 This is Kurt Benkert. He was drafted in 2018 by the Atlanta Falcons. He's also played for the Green Bay Packers and a short stint with the 49ers. And today we're hiring Kurt as GM of his former team, the Green Bay Packers. Kurt Benkert, let's get my guy. How you doing? What's up, man? Doing well, how are you? No, I am honestly so excited to do this with you. I cannot wait to take the Packers to the Bourbon Bowl, baby. The big one. That's gonna be awesome. Dude, this is a team. Let's do it. Pre-build, at least as far as Madden goes, defense is spectacular. Offense is really, really bad. It's in a bad spot. Yeah, they're really lean and really young on offense and we're gonna need to do a little bit of work there to make sure they can compete right now because we can't waste these solid defense years on this team. Bro, when you were in the game, did you ever go on franchise and just juice the hell out of your stats? Oh dude, 100%. They had me so weak. What they had me at, do you remember? I couldn't even throw slants. I was like a 58 or 59 when I was there. There was a year where I was like mid 60s. Okay, there you go. But like, you were better off putting a receiver quarterback and just like... Scrambling. Handing the ball off the mid. Hey, well, I guess like the core of this rebuild is the quarterback room. And I think the last time you were on the Packers was it Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love, and you. Was that all it was? Yes. Damn. That was it, dude. That 2021 season. That's crazy. And we were so close. I know. But it was a hell of a year. I know, that's sad, man. Do you still think about that? Dude, in my soul believed I was getting a ring on my finger for sitting on the bench that year. Man, that's so sick, dude. Would not be able to tell me anything. I'm sorry, man. Hey, it was a hell of a run though. It was. And I thought I was gonna get one of 49ers last year and then I got cut. Dude, now that would've been sick. But listen, they didn't get it anyway. Oh, dude. Wait a second, dude. When you saw 49ers QBs dropping like flies, were you like, wait a minute? Dude, I had my phone so ready because I just was like, they're bringing me back. When I got released, they brought in, so Jacob Eason had gotten released from Carolina. Maybe he was there for a little bit. And the 49ers had had a high draft grade on him three or four years ago whenever he was coming out. And so when I was with them, was there for three months and they brought me in one morning and they were like, hey, a guy that we wanted to draft that we missed on just became available and we can get him and we wanna see what he looks like and put him through the ringer a little bit. We're gonna release you. They only had him there for three weeks and then they cut him. And then I was expecting them to get a call back once the injuries happened and then they never called anyone. Yeah, wait, what did they do? So they rolled with two guys hoping. What did they do? They didn't do anything, did they? I'm trying to think about it. They literally did nothing. Well, I guess, you know what? That brings us full circle because the biggest part of this rebuild is our starting quarterback right now, Jordyn Love, is a 72 overall and a normal depth. And the first thing I would do in a Madden rebuild is I'd say, are we building around Jordyn Love? Or are we trading Jordyn Love and either picking somebody up now or targeting somebody in the draft? So as GM, you gotta tell us what we're doing here with Jordyn Love. So as GM, we're gonna keep with the path. We're gonna have Jordyn be our guide but we're gonna rebuild around him, dude. He needs some help. I love that. There's some cap moves that gotta be made, some reunites with old teammates that need to happen. Ooh, okay. And then we're also gonna keep our eyes on the horizon for maybe like a third to fifth round guy that maybe could be like a deck kind of guy. Oh, so you are gonna pick up a safety quarterback. Just to keep it funny. You know what's funny about that because Jordyn Love was the safety quarterback to Rogers and that pissed off Rogers. I remember that. Oh yeah, you see, the thing is Jordyn doesn't have a place to be pissed off right now because he's gotta earn it. That's true. You know, three years of waiting. Dude, he's got a good core though. Like he will progress, really will. 81 speed, 85 excel, 91 throw power is really good. We just gotta put him in a position to win and he will get really good. Dude, that's it. Get the momentum with early completions, like put him in a system that he's comfortable in. Hell yeah. No, we're gonna, we're gonna throw the ball out. We're definitely not gonna be this old school ground and pound play action team. Okay. Yeah, we need to put him in a situation that he's gonna excel in. Ooh, I like that. He's like an Andy Reed office. Dude, wait, no way. Are you serious? I already switched the playbook to Kansas City. That is so crazy. Dude, there we go. See, I'm telling you. Yeah, dude, so in Madden simulation, like I'm sure you already know this, but it's super important what your playbook is. In Kansas City, Chiefs is like all past. So I literally already switched it to that. Let's go. Wait, that's fire. Well, the thing is we're going KC and we have absolute, well not no tight end, but the starter right now is Josiah de Guara, 26 year old, 68 overall. We do have the rookie, right? Is Luke Musgrave a rookie? Yeah, he's a rookie. But Josiah is not the guy. Josiah's a, he's like a fullback hybrid tight end hybrid kind of guy. He's not your, we need like, We almost trade. We need a Darren Waller. Yeah. We need a Kyle Pitts, like we need one of those guys that's gonna go be a guy. That's, and every young quarterback loves his tight end. So gotta go get it back. Great minds think alike. Okay, well that means we are gonna probably have to unload somebody out of the players that are good and will be worth something. There's Aaron Jones. There's David Bakhtiari. And on defense, there is a ton of studs on defense. Jair Alexander, Kenny Clark, Christiane Gary. So if we're gonna trade for a tight end, who are we trading? I think we're gonna have to trade Aaron Jones. He's got an above average cap hit. He's a great guy, but your personality doesn't matter. Yeah, you're GM, man. And we don't care. They don't care. So we're gonna go get a stud with him. We're gonna unload some of that contract and we're gonna build for the future. It's his genius. We've got AJ Dillon. He can get it done. It's Kansas City offense, dude. We don't need it running back. But you're so right. You gotta do one every year. Dillon's gonna get those end zone goal line carries. And besides that, we're just slinging the rocker. I love it. Okay, good call. I gotta put down my GM checklist. So we're trading Aaron Jones. And we're getting a tight end. Who are your top tight end targets? Right now, I love Kyle Pitts. I love Darren Waller. Kyle Pitt. And I think for this, Kelsey's a little too old. He's gonna be tough to pull away from anyways. I think maybe like a sneaky value pick is Everett from the Chargers. I don't know what he looks like in that right now, but I think- But low key, we could get him without moving anybody, which is the good news. Like he'd be really easy to pick up. You know, we could go two tight end sets, throw people off. Ooh, dude, cause we could, I swear we could get Everett for like a third rounder. Although it does have him with a pre-existing injury right now. It does. Yeah, but it's not too big of a deal. I can go full, I can go full NFL and look at all the tight ends. I'm not gonna, I won't make a trade right now, but I just wanna know who you're thinking about because they're all possible. Yeah, Kyle Pitts is good. Kyle Pitts is X Factor this Madden. So he progresses like crazy. Dude, like I'm mad, like I could see Kyle Pitts and Jordan Love being like old school Phillip Rivers, Antonio Gates. Jordan Love. Kyle, I like it, dude. And they're like, they're about the same age. Dude, I think that's the one. I, we could definitely think about it. They might be roommates, honestly, by year. There we go. I saw, I like to hear. Okay, cool. And then we can do that. And then I just gotta ask you, what else you wanna think about this lineup? So, I mean, on paper, this defense probably doesn't need anything other than the fact that we're like, we're almost so good on defense that we could get more offense for it. That's the only thing I could think of. That's honestly, I'm thinking the same thing. We have some DNs that are studs. I know. Well, the one thing that I'm thinking of is Packers drafted Lucas Van Ness. He's gonna end up being really good. Well, I guess that begs this question. What is the Super Bowl timeline? When are we winning a Super Bowl with Jordan Love? What's your goal? Our goal is two to three years. Ooh, ooh, big Super Bowl. Let's go. It's a two to three years. But we're gonna leverage this defense. We're gonna be like the early 2000 Ravens. Ooh, I like that. Nobody even, you couldn't really name anybody from their offense, but you got Ed Reid, Ray Lewis, those guys. That's nasty. That's what we're looking for. Something else I was thinking about too with this defense, what's the deal with swapping defensive schemes? We're a three four right now. It won't do anything bad. It would work. We would be able to do it. I think the reason it works well right now is just because the Packers are so much stronger than the D-Line. That's what I'm, yeah. So one thing that I was thinking is if we go to a four three, which I'm biased to from the 49ers system, you put Rashawn Garriott and you put Van Nesset and not at this outside linebacker position. Then you have Kway Walker, Devondre Campbell playing maybe Mike and Sam. And then we just need that will position. But like, I think that can thin out the D-Line a little bit and let those big boys just play big boy ball and let Garry and Van Ness be our passers- Dude, this isn't genius. Oh my God. Have you done a rebuild before? Dude, back in the day before I became good at football I was a matting guru at 10 years old. Dude, this is sick. Hell yeah, we're doing that. Okay, cool. Well then, I guess is your idea then that once Van Ness and Garry are edge rushing that we trade one of these backers or do we just keep, we almost have a perfect backer core? Because Devondre, Campbell, Kway Walker and then Preston, oh Preston Smith's a little older. Not sure how much value he'll have. Yeah, Preston Smith is an edge guy more than anything but I think we could even, I don't know what we could get for him trade-wise but I could also see a world where Garry and Van Ness become left-end, right-end. The, what exists now is right-end, de-tackle, left-end. I'll get squished together into these two defense-attackable goals and maybe there's a trade to be had for an outside linebacker or a safety that buffs the defense and gives it a little bit more. Dude, they can hire you. Yeah, holy shit. This is fun. I'm just saying, man. I'm excited. They gotta look at the Twitter takes lately. We've been on fire. This is such a good defense. I think, I don't think your two to three-year Super Bowl is out of the question by any means. Especially if we're willing to go all in with these draft picks and the other thing we gotta talk about is some cap space and the David Bakhtiari debacle. He is expensive and very expensive. I know there's a place he wants to be. We all know it. Oh, you're gonna cheer trading them. Oh, he wants to go reunite with Rodgers. We're trading his ass. He wants it, dude. He wants it. Who do we try? And we might even see them in the Super Bowl. Who do we try to get from the Jets for Bakhtiari? I also think we could trade for one of their draft picks and then leverage the draft pick to get something else from a different team. Okay, hear me out. David Bakhtiari for Garrett Wilson. Oh my God. And milk as much as we can get out of that. Oh my God, yeah, I love that. I absolutely love that. Yo, Bakhtiari. It fulfills sending Rodgers to the Jets with this young crowd that he's excited to play with and then snatching the soul out of that immediately. I love it because, listen, Rodgers already got Alan Lazard. He already got him. He wants it. He's got a few of his guys. Got his medal, Cobb, Alan Lazard. Let's go steal the young guy he really said yes to the Jets. And Garrett Wilson is going to be absolutely insane. Garrett Wilson and elite tight end Jordan Love. We have a really depleted offensive line, though. That's for sure. That's true. So I guess my question then is what is your target for the draft? So I think the first thing that we need to do is we're going to need to sure up the left side of the line. I think we have a good left guard already. Let's go check and see according to Matt and what they think. So Elgton Jenkins is excellent left guard. Meyers and Runyon. Runyon's okay, but not getting any better. So right tackle center. And then with Bakhtiari out, we'll have Nijmen in that left tackle and he's really trash too. So mainly it'd be our tackles are the worst after that would be center. Ooh. Okay, what is Bekton with the Jets? He's young and he's good. We could get him and Garrett Wilson for Bakhtiari. Might have to like put some draft picks in there, but I could see it. I think that's kind of the move we got to make. Because then he's a 75 overall. It's like we should be able to get him and he's got some development. He should, he's younger. Yeah, we should get him and Garrett Wilson for Bakhtiari throwing some draft picks and then maybe look out there across the league to see if we can get maybe a new right tackle. And then from there, we'll have Christian Watson, we'll have Romeo Dobbs and we'll have Garrett Wilson as our receivers. And then we'll have Kyle Pitts. I don't know. This is a nasty squad, dude. I'm excited. My only question then, see my boy Jaden Reed went to Michigan State. All right. And he's the 73 overall rookie who's gonna develop quick. He now does not have a home on this team. So should we try and trade him and get something out of him or is he just gonna be a depth guy on the Packers? Because we could just put him in for Dobbs because Romeo Dobbs, I don't know how you say his name, but he is Dobbs. Okay, but he's a normal depth and Jaden Reed is gonna pop out as star depth. They're both super young. Oh, let's do it. Jaden Reed will progress a little faster. I think we get Jaden Reed the nod at the number three spot with Garrett Wilson there and put Dobbs as a depth guy. All right, but he can return kicks or something, you know? Yeah. Dude, you're kind of a nasty PM. Wait a minute. I'm so excited to see this. Just saying, man. Hey, well, dude. In the old days, in the old days, they used to move outside linebackers to the end and it used to buff their ratings. If that still happens, I wouldn't be shocked to see Rashawn Gary as like a 90 plus. He'll be a monster and he's got the abilities too. He's gonna be really, really good at that. Oh, dude. Yeah, I'm looking for him to be the staple on our team like OG Torel Suggs. I'm so excited for this, bro. Hey, well, thank you so much for helping us. I'm not gonna bore you and make you sit here for four hours for the sim, but when this Packer squad is fully assembled and we're gonna win that Super Bowl, I'm giving you a call so I can let you know what happened, all right? Look, man, the phone's gonna be on. I'll be ready for it. Hey, seriously, bro, thank you so much for doing this. I really appreciate it. I'm gonna get to work. Awesome. See you soon. So rather than having Kurt sit with us here for four hours and do all the boring parts, I'm just gonna call him after we've executed his plan as GM. So let's get to work. I'm switched to a 4-3. He wants Rashawn Gary. Rashawn Gary is an 80, not he's the exact same overall at right end. And honestly, he's an incredible right end. 93 power moves, 86 speed, 89 Excel. Let's make sure he has the right abilities. I'm gonna give him goal line stuff under pressure and double or nothing. And the young buck, Lucas Van Ness, he's a 6'5 linebacker. He's kind of built like Trayvon Walker. He's got 86 speed, 92 Excel, and he has 80 power moves. He truly is an edge rusher. Van Ness is actually a higher overall. Dude, Ben Kurt is a dog. Because he was totally right. Rashawn Gary is at right end. Kenny Clarks at detact. In the middle is Devondre Campbell. Of course, we got Preston Smith at right outside linebacker. And then we move Quay to left outside linebacker. And we don't have to trade for a backer at all. This is the absolute perfect backer set here. I'll make him left outside linebacker just in case. Not sure it matters. But keep in mind, the players on this team, Quay Walker is young. He has incredible madness stats. I know he's gonna progress super, super well. Offensively, Kurt does want us to keep and progress Jordan Love as our franchise quarterback. This is one of his former teammates. Of course he's gotta do it. Jordan Love's 24. If I was rebuilding the Packers, I don't know if I would stick with Jordan Love. The only issue I have is I think it's gonna be difficult to get his normal Dev up to star Dev. If he plays well enough, I think he will do it. And we do plan on trading our two offensive superstars, Aaron Jones and David Bakhtiari. The offensive line is looking beat. But we're also gonna try and get a star tight end as well as Garrett Wilson and we'll be reuniting David Bakhtiari with the New York Jets. This is actually realistic because I know Aaron Rodgers wants him. What's also awesome about this is the number one team need for the Jets is a left tackle. Now you guys have recommended that every time I'm GM, I need to low ball the shit out of the CPU. Garrett Wilson, their star wide receiver, Mackay Bekton, 75 overall, 24 years old and their round one pick for a 31 year old left tackle. There is no way they accept this, right? Like there's no way I'm selling right now. They don't like that trade. I'm not shocked. I'm gonna take the round one pick out. Do they accept this? They definitely don't. Looks like we're gonna have to sweeten this deal for sure. I'm not willing to trade away my 2024 round one pick 15 but Kurt did say he wants a Super Bowl within two to three years. So I really don't mind giving up my 2026 picks. Let's see what a 2026 third and fourth round pick will do to move this trade. I'm adding my 2026 first round and I'm keeping in the fourth round. It's orange, baby. This really sells our 2026 draft. We lose our first and our second round. But honestly, the players we're getting are both young players who will develop. This isn't too bad of a trade. David Bakhtiari, round one and round two of the 2026 NFL draft. Jets don't know as the Packers are gonna be a Super Team by 2026. So these picks are worth nothing. Come on. Oh, we're so close. I added 2025, round six and seven. Finally, it goes through. Here's what we had to give up. We had to give up a haul of picks. My first and second in 2026, my 2025 second and in 2024, we have two second round picks. I gave up the second round pick that was not the Green Bay Packers. The good news is I don't think we'll play very well this year 2024. So our 2024 pick should be good. And damn, I just realized why that trade was so hard. Betten is a superstar. I thought he was star. Damn, six, seven, three, 60. He's 24 years old. Oh my God, he's gonna be insane. Garrett Wilson's only star. I didn't know that either. I figured he'd be superstar. No question, he's offensive rookie of the year. Wide receiver one is Garrett Wilson. Wide receiver two is Christian Watson. And up to wide receiver three is Jaden Reed. Honestly, I kind of talked our GM into this. But Jaden Reed's my boy. Jaden Reed's Michigan State. He's also hidden dev, 91 speed, 92 excel. Dobbs is actually a little faster. But the fact that Jaden Reed will come out as star means he will progress a lot faster. So this isn't like, it may be biased, but it's still a good call. Now the next thing we wanted to do was trade Aaron Jones and get ourselves a superstar tight end. And GM Benkert really wanted Kyle Pitts. And I definitely agree with that call. I don't know if he knew this or not, but Kyle Pitts is the most undeserved X Factor I've ever seen. I love Kyle Pitts. Why is he a superstar X Factor? When the offensive rookie of the year who actually was insane, Garrett Wilson, is star? I have no idea. But since he's superstar X Factor, he is going to progress like crazy. He's only 22. He's already got 91 speed, 93 acceleration, 88 spec. It also does mean the Falcons aren't just gonna hand him over. Not to mention the Falcons have Bijan Robinson, but they still have decent interest in Aaron Jones. Trying this trade straight up is surprisingly close to working. It's a done deal. Kyle Pitts is a Green Bay Packer. I certainly wouldn't shock this up in the ultra realistic rebuild category, but the Atlanta Falcons wanted Aaron Jones my 20, 25, third and fourth, my 20, 26, fifth and sixth. We may be losing our draft picks, but we're retaining our first and second rounds for the most part. I'm not that upset by this at all. So let's go back to our GM checklist here. GM Benkert wanted a four, three defense with Rashon Gary and Lucas Van Ness as edge rushers. He got it. He wanted to trade Bakhtiari and get Garrett Wilson and Beckton. He got it. But it did cost us a lot of draft capital. Our GM also wanted an elite tight end option for Jordan Love, specifically Kyle Pitts. And we granted that wish too. Kyle Pitts is our new tight end. We were also hoping to shore up the strong safety position which is very weak on this defense, as well as shoring up our tackle and interior offensive line. I can't say we've done that yet, but we can absolutely target that in the draft. Ronnie Cooper is currently our best scout. He's our three star. His primary expertise is DN. I'm sorry, Ronnie, but you are jobless. Rachel Bridges though. Unfortunately, we can't fire her because we have a diversity quota and we have to hire women. It's a bunch of stupid nonsense. So she's staying. Rachel Bridges position expertise is interior offensive line. We just so happen to need that. Yeah, you know what? I'm firing her anyway. Whoa! The actual best scout for us is Willie Rowe. He specializes in interior O-line and tackles. We could use either. So we might as well get two birds stoned. And our two star scout just needs to do safeties. Rowan Moore will do safeties and this is actually also perfect. GM Benkert said we should look for like a third or fifth round quarterback, just in case. And his secondary expertise is quarterbacks. Willie Rowe will be our national scout and Rowan Moore Southeast. Taking a look at the prospects, I honestly imagine our first round draft pick will land somewhere in the middle. I don't think we'll be that bad because this defense can absolutely carry us but I don't think we'll make the playoffs. Red down the middle is left tackle. There is actually a very deep tackle class. 11, 12, and 13 are all tackles which we could definitely use. We've got a strong safety out of UCF at 18. Another left tackle, Jeremy Philbin. Why does that sound like something I know? Daryl, what is Daryl Philbin? What the fuck is that? Is that from the office? Oh, it's Daryl. This is Daryl's brother. Yo, he low key kind of looks like Daryl too. And as we go deeper, if we happen to do incredible, it would honestly be pretty bad. As I look deep in this draft class, 26 is a center, we could use a center. But detackle, nope, detackle, nope. Left end, don't need it, don't need it. Don't need a DB. Free safety, Eric Bowers. I guess we could technically move into strong safety, but it'll also depend on what our scouting reveals. But overall, I'm very happy with how this class looks and it might just land perfectly for us. I'm gonna set our season goal of seven wins. I think that's very realistic. We do have a pretty tough schedule. I just really like this defense. I think this defense kind of carries. And as I say that, I think the only player I didn't click on and talk about is Jair Alexander. Jair Alexander to me is a top three corner in the league. Not sure if I can confidently call him the best, but he's insane, his stats are so good. And he's 26, so I'm really excited to continue to play with Jair Alexander. One important thing that we have to do before we start this season is make sure that Garrett Wilson is our slot wide receiver. Slot wide receiver, especially in chiefs playbook, but in pretty much all playbooks gets a ton of love. Right now it's Jaden Reed. I wouldn't have hated that, but I'll make sure it's Garrett Wilson and backup will be Jaden Reed. Ooh, I think, I think Garrett Wilson and Kyle Pitts are gonna have some big seasons. I would actually like to tank this season. I would very much like to tank this season, but that would be cheating. I obviously can't do that. Year one with GM Benkert, let's see what we got. Coach Matt LaFleur was on the money. I wanted seven wins, we got seven wins. The NFC North. I've never seen this happen in a Madden sim. The Bayers win the NFC North. Lines are 7-10, Packers are 7-10, 6-11. The losing record Bayers are headed to the playoffs. I swear if they get through them, I will be so mad. Although this does work out, we get a better draft pick because of this. And the Bayers are the four seed with an eight and nine record and they're taking on the Saints. What? Taking a look around the league, Joe Burrow leads the league in passing yards. Mahomes crushes in touchdowns though and it's not even close, 50 and six. Jordan Love finishes ninth in passing yards. Chief's offense plus elite wide receiver 10 in combo is a lethal duo. His completion percentage, not great. In fact, it's worse than every quarterback above him and many of the ones below him. His TD to interception ratio isn't spectacular either but it is better than Trevor Lawrence's. On the ground, Saquon led the league and the Aaron Jones we traded away actually got used a ton by the Falcons. AJ Dillon went for 821 yards and six touchdowns. Nothing impressive. Our number one receiver was Kyle Pitts. I just kind of thought Garrett Wilson without performing. Pitts goes for a thousand and six touchdowns. Garrett Wilson almost a thousand eight touchdowns and Jaden Reed was shockingly close to Garrett Wilson. Almost the exact same in receptions, yards. Garrett Wilson just found Pater a little more often with five more touchdowns. Christian Watson even had five touchdowns. So all three of these receivers are gonna develop well but Kyle Pitts is kind of the standout here. Defensively, Devondre Campbell leads in tackles. Kway Walker close behind and then Rudy Ford behind that Rudy Ford with four interceptions. We were talking down on our strong safety and he played great. Rizul Douglas with four, Jair with three. Interesting. Kenny Clark had nine and a half sacks where Sean Gary had eight big season for him. Devondre Wyatt had four. Van Ness an underwhelming season. Was really hoping he'd get more TFLs or sacks to potentially, you know, win something but he's certainly not winning defensive rookie of the year with those stats. Bears were the first round exit. I can sleep tonight. And GM Benkertz, former team, the Niners are in the Super Bowl against the Bengals. And in Super Bowl 58, the Bengals get their first ever ring. Joe Burrow wins MVP. Mahomes gets NFL MVP. Josh Downes is rookie of the year. In defensive rookie of the year is Byron Young. Before we consider signing anyone in free agency I want to see about development. I was kind of hoping that Garrett Wilson would go up to superstar but we have three star wide receivers and they appear to have progressed at least a little bit. Morale is a little low around the squad but Jordan Love is up to a technically a 76 overall. So he went up four overalls this year. Ronan's looking good. Becdon is looking a little upset about the year. Kyle Pitts is a 93 overall and Musgrave is just chill. Defensively, we've got ourselves another superstar X factor. So Rishan Gary regresses in his dev trait superstar down to star. You really like to see those abilities on Rishan Gary but Kenny Clark monster. Now a superstar X factor. And we got to make sure he has the best abilities. Right now he's got inside stuff. We'll also give him goal line stuff and a run stopper. Same with Kyle Pitts. I want to make sure he has the best abilities. I'm going to give him a route tech bruiser and deep out elite. Well, seeing everything there my top targets in free agency is a strong safety to replace Rudy Ford and a left tackle or center. It's funny that Kurt was talking about picking up Gerald Everett because he is available in free agency but he's pretty expensive. He's already 30 years old. We're just going to let the rookie Luke Musgrave do his thing. There is a pretty nice strong safety available. That's the Sean Elliott. Ida Texas, he's normal dev 27 years old but he has decent interest in being a packer already. I'm going to give him a player friendly deal and I can pick up a center. Ryan Kelly is interested. Hopefully a two year deal. Cause I'd actually like, Oh, we don't have the salary cap room to make this offer. Oh no. All I can give Ryan Kelly is a one year. I'm okay giving him a one year though because if it means Jordan Love can have an even bigger season, I'm cool with it. I would have liked to pick up a tackle but the good thing about Zach Tom is that Tom is actually pretty young. He's a shitty left tackle but he can definitely progress. We did lose John Runyon in free agency though. So Royce Newman's our new right guard. We definitely, we have to draft O-line. We literally have to draft O-line. That'll save us some money too because we are broke and we cannot afford to pay a superstar left tack. Not to mention we lost Rudy Ford in free agency too. So we definitely needed to Sean Elliott. So season one, season one we lose John Runyon. Offensive line is not looking too good and team morale is low. We do sign to Sean Elliott in free agency and Kenny Clark is upgraded to a superstar X factor. We also got Ryan Kelly in free agency. So a little bolster to the center position. I'm looking to draft either a left tackle or a right guard. All right, let's kick off the NFL draft. We are round one, pick 11. I'm looking for the best offensive lineman that I can get. Previous pick was Joe Agnew. There's still four quarterbacks on the board and I have a hundred percent scouted all of them but it's Jordan Love season. So I can't take one of these guys. Potentially one of them will fall to me on my second round pick. So I could hang on to that. There are two tackles here. There's Alexander Hicks, Matt Cook. But here's the thing. Matt Cook has excellent run blocking stats. I don't need run blocking. His pass blocking is a C. Alexander Hicks pass blocking C to F. Now, Stefan Pete has a B pass block but you know what's funny? The same guy we were talking about earlier, Jeremy Philbit on a Alabama 67320. He's a pass protector left tackle which is actually what I want the most for Jordan Love. So this might be a reach. There are technically three tackles above Jeremy Philbit and his bench press reps are absolutely horrible. So his strength might not be very good. That is a little scary. But what I like the most is A pass block, A to C run block, A awareness. I think Jeremy Philbit's gonna be a stud and you know what? His strength is not that bad. It's 78. You'd probably prefer a little bit more out of a tackle but A pass block power, A pass block, A to C pass block finesse. This guy was built to defend Jordan Love. Jeremy Philbit is our first round pick. Our next pick is round two pick 16. Now that I see that I think we, I might have actually traded the Packers pick. I don't know, maybe I fumbled the bag on that. Next pick I'm gonna take is actually a strong safety. We did decide to Sean Elliott but I really liked this guy and potentially we could move to Sean Elliott if he progresses or is good but he's the fastest strong safety. He has the highest vertical jump, second in broad, second in three cone drill. So I think his intangibles are gonna be good. My concern is that he's five foot 10, which is pretty short for a strong safety but his hit power is A to C. Player notes is a physical player who delivers bone crushing hit. I'm taking a strong safety here. Henry Lamb, he's normal Dev, darn it. But he's 91 speed, 91 excel. That might not have been the right call. Maybe I should have gone with a guard here but I'm excited to have him. We have a pretty, oh dude a guard just got taken. We have round three pick 11 here. I'm gonna take a guard if there's any available. Damn, a guard literally just got taken. That is such a bummer. Right here we're picking up Antoine Hardison, left guard out of Notre Dame. Second round was a whiff but third round, hidden Dev that is at least a star on our left guard draft pick, 83 string. 82 acceleration is shockingly good for a guard. He has a pass block finesse, a pass block power. He's a pass blocking guard. Oh my God, let's go. I honestly didn't even notice that till right now. And our GM did ask us to pick up a quarterback if there's one available. These quarterbacks do not look good but Parker Allen out of Alcorn State is the best guy available here. He's a potential UDFA but listen, I said I was gonna get a quarterback so we'll get a quarterback. 80 speed, 87 throw power, 85 excel. We gotta make sure Jordan Love knows he's not safe quite yet. The most important part of a rebuild, the draft recap. Philbin's a monster. Jeremy Philbin is a 77 overall. Let's see those stats big boy. Jeremy Philbin, now he has a huge first round pick. 83 pass block power, 82 finesse, 86 pass block. That's insanely good. He is run blocking is horrible, 74, 73, 71. Lead blocks, all right. Impact blocking is all right, 79, 79. This dude's a beast. Let's go Jeremy Philbin. Honestly, there's a chance he's superstar too but we'll have to see. We know for a fact that Henry Lam is normal Dev and he's a 73 overall. So this wasn't the best pick. Luckily Antoine Hardison is at least star and he's a 74 overall. So he's awesome. Parker Allen's a 64, that's a whiff. We kinda knew it was a whiff but we said we'd get a quarterback. James Bartso, free safety, nothing great there. Harry Dickinson, you're kidding me. That is not his generated name. While we draft to the center, 65 overall and then Miles Ramsey. Philbin is awesome, man. I'm really excited about him. All right, headed it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Philbin, oh my God. I just simmed through the preseason. Jeremy Philbin is a superstar. Oh my God, that was a nasty pick. Holy shit, we gotta like, it's not generational. You know, the generational guys are 81, superstar X factor, but holy shit. That is a huge, dude. David Bakhtiari, who bro? Jeremy Philbin's that guy. I feel bad for Zach Tom but he just really doesn't have a place on this team anymore because Elton Jenkins is great. Ryan Kelly's a free agency signing and then Hardison is actually still hidden dev. I think I forgot to start him. Yeah, zero snaps. I forgot to start him. Damn. It's week one of the 2025 season. My goal is to make the playoffs. I don't really know if we can. I think the biggest thing in our way is actually Jordan Love right now. I hate to say it, but he's only a 76 overall. He's still normal dev was really hoping he'd get a boost but damn, did we reshape this offensive line for him? Philbin's already a superstar. Hardison 74, at least star. And Gary Wilson's a hard 89 overall. We got Christian Watson and Jaden Reed at 79, Watson at 80. So he's got all the weapons in the world. Cal Pitts is insane. We got two X factors on defense but we lose Rashawn Gary's abilities, unfortunately. And we've got the rookie, normal dev, Henry Lam chilling in our backup strong safety. Oh, Bartow. You see that? Our free safety Bartow, the like fifth round pick was actually hidden dev. Shit. I'm gonna sim to mid season because I do need to set my focus scouting. I actually forgot to do that in year one. And that's why we were 100% on quarterbacks but not on the positions we needed. I think I might scout though. What position at this point? Maybe we get a linebacker. Preston Smith's kind of mid. Devondry Campbell's getting old. Quay Walker is gonna be the only guy. He at mid season, the Packers have a winning record. The Vikings and the Bears are trash but the Lions are five and two. So NFC North could be tough. We've got a weekly award on somebody. It goes to Rizul Douglas for his two interceptions. Nice. Let's see if we ever got another one. No, that was actually our only Packers. That was actually the only one. All right, let's sim to the playoffs. Packers could really make the playoffs here in year two. I don't think that two to three years is that unrealistic. This is a good team. Hey, I guess this is good for the upcoming draft. But damn, the Lions just snuck past us. They go nine and eight. We went eight and nine. The hope though is that somebody named Jordan Love. Ah, Tim. Dude, I really wanted Jordan Love to progress to star Dev. He does not but here's the good news. Our tackles are incredible. Hardison is star. He's all the way up to 78. Gara Wilson's on 93. But he's still, he's not Superstar. Honestly, it's just another good year for the Packers. We didn't do too much, but we still have our first run pick. So the question is, who do we draft or who do we sign in free agency? Ryan Kelly's on a one year deal. So Kelly's out of here after this year. I think I pick up an outside linebacker. Vanessa and Rashawn Gary are doing great as they are. Our DBS are great. Darnell Savage is sick. At the Sean Alley, it's been really good. And we have Henry Lam, who we already drafted. Devandre Campbell's getting older. Preston Smith keeps getting worse. He's a 74. So really I'm looking for a guy to replace Preston Smith. I'm also gonna make a de-tackle adjustment. I'm gonna make Devontae Wyatt de-tackle. So Devontae Wyatt is now our starting de-tackle too. That's much better. We're at 87 overall. This is a crazy team. I don't even know how we missed the playoffs. This is a very good. Whoa, whoa, wait, Devont, Devont, Jordan Love. We didn't make, how do we now make the playoffs? Jordan Love led the league in passing yards. Wait a minute, did I see that right? Oh my God. Jordan Lee, Jordan Love led the league. Actually, it's not even surprising because we went eight and nine. So we're in a ton of close games where we were passing a ton. But take a look at this, man. 33 touchdowns, 26 interceptions. So he was kind of chucking some mallards up there. Whereas you look at Dak and Mahomes and Joe Burrow who all had a lot of yards, but much better completion, much less interceptions. But look who's getting up here at Bryce Young. 23, 14, 4,000 yards, nice. On the ground, it was another underwhelming year for AJ Dillon, but take a look at the touchdowns. He was fifth in the league in touchdowns. Fantasy workhorse, not bad. Aaron Wilson, fucking boy. Absolutely dominated the league. He did not eclipse 1,000 rushing yards in that first season, and now he leads the league. Crystal Lavey, close behind, Cooper Cup, Jamar Chase, Brandon, Ayuk. Where does Kyle Pitts fall? Did Kyle Pitts regress a little bit this season? Ooh, I don't see him. So Kyle Pitts, Jaden Reed goes over 1,000. Oh my God, Aaron Wilson, Jaden Reed, Christian Watson actually had more than Kyle Pitts. This is so weird. This season with better offensive line, it almost seems like since we upgraded O-line and Jordan Lavey got a little better, he opted for his wide receivers more than his tight end. I could think of a lot of theories for why, but honestly, it doesn't matter because Kyle Pitts is so good anyway that he's already kind of where he needs to be. Eight touchdowns for Pitts, eight for Watson, six for Jaden Reed, and 11 for Garrett Wilson. Evenly distributed, they own Garrett Wilson. Do we have a shot at MVP? Probably not. Yeah, that's crazy. We led the league in passing yards and we're not even on the MVP list. Offensive player of the year, Brandon Ayuk. Defensive player of the year, Aaron Donald. Offensive rookie of the year, Earl Blair. Defensive rookie of the year, D'Angelo Williams. Best QB is Desmond Ritter, best running bag, Saquon Wide Receivers IU. O-line, Spinay Sewell. I'm surprised that Garrett Wilson. Okay, what? This can't be right. Garrett Wilson is not even on the best wide receiver list at all. How? Oh, he is, sorry. I'm actually just brain dead and blind. He was fourth. But still, I'm actually shocked. You led the league in receiving yards and you're fourth in the NFC? Which means there's AFC players in front of you too. That's shocking to me, but I think it's most likely due to touchdowns. Jordan Lavey was getting touchdowns with everybody. He was picking no favorites. And in the 2024 season, the Niners win the Super Bowl and Brock Purdy is MVP. Oh, Kurt, I'm so sorry. I know you're gonna see this. Oh, that's just, that's fucked up is what it is. Defensive rookie of the year is D'Angelo Williams. Who has, D'Angelo Williams, that's a familiar name. He's now a detacol, I suppose. Lamar Jackson wins NFL MVP. Interesting season. And I spoke too soon. We're into free agency. I actually didn't know that this is how Dev Traits worked. So I'm glad I know now, but I actually had to wait for the season to be fully complete to know if Garrett Wilson got a Dev Trait upgrade and he did. So Ryan Kelly was out of one year deal. I now have absolutely nobody at center, but Garrett Wilson is a superstar, which makes sense. He led the league in receiving. He was supposed to get this. He's got Route Tech will also go Acrobat and deep out elite. Do you get deep out elite? He does not get deep out elite. I'm gonna give him bruiser. Ah, no, I won't. Route Tech Acrobat and deep in elite. Garrett Wilson is insanely good. He is progressing fast. Although that also meant I had to wait for a regression. Kenny Clark went from X Factor down to superstar, but Jair is a hard 99 now with X Factor. BB's are good for a while here. Campbell went from an 85 to an 82. Quay Walker's only getting better. I was right to think about Preston Smith. Preston Smith is getting really shitty. So we either draft an outside linebacker or we draft a center. And then we do the other in free agency. We finished eight and nine. So my draft pick is like 14, 15, 16. And looking in that range, there's a right outside linebacker, Zay Meyers. There's a tackle, John Warren. I technically could move him to center. Same with Joshua Beekman. I could move him to center. Another right outside linebacker, Eddie Mumfrey. I would like to sign a linebacker. I'd rather sign a linebacker and draft a center. Free agents available. Damn, Iukes in free agency. So is Tua. Iukes, superstar X Factor. I want an outside linebacker. Unless there's a good center available, you never know. The best center available is 77, yeah. I think we draft. We'll draft that. Look at this signing that's available. He's cheap. He's interested in the squad already. He's only 25. Jack Sandborn out of Wisconsin. I love this. He's young. He's gonna get better. He's only 25. No player-friendly deal. He'd love to sign with the Packers. Look at that. He'll be with the squad for a while and he's definitely gonna get better. No need to go overboard and overpay on anybody. Let's just grab the guy. Let's just grab the guy and look at that. We got 22 mil available in salary cap. We can save that for next year just in case we don't go to the playoffs, but I do expect to go to the playoffs in this upcoming season. It's time for the NFL draft. We really didn't move and pick very much, which makes sense. Around one, like 12. Time to make our selection. We don't need wide receivers. We don't need tight ends. We need a center or a linebacker. There's, oh my God. It's such a deep QB class again. Damn it. Jacob Webster is a top five projected quarterback and he is falling. Look at that A-medium, A-short. That guy's a beast. Out of USC, I'm sorry I can't take you. Left tackle, John Warren, right guard, Joshua Beekman. I gotta say, look at the stats here on John Warren, the 22 year old out of UCLA. He's got the best vertical three cone and 20 yard shuttles. This is a fast, very fast tackle, but it doesn't matter too much. His acceleration, change of direction and jumping are elite. His strength is good. He has A run, B pass, A impact, A awareness. John Warren's insane. I just need to teach him how to play center and we'll be good. I don't know how realistic that is in real life, actually moving a tackle to center. So maybe I'm cheesing the rebuild a little bit here, but he'll definitely be a beast at center. He is hated now as we wanted his 88 strength. Oh my God, this guy's a monster. It's gonna be a hell of a center. Let's go. Our next pick is around five because we traded away all these draft picks. I'm gonna let the computer take care of that one. Listen, we signed Jack Sanborn, shore up that little area with Preston Smith and then John Warren, who looks to be an incredible tackle, is gonna become our new center. And maybe the computer went crazy. Draft recap of the 2025 NFL Draft. Yo, tell me why the computer in the fifth, sixth, and seventh round got all 70 pluses. Nasty. DeMarco Rogers, half back. They got Deontay Smith, tight end and Tracy Collins wide receiver. But most important is John Warren, who's a 75 overall. I honestly thought he'd be higher than a 75 overall, but still that's really good. Hidden Dev is the important thing here. So he's at least star and we will move him to center. John Warren is our starting center. He actually goes down one overall when he's moved to center. His past blocking is actually pretty bad. Run blockings is 79, powers is 70, 82 run block finesse. So this is a run blocking center, but that's okay. The new look Green Bay Packers are ready to kick off preseason. Jordan loves an 80. He's not getting up in Dev trades, but he should be fine. Oh, we're smoking that NFC North Pack through mid season. Packers are six in one. The Bears, Vikings and Lions aren't even close. We are 100% going to the playoffs. Let's see how the lineup's doing because everybody's killing it. Hey, Warren was a star. We have probably one of the best O-Lines in the league with Philbin, Bechton, Hardison, Warren and Jenkins. Coppence is a 98 with no morale. It's insane. Diate Smith, our third string tight end is progressing. How? I don't know. Jordan loves doing good AJ, Dylan's doing good. Garrett Wilson's a 95 now and Jaden Reed and Christian Watson seem to be enjoying things. Oh no. And dude, I forgot to start Jack Sanborn. We're doing this good and we don't even have the best lineup in because Jack Sanborn is a 77 and he's much better than Preston Smith. It's going to be a cake walk to the playoffs boys. GM Benkert wanted a Super Bowl within two to three years. This is year three. So is this our Super Bowl year right now? Oh, oh, oh, oh my God. We almost, like we almost lost our playoff spot and interestingly enough, Jordan love. Okay, he has way less passing yards. So he's fifth in the league in passing yards this year but his touchdown interception ratio is so much better. 69% completions, all right, 260 yards per game. 104 passer rating his best. AJ Dylan's probably a little upset that he can't eclipse a thousand rushing yards but it's all right. Garrett Wilson regressed. His overall went higher. He got way more touchdowns but as far as yards go, a lot less. Kyle Pitts is back in the 1,000 club and Jaden Reed and Christian Watson decrease defensively Devondre Campbell, Quay Walker, Eric Stokes with 104 tackles, eight TFLs, five interceptions for Jair to Sean Elliott with three. Very nice. 14 sacks for Kenny Clark, eight for Rashawn Gary, seven for Devonte Wyatt. Whoa, nice. Four out of Preston Smith, two and a half out of Van Ness. Devondre Campbell had one. Our boys Sanborn rocking a big zero. All right boys, the wild card versus the Panthers, the 89 overall Packers versus the 88 Panthers. They got Shelton Prince, X Factor DB, what? Through two quarters, it is, oh, it's 21 to 14. Jordan Love, come on baby, yes! 21 to do this, a high scoring game. 21 to 21, 28 to 21. Let's go, keep scoring Packers. 35 to 21, 28 to 35, wait a minute. Wait, Panthers have the ball, fourth and 20. They go for it, they don't get it. All right, Packers just gotta close this game out. Carolina has two timeouts left. We lead by seven, that's a monster run. That is not A.J. Dillon, that is Lou Nichols III. Why is Lou Nichols in and not A.J. Dillon? I don't know, chief's playbook I guess. Just right here is why A.J. Dillon never got a thousand rushing yards. Lou Nichols, I don't even know who that is. I literally don't know who that is, but he's in. B.A.T is up and good. The Panthers do score, dude, that was a high scoring game. Wild card though. Packers hang on, 42 to 35. Sanborn gets an upgrade. Wild card's in the books, it's on to the divisional. Dude, I think we're the greatest nine and eight team in history, we're in 89 overall. The Cowboys are in 87 and they're 12 and five. We do have a weekly award as well, Devondre Campbell. Oh my God, look at his stat line. Seven tackles an interception of force fumble and he recovered the fumble that he forced. Bryce Young actually gets NFC offense, but that doesn't matter because we won, let's go. It's time for the divisional. Packers take on the Cowboys. C.D. Lamb, Micah Parsons. Back press guy, we got Jair, Kyle Pitts. We have the divisional, the NFC championship and the Super Bowl. I'll pick back up tomorrow. The run continues. Nine and eight Packers versus the 12 and five Cowboys. Playing at A.T. and T. Stadium in the divisional round. Ooh, looks like the Cowboys do score first, but we score right back, seven to seven. Cowboys score, we're back on offense. We missed our field goal. Oh no, wait, what, red zone? 14-14, Cowboys just scored with like four seconds on the clock. 17-21, okay, okay. Come on, we got a score here, fourth and two. Gotta get that, yes, we got it. 24-21, it's 24-28, we have the ball. Cowboys have all three of their timeouts. Jordan Love takes over, rifles one. Drop, dropped by Musgrave. No, we gotta catch that. This is a weird lineup we have in the, where's Kyle Pitts, where's Garrett Wilson? Why is Luz, why is A.J. Dillon not in? I'm so confused at the personnel out here. The third and the 16, Jordan Love gets sacked. You're kidding me. We scored, how did we get the ball back? Oh my God, I thought we turned it over. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what just happened? We somehow got the ball back and we scored on a pass to Luke Musgrave, whoa. Oh my God, I was getting ready to sim to the end of this game, I thought it was over. The Cowboys must have instantly turned it over. Oh my God, holy fuck, what? What the fuck? We just kicked the ball. They would see that, we just kicked the ball out of one of our coverage team's arms. What? Dude, I am experiencing madden glitches that I've never seen, but thanks to that dog shit kick, the Cowboys are taking over from the 45. That is not good, sack him, that goes down. Cowboys had to use the time out there. Oh, they still have two, they only need field goal range. Come on, come on pass rush, get home Kenny. Kenny Clark was so close, he doesn't get home. They got a first down out of that, damn. They're not in field goal range yet. They use their second to last time out pressure, pressure boys. Also doesn't even show Kenny Clark as an X factor. Did he regress to us? Dude, nothing makes sense to me right now. Oh my God, what are they doing? Look at the clock, what are they doing? Are they going for the end zone? Holy shit, I thought they weren't even gonna have time to kick the game tying field goal. All right, they're sending it to overtime with this kick right here. Matt LaFleur, ice is the kicker. This is a huge kick, huge kick. It should be routine though. 39 yard field goal. I can't imagine he misses that. He drills it, they're going overtime. Dude, I'm so confused how that even happened. I came into the game to see about these substitutions. Why, look at the fucking unit that is out here. My backup half back, no Garrett Wilson, no Kyle Pitts, no Christian Watson, no Jaden Reed. What the fuck is this? When I go into the depth chart, A.J. Dillon is starting. Garrett Wilson is starting. My starting tight end is Kyle Pitts. My slot wide receiver is Garrett Wilson. What is going on? Why would this ever be the unit that's in? Hold up, I'm going to go Formation's wing tight nasty. It's got Nichols in instead of A.J. Dillon. It's got Pearson in instead of Kyle Pitts. It's got Doobz in instead of, I am genuinely so frustrated by this. Why the hell would it ever run this lineup? Does anybody understand? Now I'm in the game and I've made the substitutions. Now all my studs are in. Why have they not been playing this entire time? I don't want to cheat either. I'm not allowed to come in here and play, but as soon as I step out, it's going to put in my dog shit lineup again. And look at that. They just subbed in my shitty lineup again and now Dallas is marching down the field. Ooh, Henry Lamb. Henry Lamb just got an interception in OT. Wait a minute, we could win the game here, but look at this. Look at this dog shit. They're automatically putting in my worst players. They've got the backup half back, all my backup wide receivers and my backup tight ended. I mean, if we beat the Cowboys with our second unit, I'll be really impressed. Why the hell? Okay, here we go. Garrett Wilson and Kyle Pitts are in. They're in that Formation I suggested and we're going to run it to A.J. Dillon. So it appears my substitution did something. All we got to do is kick a field goal to win the game. I think we still win the game here, but look at the unit again. They got the backup fucking half back in. What is this? I don't have auto depth chart reorder. I just checked my depth chart. I've got all my starters in. What am I watching? Fucking Lou Nichols and all these backups in the most important game of the season. Why would that ever be the case? Hey, hey, I can cry all I want, but this is the game winning field goal right here. We pin this and we go to the NFC championship. Drill it. Will Lutz. Lison is bait. Hell of a field goal. Hell of a field goal. Wait, what? How's the game not over? We each had an opportunity on offense and I kicked a field goal. Shouldn't the game be over? Dude, this is so buggy. It's not even funny. We do get the win. So it counted the win for us. Is this a progressive fatigue thing? Guys, I just looked it up. Some people think it might be progressive fatigue. I am turning progressive fatigue off. Hopefully that fixes this. Oh my God, we have the second unit in there. No wonder they were struggling. No wonder we went to overtime. I don't have our star players out there. Jordan Love had a spectacular game. 374 yards, three touchdowns. But look at this. Lou Nichols had 11 carries. AJ Dillon got one. AJ Dillon is my starting running back. Receiving. Dobbs isn't even in my fucking lineup. He's my fourth streak. Jada Reed got one catch. He was a nuke for a touchdown. Musgrave got four. And Kyle Pitts is virtually unused. Where's Gary Wilson? Gary Wilson didn't get a single. What is going on? How could that ever happen? Oh my God. I'm pissed off, man. All this make Gary Wilson awesome when he used him. Whatever. Hey, it's time for the conference championship. Hopefully what I just did fixed it. I am praying it did. The NFC championship is against the Atlanta Falcons. And we are the Green Bay Packers. We know that this game is historically pretty tough for us. A weekly award goes to Henry Lamb. My second round pick up with 11 tackles and a game-winning interception. Huge. And Jordan Love got player of the week as well. Henry Lamb probably gotten up. Oh no, James Bartow, another young guy gets an upgrade there. I just figured out why all my starters got subbed out. Progressive fatigue is broken. I should have turned it off when I started this league. So for some reason the game has auto-subbing out all of my starters. So what happens if I just fair sim it? Because when I was fair simming in the regular season, it definitely had my starters in. I'm going to the Pro Bowl. I made a save point in case this is absolutely horrendous. Okay, so we won. Let me, we just need to see the player stats now. Jordan Love through 224 passing hours, no touchdowns? My backup quarterback Parker Allen came in through a touchdown. No, it's still used. It's still used my backups. Look at this. Dobbs, Jaden Reed, Musgrave. It's not using my starters. And there's nothing I can do about it. They're at the top of the depth chart and I can't use my starters. Somehow the seven seeded Indianapolis Colts make the Super Bowl. They beat the Chiefs. This is a really cool Super Bowl, but wow, I'm actually really frustrated by this. I hate doing this for a rebuild, but I think my only option here is to play the Super Bowl. I don't see another way to do this. The 90 overall Packers taken on the 89 overall Indianapolis Colts. I really do apologize guys. I had absolutely no idea about this bizarre glitch. Garrett Wilson's an X Factor. Wait a minute, holy shit. I'll make sure that for the next franchise I do progressive fatigue will be off. Honestly, 90% of this rebuild we did without that affecting us, but here we get into the third season playoffs and it's decided to sub out all of our star players. Why would that ever be something I want? Eric Stokes got Superstar. Devonte Wyatt is star. I think the coolest part of this is Garrett Wilson is now Superstar X Factor. I'm gonna give him double me. I'm gonna give him, I'm gonna give him deep out and deep in elite. He's a stud. I'm not gonna let this ruin it. We're gonna play out the Super Bowl even though normally I would wanna sim this, but who knows, maybe when we hop into this game here maybe my starters will be it. Let's go Packers. I'm gonna play only the moment. So if I come in here and look at this opening drive on defense and we look at the lineup that's in. Look at this. So you're supposed to be Sean Gary. You're supposed to be Kenneth Clark. You're supposed to be Lucas Van Ness. You're actually correct. You're the one guy who is correct. And I didn't even get my substitutions off. And now we're running out here with this 70 overall line. That is really frustrating. I mean, it doesn't even make any sense. When would you ever be in a playoff game using all of your bench players because you're trying to manage fatigue? Fatigue for what? It's the fucking Super Bowl. This is the only goal. Opening drive in the Super Bowl, the Colts settle for a field goal. On offense, we have some weird substitutions. There's no Garrett Wilson, but Jane Reed and Watson are in and then our backup half-back is it. Backup half-back is wide open. Lou Nichols. Hey! Hey! Now it's red zone alert. And in this set, as you can see, I have nobody useful in. So we're just gonna make something up here. I'm gonna go out to A. I'm gonna go to Luke Musgrave. The interesting thing for me here is there's no way. Dude, the more that I think about it, at the start of this season, we went six and one and then we closed out the season nine and eight. What if these guys came out at about mid-season? And that's why we struggled so much. That would make so much sense to me. I just gotta make sure that progressive fatigue is off every single time I play. I'm gonna go, ooh, we're going for it. Looks like a bum is gonna get a touchdown here potentially. Jordan Love's gonna scramble. It was just about to get sacked and I'm gonna throw that one away. My immersion is fully ruined. I'll say that. Musgrave, big stiff arm. Hey! Oh, get home, Kyle Pitts. Yes, sir! A.J. Dillon or Garrett Wilson will go. A.J. Dillon, he's bouncing around. Lou Nichols, the backup is in, but I'm gonna give him this opportunity. Hey! He picks up the first. Now we're in no huddle. We're gonna run the same thing. Let's go. Oh! Dude, they're bringing me in to kick a 64-yard field goal with Will Lutz. Holy shit. This is a nuke. Calling Oppenheimer. Come on, baby! Oh no. Inside stuff, what a huge play. Big play. No! Oh my god, what a laser. Finds him in the back of the end. That was nasty. All right, and the sim actually got us in nice position. To tie this game up, let's see who's where. Okay, hat back. No, no, no, don't float, Nichols. Don't do that. Who's there? Oh, Kyle Pitts, I like it. I like it! What a catch. Oh, don't force it, but Musgrave! Ooh, awkward. I'm giving Garrett Wilson just a hitch right here. Oh my god, Musgrave, not again! Musgrave is having the game of his career. Colts score. We're back out off at 17 to 17, 39 seconds. And three minutes in the Super Bowl. I really apologize, guys. I wish this could be a sim, but I just, that was a very unanticipated glitch. Either way, Garrett Wilson clears, breaks a tackle. But damn, that DB was fast. First in 10, I'ma try and get Kyle Pitts out of bounds here. That's best case scenario, but it's not really there. Oh, this is risk. It's risk. It's risk! What? I said it was risky. I don't know how he came down with it, but now we gotta watch. They have one time out, they have so much field to cover, there's just no way. I think the Super Bowl is gonna go into overtime. But as I'm watching, I'm looking at 70 overall bum. Absolute bozo. How is this team even in the bowl? Although, I think I'm noticing Jair or is that Eric Stokes? 23. The Colts just run it out. They want to go into overtime. Oh, good defense. It's third and seven. Oh, Richardson misses the throw. They got a punt. Little play action here. Kyle Pitts open in the flats. That's my boy. That's why I wanted to have the ball in the open field. Musgrave. Dude, that little leak out from Musgrave is just such a lethal option. Second in 10, I'll go down to Dylan. That ball knocked out. Third in 10, Kyle Pitts torched his man. Lou Nichols, no, it's under thrown. He got it. I was trying to send him to the back of the end zone. It's only right that I let the Super Sim take over. And you know what? They're actually in a formation that has Kyle Pitts in. So, first in 10, it's a handoff to AJ Dylan. He'll go for two yards. Second in goal in the Super Bowl. All we need is a field goal to win. And we're in five wide. I swear to God, Jordan Love. Jordan Love sacked. Just lost 14 yards for no reason. And we're coming out running another play. Lou Nichols is in the backfield. Not a single one of our starters are out there. Jordan Love, you're actually shitting me. You just brought that field goal from a 25 yard game winner to a 49 yard game winner. And now I'm gonna watch you kick it. I swear to God, if we miss this, dude, I think I might be done with rebuilds. Dude, Lutz, Lutz, Lutz, Lutz, Lutz, Lutz. Game winner, Super Bowl. He drills it. He's clutched like that. Hey, and the Lombardi trophy. Don't even get to see the walkout new way because it's all glitched. The winners of Super Bowl 60 are the Green Bay Packers over the Indianapolis Colts. It didn't, and honestly didn't happen how we wanted it to, but Jordan Love with three out of three yards, a touchdown and an interception. Lou Nichols with 32 yards. Kyle Pitts had seven for 82 because I stepped in. Garrett Wilson had one for 29. We did what our GM asked. And that is the most important part. I also decided to simp the next season just to see what the team's gonna look like after that Super Bowl run. Jordan Love is still normal Dev, but our tight end, the Ante Smith went up to Superstar. So we have two amazing tight ends now. Not like any of them will play, of course, because the game really wants to start Luke Musgrave. Christian Watts and Garrett Wilson ends as a 99 overall Superstar X factor. That's awesome. So that was an insanely good trade. Campbell regresses in Dev trait. Kenny Clark regresses. Eric Stokes is a Superstar now, which is pretty awesome. DeSean Elliott, Henry Lam. Somehow Eric Stokes is our starting free safety and our starting corner. This game is just broken. It's just broken. Jordan Love is Super Bowl MVP. It's actually so dope. Desmond Ritter got NFL MVP. All right boys, I appreciate you guys watching as always. I'll make sure this is resolved next time around and I will see you guys in the next rebuild. Peace.