. So I'm gonna go Collin Johnson, put him on the team, Elton Jenkins for the quick sell. And honestly, I could go Pollard and upgrade my halfback, but instead I could go Anthony Richardson and quick sell him for the training, which is what I'm gonna do. So with that pack, we get a quarterback upgrade, a wide receiver upgrade, a gold 99 of my choice and 350,000 training. Wow. I maintain 3500 Madden Cash too, but I'm gonna bank that. I'm not gonna use that 3500 Madden Cash right now. Okay, so there's a week one and a week two fantasy pack. I honestly don't know what the difference is, but I have enough training to open these. So let's start here. So any single one of these cards, I can upgrade into a gold 99. I kind of want a tight end, low key. So Dallas Goddard would be sick. So tentatively, I'm gonna grab Dallas Goddard. And now here's the week two pack. What do they got? So any of these could be a gold 99. I could do Cole Comet, T Higgins, Milano. We could get gold 99 Javante Williams at halfback. Donald Parham would be glitched. Oh, Pacheco would be sick. This week two has way better players. This makes week one look stupid, Eric Dickerson. Holy shit, there's like infinite good options. Honestly, there's so many good options, but I'm gonna take Eric Dickerson. Now the good news is if I pull more gold 99 remix players or I choose to quick sell the ones that I have, I can always get more of these. Like I could quick sell James Smith Williams on my D line right now. But here's how it works. So here's Dickerson already actually has really good stats, but I use remix coins to go here, even more to go here, even more to go here, and a remaining 3000 to fully max him out. 98 speed, 96 Excel, 98 truck, 98 juke, 99 break tackle. He gets tank for free, awesome ability, and he gets running back apprentice for one. So it's just a huge upgrade to Richard Sherman. I'm gonna quick sell Richard Sherman and take the training from it, which is 160,000. I'm putting Colin Johnson in the lineup, of course. I think I'm gonna have him be my primary. And I'm gonna put Larry Fitzgerald at Y receiver three. I'm giving Colin Johnson short in elite, and that's it. Culpepper comes out for picket, and I'll quick sell Culpepper. Picket I'm giving running gun, pass lead elite, and gun slinger. I'm also gonna give him Fearless, because it's a combined two AP for all of that. God, that's so good. But now when we look at offense, it looks incredible, but Mark Andrews is my issue right now. He's my only tight end, and then it goes down to Robert Tonion. So I'd really like to get a gold 99 in there. It's either Parum or Kittle. I might go Kittle for the blocking, 550,000 training, and I'm gonna use all of my training on the training variety pack. I can get exactly 10. So we'll calculate the coins we get from it, as well as hopefully get a golden ticket. Yikes, 55,000 training for that. I wanna get at least like an end game elite pack out of this, dude. This might be the last time I do TVPs on pack and play. These are bad, man. Second to last pack, 82 punter. Last time I do TVPs. I'm gonna learn my lesson the hard way we do get. A 95 Dexter Lawrence quick sells for 72,000, which will just get me one more TVP. That's cruel, actually. An 83 strong safety, 30,000 coins. That 550,000 training dissolved to 159,000 coins. No bueno. It does give me exactly enough though for two theme team remix packs. 78,000 times two would be 156,000. And I actually really like doing these packs now. Now that I realize how valuable those theme team remix coins are, because if I could pull a high overall here, number one. Hey, that's amazing. Actually 94 is great for this. I could earn enough to go ahead and get that big tight end. I need roughly 5,000 remix coins to fully gold 99 a player. So this remix pack here, Aiden Hutchinson, this one. No way. What is he quick sell for? Wait a minute. Does he quick sell for coins? Shit. And to Sante Samuel, I love you. I've actually met a Sante Samuel so many times. He's a great guy. In that in though, a five foot 10 corner is a huge liability. Dude, I just pulled a fucking women in and I don't want it. I think I actually think I quick sell them for the coins and I use the coins open packs. That's crazy. Oh, Sante Samuel, I'm so sorry, but I have to do this. Dude, those packs were insane. So I get another 350,000 coins to spend. We quick sell Hutch to get more remix coins. So 350,000 coins to spend now. I'm gonna take one pro end game elite pack because this is the best pack in the game right now. Let's see if I can do a gold 99 again. I mean, why not? 94 Brunel. I really hope that's not my 94. That would be no good 90s. Oh, that's my 94 plus 96 Michael Irvin. Another remix player. This one, 92 Dwayne Smoot and Andre Reed. Lots of legends, 166,000 training. We take Dwayne Smoot. I can do the eight times 94 plus theme team remix players since I have 3,500 cash. And that leaves me with not much left. These could be gold 99s. They're all 94 plus. And I'll definitely have enough for another gold 99 on the end of this. This is perfect. I will be getting my gold 99 tight end. The question is, whoo, yeah, we might be getting more. Gold 99 Chris Hinton on the second. I'm gonna get two gold 99s. No question. I might get a middle linebacker. I might take Luke Keekley middle linebacker, low key. Devonte Adams is nice, but he's really weak when I go for hitting 97 trade. I 100% got two. Dude, these are cracked. This whole promo is actually so much better than I gave it credit for. I got to apologize EA. I didn't watch your film. I wasn't familiar with your game here. Now granted, EA, you need to do shit like this earlier in the year because nobody really plays anymore. That's when you're gonna give us the good stuff. Come on, man. Come on. Either way, anything 97 or better at this point is incredible. I've already got a bunch of 94s and 97 and obviously the gold 99. This is my last one right here. Dude, I'm cracked. I'm cracked. I'm tempted to use this. I don't have a great fullback in right now. I'm gonna hang out to In-Gold for a second. I may end up using it. All right, so we'll sell all these extras. Puts me at $10,000 so I can do two gold 99s as it stands. I was talking about doing Dallas Goddard, but now I'm definitely leaning towards George Kittle. So George Kittle and Luke Keekley, is that what we're gonna do here? Gold 99 Keekley. He'll have 99 speed when we're done with him. I'm giving him Lurker and Crusher, but it will cost one AP. That's a hell of a card. And lastly, George Kittle, who's a really good run blocking Titan. He's also fast, but he's not super tall like Donald Parham, but I still think he's gonna be amazing. We also save a little bit of AP because Titan Apprentice is just zero here. Theme team remix has completely changed the dynamic of this team. We added gold 99 Dickerson, golden ticket Colin Johnson, gold 99 George Kittle. Gold 99 Luke Keekley, gold 99 James Smith Williams, all in today's episode. Huge dubs. I've got lots of players to quick sell and lots of new players to use. I think if I can target something, I should be targeting linebackers. Kyle Pitts did play well, but he's not a true linebacker. Joey Bulse is definitely outdated. Steven Boyd is outdated. Cam Jordan is okay. Eric Armstead's okay. So both of those can get an upgrade as well. My center is definitely weak as well, but my backfield is literally damn near as good as it's gonna get and so are my wide receivers and now so are my tight ends. So those are the really the only things I could work on, but that is a huge dump. For the back of my squad, I hope you guys enjoyed and I can't wait to see you guys in the next one. Zero dollars in the bank as we leave this episode, but it was an amazing one. I love you boys. Peace out.