 How can this be games? I've been asking myself that question every single night because every night I lay my head down to sleep I can't get the images out of my head A game of losing picks six Horrible, just a stupid pass right there Pitiful passing attempts Oh my god he did it again! Oh my god he did it again! And every night I fall asleep I'm reminded that me and Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream to bear Martin Luther King Jr, he died He died He died I only have one thing in common That's the color of our skin Because I don't have a dream I have a nightmare A nightmare where the best wheel of mud season The most popular season opener I've ever dropped Ends in a one and three season A season where I don't even make the playoffs Despite starting With one of the best wheel of mud starter teams I've ever had But then I remind myself of something I remind myself of a dream And my dream looks a little something like this We need four more wins To head to the playoffs But one loss and our entire season Our entire team resets But I have a dream to go for and oh Undefeated The rest of this entire season Win the wild card playoff Win the NFC championship And win the Super Bowl And wear the very first ring Of Madden 24 And let you boys down like this You think I would go out sad and sorry You think I'd take a trip to Cancun In September You're out of your mind if you thought that And frankly I'm offended if you ever believed it We're one and two gentlemen But rather than staying on the negative We're looking at the positives We're getting a dump today And we're getting a dump in the next two episodes Let's start with all the good things Yeah we lost two games They were close games too I'd rather get blown out Two games we salvaged an elite wide receiver We got John Matchy and Jerry Rice Still on the squad And importantly with our quarterback I'm making a big adjustment In previous Madden's gift wrap Has been a useless ability Because generally speaking Your quarterback's in a clean pocket Will just complete passes to uncovered targets That is not the case in Madden 24 It's a learning curve that I have struggled with But hopefully I'll struggle with it no more I'm ready to fight back This is the uncovered targets And hopefully less errant throws And the emphasis of my three wheel spins today Is 100% full defense I've been loading up offense but why I'm losing games on the defense event Our very first wheel spin Of the start Of the comeback tour They wrote us off We didn't write back Team Wheel 80 to 85 It's not Team Wheel Jackpot but it won't So any 80 to 85 overall player in the game Please! Yes! Any Lions player in the game 80 to 85 overall There's honestly not a ton of good options here So I'm going to have to do something weird But I think it'll work So in free agency the Lions signed CJ Gardner Johnson Sadly he got injured so we're not going to see him for a while But he's a Detroit Lion Perfectly in 85 overall He has very good stats But he's obviously not actually a corner I just don't have any options at corner The Lions corners are pitiful 82 overall But I got both stuff I think this is the right call We now have three safeties So we'll just shuffle them so that one of the safeties is basically a DB Still a big defense upgrade though So I'm going to take out Ambry Thomas I'm going to put in CJ Gardner Johnson He's kind of like got good DB stats His main coverage is good His zone is very good Pursuit, playrack, speed, excel He's almost like a DB So now as far as DBs go I also love to get a faster user Middle linebacker I am lost in the sauce, would junior say out I'm going to put Derwin James as my backup sub-linebacker And we'll use her Derwin when we can Second wheel spin, I'm staying defense I don't even care offense Zach Coons, you're starting today buddy Unless I don't have a choice, I do have a choice Thank you 50k one player I wonder if there's a usable middle linebacker for that press I think the value here is going to be at the DB position as well Because if I keep on getting these DBs I actually could run man coverage Whereas the last two games I literally cannot Click man coverage or I get torch Traverious Ward is lowkey pretty nasty He's within our 50k budget, 83 speed 6 foot 1 I like both of those a lot This is also the fastest corner we can get with our budget He'll become the starting DB And now I actually have enough good secondary To user Derwin in the middle Takes us to our third and final It's guys, it's literally winner go home It's winner go home Our third and final wheel spin Do I just upgrade Seow here We get one of the 84 legends Of our choice at least so that's good So we have a choice once again Dude, I've been bitching about this Seow for so long How big of an upgrade is 81 to 84 I'm hoping at least two speed He is plus two speed, plus two acceleration I think I gotta do this I think I just upgrade the user middle linebacker Now as much as I want to user Derwin I can't user Derwin in every set There are multiple defensive formations that I run That will not let you sub a strong safety into the middle Hey, I asked for defense and I got it We didn't get any absolutely absurd 87 overalls, 88 overalls But I asked for defense I got three key defensive players I have no excuses It is time to go win a ballgame Make or break, win or go home Here's our new look defense CJ Gardner Johnson, Charverius Ward, Junior Seow Offense is untouched Zach Coons is going into the biggest game of his life Final thing left is challenge wheel To be honest, this is one of those games Where I am solely focused on the win And if the challenge wheel comes So bad That is the best challenge wheel spin I could get right now I get zero turnovers out winning this game anyway Kenny Pickett, Jerry Rice John Metzsche the third taking on Jay Jeddas, Jaylin Watson And Jaylin Ramsey, at home Win or go home Starting out with a pass I'm accidentally on bo-sup A questionable ball So if I run nickel over here Derwin James is my user But, my high safety right now OH! He's not a fo-get it! Get it! Good start! I was gonna say, listen I can use her derwin there My high safety becomes Richard Sherman I don't like that, let's go with the man blitz Let's go, we know it's a pass It has to be here, no way There's just Dude, how do we blitz six Walks around the edge, look at that That's okay, first and then I expect to run No run, Junior say how's the user Go back to the dig! Jonah Williams! Okay, we know it's a pass Let's try man coverage, I think we can get away With man coverage now Yup As I say, we can get away with man coverage It honestly was pretty good coverage He is gonna hand this ball off Second and eight Let's clamp up Oh, it's another handoff, I expected that to be Third and five, he is in scoring range I'm gonna put Bosa and Williams in coverage I'm disguising this as a cover four Which I mean, it's not really disguising It is a cover four Does he take off? He does, I'm there! I'm there! Let's go, damn QB run is very powerful this year Fourth and one, come on boys Let's fly down, let's run commit, yes! Yes! Oh my god, I thought for sure It's okay Oh my god, Derwin got fucking stuck Oh my god, I was gonna make a joke About Thanksgiving and turkeys and Dude, first and ten He's gonna run it again and Seow is there But B-shots haven't none of it, we slowed him down It's a one yard game, now we're going with the blitz If he goes to the edge, that's fine, I'm gonna bottle it up Yup, there's the edge, we're gonna bottle it up Yup, Derwin's in Seow picks up the blocker Andre Swift throwing a nice block, Bosa QB spy Don't let him roll out and do some shit Yup, go get his ass Go get his ass, let's go! He had an open man, but he whiffed it It's fourth and five, does he go for it? One final time, I hope he does That's a mental win in our books He marks down to the six He's only walking away with three and he damn near missed that No turnovers! Means we gotta play a perfect game, I'm gonna start out with an RPO And honestly I could have gone to B there But he passed commit I really didn't get as much as I should have out of that I'm gonna run this again Dude, look at the fucking pancakes Is it gonna be a pancake again? Holy shit! What is going on with the RPO? Did I just unlock a glitch? Okay, I'm only taking short throws Unless it's stupid wide open Because I'm not turning this ball over No, no, no, I didn't mean to click that! Guys, guys, holy shit I tried to click RB that hold X for the rack But the RB part didn't register And it just threw it to X First in gold We can take the lead right here with a clean Oh my god Junior say out here Just taking the underneath I don't think Bryson can really get anything Did you see him starting to take off? He started to take off down there And it was not looking good for us Pass commit, let's get Bryce Yes! He's one for five You're in his face right now Alright, now we guess pass but we'll cover He wants a corner out out of 86 I am not on the right guy Big tubby boy But luckily DB Gardner Johnson's there but Bryce Young Whiffs it, that was three straight Nothings out of him And he's going for one more play Can we stop him one more time? I think he wants to go 86 in the scene Look for it, look for it, yes Yes, yes, yes No dig No! I saw that dig, I tried to absolutely Just blow him up That's fully on me I had that play, I over thought it All I needed to do was swat I don't even need to blow him up Don't get him You fucking deserve this now I'm just pissed poor Unbelievable throw by you You don't deserve the ball anymore Hey, you made a nice play on that fourth down You don't deserve it anymore And that was the exact reason we upgraded Say Out That little two speed, two acceleration Gets me to this ball Not mad at you, man Holy shit Please don't tell me That's like a connection error on my end Tell me he actually quit, yes Yes, oh my god It's a true rage quit, let's go It's a little bit of blue boss I wanted to play the game out I wanted to really take it to him But regardless, it's actually a win A rage quit and a challenge wheel It's the trifecta because we had zero turnovers We didn't play a full game We had zero turnovers Oh my god boys, did we need that? Oh my god, did we need that And weirdly enough for my challenge wheel The pack I'm gonna choose is headliners fantasy It's not the best pack in the store But it has the best chance of giving me a tight end That's the way I'm thinking about this I know there's at least two headliners tight ends And I get a Budamata headliners players Left guard, corner, corner Okay, we have another round Kaylin Geiger, DiCaprio Boudal again Ryla Samoa, Loki I can't actually be mad about that And we got a punter Now that may have failed but that does not stop us From getting a spin On the rage quit wheel That was a quick one and one that we desperately, desperately needed One training pack So one of any pack in the store that cost training I believe the only viable pack right now is mystery pack And honestly, you are never gonna see me complain about the mystery pack The mystery pack is crack 295 training, I got a chance at one of any of those packs Best case scenario, probably a star elite Or pro playmaker Hey, pro playmaker Kinda just like the headliners we open is just a ton of players Really hoping for a tight end Free safety, oh oh oh You couldn't write a better script Micah Sickie I wonder if you do a signature animation if he gritties I really hope he gritties if you do a signature Micah Sickie, I have a tight end ladies and gentlemen I didn't even have to buy him I have a tight end, another free safety, another detackle Emmanuel Agba, Loki might be a starter I don't actually remember Oh, Emmanuel Agba is a starter dude Feel bad taking out Jonah Williams though Jonah Williams had a pretty big game today Massive sack, definitely helped with that rage quit So new left end is gold Emmanuel Agba Definitely an upgrade from Jonah Williams We also have a minor detackle upgrade Cameron Young, 73 overall And yeah, listen, that middle linebacker pull was actually a good pull Brian Asamoa, a big speed boost here A lot of acceleration And my MLB2 comes out in that run stop defense I run So this is a This is a surprisingly nice upgrade I'm not really getting any superstar players today But listen boys All I can say is that's exactly what we needed One thing is certain gentlemen This squad right here is two and two Which means we're one win closer to pulling off The Cinderella story We need three more wins before we lose In fact, I shouldn't even say that We need no more losses to win the Super Bowl I must go undefeated from here on out Alright boys, I love y'all I'm so happy to lock in a dub here I'll see you guys in the next video