 Today I'll be attempting the maximum difficulty rebuild. The New Orleans Saints. On paper, this team does not look like a horrible rebuild. They've got solid players and a solid overall. But the key to the difficulty here is cap space. Derek Carr is on a $144 million deal. That's a crime. In 2026, this man is gonna have a $56 million salary cap hit. Latimore deserves his contract, I'm with that. So does Ramchick, I like him. Tackles are hard to find. But Eric McCoy being the fourth biggest contract. Cam Jordan's 34 and he's hitting us for 17 million this year. Michael Thomas is 30. He's an 84 overall, he's not getting any better. He's expensive. Basically this entire team consists of incredibly expensive old players. And we don't have a franchise quarterback. But all hope is not lost. Let's focus on the good right now. Cause we're gonna have to rebuild this team to a Super Bowl before this video's over. So first and foremost, the Ohio State product, Chris Olave, such a good wide receiver and an absurd wide receiver and franchise. Olave gets really, really good. He's six foot with great speed. I expect him to be a Super Star X Factor 99 overall when we're headed into the Super Bowl. So Olave, I hope you're a lifelong saint. I hope we can afford you down the line. Alvin Camero has always been one of my favorite running backs in the league. But unfortunately he's at the exact year where you start to regress. Once you hit 2930, the overalls go like that. So I can't really see us keeping Camero in the long run. Same with Jamal Williams. I don't know if we keep him cause he's the same age as Camero and he's just a little worse than Camero. But this game is flooded with good young running backs. Honestly, our quarterback room is atrocious. Jamus is not the future of this team. Derek Carr is not the future of this team. I also love how the Saints use Taysome Hill but this man is 33 years old playing like four positions. I don't really see the future of Taysome Hill here either. I'm happy about our offensive line. There's lots of star guys up there. Trevor Penning, young out of Northern Iowa. He'll definitely be on this team for a while. Andres Pete is actually getting paid a lot of money to be super mid. Defensively, there are a lot of good things to look at like Isaiah Foskey out of Notre Dame. I think I need to get my young guys involved very early on this team so that we can save some cap space and try to keep this team good. For example, like DiMario Davis, Cam Jordan, Tyran Matthew, they're great high overall players. These guys are either retiring or regressing significantly in the next two, three years. We just can't keep them. One guy I do really like though on this defense, Paulson Adibo out of Stanford. He's gonna be really good and Marshawn Ladimor is nasty. If I can retain anybody by the Super Bowl, I think it should be Marshawn Ladimor. I really wanna still have him. Hopefully, Brian Bresci out of Clemson can play really, really well and he can be a star interior delinemen. I'd love to still have Paulson Adibo and I'd love to still have Chris Olave and pieces of this offensive line other than that dude. I don't know who's gonna still be on this team. My initial adjustment is I'm gonna start Isaiah Foskey over Carl Granderson. He's certainly worse, but he is a power rusher which is good for the 4-3. He's hidden devs, so he's at least star. Actually, he is star. He's not super star. Also to ensure this is max difficulty, my draft class strength is staying on normal. I always go strong, but not for this one. And we will be changing the trade difficulty. By default, it's set to normal. We are setting it too hard. So there will be no cheesing the CPU with egregious trades, although honestly Madden's trade system is so bad. We still might be able to cheese a little bit. It'll just be harder. And that's gonna be the first thing I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get Derek Carr off this team. Derek Carr is not the future of this team. He's 32 years old. And I'm gonna trade with a team who does need a quarterback. I want this to be realistic. For example, I'm not gonna let myself trade Derek Carr to the Bengals. They would not do that shit in a million years. But I do believe there is a team that would trade for Derek Carr. I think that team is the New York Jets. Whether Madden thinks so or not, I don't know. But the Jets in real life need a quarterback. There's no way I could get a round one for Derek Carr, right? I'm just gonna see. Derek Carr and Michael Thomas is about halfway towards the first round pick. The Saints don't have a third, or a fourth round, or a seventh round this year. They also don't have a second round next year. Yeah, we're kinda like pick depleted too. I found a team who wants Derek Carr. The Jets didn't want him. The next best team I could think of was the Panthers. They were willing to give up a second round pick for Derek Carr. I'm honestly so fine with that. Next guy I wanna trade is DiMario Davis. He's just too old. Let's get something out of him before he regresses or retires to be a family man. I think realistically the only team that would want a guy like DiMario Davis, a playoff contender, kinda like how the Rams picked up Eric Weddle before their Super Bowl. I'm gonna try and get their first and second round. This is probably way too much. I put the trade difficulty to hard. I guess they're late first and second rounders most likely since the bills should be good. He's a 34 year old DiMario Davis, really worth a first and a second round pick. I probably could've gotten a third rounder out of that too, holy shit. Those are gonna be the only adjustments I'll make for right now. Here's the Saints roster going into this season so no DiMario Davis, no Derek Carr. I think both of those were a good call. Low key I could trade Cameron Jordan too. He's just such an OG Saints player. I wanna keep this rebuild semi-realistic too. I don't think the Saints would be trading Cam Jordan. I think he's gonna stay a saint till he retires. Let's see how this season goes. It'll probably be a difficult season. I do need to change my team schemes a little bit. I'm gonna switch my offensive scheme to vertical power run and my offensive playbook to Dallas Cowboys. Rashid Shahid is our slot wide receiver right now under most circumstances. I actually really like that. I'm gonna make it Olave. I want Olave to get superstar ASAP. And honestly, this season is gonna be so bad for us that Olave might have a really good season. Like we'll be losing every game so we'll be passing every game. I'm gonna move Shahid to wide receiver two. He's really good dude. Rashid Shahid has the potential to be nasty. And Michael Thomas is gonna start to get phased out. I like Michael Thomas, but 30 years old, only an 84 overall, Stardev. It ain't gonna be too much going for him. All right, let's see how year one goes for these New Orleans Saints. How does this happen in these rebuilds, bro? I swear every time I try to tank, I end up nine and eight and in the wild card. So the NFC South shocked the world. And actually we're, I mean, the Falcons are 12 and five. That's what we've got in the wild card. We've got one last hurrah, which is making a playoff push for a veteran. We've got our first playoff game or facing arrival in the playoffs. Before I look at the league stats, I wanna know if I'm gonna make a deep playoff push. See, I kind of figured. Okay, so we lose to Falcons there. Jamus was ninth in the NFL in passing yards, bro. Jamus low key fucking launches the football. Jamus had a not bad season. If Jamus wasn't old, I would consider this. Camara had 1,230 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns. This is what I'm saying, man. I really like Dallas Cowboys because you get a lot to your running back and then you get really like, look at this. 1,100 for Olave, Shahid at 1,006. Michael Thomas had 806. That's awesome. Looks like Zach Bon was our tackle leader followed up by Pete Werner. Our linebackers are really involved. And my linebackers aren't good. So Pete Werner is young though. Pete Werner is young and he's a decent overall. We might hang on to him. It wouldn't be a bad idea to draft a linebacker though, trying to get somebody really good or maybe somebody in free agency. We got to the quarterback a lot less than I would have liked. Cameron Jordan's still supposed to be good. This is a shockingly low sack count. I expected a lot more out of him. Isaiah Foskey, he had four. He's a rookie. A rookie with four sacks is actually pretty solid. 14 TFL, 68 tackles. Isaiah Foskey comes in fucking second in defensive rig of the year voting. Oh, that wasn't so good, dude. And then Brian Bresi must have been solid too because he came in sixth. Our defensive rookies actually a very good season. Oh my God, the Falcons were legit. Dude, have you ever seen this? Chargers versus Falcons. Rishi Reiss, skits, offensive rookie, the retiree Wilson, defensive rookie of the year. Dude, that's weird. I literally have never even seen the Chargers win it. Available salary cap, negative 40 fucking million. Yeah, it's actually ridiculous. We have to trade Cameron Jordan. We can't even sign free agents, obviously. That's actually crazy. I've never been in free agency and legitimately not had the option to even attempt to sign anyone. Oh my God. All right, so year one's in the books. No dev trade changes. I lowkey thought with how good of a season Olave had that maybe he'd get a dev trade, but he does not. Camara does not, despite his good season. Andres Pete retired, so we're down a guard. So we need a guard. We need a quarterback, obviously, but that's been on my radar. Ooh, Marcus May, those six interceptions out of Marcus May, he does get a dev trade upgrade. So that's huge. Pete Werner gets a dev trade upgrade up to star. So he will be a linebacker on the team for a long time. Foskey is star, Bresi is star. My first pick is round one pick 21. I know exactly who I want. My pick is round one pick 21. Here's the problem. The guy I want is this guy right here, Dylan Graham on an Ole Miss. He's the third quarterback on the board and he looks solid. He's got elite strength, elite throw power, good speed, great jumping, poor acceleration, but his stats are solid, A deep, B medium, B short. This guy looks good, but the mock has the Vikings getting him. And then it has the Giants taking Keith Young right before that, but none of these mocks have Dylan Graham going anywhere but 20. So the thing if I want to secure getting Dylan Graham, I got to get that Vikings pick. There we go. All right, so it cost me my first rounder and then a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth, a couple of those in next year's draft to get the first round that I wanted. I only traded up one spot. Loki, I gave away a lot for that. That's where that hard trade difficulty comes into play, but I actually think that's gonna be super important. This is why this was so important because they were gonna take Dylan Graham in the next best quarterback is a day three projection. Loki, Chris Hand out of Alabama does not look terrible, but Dylan Graham just looked a lot better. I have a really good feeling about this, dude. I'm hoping this is my offensive rookie of the year. Yeah, oh, he's fast. Dylan Graham Ole Miss, whoa. He's got a fucking cannon, 99 throw power. This dude's a beast. Vikings take Eddie Chapman. That's who we were projected to take if we didn't take him. We could take a guard. We could not really take a wide receiver. I don't see that being the move. Here's Ben Wood. I'll probably end up moving him to a guard. I'm really just supposed to decide about the great strength and he's got a awareness, a lead lock. I think this is a pretty high overall tackle. That's the hope. I'm hoping he's hidden dev, huge. I love how that's great speed for a tackle. 90s strength out the gates, hidden dev. We've locked up an offensive lineman. Okay, that's good. Next pick is round two pick 17. I think this is the one from the Panthers. Stanley Holcomb out of USC is an elite speed middle linebacker. I like this dude a lot. He's a field general middle linebacker. Exactly what we lost into Mario Davis except he's 21 out of USC. I love this dude. Please be hidden dev. That's a sick middle linebacker. That's such a good pick. 91 speed, 88 Excel. Stanley Holcomb got a middle linebacker, got offensive line, got a quarterback. I still could use a guard, okay. I'm gonna take Tyler Wilkerson. He really doesn't look that good. I'm not gonna lie, but he looks okay. If he's hidden dev, he could be Cam Jordan's replacement. Yeah, I knew I didn't like that pick. Especially with that face scam, bro. Who fucking signed off on that? Who said, yeah, let's make a human being look like that. I'll start first with though. This is a normal draft class and I'm three hidden devs deep right now. I'm actually really excited. Okay, okay. I gotta remember that this is a normal strength draft class. Dylan Graham looks actually really good. 72 overall quarterback on normal is not bad at all. None of these guys are generational. Ben Wood, 72 overall. Holcomb was probably my best pick. To get around to pick 17, 72 overall middle linebacker is actually nasty. That's huge. Wilkerson's a full blown fucking whiff. Joey Calloway, oh my God. I sent him through one of my own picks. Oh shit, the CPU took me Joey Calloway. Who's a hidden dev? Joey Calloway, hidden dev corner. And the last pick was Carlos Franks, who sucks. Eddie Chapman, wait a minute. This is the wide receiver that the mock drafts had us taking and this is the like he took right after us. He's good man, 77 overall. You know what I like though? I'm not seeing a single quarterback in any of these. We may have gotten one of the better quarter rings. All right, here's the year two roster. There's a lot of weight on Dylan Graham's shoulders right now, I'm not gonna lie. But with how often he'll be passing, dude, if he puts up a James Winston-esque season, he's easily gonna win offensive rookie here. That's how I feel. He just can't throw that interceptions. Ben Woods looking good. So we made a good replacement on the O-line and then defensively Stanley Holcomb was a really good pick. We just need these two to develop. I don't know, we're gonna have to get more linebackers in the next draft because I can't even sign anyone. I can't trade either. You can't trade when you have negative cap. Like even if I wanted to unload Cameron Jordan, I can't. I don't wanna cut him because that's so unrealistic. When would the New Orleans Saints ever cut Alvin Camero? What are the, what, like I don't get it. I really don't get it. Sorry guys, I'm really sick, but I really don't get why we are nine and eight. This team is shit. Actually, now that I think about it, this makes the most sense. This is why the Saints are such a tough rebuild because they're perpetually mediocre. Dylan Graham had the damn your same stat line as James. Actually, he was better than James. 27 for 11, James was 25 as well. Camero had an insane seed. Olave 1316, that oughta get him a dev trade upgrade. Dylan Graham's the guy, bro. Dylan Graham's the guy. This is our franchise QB. Stanley Holcomb, 124 tackles, two TFLs, one and a half sacks, an interception. Dude, and a force fumble. Could Stanley Holcomb win defensive rookie of the year with that stat line? That's really good. Kim Jordan, five sacks, Foske had three, two and a half for Breesie. If we got the offensive and defensive rookie of the year, offensive rookie of the year, it had to be. It was always Dylan Graham. Damn, I'm not nearly as close as I thought I would. So Marco McCord, that insane corner, the 80 overall corner, he actually got second to Don McGee. I don't watch these games because I kind of just assume I'm gonna lose. Yeah, I was correct, 42 to seven got fucking smart. I can't sign anyone in for agency. So we're headed to the draft. I finally got us in the positive for CapSpace. Here's what we had to do though. Oh, oh, oh, shit. Oh wait, duh, he got offensive rookie of the year. Dylan Graham is superstar. Dylan Graham has great accuracy, he's 99 throw power and he's superstar for winning offensive rookie of the year. Oh, this is so big. I'm actually gonna give him a field general upgrade. This usually gives you accuracies, which is I would prefer here. Oh, wait a minute. Offensive rookie of the year did not give him a dev trade upgrade, which means he was already superstar. He came out the fucking gates superstar. Stud, I love Dylan Graham, bro. That's the future of the saints right there. Camara is regressing already. Olave is certainly not regressing. We had to let Michael Thomas walk. Michael Thomas had to walk. In fact, he might have retired. I actually don't know. So we do need another wide receiver because Lance McCutcheon cannot be the third string. Offensive line is still the same as it's been and it's honestly pretty damn good. Joann Johnson is an 80 over O and it's progressing well. So that's great. Cameron Jordan is still here and we have positive cap. Paul Sinodibo is now superstar. So we have very good DBs. We've gotten almost 99 X factor. We've got Paul Sinodibo and then Alontay Taylor is actually a pretty good like depth guy. Tyler and Matthew is regressing fast. So free safety is gonna be a position of concern. Left outside linebackers already a position of concern. Marcus May looks great. And then Breesie and Foskey are getting really good. I'm so glad we had them. Without those guys, it would feel like this rebuild is actually straight up impossible. I'd like to get rid of Camara. I'm gonna go to the trade center. I'm gonna try and like offload even more here. Okay, Cam Jordan's gotta go. Cam Jordan's gotta go. Camara's gotta go. These cap hits are fucking gigantic as I'm funny. I have found that drafting linebackers can be very difficult. Let's see if we can't get too lead to a pillow too off of the chargers. So it costs us two third rounders of fifth and Kendrick Miller, but we got too lead to a pillow too. I'm gonna be honest. I don't think I ever could have gotten outside linebacker in the third round. Who's gonna be as good as him? And he's 22, he's 22 years old, he's an 80 overall. Round one pick 19, our next pick is not till round six. So this is gonna have to be an amazing pick. Damn, this guy was not supposed to be available. This is why I traded for too lead to a pillow too. This guy was not supposed to be available. I will say though, this is a power rusher right outside linebacker. So it doesn't really fit the scheme unless I switched him to right end. I'm kind of thinking of picking up Marcus Foster and moving him to right end. We eventually, we really do need the Cam Jordan replacement. This guy is a 65-250 speed rusher. It's like a Michael Parsons build. That guy is going straight to right end. That guy is going straight to right end. I might even, I'm gonna try and trade Cam Jordan this year. Oh, this guy's a fucking beast. Let's go. Oh my God. And the computer got me a 70 overall wide receiver in the sixth round. Are you hitting death? Trevor Flanagan out of Georgia Southern. That's actually not bad, bro. This guy's a dog. Marcus Foster's a 76 overall. That was amazing pick. 86 speed, 89 excel and he's going, let's see what he looks like at right end because that's where he's going right now. That's the best linebacker available too. Next closest is Gary Austin and Rutledge. These guys are third rounders. What, where are the first round linebackers? You're year three New Orleans Saints. Olave Superstar. Dylan Graham is Superstar. We've got the new Marcus Foster who's already got plus one from Norel. Tully Tupelo too is now on the squad. Not exactly excited about getting traded. We got Holcomb. We got Werner, Foskey, Breesy, Marcus May with the Dev trade upgrade. A Debo with the Dev trade upgrade. Just be rid of Cam Jordan once and for all. I'm sorry, Cam Jordan, I love you, man. Here's what basically just happened. The Steelers said, we will take Cameron Jordan and his contract from you. You can have a second round pick in exchange. So they're going to go make a deep play out push with Cam Jordan and I get a second round pick out of it. I'm cool with that. I think this could just be a really big year for Dylan Graham and Olave to go crazy and then we can worry about wide receivers in the draft or free agency. Cause we actually have cap space now. So we can actually, this is the turning point. Season three in my defense, we finally properly sucked. We went five and 12. How does that hold up statistically? Dylan Graham, not a good season. 26 to 14, much worse than last season. AT Perry led my team. Chris Olave, 978, McCutchen had a lot. Yeah, I think, I think the wide receiver depth definitely hurt us there a little bit. Stanley Holcomb had 150 pucking tackles, ATFLs, half a sack and four interceptions. Werner had four sacks and four interceptions. Nine sacks for Marcus Foster. You bet your ass that's defensive rookie of the year. Bresley with four, Foskey with three. That's huge, dude. Marcus Foster wins defensive rookie of the whole league. The Chargers almost won the bowl. And in 2024, it was the Chiefs. I forgot to check that. I apologize. We are continuously getting rookies of the year. No Dev trade upgrades, Olave. No Dev trade upgrades. Cameras only getting worse. Our wide receiver depth is horrendous. I have to do some other wide receivers. But wow, look at, holy shit. We've turned this defense around so fast. My offense is just not there yet. Matthew has to get replaced. Werner's Superstar. Olcomb is Superstar. These dudes had 150, 130 tackles, respectively. They killed it. Marcus May is Superstar, but he's old. He's regressing now. Adibo's great and Marcus fucking Foster is a Superstar. Did he get Superstar from this or did he come out to gate Superstar? So Marcus Foster was star Dev. But you can see right there, defensive rookie of the year gave him Superstar. Three fucking upgrades. Talk about the camp Jordan replacement, bro. Oh my God, we got another 10 years of just elite edge rush. 101 million available in camp space. Wow, Mark Andrews is a free agent. Doesn't really matter to me. I need a wide receiver. So I'm on week two of free agency. It looks like my computer actually picked up Romeo Dobbs, which is exactly what I would have done. Low kick up. No, I don't even need to pick up another one because AT Perry is going to be third string. So Dobbs is great. I don't got to do anything drastic quite yet because my team is still like, team is still pretty solid. We can just hang on to this cap space and sign some nuclear free agents next season. I like where our team is and we have round one. Harry Zeigler out of Florida is a very high pick. He's projected round one. Harry Zeigler out of Florida, the best safety in the class, 92 speed, 91 excel. That was actually, that was truly a no-brainer. We had to go with him right there. And our next pick is a high pick in the second round. Evan Drummond's at a USC with some greats and some solids. Let's go. We are going to have so much cap space to sign a nuclear free agent. I don't expect this season to be that great either but I think next season, free agency, trade away some of our draft picks for a really good player and draft recap, 2026 rookies. Jesus. Oh my God. And the CPU drafted me a fucking beast. Halfback to replace Camara. And they got me a wide receiver. Dude, I keep forgetting that these back to back. So I keep simming through my own pick. Dude, Zeigler's a 79. It was such a good pick and Drummond's a 74. Oh my God. Best player in the class, Carrie Zeigler. That's so amazing, bro. Let's go. Let's see what we can do about Tyran Matthew. Tyran is so old. He's an 85 overall. Yeah, maybe I could have gotten more out of that but honestly, I want this to be realistic. Like you guys say I get fleeced but what team in the right fucking mind would trade like a first round pick for an 85 year old safety? So Marcus made 33 years old but he's superstar. We actually got him to superstar when he had that six interception season. I'm going to put him on the trade block. Before the season starts, I want a running back. An arm and a leg is what that cost. We got the Jaguars super good rookie running back. They have 99 overall Travis Etienne so I figured they would be willing to trade him but dude, cost me Jose Bell, Marcus Mayne, first, a second, a third, a sixth. We are at the turning point in this rebuild where it's time that we started to ball out. Take a look. My offensive line is ready to go. I've got a 96 over a wide receiver, an 89 quarterback. We signed Dobbs in free agency. We've got AT Perry. I think we needed a serious halfback. Get the 80 overall rookie out of this state. Six one, two, 31. That's a big boy. Got Zeigler, a strong safety. Drummond at free safety. Defense is looking really, really good. Uphill was an understatement. We climbed the mountain, man. We are 11 and six. Taking on the Lions in the wild card playoff must have been a spectacular season for us. Dylan Graham, massive step up, 36 and nine. That's so good. Frederick Claiborne, dude, he might've got an offensive rookie in the year with this. 12 touchdowns, 11, 82. Such a good season. Dylan Graham starting to use his legs a little bit too. Receiving, it was all Olave. That's how we like it to be. AT Perry and Joanne Johnson had by far his best season. 874 and 11. Dobbs was solid as well. Defensively, Stanley Holcomb once again leads 60FLs. No interceptions or sacks. All our sacks came from Foskey this time. Leads the team. Then Marcus Foster. Then Tyler Wilkerson. Marshawn Latimore with four interceptions, three for a Debo. We make it through this round. I might look in and watch. I don't know if this team's really ready to... D might be ready. 28 to 25 against the Lions. Graham wins NFC. Here's our rivals, dude. Our rivals at Falcons who took us out the first time. Let's, uh... Frederick Claiborne, what? Oh my God, that dude's an X-Factor. Dude, it cost an arm and a leg to get this fucking rookie. He's an X-Factor. He hasn't won any awards yet. He must have came out X-Factor. Oh my God, he actually came out X-Factor. Holy shit, he's already up to an 88 overall. Defensively drumming. Drumming the lower overall is superstars. Zeigler is star. This might have been one of my most smooth rebuilds so far. Like, it definitely is difficult. We're not Super Bowl material yet, but we're killing it. Our draft picks have been excellent. Trains have been good. This game starts out with a Falcons touchdown. Returns with a Saints turnover. Um, play a little bit of defense. I'm gonna see my boy Holcomb. That's a 99 overall, Bijan. We gotta stop him. Okay, they don't run it. Desmond Ritter steps up and the field goal is good. All right, one final clamp. One final clamp. Marshawn Latimore is over there. Pete Werner's right here. Wow. Looks like we're probably, yeah, we are gonna lose this. Falcons are a big rival for us. They're in the NFC South and they beat us in the playoffs now twice and we're not supposed to be ready for the playoffs. We were waiting for free agency. This is fine. Pajae Spears is the best free agency available. Yikes, these free agents are not good. Michael Gallup is superstar. Michael Wilson's the next best wide receiver. Ooh, I want Jalen Hyatt, bro. Jalen Hyatt's 25, 96 speed, 96 XL. And we can sign up to a big deal. So he's on this team for a while. Hopefully he can maybe get a dev trade upgrade. I know he already wants to be on the team. Let's just go neutral, but give him a long deal. I want you on the squad. I'll overpay just a little bit. I really want Jalen Hyatt. I'm gonna pick up Byron Young as well. Beautiful, I don't have a detackle to right now. So I think I was gonna call. I'm gonna trade away my pick for this absolute haul of picks from the Raiders next year. I'll probably flip those into a really good player. I just don't know who yet. Got a first, a second, and a seventh out of that. See if you picked me up a 72 right guard, a 73 center. Not bad. Best player in the class was 83 overall corner. Next best was the round one pick one. Quarterback then the round one pick two corner. Had a pretty significant fall off after that, but I got a lot to work with here. Let's go see what edge rusher is available. So Foskey left in free agency, but Foskey is superstar. I'm gonna try and give my boy back, man. I'm missing. What about just a first rounder? That's actually insanely close. Oh my God. Fuck yeah. Got my boy back. Let's go. Here is your 2027 New Orleans Saints. We still have Chris Olave. We still have Joanne Johnson, and we have almost all of our offensive lines. Defensively we're looking like absolute studs. I think my defense is kind of what carries here. I have too much cap space for this to be the season low key. Like it could be the season, but if I won it all right now, I'd actually feel bad. We have like 90 million cap. There's just no good free agents to sign. There's nobody. I thought for a second I had to buy? No, dude. The Falcons are really just dominated the NFC South right now. We go seven and 10, which is an improvement. But like I said, we didn't really use free agency yet. So I'm chilling it. And it looks like we got great overalls still. Whoa. Really bad season. Really crazy. Frederick Claybourne had a spectacular season. Olave was okay. I wonder why he had such a bad season. Defensively it's Holcomb all the way and then it's Werner Holcomb had a much better season than last time. Six and a half sacks for Breezy. Five for Foster, four and a half for Foskey. Glad to have him back. D-Line really did play well. Three interceptions, Lattimore, two for Holcomb. Yeah, that was just a really bad season, unfortunately. I guess shit just happens. So ended 2027. We have the exact same team that we walked in with and we have so much cap for free agency. I just got to hope it's a good free agent class. Last free agent class sucked. The best player was Tyjay Spears, followed up by a kicker. Deandre Swift is nuts, but dude, I can't get rid of Claybourne. Claybourne's actually a 97 overall X-Factor. He's actually better. Do I pick up a tackle? Just boost the O-Line casually? Yo, do we pick up? Do we pick up Stefan Diggs X-Factor for a? Yes, we do, bro. Yes, we do. Two year deal. He's lightly interested in the team. Let's give him a player friendly deal. Let's bump the salary, bump the bonus, make him an offer and let's see how strong that is. So out of what he's looking at, we are obviously the top contender, but our rival to fucking Falcons one of two. Dustin Tucker's in free agency. That's not a bad one year sign. Not a bad two year either. I'm gonna give him a two year. He's not gonna get much worse. Kickers don't really regress. I actually have to pick up this dude, Johnny Claxton, because my left guard walked. I forgot about that. He's not interested in the team, so we're gonna have to make him a big ass deal. I'm gonna pick up Ricky Stromberg. Diggs signs, Justin Tucker signs, Stromberg signs, huge free agency. This might be the season. I expect this to be the season actually. I'm gonna keep Jalen Hyatt in the rotation. I like Jalen Hyatt. I'm gonna take Dobbs out of rotation and Diggs will come in at wide receiver three. See, it doesn't really matter. I don't really know. With this playbook, they kind of all get reps. So I don't think this matters too much, but got an X factor wide receiver. Diggs is gonna regress though. Diggs is gonna regress fast. So we gotta win it this year or next year or we're gonna have to really continue this rebuild. Here's the new look offense. Only the really the only big change here is Stefan Diggs, but I'm so excited about it. We also got Stromberg on the offensive line. Defense is unchanged. Werner goes X factor. Pete fucking Werner goes X factor. God, he's been amazing. He's got run stuff for 92 overall. Dude, the computer went dummy. The computer drafted me a corner in the second round. It was a 70 fucking six. Oh, you're, you're normal Dev. Marquis Milstead is insanely good. And he's normal Dev. Then we got Joe Castro, the 76 overall wide receiver. Computer's going hard. The computer's ensuring that this team will be a dynasty for years to come. 92 overall New Orleans Saints with a 95 offense and an 89 defense. I think this is our year. Gotta make the playoffs first though. I'm gonna do my prediction. We're going 10 and seven. We're going 10 and seven. Ooh, I did a little better than I thought. 12 and five is our best record yet. Ooh, Dylan Graham's best season by far. Not as many yards as he's once had. I think he had 4,300, but 43 and five is like MVP. What about the whole league? Could he have actually won MVP with that or did somebody else go crazy? Bryce Schoenck 34 and no, dude, he actually could have won. No, I'm always gonna get it. 40 and six with 4,501. Through the most touchdowns in the league though, and a less interceptions than the home. Frederick Claybourne of 15 touchdown, 1,700 yard season. Beach, 1,315 for Olave, 905 and eight for Diggs. Probably not what he's used to, but that's okay. It's 62 and seven. Joanne Johnson a great season and defensively. It's all Holcomb. It's all Pete Werner. It's all Latimore. Every single time five interceptions, Latimore, four Pete Werner, one for Holcomb. Marcus Foster, yo! Finally in the double digits. 12 sacks for him. Seven half briefs, he's six Foskey. Wow, we killed it. Dillon Graham gets fucking second in MVP voting to Lamar Dexter. Tough, tough, tough. 93 overall saints, taking on the 86 Vikings. They've got Jordan Addison, Danielle Hunter at X Factor. And then it's that wide receiver, Eddie Chapman. We actually, we traded up with the Vikings for Dillon Graham so they could have Dillon Graham right now. I'm only going to play a little bit here and then we'll go into Sim. Just want to try out all my boys, man. We got so many studs out here. Clamping up, big, big hit out of Pete Werner. I tried to tell Tyler all year, somebody get home, somebody get home. Foskey, fourth and 18. And I'll play a little offense now too. I'm giving a pretty big kickstart here. I usually don't do this, but we've assembled such a sick team. I really do want to get some reps in with the team. Juwan Johnson, Chris Olave, Stefan Diggs, Frederick Claiborne, Jalen Hyatt. Look at Juwan Johnson. Oh my God, wait a minute. Juwan Johnson, Juwan Johnson. I touched down. Juwan Johnson. I'm a student. There was a point in time where I was thinking about drafting a tight end. I'm so glad we didn't. Let's let Frederick Claiborne get the two point. You got three down linemen against one of the best running backs in the league. Probably the best running back in the league. What is wrong with you? Eight to zero. Let's see what the rest of this sim has in store. No scoring until the Vikings get three. Saints get another tutty. Vikings get one of their own. It's 18 to 10. We five to 10, 25, 13. And that's all she wrote. Our first playoff win. No, our second playoff win. We did beat the Cowboys earlier, but there's a first playoff win that we watched. And wow, did we have an incredible game. Almost a perfect pass rating for Dylan Graham. Three touchdowns. Anthony Richardson was actually amazing. 231 for 42, 300 yards. He threw the ball a lot. Frederick Clayborn 15 for 71 and a touchdown. Dude, I'm telling you, when you have these insane running backs, they really change the sim stats. We had a sack out of Foster. We had a sack out of Foskey. Big dub. And now we take on the 12 and five Buccaneers. Shit. Tristan Worfes is a 99 and Winfields a 99. Devin White, Vita Vea, Jordan Love. Ashton Hampton, Jamele Dean. Peter Rose. Travis Banks, the Angelo. It's a cool team, but if we don't get past them with all the firepower we have, I'll be shocked. K, three for the Bucks. Touchdown for the Bucks. Wait a minute, 13-0. We got a score, 13-7. Stop, score, 14-13. Second and six. Tampa base turned the ball over once. Except we're just punting. We're having some empty drives here. This is a really close game. Divisional playoff. Dylan Graham unloads. Caught by Jalen Hyatt. Ooh, little cut block. Dylan Graham rolls out. And still, how the fuck did you throw that? Look at that. 14-13, all the starters are in. There goes Frederick Clayborn. There goes Frederick Clayborn. Unloads. Caught. Hit him. I don't like how it went to Clayborn, but it went to Frederick Clayborn. Oh my God. Okay, so still one possession ball game. They have all three timeouts, so no fucking way. Oh my fucking God, catches ass. It finally happened to me. In my first ever rebuild, the Rams rebuild, I did that to the computer. And every single rebuild since, I've never seen it until right now. We've got the pass rush going on Jordan Lovey. He checks down over the middle. Nice throw. I expect so much more out of Holcomb. He just watched Jordan Lovey start to take off. But, but, but, the biggest play is right here right now. Two point conversion. We stopped this. We win. Hand off. They go for the outside. Cut, let's go. Jalen Hyatt hands team. Let's go. Oh my God, that's so amazing. All right, that's ball game. Solid QB play by both QBs. Another three touchdown game for Graham, but Frederick Clayborn nine attempts, 62 yards. 6.8 yards for Kerry. Honestly, like, you should have given them all more. Oh my God. We're taking on the Seahawks. Seahawks is who we traded for Foskey. So we poached Foskey off of them and we have a literal mirror matchup. 95-0, 91-D, 93 overall. They're gonna have like a 99 Kenneth Walker. And what else? 99 Jackson Smith and Jigba, 99 Witherspoon, 99 Larry Ball. Oh my God, that quarterback from forever ago. Jamaical Colbert, D Tackle. Oh my God, they drafted so well. 7-7, 14-7, 21-7. Seahawks score, 28-14, 28-21. It looks like we're basically one and off away from a win here. This is a close game. Come on, Freddie. Why are we running play action? Why don't you give it to the best running back in the lead? And now you're gonna punt the fucking ball. Or can you hit that, Justin Tucker? In the rain, though. There's a 50-90 yarder in the rain. No, we're punching. Oh my God. The fucking ball off. To the 99 overall halfback. Punt dot, punt fucking dot. Punt laser beam. Maybe coach knows something. This is the game-winning drive. They have only one time out and they are on the literal one. It's gotta be a run up the middle. Holcomb, go get a safety and put this fucking game away. Or, or somehow Kenneth Walker will run for 16 yards out of his own end zone. They gotta go no huddle. Clock is not their friend. We need a sack. Get to Larry Ball. Second and 10. Big heeve. Caught. Kenneth Walker's gonna get out of bounds. Okay, throws over the middle. We like that. Nothing deep, nothing deep, nothing deep, nothing deep, nothing deep. That's deep, guys. What are we doing? Right, right. We got the abilities. Somebody's gotta bust through that. Oh, he's in bounds, huge. Do they call the timeout yet? They do. There's the timeout. They got about two plays left. They gotta go end zone every single time here. Cause if they throw inside the field of play, they're gonna regret it. They gotta go end zone. Don't you check that down to Kenneth Walker. Don't do it. Throws it away. That burnt seven seconds. That's huge. I don't know how many plays they got left now. 18, 15. Throws it away again. Passers are just getting up through the S46 passers-ons. Third and 10. Get home. Get home. Clean pocket. No man's land. He's got one play left. They gotta go basically hail Mary. Cause you can't throw this in bounds. Please, everybody drop back. You know what they're doing. Pressure on. Could have been intercepted by Holcomb, but it doesn't matter because that's the ball game. Say, hang on and head to the Super Bowl. Play-Born really wasn't that effective on the crown. No offense. It was insane. We had a turnover though. Holcomb with 11 tackles. One sack from Foster. Interception pulse into Debo. That's what won us that game. Dude, what has gotten into the Chargers? This is their third Super Bowl appearance. They're fucking eight and nine. Dude, did they like draft somebody who's just, they drafted that one corner, right? Other than that, like Justin Herbert, Durbin James, Lissante San, Sean Slater, Joey Bosa, Kenneth Murray, Alton Garvin. Dude, why is this team in the Super Bowl? I don't know what's going on here, but whatever. Taking on the Chargers in the Bowl, baby. Come on. Come on, Saints rebuild. Let's end in 2028. I like this. We're so close. We're so close, boys. We're so close. We're right there. Three zero Chargers, six, seven, 14, six. Ew, it's getting ugly, 17, six. They have all, that's literally, they have all field goals. They have four fucking field goals. They have not gotten in the end zone. There they go in the end zone. 34 to 20 in the big game. And I think Fredrick Claiborne can put this away. Oh, we're in the all black Unis. He's looks so sick. Hand it off to my boy. Hand it off to my fucking boy. Claiborne, third and one. Wait, how is it third and one? How did you just teleport to third and one? Claiborne owns your poverty fridge. Oh, that was second. First and 10, oh my God. Oh my God. Why are the Chargers in the Super Bowl at eight and nine? This team is mid. That Seahawks team was so much better. All right, second and 11. I don't, for some reason we're handed this off. I actually don't know why. We're just rubbing it in. We should still be in victory formation right now. Yeah, we're showing up rubbing it in. We said, fuck the Chargers. We just wanted more yards. And the final play is a Bill and Graham Neil. He had 11 rushes, 45 yards and a touchdown in the bowl. No way we hand this off. Do it, fucking hand it off. Do it, do it. One second left in the Super Bowl. Let's go. The Saints are Super Bowl champions. Dude, that is a tough rebuild. That is actually a really tough rebuild. Those first three years are just like absolutely wasted. I honestly think this rebuild would have been, would have taken me at least one or two more years if we didn't hit on every draft pick. Cause if you whiffed, like if I'd whiffed on QB and he was normal dev or even just star, that would change a lot. But him being superstar progressed like crazy. Foster wins defensive rookie the year that was huge for him. Pete Werner got superstar X factor. We had a lot of things go right for us and it still took six years. Bill and Graham, you earned it, buddy. I'm sorry, James. I'm sorry it couldn't be you. Bill and Graham is geeked up on the podium. Look at those Super Bowl stats. Who's going to win MVP? So Graham's got 277, two touchdowns. He probably gets it. I'm so glad we traded for him. Frederick Claybourne, 13-123 in a touchdown. It should be him. It really should be Frederick Claybourne. I don't know if he's going to get it, but it should be him. Defensively, Werner had 11, whole command nine, Werner had an interception. He could get it too. Bricea had a second. Yeah, honestly, it could be Pete Werner with 11 tackles and an interception. It could be Frederick Claybourne and it could be Dylan. I have no idea what's going to be. Let's find out. Holy shit. Look at your ending New Orleans Saints lineup. Claybourne, the insane rookie that we traded for. Dylan Graham, now with 99 superstar X factor that we drafted, digs out of free agency. Olavé, a true New Orleans Saint. Jalen Hyatt's even looking really good right now. Joann Johnson regressing, but superstar. Offensive line looks beautiful and defensively Holcomb hits superstar X factor. Werner hits superstar X factor. To a below two is really, really solid, but he stayed normal dev the whole time. Zeigler, Drummond, Lattimore, Foskey, Brian Bricey, Byron Young, Pulse and Adibo and Jose Callaway. Who got Super Bowl MVP though? Who got Super Bowl MVP? I genuinely don't know. I think it should be. It should be Frederick Claybourne. Dude, that's rig. Honestly, 280 yards and two touchdowns is nowhere near as impressive as 13 carries 130 yards of touchdowns. That's 10 yards per carry is a back. I don't know. All right boys, amazing. We got our bowl. I appreciate you guys watching as always. Hopefully I'm not sick for the next rebuild. Sorry if that was annoying. I love you so much and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.