 All right boys the number one question I get all the time is how much money will I spend on Madden? How much money should you spend on Madden? How much money will we spend on mutt? Let's talk about it now first of all when we talk about mutt it is One mode in Madden Madden. It's not Madden. You don't have to spend money to play Madden There is a huge rags community more people play rags than any other modes So if you don't want to spend money on mutt mutt is a scam you have a negative attitude towards mutt That's fine. There's plenty of people that play rags One of the biggest things you have to do is realize that you're gonna feel a little left out over here on the YouTube content thing because Mutt is king of the content right now. That's the only thing But there's still more people that play rags than any other mode if you want to play comp rags Head on over to players lounge that link will be below sign up there You can play tournaments you can play head-to-head for money whatever it may be in any day I grew up playing rags head-to-head Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over just for fun Chargers Patriots Eagles over and over I remember playing with Ed Reed and Ray Lewis So that's how I grew up. So as far as people that say, oh, well, you know, I don't want to play rags Well, I mean then you're gonna want to play mutt You're gonna have to spend money or grind the hell out of one of the other But there's a huge market still for rags respectable market. That's perfectly fine There's nothing wrong pick buying Madden picking up and playing rags. That's first thing first We got to get out the board because as soon as you start talking about money and Madden people will have a negative attitude Like you have like the game forces your hand that you have to spend five thousand dollars on the game It's not the case then You have to realize who you are as a Madden player, you know, who are you? What is your goal in Madden? You have to set those down, you know You can just you can be a casual you can be a guy that just wants to play grind build his team Whatever it may be The comp side like if you want to be belt comp compy belt dude I think you have to the one thing you have to realize what you're up against if you're a belt I want to go get a belt. I want to win the MCS. I want to play You have to realize that the people you're playing against will be playing 16 hours a day They will have every single card the day the game drops if they can pay for it They will have it. That is how the comp scene is That's how it's gonna be. That's what you'll be up against. Are you willing and that's probably, you know thousands of dollars day one Because they are it's an investment on how good they are at the game Can they win some of that back if they make one live event might make, you know, $10,000 and win it all back So that's an investment for on the competitive side of Madden to try to keep up with that as a casual player even a kind of comp player is ludicrous especially with the tournament the first day It's tough to keep up with that if you want to go for it go for it by all means But I think you're at that point you're out there putting at least a thousand dollars in the game in the first day I you know, I think that's how that's gonna be Do I want to do that? Not really and if I was a comp player I probably wouldn't do that right away or if I wasn't a streamer I probably wouldn't do that right away, but you know, that's what you have to realize first and foremost And if you want to be casual, I would try to rock with whatever team you want My seat for this question how much do you spend? I have to go back to before, you know I was a streamer and this was a job and everything and my thought was if I get a quarterback on the field I'm gonna go throw the ball around That's how I felt if I can get a Mahomes or I can get Josh Allen or Jalen Hertz Lamar Jackson Whatever be soon as I get that card put a couple receivers around them and some decent I'm gonna go out there and play. I don't think I needed the super goons right away. I wanted to see how the game felt See what players I wanted on the field if my wire series are slow Let's try to get a Tyree kill if I wanted bigger body wire series. Okay, let's try to get Who at Mike Evans, you know, that's kind of how I think and see how the game plays Most important thing you do is judge what you need on your team off of how your team is performing for the most part and the same note Understand what you're using if you're running a gun a slot and you have two tight ends and two wide receivers You don't need to spend enough money to have a third wide receiver. That's just overkill For most part, that's how I feel but and same thing with defense if you're running a nickel normal You don't need eight dbs. You don't need two middle linebackers Whatever it may be figure out your personnel and kind of stated that personnel if you're kind of on a budget So for me, I that's what I would go for, you know I would try to get a quarterback and then put the ball in the field how we go It's gonna be interesting to see these rookie premieres. When do we get these cards, right? When do we get them because if we get them early that might be all we need, right? That might be all we need rookie premieres put them out there. Let's put Bryce young out there Let's put CJ Stroud will levis whoever it may be Let's see how they do and if that's good enough for my team So that's another thing I look forward to hopefully they come out at least in the launch Which would be the 18th. I believe hopefully they come out Monday, but probably not so Now for me as a streamer I know that you know, there's a lot of pressure that you guys put under are put under as mud players watching YouTube videos every single week every single day the newest card the newest drop the newest promo promo promo drops drops newest card newest card and I think that pressure makes you feel like you always need that newest card and In my Philosophy everything like that I feel like you'd be fine waiting a week for the newest promo if not two weeks And I think that can save you at least half of your money if you don't use the you know You don't need to get the newest card like you're gonna see me with the Richard Sherman the first day Yeah, look at the new Richard Sherman and it's gonna make you feel like you need that card And that's a pressure that comes with being a casual mud player or just being a casual competitive player And it's a constant pressure of I need the new card on YouTuber on Twitch and you don't honestly not early not right away anything like that and one of the other biggest pressures is Mentally, it's easy to say you're losing because of the cards you're losing because your team is not good enough It's easy to say that when an actuality if you can get better at the game your team matters less It's kind of how it works, you know The better you can get at the game your teams want to matter less and that's gonna carry over all year You know, you're good enough to play with the base elite team now Just imagine on Christmas, you know when one you got to save some money for some Christmas presents You don't got to buy the new ghost of Christmas past cards that come out because you've gotten better at the game to where Your Thanksgiving cards are still eating, you know, your kickoff cards are still eating I think that's how it is and I tell people all the time you'd be better off heading over to Matt turf comm Buying one of our membership packages to learn how to play the game better rather than buying that next bundle So that also that link is below as well boys if you want to head over to Matt turf But losing and you know feeling like you're not that good will give you the pressure of needing to get a new team That's another thing that's involved with spending money for your team so one You don't need the new promo cards and your team isn't going to make you better instantly Those are the two things you gotta fight the urge to think because that's what the you know The perception of the whole mutt universe is I need the new promo And I need the new or I need my team to be better at the game Those two things will give you pressures to continue to buy, you know have to and at the end of the day Let's be honest mutt is designed to get us to want to keep spending money. It is a Scam I don't want to say it's a scam. I don't know what the word I'm looking for but because it's fun We enjoy it. That's why we do it. You're not going to pay money to something. You don't enjoy so But it's designed to keep us going and it's designed to be something you spend money on but as far as launch man I'm going to spend money. I am a streamer. I am a Content creator and I'm a competitive person. So for me, I'm gonna have the best team one of the biggest things You gotta realize is you don't kind of keep up with me, you know that that's gonna be hard to do for regular people It's tough because you're gonna watch videos You're gonna watch everybody's videos and it'll be the newest card. So it's gonna be tough to keep up But before I'm gonna have some taxes people in a chat I don't spend money because it's for taxes a lot of people have that misconception. Let me show you guys exactly what taxes do here This is we're gonna go here. This is say we make a hundred thousand this year, right? This is a yearly thing This is how taxes work before you know the comments you guys are telling me that I don't spend money and your streamers Don't spend money and it's easy to think that you know, but this out works a hundred thousand. Let's say this is a hundred thousand here boys We're going with this. Oh, that's a racer. All right, so this is a hundred thousand This is our hundred thousand that we made right? This is our money. We made this year. Let's just say like I said Just say a hundred thousand boom. Here's the IRS. They want to come around with taxes, which is good The word I mean listen, I'm not anti-tax person if you're paying taxes that means you're doing pretty well So here comes the IRS they're walking over they want your money. They want their 25% So they'll come over here and they'll take 25% of what you make on the year as a business boom They take their 25% damn. I just lost I had to pay taxes 25k, right? 25k I had to pay in taxes. That's tough and the way you should the way you less In that tax is by saying you didn't make as much money or by say by Using some of that hundred K throughout the year to spend business expenses, which is a computer a business trip Your office your everything and at the end of the day mutt cards is a part of that So let's just say we got our hundred K, but we spent $20,000 on mutt right we spend $20,000 on mutt, which is a ridiculous number. I've never spent that much but for the sake of argument purposes Let's say we spent 25k on mutt Now we have Our net profits a hundred will will minus that business expense. You didn't think you were going to tax school here You didn't honestly. I'm not the smartest person. There's somebody in here. That's what tell me I'm probably wrong, but okay now our business our net income for the year because We had we made a hundred K, but we spent 20 on our packs, right? We spent 20 on our packs Now our income for the year is 80, right? So now we're sitting at 80 instead of a hundred K 80,000 now Mr.. IRS comes here and says damn. I still want your 25 percent, but now 25 percent of that is only to 20 K. So I'm just going to save $5,000 on my taxes By spending that 20 K and you're going to try to find you know my clothes I wore or the food I ate or the coffee I had or you know Whatever my drawings in the background or my cameras everything is a business expense and ideally I mean ideally you want to make money as a business, but you want to have your expenses as low as possible So the tax percentage that mr.. IRS comes and takes is not that high So that is where the mutt cards Write it off on taxes what it is is it it subtracts essentially from your gain as a business You know, but I still have to spend the money. It's not like the business goes anywhere It's not like the money just poof disappears or the IRS gives me back all the money that I spent on mutt packs That's not how it works. So it's not like I'm spending money So you asked me how much do I want to spend nothing? I want to have my rookie premieres and I want them to be good enough to play And honestly if the rookie premieres are good enough to play week one This will be the best promo madden has ever ever done If they give us a team from the jump that can compete right away This this rookie premiere will be the greatest promo EA has ever done without a doubt And I have high hopes for these rookie premieres Because one it was cool that they made us grind late in the year And if they worked and they work in demand 24, that would be awesome But that's a lot of faith. So the simple question. How much money am I going to spend as least as possible? I have a budget to where if I spend more than $500 then it's like, okay, I don't want to do this I hope my team is good enough to play But as a streamer and I want to be competitive. I want to play ladders next weekend I'm going to want to have the best team ever and I'm not going to allow Something, you know, I'm not going to allow a budget to hold me back on that So if I'm missing cards, we're going to keep buying bundles But like I said, you don't have to keep up with me. I would budget yourself whatever is comfortable for you I may be one bundle can get you going one to make the big bundle $100 I think that can get everybody going, you know, if you want a simple answer But at the end of the day, like I said, to start the video, you don't need to play much You can play regs simple as that Nothing wrong with playing regs and it's nothing wrong with a nobody spent grind There's nothing wrong with that The biggest thing is you have to mentally realize you'll be behind on the content youtube kings And you'll be behind the competitors super comp guys, but there's a super place in between You know, you got the comp guys You got the super nerd youtubers that have every card and then you got everybody else There's no there's nothing wrong with being in everywhere else and you can be on a budget You don't have to spend a lot of money there keep up I'm going to do a great series this year on are the cards worth it to help you guys I know you we always watch youtube videos every single week. Oh the newest card. He's awesome No half of them suck half of them you don't need and I want to make sure I do a youtube series on Are they worth it each single card and that way hopefully help you guys out because nobody should be spending money that they don't want to On mutt just to try to keep up man. It's a tough game. It's but it's fun. That's why we like it You know, it's the biggest question I get how much money you're going to spend hope I cleared some of these Uh questions you guys have about that if you have any more mutt spending questions, uh, you know I don't know what bundles will be the best. We'll try to figure that out I normally try to go for whatever bundle can give you the most cards in general Like I would say maybe just a bunch of you know gold what? All-star packs or whatever the hell they were with you know, a bunch of different packs a bunch of core elites as many Opportunities you have to pull good cards. That's what I would shoot for but we'll see what the packs are looking like day one I will be live streaming it you guys know twitch.tv Slashed up that that link is below tons of links for you guys to look at below But I appreciate you guys watching this hope I cleared up any of your questions as far as spending money in mutt