 Today I'm taking over as GM of the absolute worst team in Madden 24. The Arizona Cardinals. And this video can't end until we hoist the Lombardi trophy. Let's begin. Rebuilding the Arizona Cardinals. There are 75 overall with a 73 defense and a 77 offense. This is a pitiful lineup, I'm being honest. Offensive line is trash. Our best wide receiver is Hollywood Brown at 85 overall. He is super fast with 97 speed, but he's also Stardav in five foot nine. And the cold three build is one of the most interesting ones because we have Kyler Murray at quarterback. Now the last two Maddens, he's been superstar. He's been a high overall, but he took a serious regression this year. Stardav, 26 years old. The good news is he's 92 speed, 94 excel. You can't exactly teach that. And I still believe that Kyler Murray is our franchise quarterback. We are gonna build around him. But in real life, he is injured for about eight or nine more weeks. So for the first half of the season, we can't use Kyler Murray. I guess our tight ends are all right. We've got 83 Zachards of veteran. He won't be on this team for much longer. And then we have the sophomore year Trey McBride. He's pretty fast. We're really scraping at the bottom of the barrel. This is a very tough rebuild. Paris Johnson is nice though. I do like Paris Johnson. We have undoubtedly the worst defensive line in the league. It's not even close. This D-line is atrocious. We do have rookie BJ Ojalari. He's Stardav, he's a fast linebacker. So I do think throughout this rebuild, BJ Ojalari will become a very good outside linebacker. But we're a long ways away from that. And Zaven Collins will develop very well too. He's pretty fast for a middle linebacker. Great hit power. And despite what looks like gray hair on his head, he is 24 years old. Butta Baker is a highlight on this defense. But he's right in that sweet spot of age where he's not getting any better. But he's not getting any worse either. For the next two years, he'll kind of float around 90 overall. I like Butta Baker. This is like team that really needs a full revamp. So I am considering getting some value out of Butta Baker while we can. But I'm not certain I'm gonna do that yet. Jalen Thompson is okay as well. He's a Stard 25 year old free safety with average stats. You know, previously I said that the Rams rebuild was the most difficult rebuild, but I was so wrong. This team is so much worse. And it's not even close. This team is horrible. Not only do we have the worst D-line in the league, but at least as far as madness concerned, we have the worst corners in the league. Marco Wilson, Rashad Fettin, and I don't even know who this is, Christian Matthew out of Valdosta State. Valdosta State, God, this team is so bad. The timeline on Kyler Murray's injury in real life is mid-season. So I'm not putting Kyler in until mid-season. Additionally, I'm gonna move Trey McBride to my starting tight end. McBride is not as good as Zacherts right now, but Zacherts maybe has a year left in the league. And we're not winning anything anytime soon. So there's no point in giving Zacherts reps. I just can't justify it. Hey, we've got a star kicker though. I'm also moving Hollywood to slot wide receiver. I just wanna get him as many reps as possible. He's the only offensive player other than Kyler Murray, who really has a chance of progressing. So if we get Hollywood Brown to a superstar, maybe a 90 overall, within a year, year and a half, that would be amazing. Now that being said, one of the most fun parts of this rebuild will undoubtedly be the draft. The Arizona Cardinals currently have their own first round pick, which should be a really high pick, because this team sucks. They have a round one pick from the Houston Texans, who also could struggle, because that team is so young, although I expect them to do better than we will. We have an additional fifth round from the Eagles and the Texans, and an additional third rounder from the Eagles and Texans. So we're gonna get a haul from this draft. And that's if we trade nobody. We're gonna get a haul of this draft. Quarterback is kind of off the table. So when I think of positions that we need to target, three main positions that come to mind for this team. That's defensive end. Carter Richter here out of Wisconsin. Looks like he's projected to go third off the board. My next target might be wide receiver. Hollywood's not gonna cut it. Tyler's gonna need some weapons. I wouldn't hate picking up a stud wide receiver in this draft. But I think the next most important position after D-Line is probably corner. The highest corner in this draft is 25th right now. That's Garrison Henry out of West Virginia. But of course, we gotta do our scouting and actually figure out how good these guys are before we evaluate the talent. Looks like late. There's a few more wide receivers. Robert Kent, Shaden, Haynes. Anton Mason is another right end. It looks like there's a good amount of wide receivers, edge rushers. And we're kind of shallow on corners. So we gotta make sure we scout and find a stud corner. All right, gentlemen, this team is ready for, I don't wanna say tanking, but a season of tanking. Let's see how they do. Let's sim to mid season. If we have one win, I will actually be shocked. Dude, I've never simmed to mid season and actually seen 0 and 7 until right now. But hey, this is what I said was gonna happen, right? All right, let's see how the boys did through mid season. Looks like morale is low. Players are frustrated understandably. We are 0 and 7. It's honestly an achievement in and of itself. Ojalari has unlocked his dev trait, which is star. We did know that. See a big part of me kind of wants to trade Buddha Baker. I just, we're not gonna win right now and he's not gonna get any better. Do I even keep him? I do need to set my scouts. This is gonna be really, really important. So Victoria gets a boost when scouting wide receivers. National has a strength on wide receivers. So we're gonna set that there. Now Calvin Heath is my three star and he does have a position mismatch, but that's okay because I wanted him on Anton Mason anyway. So I didn't really have a choice unless I had hired some different scouts, but Anton Mason is projected at 19 right now. Central, I actually hired Calvin Johnson. I love that. Wide receiver expertise, I wonder why. But honestly, the main guy I'm looking at in the draft is Carter Richter. This is the power rusher out of Wisconsin. So he's 23, which is kind of old, coming out of college. And he's six foot three, which is a little short. He's kind of got like an Air Donald build here. A block shedding, A to C finesse moves, A power moves, A tackle. So you know he's gonna come out just a monster. Good to great speed, good to great agility, solid to good acceleration, solid to good strength. But honestly, what I'm most impressed by is this. This looks like a surefire talent in the draft. Almost every single core attribute has A other than stamina. Stamina is the only thing, B to D. I'm fine with that. And we're 0-7, there's a very good chance we're drafting first or second or third. So if I get the first pick, I'm probably taking Carter Richter. And after that, I'm not sure. Anton Mason does not look good. I was talking about focusing my scouting on him, but now that I look at him, not the guy. And now that I see we are truly 0-7, I am gonna trade Buddha Baker. Buddha Baker is the best player on this team. It feels weird to trade him, but number one, he's already an undersized strong safety, which I'm not a big fan of. 5-10 is just a little too short. He's got two years left on his deal. He's costing us a boatload of money and he's not moving the needle. Buddha Baker is gonna walk in two years. I'm not gonna re-sign him. We might as well get some value out of him now while we can. And the value I'm really looking for is gonna be draft picks. What team's gonna be able to afford this though? I am a dolphin's gonna afford it and they need a strong safety. Dolphins are playing well, so the round one is pretty deep, projected at 27 right now. This is a pretty aggressive highball, but I wanna see what they say. You guys were saying, I need a highball to shit out of trade, so this is Buddha Baker for the Miami Dolphins' first second and then next year's first second. I imagine this will not be going through. Oh my God, that is actually absurdly close. I'm gonna take out that second rounder, but would they do it? It's still so close. Oh my God. What if we did both first rounds and then 20-24 third round? Two first rounds and a third round pick for 27-year-old Buddha Baker? Okay, that's a huge trade. I think this is essential to this rebuild. Buddha Baker was just never a part of our Super Bowl plans, unfortunately, unless I had a 33-year-old Buddha Baker out there with auto-generated wide receivers and linebackers. The Arizona Gardenals send Buddha Baker to the Miami Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins send a 20-24 and 20-25 first round pick as well as a 20-24 third round pick. Keep in mind though, dolphins are a good team and I just handed them a superstar strong safety, so those draft picks are gonna be late, but I need the talent. Now an obvious point I did not address is we don't have a safety. I guess Williams will pop up there. It's, I mean, our defense was trash anyway, but now it's just a hot dumpster fire. I technically could still sign a free agent though. Is there anyone available? Look at that. Damate KZ is available. He doesn't really want that much money. He needs a 77 overall. 2.35 million for a 77 overall sub-in. That's great. Ow, I absolutely take that. It's time to sim to the playoffs. Will we pull off the 0-17 season? I think that would be an accomplishment in and of itself. Also, I apologize. My Cardinals jerseys in Arizona. Oh my God, I've never seen it. I've never seen it before, but here it is boys. The 0-17 season. Now keep in mind, I actually did forget the sub-Kyler back in, but I don't actually hate that. By not playing Kyler, two things happened. Number one, he didn't take a massive morale hit like everybody else did and this might technically be more real life accurate because nobody actually knows when Kyler Murray is coming back. Some people predict he was coming back in week 10. So Kyler Murray sits out this entire first season for Arizona, works out great because we just tanked like absolute gods. You ever seen a team tank like that? An actual 0-17 season to kick us off. Kyler Murray can come back to starting quarterback and the draft is up next. Now the nice thing about this draft is number one, we've got a lot of draft capital with three first trump picks and we could virtually pick anybody. We have so many holes on this team that my strategy will be to take the best player available even if we might not need the position. Now quarterback is probably the only position I will not be drafting. Also tight end, I think I'm okay. But I could even end up taking a half back here. Probably I'll take one in the second or third. James Conner is not it. Definitely need to grab some interior offensive line in the draft. I could scoop a wide receiver but my highest priority is defensive end and corners and low key we should be picking up strong safety too. But keep in mind, we do have a lot of cap space after trading Buddha Baker. We've got 10 extra mil and cap space now freed up. We have 36 million. So we can definitely sign a big free agent too. So let me give you guys a recap of the full season. The Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen won the Super Bowl. They beat the Falcons. Bijan Robinson wins offensive rookie of the year and defensive rookie of the year is Brian Branch. Dak Prescott led the league in passing yards. Clayton Toon was like 31st. He really struggled. There's only one quarterback that did worse than Clayton Toon. It's Justin Fields. Oh my God. Well, that's not true. Clayton Toon threw 13 touchdowns and 27 interceptions. He was absolutely horrible. The perfect guy for a tank. James Connor had 700 rushing yards and four touchdowns. Good God, this team is so bad. Hollywood had 800 yards on 60 receptions and six touchdowns. Trey McBride, 60 receptions, 600 yards, two touchdowns. I'm glad that him and Hollywood at least got some reps, I guess. And defensively, Xavin Collins had 150 tackles. That's actually a ton. I'll be playing 11 defense since our offense couldn't move the ball. And BJ Ojolari had two sacks. I guess I can't complain about that. And now it's time for free agency, but I can't really decide what free agents we want until we look again at the college players. And before I sign anyone in free agency, I really need to think about the draft. One cool thing to note is Carter Richter, the left end that I've been targeting this entire time in my head has actually bumped up to the first overall pick. Luckily, we have the first overall pick. So I don't have to trade up or do any nonsense. I can just take Carter Richter. He has great jumping, great speed, good acceleration, great agility. He was the fastest left end in 40 yard dash. So he's probably damn fast. I think that's awesome too, because his archetype is actually power rusher, not speed rusher. So he's gonna have good power moves, good finesse moves, good block shed. So Carter Richter just seems like he's a guaranteed bona fide talent. I'm actually glad that we didn't scout left end because I know I'm taking him anyway. The question is, what am I taking with those other two first round picks? The first corner available is actually projected at 34 right now, which is really late. So technically I could take this guy with my second round first pick. Elite acceleration is awesome. Great speed is also good. So he's got the intangibles I want, but his skills don't look like anything impressive. A to C block shedding is interesting on a DB. A tackle, good. B to D zone, not good. C mid, like he's just mid, but all the DBs are kind of mid. Next one is Michael Friedman. He's got D man coverage, but then A zone coverage. His speed is good. His acceleration is good. I like Felix better. And the last guy that really jumps out at me is Malcolm Lucas. It's a second round strong safety and I do want a strong safety. First in the 40 yard dash, elite speed. On top of that, A awareness, A to C block shedding, A to C hit power, A to C catching, A pursuit. D play rec is actually really bad for a strong safety. That's kind of embarrassing, but this guy looks like an absolute snag in the second round. Hopefully he's not like honey potting me, honey dicking me, and he's just a normal dev. So I have round one pick one, round one pick 16 and round one pick 19. Then we have the early pick in the second and that's our only second round pick that we have. Then we've got four picks in the third, two in the fourth, two in the fifth, and that's it. Ooh, I'm excited for this draft. Knowing everything that we know, I want to sign a free agent wide receiver. Mike Williams does not look very interested in being a Cardinal, but technically we could sign him. Odell Beckham Jr. is excited to be a Cardinal, but I don't know if I'm excited to sign Odell Beckham Jr. Gotta work both ways. I think a center signing makes the most sense. Mitch Morse will probably only play for a year, but our center right now is a 66 overall. We gotta get somebody. Mitch Morse on a two year deal, if he stays two years, great. We'll see if he accepts that, but he doesn't seem too interested in playing for us anyway, unfortunately. Nobody wants to play for the Cardinals. I always liked Isaiah Rogers Sr. He's very fast. He's only 26, he's normal dev, but he's not looking for too much money. And we got the cap space, so I'm gonna give him a very player friendly deal. Hopefully we can pick him up. I wonder if we could offer Odell just a one year deal. Like it's gonna cost a lot of money, but just get Kyler like a really nice weapon for one year. I'm basically doing exactly what the Ravens did. Let's see if we can get Odell. I'm gonna give him, ooh, that's a lot of money. Now I got a lot of cap space. I can do this. What, what, dude, 150 tackles paid off. Xavin Collins is superstar. He's superstar, he's only 75 overall, so you can't like hardly do anything with it. Oh my God, that's actually so funny. Looks like Garrett Williams, the corner who I put at Strong Safety, ended up becoming a star. So when I draft a Strong Safety here, I can probably move him back to corner. The only player who we offered out in free agency that elected to sign was Isaiah Rogers. I can't say I blame them. We suck, we're 0-1-17. It all comes down to the draft. This is where we rebuild this lineup. We traded away Buda Baker for a first this year and a first next year as well as a third round pick this year. So now we're gonna see if it pays off. With round one pick one, we have what you might call an absolute no-brainer in Carter Richter. We've been looking at this guy all year. The game even says right there, he's the top fit for Arizona. There's seven bullet points on player notes. That's always nice. He's 6'3", 270, power rusher, lefty out of Wisconsin. Speed is great, jumping is great. Agility is great, everything else is good. He was the fastest left end at the pro day and the combine, the second biggest vert. And I think the best thing about this dude is his skills chart. I've rarely ever seen all A's. Now he doesn't technically have all A's. Stamina is B to D, but this guy is a freak. To me, this is guaranteed hit and dev and probably at least 77 overall. Carter Richter on a Wisconsin. He's got 84 speed, 84 strength, 83 acceleration. All of that is like, I mean, it's actually super good. I was gonna say it's average, but for a power rusher end, it's super good and he is hidden death. Thank God if this dude was normal, that I was gonna cry. Oh, withing the first pick would be a brutal way to start this season. Advancing to the next user pick, we have round one, pick 16. Now there is a Clemson running back, Eric Gatson, who is available. He's got good speed, great acceleration and there's a lot of A's in here. A to C awareness, A ball carry vision, A to C pass block, A to C spectacular catch, spin move, stamina, trucking. Definitely looks like he could be a stud, but I just think this team needs too many things and I don't think taking a half back in the first round is the move. I think we could get away. You know what? I am gonna take him. James Connor is not the move. We gotta give Kyler Murray some weapons since this is his first starting season. I'm gonna take Eric Gatson here. Yes, thank you, Eric. Oh, I was scared. I was scared it was too obvious of a pick. He is hidden death, he's at least star. 92 speed, 93 acceleration, 511 and he is a dense. 232 pounds out of Clemson. I like a Clemson guy. 80 strength out of the Hapk. This guy's a beast. Ah, damn. Eric Gatson's our pick there and our next pick is coming up quick here. It is round one, pick 19. Now I am gonna reach on this pick. Here's why. I don't need a left tackle. I don't need a quarterback. Devin Conway out of Tennessee. He looks all right. He's got great speed, elite excel, elite agility. The great speed bothers me. Seventh for wide receivers in the 40 yard dash time. And his skills just aren't that good. He's got D short route running. He's got F, F medium route running. However you are wide receiver with F medium route running. How is that even possible? This guy is like a deep threat, but he's five, 10. I don't know. I think the position I need the most. We've got DN, I needed it. Halfback, we needed it. I need a corner. I do have to go down pretty far here to grab a corner. But the corner I liked the most was Felix Andrews. Now you look at Felix Andrews and he looks a little goofy. Sea catching, sea press, sea play rec, sea man. That's wonky. A tackle, A to C block shedding. But he's the only corner in the first second round projection that actually had good speed and acceleration. The rest of these corners are gonna be sitting at 86, 87 speed. I just can't do it. Felix Andrews has great speed, elite acceleration, great jumping, good strength. If he's hidden dev, this will be really, really good. If he's normal dev, this will be a horrendous pick. Oh, Felix, don't you let me down, Felix Andrews. Let's go. God, give this guy an award for the ugliest fucking, they need to do something about these face scans, bro. Who looks like that? I've never met a human being who looks like that. But Felix Andrews has 94 speed and 94 acceleration, which is exactly why we took him. I'm a little scared to see his coverages. I have to imagine they're pretty bad. But it's another Clemson guy, actually. We're pairing Felix up with his teammate. That's how we're doing. Him and Eric, they go way back. I got three hidden dev players in my first three picks in the first round. You expect to get hidden dev in the first round, but I'm really, really happy. And our next user pick is at the very start of the second round. And after this, it's the start of the third. So this is a pretty important pick here. Devonte Bridge, the Missouri running back has jumped 112. Holy shit, 112. I don't need half back though, so I can't, I can't do it. The strong safety I really like is still available. The five, nine strong safety at a UCF. I was talking shit about Buddha Baker for being 5'10 and I'm about to draft a guy even shorter. I like him because his speed is elite. I know speed's not the only thing, but he also has good skills. I see a lot of A's in here for a second round guy. A Awareness, ADC Block Shed, A Pursuit. B's own coverage is nice. The worst thing here is Playrack. I mean, his finesse moves their dog shit, but who carries? Playrack's a little bad, but Malcolm Lucas is fast. And he's not even that fast. Damn. All right, that's the first big whiff right there. Normal dev and he's only 93 speeds. He's really not as fast as I was hoping. Hopefully he's a high overall. That's really the only thing that salvages this pick right here. 88 Excel, 88 Agility, 85 Jumping, 83 Change Direction, not so strong. Yeah, not looking good. I was not a good pick. Round three pick one. I'm going to grab a wide receiver here. We did our scouting on wide receiver because I knew I was going to take somebody. Marquis Keenan, he's six foot two, so he's big. I like that because right now we got Hollywood. Who's five foot nine? Speed doesn't look great. His physicals really don't look great, but we're sitting here in the third round. I got to get Kyler a wide receiver. The hail. Marquis Keenan, listen, he's six two. He could develop well. 90 speed, 91 Excel is not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I was really hoping to finesse a little hidden dev there in that third round. We do have a lot of round three picks though, so we can still make up for this. I'm going to take Kyle Triplett, a guard here. Offensive line is horrible. He actually has really good physicals. His skills are pretty solid too. To get a good guard this late, I'd be shocked. Oh, that is massive. Damn, that is actually massive. And Oklahoma is a hidden dev guard in the third round. That's massive. That's huge. We needed that right there. We're up with round three picks, 16. I almost want to go for a guy like that again. I will. I'm going to take another guard. One of the odds that we smoke two amazing guards in a row, probably not that high, but take a look at his skills. I mean, there's a third fourth round guard with a impact block, ADC lead, B pass, ADC finesse. This is the deepest guard class. Why are there so many good guards in the third round? Let's go. 90 strength, 82 acceleration. Steven got 79 jumping for whatever reason you would need that as a guard. That is too hidden dev guard. Ooh, we fixed that old line like it was nothing, man. That's huge. Now I still don't have a center. This is true. I don't have a center. Next guy I'm going to pick up here is Kevin Weeks. Lot of good player notes on him. Speed is great for a detackle. Skills don't look excellent, but I would like to get a detackle. We have nobody on the D line. I've only drafted one D lineman. So pick up Kevin Weeks here. He is a normal Dev unfortunately, 88 strength, 80 excel though. Wow, 74 speed. You were that? Speed is 74 for a detackle. I guess they are detackles. Speed rush out of San Diego. So they don't look like anything fancy. We'll just have to see how he pans out. This will be my final user pick right here. I'm wondering if there is a halfway decent center I can grab right now. No, these are day three guys. I only like Dave Hart because he's flown up the boards. I'm just going to take another corner. Get Xavier Ridgway out of Missouri. 90 speed, 92 excel. Don't look anything fancy himself either. And that's going to be our final user pick. I like to let the computer sim some picks as well. It's fun to see if they can just pull some crazy shit out of their hat. I know for a fact, we ourselves got five hidden devs. My three first round picks were hidden devs. My second round picks were actually all whiffs. It seems like, but then my third round came back to hidden devs. The most important thing is we check the draft recap. Okay boys, the draft recap. Look at those first four picks. 77, 78, 78, 77. Let's go. Card director is just as good as we imagined. 77 overall, 84 speed. He's a beast. And the halfback we picked up Eric Gatson. I was really scared making this pick, but it definitely ended up being the right call. Eric Gatson is a 78 overall, super high overall with 92 speed, 93 excel. That's a really good card. And Felix Andrews. This was not a reach. Felix Andrews is a dog. We had to go pretty far down the draft board to get him. But 78 overall, 94 speed, 94 excel beast, man. I was kind of worried about his coverages. What are they? 77 tackle, 74 play rec, 70 man, 79 zones. He's a zone corner for sure. Listen, 94 speed, 94 excel is what I'm looking for, man. Damn, Malcolm Lucas. This back to back was nasty. Malcolm Lucas was absolutely a stud too. It's our first pick in the second round. 93 speed, 88 excel, said hip power. Oh, he's a zone corner too. Shit, I guess we're running zone. Hip power is 83, that's actually good. All right, back. What else we got here, boys? Ooh, yeah. Marquis Keenan, this wide receiver. This was our first big whiff. He's normal dev and he sucks. I'm being honest. He's a 69 overall with 90 speed. Doesn't look like I'm gonna get a lot of value out of that. So that was a whiff. Kyle Triplett, the right guard. So he's only a 71 overall, but he's hidden dev. And then Dwayne Scott, 73 overall, also hidden dev. So these were amazing picks. Kevin Weeks was normal dev. He's a 70 overall. He's just all right. Ridgeway, not a good pick, 68 overall, 90 speed. And then it gets into what the CPU took. CPU got a 66, 63, 65, 66. I mean, they didn't have a lot to work with. I don't blame them. They did grab us a center, Tyler Cruz. I mean, technically I should click on these guys and see if they're hidden dev, right? There's a chance they're hidden dev even though they suck. No, it doesn't look like any of them are. Oh my God, I was wrong. Bernard Sandridge, the rookie out of Ohio State. This was the first CPU on a pick. He's hidden dev, which means he's star. And I can't imagine there was a superstar that deep. With 83 speed, 83 Excel, he will actually pair quite nicely with Carter Richter. He's a very low overall, but at least he's hidden dev. Huge, huge, huge. This is awesome. Avantimatics is available in free agency for cheap. I'm gonna grab him as well. And here is your new look, Arizona Cardinals. Ladies and gentlemen, I see a lot of hidden devs. Eric Gatson, Dwayne Scott, Kyle Triplett, and even Cruz there in the middle, although he is normal dev. Defensively, you got Sandridge auto picked by the CPU. You got Carter Richter around one pick one. You got Felix Andrews. Felix Andrews is actually an 80 overall at strong safety, but Malcolm Lucas will be there. Felix Andrews, our CB1 picked up Avantimatics in free agency, as well as Isaiah Rogers in free agency. So we really bolstered the secondary. Xavier Collins got himself the superstar. That's so awesome from 150 tackles last season. Thompson's doing well. I think we're in a really good spot here. The only thing I need to do is make sure that Hollywood is my slot wide receiver. I gotta go make sure I sub that back in. One thing I'm so excited to see is if any of these players are actually superstars. Now I look at hidden dev players, I usually assume star, but any one of these guys could be superstar, most likely probably Richter, but like, you never know man. I guess technically they could be superstar X-Factor too. You get like one or two of those every draft. Oh no. I forgot to show the entire draft class. No. Oh, is there any way I can go back? I can't go back. Guys, I'm so sorry. I forgot to check that. I'm gonna go through the teams right now and find the studs that we missed. I'm so sorry. Oh my God. Just found this dude, Darius Kinder. I don't know when he was picked, but holy shit. 83 overall. He's 91 speed, 93 Excel. Damn. They got 99 juke move. I'm gonna check. I'm gonna check his dev trade. If this dude's an X-Factor, I'm gonna cry. Oh, he's only star, he's only star. Okay. It wasn't a very deep quarterback class. The best quarterback was Brandon Feldman here. He actually has a somewhat realistic face scan. I respect that. With 90, he's got a cannon. 95 throw power, 70 speed. He's not exactly fast. Ooh, he's a superstar. Commanders got themselves a stud. The best wide receiver was Devin Conway. I actually had an opportunity to take this guy. Ooh, that was a whip, especially considering the wide receiver I drafted was horrible. Devin Conway, 93 speed, 94 Excel. Why do I look at this? This is just gonna piss me off when he's superstar. Fuck, he's superstar. Oh. All right. Hey, we got a target wide receivers in the next draft. No question. Kyler needs a stud wide receiver. Well, I'm really sorry, guys, for not checking that. I'll make sure I do it next season, but we saw some of the studs. I hope that suffices a little bit. I got all excited, you know? And in season, we're not looking that much better. We are one in six. But hey, we have a win, and that is an upgrade from last season. One in six cardinals. I'm not super geeked about that, but we're still really young, not that talented. And I still have two first drum picks in this upcoming draft. So I think we grab a wide receiver. Maybe we grab more O-line or another corner. We're in the wild card. We are third in the NFC West, and we are in the wild card. Wait, the Rames are 11 and six, the Niners are 30. How did we make the wild card? First off, let's take a look at our team. Let's take a look at these dev trades. They should all be unlocked by now. I was trying to process what I just saw. Gatsin, he either earned it or it must have been his dev trade. Eric Gatsin, even though he wasn't the best hat back in the class, he ended up being a really good pick. He is an 83 overall. He's already got abilities. Once again, I don't know if abilities matter at all in sim, but I'm gonna give him goal line back and reach for it, I guess, but Eric Gatsin, already having a really good season. 92 speed, 93 excel. Looks like morale is low on the team, so we must have lost. We must have won a ton of games and then lost a few there at the end. Kyler Murray's morale is up high. Kyler's looking good. His accuracy's are all up high, but he's still not superstar. Hollywood's up to an 88 overall. And then Dwayne Scott and Triplet were both star dev, Humphreys and Paris Johnson, so, oh, line looks good. Yeah, they look fine. I can move Trey McBride up in the dev chart. He's developing really well, up to an 80 overall. And defensively, we drafted, we either drafted or one of these dudes won defensive rookie of the year. We drafted three superstars, Eric Gatsin, Felix Andrews, Carter Richter. Now keep in mind, there are bugs in Madden where there's a desired amount of star and superstar players, so sometimes they kind of like shuffled these when they shouldn't. So I wonder if I got a favorable shuffle or if I actually just drafted God. It's kind of hard to say. Left end is Carter Richter. He is superstar. I'm not shocked about this one. He definitely deserves it. And to give him instant rebate, defensive rally. Carter Richter dude, he's out of Wisconsin too. He's like a little JJ Watt. Love this dude, he's a beast. So Carter Richter developing well and Felix Anderson, Felix Anderson was that corner we had our eyes on. The whole draft pretty much, 21 out of Clemson. He's ugly as shit, but he can play ball, baby. 95 speed, 95 excel. Everybody else just had an average season. Sandridge is star 70 overall, week 72. Okay, young and developing, but we're certainly not there yet. I mean, the fact that we made the wildcard is actually ridiculous. I think we're gonna get shit on by this Cowboys team, but let's find out. I do wanna see stats around the league though. Kyler Murray finishes fifth in passing yard. Ben Dallas Cowboys offensive scheme is kind of OP. 32 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 4,210 yards. Rushing, Katzin had 9,585 touchdowns. Kyler had 5,32 and 4. Kyler was scrambling, man. And James Conner still punched in five, which is impressive considering he's the backup. How, dude, two players over 1,000. Marquise Keenan was one of them. Hollywood, 1,276 and nine touchdowns. Eight for Rondale Moore, five for Zackerts. Looks like Zackerts accidentally became the starter again. Thought I'd turn Dept chart reader off, but that's okay. I'm really not that worried about that. Ben James was for me. Defensively, Zavin Collins puts up another huge tackle, season six TFLs and four interceptions and three sacks. Holy shit. If Carter Richter didn't win defensive player of the year, he'd sacks as a rookie. Carter Richter's a demon. This is on Arizona Cardinals defensive playbook, by the way, I didn't switch it. 16 TFLs, 15 sacks. Kevin Weeks had 10 TFLs, six and a half sacks. Jesus, you guys, this is amazing. I'm so happy for Richter. Richter had to have won defensive player of the year, right? Let's take a look. 10th and MVP voting. I respect that. We are an NFC team, we're an NFC team. Got fourth and offensive player of the year. Defensive player of the year is Aaron Donald. Look at this fucking dude. Carter Richter is fourth in defensive player of the year voting. He had to have won defensive of the year, Carter Richter. Ryse Montgomery was next. Damian Griffin, I mean, it was round one pick one. So he's really supposed to be the best player. But still, that's just so sick how hard he went. And Marquis Keenan, very close to offensive of the year, doesn't get it though. Brandon Feldman gets it. That was the quarterback we were looking at early the best quarterback in the draft. That's why the receiver was Cup, best DeLyneman, Aaron Donald, best linebacker, Rashawn Gehry, best DB, AJ Turrell. Hey, I'm proud of our squad. Honest to God. The fact that we're even here is hilarious. We shouldn't be here. Obviously, I don't have high hopes going into this game. And this is almost like kind of bad because our pick is less valuable now. That's not a good way to think of it. I mean, I tanked the shit out of that first season. So, game starts. I mean, a Cinderella story could happen. It's seven to seven, 14 to seven, 14 to 14. There's no way we pulled this off. Holy shit. Oh no, 21, 21, shit. 28, 21, 28, 28. Oh my God, wait a minute. Slow this shit. Oh my God, we're winning, we're fucking winning. There's no way. Second and 10. There is no way we pulled this off. That's a bunch of bullshit. There's no way. Dak finds CD lamb. Nice catch. Dak's dropping back, throws over the middle. I think that's... Who is that? They don't have Dolph Schultz anymore. I don't know who that is. First and 10. Pollered out the backfield. Does he throw it? He does. Just gonna get out of bounds. Holy shit, will this game go to OT? We got three superstars on defense. Felix Anderson, Carter Richter, Xavin Collins. Third and one, they take a timeout there. They have one timeout left. They are kind of in field goal range here. So it's either going OT or they're scoring a touchdown. Damn, Dak is getting that ball up fast. They're going no huddle, preserving their timeout. Dak goes end zone. Oh, not end zone, but over the middle laser. Dude, the wild card, there's no way. We don't beat the Cowboys here, right? Dude, if he turns this ball over though, like he throws a pick. Second and sixth, they still haven't called the timeout. What are you doing? Play action, laser. Early breakup from Collins. Xavin Collins turned out to be a savage. Now they kind of a gimme. Coach is gonna ice him here and the Cowboys gotta come out and kick this. He's gonna hit this though. Missed a 30 yarder, no way you missed that. All right, he drills it. We're going into, we're literally going into overtime. Cowboys win the toss. Think that let's just beat us on a field goal. Oh no, they scored. Game winning touchdown from Dak Prescott. Damn. That would have been insane. It would have been insane if we pulled that off at the end. Kyler had a great game, 30 for 42, three touchdowns and intercepts. You played just as good as Dak. 31 to 37, we're losing the wild card. Shouldn't have even been there. So that's a great season for us. And now maybe some free agents will actually want to sign with us since we're not 0 and 17. So that could be nice for that. Come say hi to the video. You look awesome. I love your hair. Show them what you made. This is, we're doing the, this is the Arizona Cardinals rebuild. Actually just made the wild card. It's kind of crazy. What'd you bring? This is? Holy shit. Apple cider cinnamon champagne made. Apple cider cinnamon champagne drink she made. Apple caramel cinnamon. Apple caramel cinnamon. That's caramel and cinnamon. That's an apple. That's champagne. That's champagne. And apple cider. And apple cider. Holy shit. What is that? Show them. Give them, give them to the camera. Holy shit. I have super girlfriend bro. This is fucking lame. I made potato and bacon, cheddar, stuffed chicken. Guys, please remember, be a loser. Sit in your room and play video games all day. And this could be your life. Some of you guys, you don't have the grind set I have. You go to the gym, you go outside, you touch grass, you drink water, you talk to people in real life. That's pussy shit. If you want to be an alpha male like me and bag up baddie who will cook you dinner and bring you apples, champagne, vinegar, cider, champagne, wine, you have to sit in your room and rebuild the Arizona fucking cardinals. Do you understand? Carter Richter is super star X vector after winning defensive record here. Holy shit. Holy shit. This guy's a monster. He absolutely won defensive record here. He has the upgrades for it too. He gets, I think he has two skill point upgrades there for defensive record here. Carter Richter. Oh my God, you're a freak. That's why you go 0 and 17 boys. You get Carter Richter. How funny would it be if we resigned Buddha Baker? Buddha Baker is now available in free agency. When you really think about it, we turned Buddha Baker into Carter Richter and whatever first Trump pick we take this year. So I still think that was a very good call. I wouldn't hate signing an expensive guard like Batonio. Look at our cap room. Our cap room's insane. I'm gonna take the best free agents we can here. I'll start with Batonio. I'm gonna give him a strong deal just because we have the cap for it. And I could end up moving one of my rookies to center so that Batonio actually remains at guard. He's always ends up being available in free agency and he's really good. So happy to pick him up there. Amari Cooper. Damn, he's old, man. Amari Cooper is kind of old but this would take the stress out of drafting a wide receiver. No, no, no, no. We're not winning a Super Bowl next year. Amari Cooper's too old. Greg Newsom is available. He's 25. What are you doing in free agency? I'm gonna try and get Jeremiah Ustukaramoa though. He's 25. He's star dev. He's a very, Jesus. This is a long deal. A seven year deal for Karamoa. But he's available. I'm gonna offer him a lot of money here. See if we can sway him in our direction because I could use an outside linebacker. I do still wanna draft a wide receiver. So I'm not gonna pick up Amari Cooper here. I wouldn't hate you the guy like Elijah Moore. Those are some pretty big offers already. I'm gonna go for Amari Cooper. Shit, if I have three insane wide receivers, I'll take it. But I'm gonna go for Amari Cooper. We have the cap space for this. There's no reason we should not do this. Give him a very player friendly offer. This is a big free agency for the Cardinals. And we have two first round draft picks and we made the wild card. We might win the Super Bowl on this third year, which I was not anticipating at all. After free agency, we do get Batonio. And I'm gonna move DeWayne Scott to center. Entire offensive line is star dev. Batonio is a huge signing. Amari Cooper also elects to sign with the Arizona Cardinals. So we actually have like pretty good wide receivers now. Marquise Brown has developed well. Rondeo Morris up to an 85. And then Amari Cooper's an 89. So that looks really good. We got a superstar running back in the backfield. I'm gonna move Zach Erz to my starting fullback. He's actually pretty good there. Kyler's doing well, of course. And then defensively, the only free agent who didn't sign with us was Jeremiah Awusu-Karamoa. I offered him like an eight year deal with crazy money and he still didn't take it. Some people just can't be bought out, I guess. Also interesting to know, Magi Sanders. Apologies if I butchered that. He went up to star dev during the season. Once again, I don't really know how this happened. I think it has something to do with the desired dev traits in the game. But I'm gonna move him to my starting right outside linebacker now. He will start over Cameron Thomas. The question now is of course, what are we targeting in the draft? Currently we have good wide receivers but Amari Cooper's probably only gonna stick around for a year or two. So technically I could go for wide receiver again after we whiffed last year. I could definitely go for a linebacker. Collins is great, Ojalari's all right. And then Sanders and Cam Thomas are just not that good. I don't want free safety. I'm chilling there. We could take an end or a detackle. We could definitely take a corner as well. I think I probably need corner the most. My corners just aren't it. Felix Andrews is awesome but then it's Isaiah Rogers and Marco Wilson. But of course we did have a pretty good season this year. So our first pick is actually round one pick 18. Let's see who's available here. AJ Christian. This is a six foot corner out of Colorado with A catching, C man, A to C zone. But most importantly, great speed, elite Excel, elite agility, A catch. I mean, this guy's a beast. This guy really should be a beast. We gotta hope he's hidden Dev. But AJ Christian is gonna be our first pick. We will pick up a DB. We did great on it last draft. AJ Christian, 93 speed, 94 Excel, six foot love the height, a lot taller than Felix. And he's got hidden Dev and he is flexing absolutely no bicep muscle there. Look at that. He flexes it and it just, yeah. AJ Christian though. We got a Colorado player. He played under prime time. I love that. Our next pick is round two pick 19. Did I do something wrong? Wasn't I supposed to have two picks in this? Oh, the Cardinals don't have their own round one. And I'm honestly super confused. I thought I had two first round picks in this draft. We're gonna make do with what we got. Here's Mike Rutledge out of LSU. I do kind of wanna go D-line here. Is a wide receiver available but he's too sketchy to me. Okay, marginal speed sucks but he is an edge rusher so it doesn't matter that much. A block shedding is amazing. A play rec is amazing. It's a power rusher with C power moves. It's a bit of a gamble but I don't like any of my other options hidden Dev. I love you. I love you, Mike. I love you, Mike Rutledge. Really hoping his overall is high but with 74 speed, I don't know. 90s strength, 85 Excel range. That's an interesting player right there. This San Jose State wide receiver, Monta Woodbury flying up the draft boards. Great speed, great Excel. I'm just gonna try it. I whiffed on wide receiver last time. Okay, he's actually fast as shit but I still, I'm just so, I'm just, I just whiffed on wide receivers. It's just what I do, I guess. I have double whiffed on wide receivers. That's the third round. I can't be that mad at myself. I'm gonna let the CPU take over for four, five, six and seven and don't worry. I'm gonna show the entire draft on this draft recap. I'm so sorry. I forgot to do it last time. I was too excited. I was too excited. I sent Carter Richter at all those 77 to 78s and I just draft recap. Oh my God. Okay. So we're a little more top heavy on this draft. Obviously I had less picks but our first two are both 79s. Wait, what? Who is this? What happened? Oh my God, I did have two first round picks. I did have two first round picks. It looks like did the game auto pick me or did I? Bro, I must have clicked the wrong button or something. I think I accidentally had the game auto pick for me. I did not choose this dude. Holy shit. I didn't whiff on wide receivers. Accidentally, I accidentally didn't whiff. Quincy Overstreet, the 511 Bama rookie. Hidden Dev wide receiver with 93 speed, 94 acceleration. Granted, we just signed Amari Cooper. So we are like seriously, seriously loaded at wide receiver. I might actually trade somebody now. Shit, I might trade Amari Cooper. I signed him. I'm trading him. That would be weird. But Quincy Overstreet and then AJ Christian, Colorado is the 79 overall too. So our first two picks were incredible. I manually took Christian. I did not manually take Overstreet. Mike Rutledge, not as high an overall as I was hoping for, but he's still a 73 overall. He will definitely be a day one starter and he's Hidden Dev. So star or superstar. Bonsay Woodbury's dog shit. I mean, he's fast when he's 68 overall, I was a whiff. The computer took Jeff Garfield, a left guard, 73 overall. Are you Hidden Dev by chance? You are Normal Dev. That's okay. Cordell Knight, free safety. He doesn't look too fancy. Trent Turner, 71 overall, Normal Dev. I thought this was gonna say Burt Macklin. Brandon Macklin tied on his dog shit. Okay, well, let's take a look at the entire draft. Let's see it boys. Did we make any major whiffs? So the very first overall pick was a corner. Carlos Blakely. This is a very deep corner draft. There's a lot of good corners. There was Ralph Moore and that left tackle. Damian Lindsey, 79 overall wide receiver. 80 overall wide. Wow, a lot of good wide receivers too. Corner, corner, 74, 79. Lot of 74 is here. 79, oh, and then here's us. AJ Christian, Overstreet. Holy shit, this stretch was monstrous. This is a huge draft. Brandon Boston goes to Tennessee. Blaine Burr tight end, 80 overall goes to the Bengals. So the best overalls in the whole draft were all 80 overalls. You've got Blakely, Frazier, Blaine Burr, Matt McClain, Cordell Taylor. These were all first round picks. So no crazy sleepers. Then the 79 overalls were also all first round picks. I mean, I guess that kind of makes sense. The first total sleeper was Caleb Hilliard, half back in the third round, 78 overall. Fastest player in the draft was Sean Kirkpatrick, 75 overall wide receiver who went in the fifth round. I actually, I'm so happy with that draft. That's huge. AJ Christian is going to be a huge impact player. The problem is like, what do we do with Quincy Overstreet? Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep Hollywood as wide receiver one. I'm going to let Overstreet be the third string and Amari Cooper is the second string. Next year we'll reevaluate. Maybe Overstreet will develop so quickly that he needs to be the second string or even the first string. Probably not as possible. But we have a nice mix here. We have a middle age wide receiver. We have a veteran wide receiver and we have a super good young wide receiver. So this is, I mean, that's amazing. Card director still a God. And then Sandridge is going to come out for Mike Rutledge. Mike Rutledge is actually already a higher overall than Sandridge even after a full season. So that's the right call there. This new Cardinals team is an 84 overall with an 87 offense. Got a new hidden dev wide receiver in Overstreet and a hidden dev right end in Mike Rutledge as well as our hidden dev DB AJ Christian. I'm really excited about him, man. I think he's going to be a freak. I'll move AJ Christian up in the depth chart here. Make him CB two. Malcolm Lucas still just a good player was unable to pick up a linebacker in free agency or the draft. So it's something we can kind of start to target here. I'm just not worried about it right now. I'm really not. I kind of like how our team is at. Let's sim the mid season. See how we're doing at mid season. We have a winning record. We're four and three. Felix Andrews unlocks a new ability. We've got a breakout DB to upgrade dev trade. Hopefully it's Felix Andrews, which would take him to superstar X factor. Who is this breakout DB? Have you been watching Jalen Thompson? Oh my God. Wait, it's our free safety. So we got to hold the box to lesson 150 or get Jalen Thompson two plus INT or his phone was TFL sex bet. That's huge. That's huge. So I can't step in and play that. Hopefully the team can do it. And then Felix Andrews must have gone up and overall he has three ability slots. God, he's such a beast, bro. Overstreet has still not unlocked his dev trade. Neither has Rutledge. But I think that, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. AJ Christian has, AJ Christian has, and he's a superstar. AJ Christian is superstar. Once again, I feel like this has something to do with the desired dev trades in Madden. Cause I just don't think it's that realistic to draft this many superstars. What I think is happening is the league already has the maximum on a start of players. So it's just making him, if he was supposed to be stars, just making him superstar. That's what I think. Either way, I'm not going to complain about it because he's insane. Richter, still God and Rutledge yet to unlock his either, but great start to the season. Let's send him to the playoffs. We should make them. Ha, ha, ha, ha, damn. Cardinals only lose three more games in the entire season. 11 and six, we lead the NFC West, but our overall release in that high, we're super good at offense. 84 on defense. I gotta keep, I gotta keep targeting defense in these drafts and free agency. Would love to get a stud linebacker. I would really like to get that. Over street unlocked his dev trade. It was star and defensively looks like unfortunately, Jalen Thompson did not get his dev trade upgrade, but that's okay. We need a de-tackle and an outside linebacker. We get those two things and this team is super well bound. Not that we're not right now, but I just, I don't see us making it all the way to the bowl here, but I would love to be pleasantly surprised. First and foremost, let's look around the league, baby. Kyler is seventh in the NFL this year in passing yards. He actually regressed in passing yards a little bit. Gatson had a much bigger season, 1,300 yards and 15 touchdowns. Damn, he's becoming really good. Marquis Brown is the only receiver to eclipse 1,000 yards on the team. Interestingly, Over Street at wide receiver three appears to be getting more looks than Amari Cooper at wide receiver two. He got 12 touchdowns as well. Keep in mind, this is Dallas Cowboys. Keep in mind, this is Dallas Cowboys offensive playbook. So that must have something to do with it, but it's good for me. I mean, Over Street actually probably has a good shot at offensive rick of the year here with these stats. So we'll see how that goes. McBride had a solid season and defensively, Zayvon Collins continues to put up excellent numbers, interceptions, TFL sacks and leads the team in tackles. Carter Richter regresses from his rookie year a little bit as well. He gets 10 sacks, but still it's incredible and honestly Richter is already a superstar X Factor, so I don't even care. You can do whatever you want, man. You're gonna be insane. Weeks got four sacks. Cameron Thomas got four sacks. Three and a half for Rutledge, okay. Kyler is sixth in MVP voting. Offensive rookie of the year, at least for the NFC is Quincy Over Street. It was our second overall pick. That's huge. I'm really, really glad we're in there. Doesn't look like we're getting defensive rookie of the year. AJ Christian got fourth. He got fourth, but he got outplayed by Marquise Thomas, Ralph Moore and Harvey Townsend. Christian sixth in best DB though. So he had a really, really good season. AJ Christian did. 87 overall Cardinals taking on the 89 overall commanders in the wild card. We couldn't get past the wild card last season, but that season we were nine and eight. This season we're 11 and six, but we're a much better team this season. We should be able to get through the wild card. Commanders start out with a touchdown and stop us and get another. Oh my God, we're getting, we're getting smacked. Holy shit. Okay, okay, wait a minute, wait a minute. No, we're getting, no, we're getting shit on. 17, 31, 38, 17, 24, 38. The wild card is our nemesis, bro. Well, it was our best season yet, but dude, we took the Cowboys OT last year. This year we get dicked on. Hey, keep your head up, boys. Keep your head up, Cardinals. We're gonna make big boy moves in free agency. We're gonna draft Brandon Feldman. He was the best quarterback in the draft when I took Carter Richter, 18 for 26. I think Kyler outplayed it. I don't know how his QBR is better. Okay, wait, no, somebody needs to explain this QBR shit to me because Kyler threw more yards, better completion percentage, same touchdowns. Is it cause he threw more? We bottled the run up real well, although I guess he did get two touchdowns, but Eric Gatson couldn't go anywhere either. Amari Cooper is 14 for 160 and then Hollywood's 13 for 162. Our rookie Quincy Overstreet, nowhere to be seen in the big game. The lights were too bright. Niners win the bowl. Brock Hardy wins Super Bowl MVP in 2025, but Quincy Overstreet does get offensive rookie of the year. So that's huge, huge for him. Headed into free agency. We've got 71 million to throw around. And when you look at the roster, there's really only two holes. Okay, offensive line, beautiful. It's so good. My 10 is all right. Okay, so if there was like a George Kittle maybe, but Hollywood, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Amari Cooper regressed, but Kyler, Hollywood and Overstreet are superstar. Oh my God. Holy shit, we're winning the bowl. We're winning the bowl. Felix Andrews is the X factor. Jalen Thompson does leave in free agency as does Magi Sanders. So we're short of free safety and outside linebacker Rutledge regresses to normal Dev. So my D line's looking weak other than Richter. My DBs are probably some of the best in the league now with AJ Christian and Felix Andrews. We've got a few things to pick up though. Damn, Overstreet. I didn't even realize Overstreet was a dog like that. I'm glad we got Amari Cooper though. We got so many weapons. I wonder if we could get Jalen Thompson back. I'm gonna give him a mega deal. I would really like to just have him back. He is the best free safety and free agency. He has no interest in our squad. I'm gonna throw, I'm gonna throw Jalen Thompson so much money. He doesn't have a choice. TJ Edwards is available. Like I said, we definitely need a right outside linebacker. So I'm gonna give him an excellent offer. One that hopefully he can't refuse. BJ Hill shows a little bit of interest in the squad and he would just be a nice depth pickup. Not gonna be a high impact player on our squad. Jordan Fuller is interested in being an Arizona Cardinal. I'm gonna give him a player friendly deal. I know he's already interested in the teams. I don't really have to do this, but this is kind of my safety net. Oh, actually the Cowboys have a pretty aggressive offer out here for him. I'm gonna make a more aggressive offer than what I did originally. And honestly, we end up getting everybody we were looking for in free agency. TJ Edwards signs. Jalen Thompson comes back. I did not expect that. I thought he was gonna take a different offer. And then BJ Hill at D-Tackle, our right end situation is still not great. In this draft here, I wouldn't mind a really good right end pair with Carter Richter. It's actually, it's like, it's really hard to say what I would draft here. Maybe I draft a tight end. Honestly, I probably just trade my picks. There's nothing I need. I think I'm gonna trade my picks away. I don't know what I would draft here. Let's see if I can trade for a really good right end. So we signed Jordan Fuller, but we don't need him. So I'll put him in here. And I'm gonna offer up our first round pick as well as our six and seven. Let's see if we can get an absolute monster out of this. Look at this. The Niners have Carlos Cardona. He's 24. He's 80 overall. No, I want an impact player right now. Bengals have Miles Murphy. He's 86 overall, 24. He's gonna be a freak. So Mike Rutledge and my sixth and seventh rounder for Miles Murphy, I assume they say no here. Oh, put him over cap. They're already over cap. That's on them. Look at this Chargers left and Julian Bass, 84 overall superstar. Damn, this guy's a beast. I'm offering Rutledge around six and seven. I assume they don't take this, but let's see how much more they want. I'm gonna offer a 20, 28 round two. That is far in the future. It's actually really close. Trades are crazy, bro. Trades are too easy in these games. I swear. I'm gonna offer up a 20, 27 round five as well. 20, 27 round four, baby. I offer an absolute haul of late round picks, a six, a seventh, a fifth, a four, and a 20, 28 second round. Plus, Mike Rutledge, who has regressed to normal dev or superstar, Julian Bassy. So this is really just to add a guy that can pair with Carter Richter, which is exactly what I wanted. We're gonna have two freaks off either side. It's gonna be a shitty time to be in opposing quarterback. Let's put it that way. And honestly, I was saying I got a part ways with draft picks. I mean, I still have all my draft picks for this draft here. So Julian Bassy, I'm gonna switch him to a right end, doesn't really matter, but now we head into the draft. Dude, I honestly have so many positions short up, but it's like, what would I take here? It looks like there's two good quarterbacks available. Don't see any reason I take that. Wouldn't hate a linebacker because TJ Edwards is old. TJ Edwards is definitely old. Linebacker might be the move. Let's take a linebacker. MLB Matthew Burse out of Arizona. Elite jumping, elite agility, great acceleration, a man, a play rec. This is an interesting linebacker. Definitely gonna take him. 86 speed, 90 excel, 88 agility. Matthew Burse out of Arizona State. Hidden dev, of course. You love to see that. I'll put him at MLB too for now. Obviously no one's starting over Zavin Collins. BJ O'Jallari is good. Yeah, I don't have too much for him. Now the best case scenario here for round two pick 20 is gonna be a detackle. There's a nice detackle available. Kenya Bates, Junior Keaton. It's like there's some wide receivers. I'm down deep and there's no detackles. Carlos Walker fell like crazy. I'm just gonna take positional availability. I'm gonna take the best thing that's actually sitting here. And I think that's gonna be wide receiver. Kenya Bates out of Florida State. Great speed, great strength, six foot three. Do I need a wide receiver? No, but I finally drafted a hidden dev wide receiver. He'll fill in for Omari Cooper because Omari Cooper's retiring pretty soon here. And Hollywood's actually getting there, which is weird to say. 93 speed, 80 excel, six foot three. It's a really good wide receiver. All right, I'm letting the CPU do the rest of this. I trust in the CPU. I actually got two hidden dev studs. So I'm gonna chill, let's get a draft recap and let's win a Super Bowl this year. That's my goal. The greatest feeling, the draft recap. Here we go, baby. Okay, okay. It's not our fanciest draft, but damn, the CPU's auto pick linebacker, Glen Blackshire. Really solid, 87 speed. Kenya Bates, the wide receiver, 93, he's a 75. And our first run pick, Matthew Burris, a 74. It's not that good. We got the same overall linebacker in the third round and then Topkin's hat back trash and Goodrich's trash. Let's see about the whole league. Yo, there was an 84 overall. Holy, that's actually the highest overall I've ever seen. The very first pick was Julius Banks, a probably a generational wide receiver, 96 speed, 94 excel. Let's see. Dude, it's bald as shit. He's a 90 years old coming out of college. Superstar X-Factor, are you Superstar X-Factor? Holy shit, this guy is a freak. Julius Banks, oh my God, that guy's a freak. Okay, looking at the rest of the draft, there's an 80 overall wide receiver, Victor Richards right here, 78 corner Richard Hanna, 77 wide receiver, Walter Lucas, 78 wide receiver, Henry Lucas, his brother, I assume. Damn. Okay, well this, I feel like I whipped on anything too crazy. I went 84 then 80 and there's a bunch of 78s. Ben Pitt's middle linebacker, but he was taken fourth. Troy Stapleton half back. Doesn't look like there's any crazy linebackers I whipped on. Looks like Deontay Bardin was a middle linebacker, 77 overall out of Georgia. So that would have been a better pick probably than what I took. Fastest player in the draft was that first pick, Julius Banks, damn. I'm gonna go back to our squad super quick. I wanna take a look at Glenn Blackshire, was he hidden dev? Glenn Blackshire was hidden dev. So we actually got two hidden dev linebackers, 87 speed, 91 excel. That's awesome. It almost makes you feel like maybe we don't, like I'll sign a dude in fridge and see that we draft and it's like I got, got a better, it's almost like I got a better option. We just have depth basically because Zayvon Collins is obviously my starting middle linebacker. My backup now can be Matthew Burr's and then at outside linebacker, my backup to Edwards can be Glenn Blackshire. And then my left outside linebacker should be BJ Ojalari, which it is perfect. You know, you're rebuilding the Arizona Cardinals when the whole video takes you from the middle of the day, night to night time. Hey, let's send it to mid season. See how we do. Four and two at mid season. The Rams are four and three. So the NFC West is a battle, but this is a playoff team once again. The SAC leader in the league, Carter Richter, nine SACs, five TFLs. He's tied with Tracy Montague. Let's go to the playoffs, baby. Come on. Dude, I saw and said playoffs. And I was like, oh my God, did we miss the playoffs? No, we got a buy. The Seahawks came out of nowhere. We were fighting with the Rams earlier in the season, the Seahawks and 11 and six. The Rams don't make the playoffs. The Cardinals go 12 and five. We got a buy. We're the one seed with a buy. On the other side of the bracket, the Ravens are the one seed. Yeah, damn. A 91 overall. It's actually insane because this team, this team was once a 75 overall, over streets at 90. Hollywood's at 91. Gatson is a, they're not actually 99, are you? He's at 96 overall, a looser back. Eric Gatson, 94 speed, 93 break tackle, 97. He's come so far. That's crazy. Let's actually check in on the stats of some of our guys. Kyler Murray obviously updated himself to a superstar. His accuracies are much better. Medium is 95, short's 97. And then he's still fast as hell because it's still Kyler Murray. Beautiful. McBride has not come nearly as far as I thought he would. He's still only 84 overall star. I expect him to become something crazy. Never did, but that's all right. So Bates really didn't get like any reps this year, but I just don't have anywhere to put it. I don't have anywhere to put Kenya Bates. I have too many good wide receivers. But I haven't unlocked this DevTrait yet. We'll see what Amari Cooper does at the end of this season. And maybe he starts to get some reps, but this could be our super little season so it might not even matter. Defense has got two superstar X-Factors, both drafted Felix Andrews and Carter Richter. Carter Richter, our round one pick one after our 0 and 17 season is now a 93 overall with 99 finesse moves, 86 speed. Oh my God, he's so good. He's so good. And then let's check in on Felix Andrews who's also a superstar X-Factor. This is a superstar X-Factor player is 23. That's absolutely insane. 95 speed, 96 Excel, 95 man. Absolute demon. Bassey who we traded with the Chargers for. This looks like he's had a good season. He's up to an 87 overall. Edwards, what? That's not right. No dude, that has to be a glitch. This was the third round CPU auto drafted linebacker. What's a superstar X-Factor? What? Glenn Blackshear. Okay, after the second round I had the CPU takeover. They drafted this dude. He was a 74 overall hidden dev. And I was like, cool, he's probably decent. That's an understatement. He's a superstar X-Factor left outside linebacker. Oh my God. I'm sorry, TJ Edwards. TJ Edwards, it's over man. This dude is gonna be, oh my God. We have three X-Factors on defense and none on oven. Steven Collins looking great. Matthew Burse was a star at O'Jallari's looking good too. Malcolm Lucas still just normal dev. Dude, I can't believe Blackshear is X-Fact. The CPU picked me up as a superstar X-Factor in the third round. That shouldn't be possible. It really shouldn't be by like, it should be. It should be possible. I mean, NFL teams in real life get studs in late rounds, you know, every year. 91 overall squad. We get a buy. Oh my God. This team is so set for so long. 91 overall Cardinals taking on the 91 overall Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let's get it baby. Look it, look at our three X-Factors. They're all drafted players. And then Connor Gates is the superstar X-Factor quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Okay, let's see how this looks. Cardinals, no, no score. Whoa, multiple red zone stop. Buccaneers get a field goal. Cardinals are on the board, seven to three. Bucks are back on, 10-7. Dude, there's a ton of stuffs. 21 to 10 now we're pulling away. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 10 to 21, Arizona. Looks like they're gonna put this away. Let's see what Kyler does. Rifles one, two, I think that was Hollywood. Broken up fourth and two, wait a minute. You know, that's one thing I never got. I never got a punter. What was I doing? It's not a bad punt though. Gets it down to the 10 and the return team swallow them up at the 25. Look at Connor Gates coming out here for the Bucks. I respect it, Connor Gates. I like what you're doing. This is gonna be our first time actually winning a playoff game. Ooh, good look who it is. Oh, it's not. That was Carter Richter. It was Julian Bassey. Look at how many abilities we got out there. Bassey's coming through, maybe. No, he had a lot of time back there. Third and 20, Connor Gates has struggled. 10 for 27. That D-Line is disgusting. They do have Tristan Werfts who's probably doing a good job bottling some of this up. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's pretty good defense right there. Connor Gates throws into no man's death. There's just nothing going there. It's fourth and 20, they gotta go for it and this game is about to be over. Final play of the game here, fourth and 20. We got a different lineup in, big blitz. Oh my God, he caught that. Chris Godwin, what a catch. Carter Richter is gonna have a double team on him here. Let's see if he can blow through it. Go Richter, get home, buddy. Get home, Richter. Hail Mary from Tampa Bay. Swatted down and this game is over. The Cardinals, we finally win a playoff game. But technically, we haven't won the wildcard because we actually gotta buy to the divisionals. So maybe the wildcard still haunts us. Honestly, neither quarterback played that good. It was a very defensive game, but Connor Gates really struggled. Kyler, 21 for 32. Then on the ground, Eric Gatson was actually amazing, 18 for 89. And Miles Sanders on the Buccaneers is pretty solid too. In the air, it was Amari Cooper and Quincy Overstreak. For the Buccaneers, there's Elijah Moore, Godwin and Mike Evans. We won a playoff game, boys. And it was pretty easy too, honestly. Let's head over to the NFC championship. Damn, taking on. Oh my God, it's a battle of the NFC West in the NFC championship? Seahawks versus Cardinals, damn. And I don't know what I'm doing. I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself. I didn't look at the stats around the league. Kyler continues to throw for less yards as our team gets better. It doesn't make any sense. Touchdown interception ratio is immaculate though, 26 to three. It's like we're just handing people Ls, dude. And Gatson keeps getting better and better, holy shit. On the season, Eric Gatson had 1,440 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns. Overstreet was my leading wide receiver. Then Amari, then Hollywood. Gatson even had three touchdowns. So Gatson had 24 touchdowns on the season. Oh my God. Defensively, Dave and Collins, of course. Then Felix Andrews in tackles. Looks like nine sacks for BJ O'Jillari, 15 and a half for Richter, and five and a half for Julian Bassey. Looks like Julian Bassey was a good addition to this team. Certainly worth more than any of those draft picks would have been. I wonder if, I gotta say, I'm shocked that Eric Gatson is not in the MVP running at all. All quarterbacks. I know it's a quarterback award, but offensive player of the year in the NFC looks like it's gonna be Saquon Barkley. Eric Gatson is third. I'm so shocked. Saquon must have gone off. So defensive player of the year is almost Carter Richter, but it's gonna go to DeMarcus Lawrence on the Vikings. That's a bummer. No offensive or defensive rookies of the year. Didn't really do much different this year other than basically knowing that we were gonna have a hell of a year with all the additions and how well our players were progressing. So we just wanted to check in on that. Ahead of the NFC championship. Let's make sure we upgrade our boys here. Let's see a Carter Richter upgrade. Let's give him speed rusher. Carter Richter, such a dog. Excel awareness, hit power, play rec and pursue. There's actually a massive upgrade right there. Give Julie A, our whole D lines getting upgrades here. Julie and Basi can get one as well. He's gonna get Excel agility, oh my God. And then our X Factor, Glenn Blackshear, the most shocking X Factor I've ever gotten in a draft. It's gonna go up to an 80 overall and he's gonna get an ability slot. 90 overall Cardinals versus the 90 overall Seahawks. They got tight end Curtis Richards X Factor and then they still got DK and Jackson Smith and Jigba who must have progressed really well to be in their top three there. Maybe not DK, but definitely Jackson Smith. Got a home field advantage. All right boys, let's hope this goes well. Seattle starts with a touchdown. Ooh, not looking. Oh, okay, there we go. Tied it all up. 10 to 10, 17 to 10, 17, 16. Holy shit, this game is close. 24, 16. Oh, we're milking. Ooh, wait a minute. Oh, we're in victory formation. Dude, I saw Tony did a 27. I was starting to get real nervous. The Cardinals are handing out ELSE. Man, this is gonna take us to the Super Bowl. Oh my God. 22 to 27, no timeouts left for the Seahawks. That's all she wrote. That's all she wrote. Massive win for Kyler Murray, Gatson and Carter Richter. That's the core of this team really. 22 to 27 in the NFC Championship. Some massive upgrades after that game too. Ojalari, Gatson, Paris Johnson and Quincy Overstreet. I'll give, I'm gonna give Gatson one manually. I wanna see the boy get upgraded. He's number 23 too. He selected that himself. He just knew he was the goat. 27 to 22 right there. Massive W. Take me to the Super Bowl, baby. Who are we taking on in the Super Bowl? I'm gonna guess Kansas City Chiefs. That's my guess. Oh my God, fuck. This game is too predictable, bro. They always got them in there. Let's take a look at the yearly awards. It's not exactly a Galaxy brand guess. The Chiefs are always good, but the 12 and five Cardinals will take on the 12 and five Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. We do have some player upgrades to make AJ Christians, Avan Collins, Thompson, Fuller. Lots of upgrades here. Definitely could use every single one of them. Before we go anywhere, boys, this is the Super Bowl. This is our goal. Let's look at this final Cardinals roster and then the final Chiefs roster. Eric Gatson is our 99 overall player, which is so crazy. I only took Gatson because he just looked good, but I really didn't have a lot of info on him. So for him to be our highest overall player is so cool. Only his second year out of Clemson is crazy. Carter Richter, round one pick one. Absolute demon. Felix Andrews also out of Clemson. He was teammates with Eric Gatson. They go way back. 95 speed, 96 is L. All three of those guys. These two are Superstar X Factor and Gatson Superstar, but he got Hollywood. We stuck with Hollywood. He's got 98 speed and he's been a beast on this team. He drafted Quincy Overstreet, also been a stud out of Bama. Paris Johnson up to a 92 overall. Jalen Thompson a 91. Kyler Murray a 91 and a Superstar. That's why I stick with your boy. I'm already Cooper of free agency. We wanted some veteran leadership and a super good wide receiver. A.J. Christian, the Superstar DB, Julian Bassie we traded for from the Chargers. Dave and Collins stuck with the squad from day one. He was around when we were 0-17. Let's see what the cheats had done. Their best players, Chris Jones and Patty Mahomes. Nick Bolton's a 99. Creed Humphrey's a 99. Isaiah Pacheco's a 99. No wonder this team makes the name Superbowl. Holy shit, they got 599s. McDuffie's a 98. Do they have any new players? Did they even draft anybody? Chuck Daniels is their first player I can find they drafted. He's a left tackle. John Dixon's a halfback. Tyree Ross is an X factor strong safety. Oh my God. All right, shit. Chiefs know what they're doing. There's no question about that. They know what they're doing. It's time to play the Superbowl baby. This is a hell of a Superbowl right here boys. Let's go. Hard Rock Stadium. Cardinals versus Chiefs in the big game. Oh, this is so dope. Chiefs scored easily on their opening drive. It's first in 10. Let's make something out of this. We'll start with our best player, Eric Gatson. How do you not go to him? Now let's give him a handoff. This is Eric Gatson overall, right? The 99 overall. Oh my God, excellent blocks. Gatson's got a lot of room. One rush, 25 yards. Let's get it Gatson. Bring in my boy Quincy Overstreet. Where's Quincy? There's Quincy Overstreet right here. See if this is man coverage. See what they come out in here. Oh yeah, Overstreet. You can run man all you want. He's gonna torch that. Let's go the youngster. RPO alert screen. Just gonna give this one to Gatson and just barely break that tackle. Right over the middle is Hollywood Brown, 98 speed. He's hard to keep up with. Let's just hand this one off up the middle. Oh, if you guys can block 99 Chris Jones, this will be a nice one. It is. Gatson goes for six yards. Second and four. Can we punch this in? Oh no. Damn. The orange car left is Sac Skyler. That's not good. We got a lot of room to pick up now. Third and 19, a lot to pick up here. Oh, I'm already Cooper just torched this man. Got rocked. Damn. Gotta take our field goal. That's a tough drive there. Chief's defense was flying around. We'll take what we can get. Three to seven, but that's the only input I'm allowed to have. Fortunately, all I could get us, the Chiefs are just handing it to us right now. They're about to score again. Kandarius, Tony of the reception. That's a shocker. And Isaiah Pacheco punches it in. Cardinals can score right back though, right? Oh my God. Is it gonna be a blowout with Super Bowl? 21 to six, 21 to nine. Guys, we need more. Wait a minute. Oh my God, this is huge. 21 to 16. Second and goal. We have to stuff them, boys. We need to turn over right here right now. He's gonna fake the handoff. He's gonna throw low. Great. What? Oh, that was such horseshit. There's three guys there. That was just Madden physics nonsense. Look at this bullshit, dude. You got two tacklers right on him, but because he's in the middle of an animation, he can't be tackled. Look at that. What was that? Oh wow, that might have been the game right there. That's so frustrating. Dude, that would have forced, what a, what would that have forced? A field goal? Well, we still have all three timeouts and it looks like we're pretty close to scoring. Kyler drops back pretty far, starts to roll out lasers. And that was one of only four incompletions. Wasn't bad though. It stopped the clock. Second and 10. Dude, the Chiefs might just be too much of a superpower for us. Kyler. Wow, where was that to? Third and 10. All of Kyler's incompletions are coming right now. No, I hate going outside, man. It ain't over. It ain't over. Kyler, we need a big completion right now or step up and run it. Dude, what are you doing? Kyler, this is so questionable. You're decision making right now. Kyler, Kyler, Kyler just lobbed a pick to put it away. No, that's gonna be your last throw. Damn, boys. Oh, don't make me watch it. Don't make me watch it. 28 to 16. Three field goals and only one touched down in the Super Bowl. And the Chiefs Dynasty beats the Cardinals. No. Honestly, overall, I would say the rebuild was a total success. Other than not winning the Super Bowl right here, we really did build an amazing Cardinals squad, but we fell a little short here. And honestly, we were a defensively heavy team. Like our defense was so good and we led up 28 points in the Super Bowl. So, it's hard to say you're a defensive team when you do that, but. Let's take a look at the stats. Kyler, 19 for 25. Patrick Mahomes, 24 for 28. On the ground, honestly, Gatson was eight for 63.7 point eight. Still had a really good averages receiving Quincy Overstreet. Seven for 127 at touchdown. Wow. Dude, that fucking touchdown from their tight end was such BS. That was so annoying. Certainly a bummer there, boys. We fell short in the big game, but one thing a lot of people wanted to see is they wanted to see me sim like five years in the future, just to see like what the team does. I wanna try that. Let's see if we win a Super Bowl. I'm gonna consider this rebuild complete. We took them to the Super Bowl. There are 92 overall, but now I'm gonna sim five years in the future and we'll see if we won a bowl in that time. Oh, shoot. I don't know if this is good. The year is 2030. Halfway through the 2030 season, the Cardinals are four and four. What does the roster look like? I simmed, I think, four years then, not five, my bad. Oh no, Kyler's gone. Kyler's gone. We have Danny Dimes and somebody Bishop. Overstreet is a hard 99. Yo, Overstreet's a 99. Oh my God, he's the best wide receiver in the league. He's the best wide receiver in the league. Offensive line looks a little depleted, but we still got the two studs that I drafted and defensively we have Richter still. He's a 99. Bassie's a 96. Felix is a 99. Ojalar is a 94. AJ Christian's a 97. We have an insane defense. Do we ever win the bowl though? League history. This is the moment of truth, boys. In 2029, it was Dak on the Jets. So Dak won Super Bowl MVP with the Jets, okay. In 2028, it was the Niners beat the Steelers. In 207, the Niners beat the Chiefs. And in 206 was when we lost. Oh no, darn it. What have been cool? What have been cool? All right, boys. Hey, this has been the Arizona Cardinals rebuild. Let me know what you want to see next. I love you. Thanks for watching as always. See you guys in the next video. Peace.