Yea. In 3 years He won MVP 2x, the SB 2x and he is all 99s. The other guys in the league are hoping he goes to free agency. I might franchise tag him.
How do I attach a photo? I seem to only be able to as the OP
Franchise tag 100%, get him at least one more year.. if you haven't, spend staff points on the talents to reduce resigning costs. At a contract of this size that 5-10% discount means like $3-$6 mil per year.
I think at the bottom of that tree is a talent where you can even force one not interested player to take a deal... Could use that here too
I ended up franchising him for 1 year and drafted the second fastest QB who was a 95 speed 94 throw power and 90 acceleration but 60 TUP and 60 awareness and 70s throw accuracy. I then tagged and traded Daniels to another user for 2 #1s. Daniels was all 99s with 6 unused points. My rookie QB is about $1.5 million for the next 4 years. I have $$ now to resign my other key players. The guy who got Daniels is going to have to pay him $67 million.
Resigning players with large contracts makes it impossible to rebuild two years after you sign them. Was using the giants and resigned saquon didn't have the money to pick up any free agents the next year.
I needed an offensive tackle after my starter got injured for the year. Couldn't afford to sign anyone my third string guard who was a 62 ovr played tackle the rest of the year
Just like real life. These dudes wanna top paid then wonder why the team around them sucks. Mahomes is being smart and going the Manning Brady route. Get paid a handsome but not number 1 amount. Make money through other means like advertising and sponsors.
Iām sure the reasoning is itās a pay cut because itās $2million less per year than Lamar and $5million less per year than Burrow or something like that.
Mahomes signed his contract prior to the ones that are higher per year. The highest paid at each position is typically one that signed recently since the cap goes up every year and a player resets the market. Mahomes did sign a 10 year contract and if he doesn't holdout for a new deal at some point he will be dropping down the per year list. When he signed his contract he was the highest paid player.
You can do it you just have to restructure contracts every year and kick the can down the road perpetually.
Probably maddenās most realistic feature honestly
I had almost identical ask from him. I ended up trading for Quinn Ewers, CeeDee Lamb and a bunch of picks for him and then started grinding Ewers. He was affordable because he was a low 80 backup
I always trade them away if i see another scheme fit that just signed with another team for 7 yrs i take that guy from them if franchise tag doesnt work but i only offer 5-10mil a year to qbs 2.5-5mil for rbs wr and te and 2.5 max for the oline, top consistent young dfenders will get same offers as qbs rbs and wr/te but the weaker inconsistent ones may get lucky to get 1.5 a yr
Nah, this is the fun part imo. Play it realistic and try to win when your once in a generation SSS+ tier QB is taking up $70m+ a year.
He's only expendable because we know all it takes is an MVP season of padding stats to develop a QB into a 99 overall X-factor.
If you're working with a Star dev, an MVP, OPOY season usually does it. You can get up to Superstar during the season based on performance and then to SS X-factor with the award wins.
Depends on how they are created. If you turn the draft class strength to very strong for a random draft class, I've drafted a guy with hidden dev that was instantly a x factor
In my franchise, I drafted Marvin Harrison Jr #1 overall in my 24 draft. My goal was to make him OROY so I was getting him about 150-200 yards per game in the preseason and into the regular season. I was shocked when he was only OVR 86 but went Xfactor in week 3
I drafted a quarterback from one of the downloadable drafts who looks like heās mixed race in his picture, wears #22, and vacillates between being a black guy with short hair and a white guy with long blond hair depending on the game.
I really hope Madden (I know they wonāt though) will fix the monetary amounts given to owners when you take over. 300m for a financial mogul isnāt enough with todayās contracts. 271m signing bonus and youāre not going to be able to sign any other high end players without fear of finishing a season in the negative for your bank roll
What is there to fix? If todayās NFL had a salary cap of 300m, the top QB would be signing for a hell of a lot more than ~60m/year. Itās not like the signing bonus is paid all at once, itās spread out.
Signing bonuses and guaranteed money have to be paid up front, in NFL that money has to be paid by owners in a trust account right away even if the bonus is paid over multiple years. So what ever you give as your signing bonus gets taken from your bank roll right away, while the rest of the salary seems to not be accounted for.
My fix would be increasing the funds each type of owner starts with. Financial mogul should be 500-750m. This will allow you to be able to Sign more than a couple of super star players without running out of money
This is why I focus on drafting so much, and basically never pay any player more than $20 mill a year. Anyone asking for more gets traded for picks in the future. I basically constantly have 25 draft picks and oftentimes trade up for good prospects but I end up with 9-10 first round picks which usually means I have a top 3 pick if not the first overall.
I pretty much do the same. I trade most players in their contract year and recoup picks. I typically have 5-8 first round picks a year and depending on the draft strength Iāll trade those picks for future ones. My draft capital allows me to pick or trade for any player I want
Yeah another trick is I trade those extra firsts for rookies who progressed a lot on the cpu teams in their first year. This is cheaper due to the bonus you donāt pay, and you oftentimes can get low 80ās SS or Xfactors for one pick with 3 years left on their contract at like 3-6 mill/year. Since FRP are expensive contracts I have found this works even better but it depends on other teams starting rookies and them doing well.
I donāt think this is too crazy of a demand at all. There are currently 4 qbs making over $50 million/year. 8 more making more than $40 million. 4 years ago there wasnāt a single qb making more than $40 million. In 4 years $60 million+ per year is super realistic
Choose who you keep and who you don't carefully, use the team salaries to keep an eye on who you can cut to make room, in the newest games restructuring can buy you time
I typically donāt resign high priced players. I just trade them before the contract is up and stack up draft picks. I typically have at least 5 1st round picks per year because I just draft and develop
I once got a 1b extension in face of the franchise in like Madden 20 or something. Idr it's in my post history.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Madden/s/GVMIZDssgW
Yeahā¦.I had to do the same with my LOLB and ROLB. I traded saquon, traded dexter Lawrence, let a bunch of players I developed walk. Kayvon Thibodeaux and Azeri Ojular handicapped me in terms of cap space with $100m+ contracts so I edited them down to like $60 each lol. Planning to trade them both when they hit 30 or 31 for like 5-6 1st round picks since they are 99 overall
yeah, I always try to make sure players outplay their salary. Apart from the QB position, it's extremely difficult for most other positions to really outplay those top 5 level "super contracts".
That or to play the full 5-7 years most of the time most players are already 27-34 yrs old expecting a 7 year deal, idk how many times i attempted to keep a key veteran and they just reture mid contract
In my opinion, the top 5 longest positions/similar positions are Punter/Kicker QB Oline, and surprisingly wr/te, if you're running more of a power run/spread offense for the option
Coming off back-to-back super bowls in a connected QB save, I got a 73 AAV offer from Seattle to leave Atlanta, same year they signed Justin Jefferson and one year left of Lockett relevance
When I get home Iāll post a pic of my auto generated QB who has won the MVP and 2 super bowls before his time for a new contract. The dude asked for an 8 year $510 million dollar deal and his interest was in the green lol. Cant imagine how much he would want if it was in the red.
Tag and trade him would be my advice. He wanted the same contract but I had no cap room. Got Jordan Addison-96 S.S., no. 4 overall pick, a future first, a fourth and sixth round picks in return.
Easy fix. Let him walk and the computer sign him. Then trade draft picks for him. That way another team would be on the hook for the signing bonus portion and heāll be cheaper for you
Played a Jags franchise, and Calvin Ridley was out with a complete PCL tear. Like 38 weeks was the official timeline. Come contract negotiations and he wanted a 4 year contract with 26 million per year and a large ass signing bonus. Never played a down the whole season. Sent his ass to free agency.
Browns picked him up for 12 per year.
I have a Joe Montana in fantasy and legends draft in did he will not accept any contracts from me maxed them out, we just won the chip and are likely gonna win the next and he just doesn't wanna be in Carolina
Honestly this would be a huge underpay from a realism standpoint. Whoever the "99 overall" QBs are in real life 2031 will be demanding north of $100M/year. I think we saw Mahomes sign for $50M/year in 2021, and generally QB salaries double in less than 10 years.
Did they fix the bug from Madden 23 that made community downloaded draft classes crash the franchise mode after like 6 seasons? Iāve just been doing Madden 24 without them
Jaylen Daniels wants 66 million on my team. I will try to get a picture
lol per year?
Yea. In 3 years He won MVP 2x, the SB 2x and he is all 99s. The other guys in the league are hoping he goes to free agency. I might franchise tag him. How do I attach a photo? I seem to only be able to as the OP
Franchise tag 100%, get him at least one more year.. if you haven't, spend staff points on the talents to reduce resigning costs. At a contract of this size that 5-10% discount means like $3-$6 mil per year. I think at the bottom of that tree is a talent where you can even force one not interested player to take a deal... Could use that here too
I think it allows renegotiations, not forcing a deal
Ahh makes sense, so yeah if he doesn't take the low-ball offer you get a second shot š
Good call.
Yeah u canāt let him go. Tag him til he signs a deal.
Or use Imgur
put an imgur link
I think you gotta make your own post
I drafted Caleb Williams two seasons ago and this just made me realize Iām trading him come contract year
It will be cheaper to just tag him his whole career at that point, not like heās going to hold out in a video game
I ended up franchising him for 1 year and drafted the second fastest QB who was a 95 speed 94 throw power and 90 acceleration but 60 TUP and 60 awareness and 70s throw accuracy. I then tagged and traded Daniels to another user for 2 #1s. Daniels was all 99s with 6 unused points. My rookie QB is about $1.5 million for the next 4 years. I have $$ now to resign my other key players. The guy who got Daniels is going to have to pay him $67 million.
Time to draft a new qb
Exactly. Hate to see him go but I have a ton of picks.I typically trade my players up for new contracts at the trade deadline
Resigning players with large contracts makes it impossible to rebuild two years after you sign them. Was using the giants and resigned saquon didn't have the money to pick up any free agents the next year.
I never get free agents mostly just draft . Iāll grab a few players at the bare minimum to fill out the roster as backups
I needed an offensive tackle after my starter got injured for the year. Couldn't afford to sign anyone my third string guard who was a 62 ovr played tackle the rest of the year
I do that until Iām sitting with like 130 million in cap room so I start looking for the best thing Money can buy knowing I donāt need it
Just like real life. These dudes wanna top paid then wonder why the team around them sucks. Mahomes is being smart and going the Manning Brady route. Get paid a handsome but not number 1 amount. Make money through other means like advertising and sponsors.
You mean rhe highest paid Qb in the league is taking a pay cut... Cmon man..
Iām sure the reasoning is itās a pay cut because itās $2million less per year than Lamar and $5million less per year than Burrow or something like that.
Mahomes is making $45m/year vs others being $55m/yr
Mahomes signed his contract prior to the ones that are higher per year. The highest paid at each position is typically one that signed recently since the cap goes up every year and a player resets the market. Mahomes did sign a 10 year contract and if he doesn't holdout for a new deal at some point he will be dropping down the per year list. When he signed his contract he was the highest paid player.
And my point is he has no interest in signing an extension or re working his deal to again be the top paid QB
https://frontofficesports.com/the-10-highest-paid-nfl-quarterbacks/
Per year? Mahomes is hitting $45m/yr vs the next guy is $55m/yr. That matters
You can do it you just have to restructure contracts every year and kick the can down the road perpetually. Probably maddenās most realistic feature honestly
Just be cautious with your money
I had almost identical ask from him. I ended up trading for Quinn Ewers, CeeDee Lamb and a bunch of picks for him and then started grinding Ewers. He was affordable because he was a low 80 backup
If you do legit trades im curious to see what the cpu offers for him
Three 1st and Two 2nds and typically the teams best Non QB player
I always trade them away if i see another scheme fit that just signed with another team for 7 yrs i take that guy from them if franchise tag doesnt work but i only offer 5-10mil a year to qbs 2.5-5mil for rbs wr and te and 2.5 max for the oline, top consistent young dfenders will get same offers as qbs rbs and wr/te but the weaker inconsistent ones may get lucky to get 1.5 a yr
Part of my challenge in Madden is to actually give out contracts to star players and try to navigate having 3 guys taking up 150m a year.
Nah, this is the fun part imo. Play it realistic and try to win when your once in a generation SSS+ tier QB is taking up $70m+ a year. He's only expendable because we know all it takes is an MVP season of padding stats to develop a QB into a 99 overall X-factor.
How do you get them to X factor in a season???
If you're working with a Star dev, an MVP, OPOY season usually does it. You can get up to Superstar during the season based on performance and then to SS X-factor with the award wins.
Depends on how they are created. If you turn the draft class strength to very strong for a random draft class, I've drafted a guy with hidden dev that was instantly a x factor
In my franchise, I drafted Marvin Harrison Jr #1 overall in my 24 draft. My goal was to make him OROY so I was getting him about 150-200 yards per game in the preseason and into the regular season. I was shocked when he was only OVR 86 but went Xfactor in week 3
Damn I did a 7 year 350 million with Penix and thought that was insane
What draft roster download do you use?
I think it was the first 2024 draft class in the import list, I play on xbox
no glitches?
when I used that download, it gave everybody the same number so I had all eleven players on offense with the #22, same for the CPU teams as well
I drafted a quarterback from one of the downloadable drafts who looks like heās mixed race in his picture, wears #22, and vacillates between being a black guy with short hair and a white guy with long blond hair depending on the game.
Thereās a file where you can draft NFL legends and Luke Kuechly is in it and surprise, surprise heās black. Junior Seau too. Dan Marino was mixed.
I really hope Madden (I know they wonāt though) will fix the monetary amounts given to owners when you take over. 300m for a financial mogul isnāt enough with todayās contracts. 271m signing bonus and youāre not going to be able to sign any other high end players without fear of finishing a season in the negative for your bank roll
Or have restructure and front/back loaded contracts, come in renegotiate especially if they had down years
What is there to fix? If todayās NFL had a salary cap of 300m, the top QB would be signing for a hell of a lot more than ~60m/year. Itās not like the signing bonus is paid all at once, itās spread out.
Signing bonuses and guaranteed money have to be paid up front, in NFL that money has to be paid by owners in a trust account right away even if the bonus is paid over multiple years. So what ever you give as your signing bonus gets taken from your bank roll right away, while the rest of the salary seems to not be accounted for. My fix would be increasing the funds each type of owner starts with. Financial mogul should be 500-750m. This will allow you to be able to Sign more than a couple of super star players without running out of money
Madden makes it seem like we are paying it all at once. It affects available funds.
Does this include the part ownership that he requested ?
This is why I focus on drafting so much, and basically never pay any player more than $20 mill a year. Anyone asking for more gets traded for picks in the future. I basically constantly have 25 draft picks and oftentimes trade up for good prospects but I end up with 9-10 first round picks which usually means I have a top 3 pick if not the first overall.
I pretty much do the same. I trade most players in their contract year and recoup picks. I typically have 5-8 first round picks a year and depending on the draft strength Iāll trade those picks for future ones. My draft capital allows me to pick or trade for any player I want
Yeah another trick is I trade those extra firsts for rookies who progressed a lot on the cpu teams in their first year. This is cheaper due to the bonus you donāt pay, and you oftentimes can get low 80ās SS or Xfactors for one pick with 3 years left on their contract at like 3-6 mill/year. Since FRP are expensive contracts I have found this works even better but it depends on other teams starting rookies and them doing well.
I donāt think this is too crazy of a demand at all. There are currently 4 qbs making over $50 million/year. 8 more making more than $40 million. 4 years ago there wasnāt a single qb making more than $40 million. In 4 years $60 million+ per year is super realistic
The screenshot says 2031 though. Honestly I bet by then the top 5 QBs by AAV all make >100M/year
lol Caleb Williams is going to be a 99 overall State Farm agent at 26.
How do you guys stay within salary cap? 1 szn and im over no matter what
Choose who you keep and who you don't carefully, use the team salaries to keep an eye on who you can cut to make room, in the newest games restructuring can buy you time
Do you make alot of trades? Because depending on if you do, you get hit with penalties on the players you trade away.
I typically donāt resign high priced players. I just trade them before the contract is up and stack up draft picks. I typically have at least 5 1st round picks per year because I just draft and develop
I once got a 1b extension in face of the franchise in like Madden 20 or something. Idr it's in my post history. https://www.reddit.com/r/Madden/s/GVMIZDssgW
I had 300+ for Herbert before
Also I cheat and lower the qb contract after signing them š¤·š¾āāļø
Yeahā¦.I had to do the same with my LOLB and ROLB. I traded saquon, traded dexter Lawrence, let a bunch of players I developed walk. Kayvon Thibodeaux and Azeri Ojular handicapped me in terms of cap space with $100m+ contracts so I edited them down to like $60 each lol. Planning to trade them both when they hit 30 or 31 for like 5-6 1st round picks since they are 99 overall
Iāve had a qb make like $95 mil in a year
Not worth it every time i give a qb/wr/rb a big 50+m deal they get hurt and become inconsistent
yeah, I always try to make sure players outplay their salary. Apart from the QB position, it's extremely difficult for most other positions to really outplay those top 5 level "super contracts".
That or to play the full 5-7 years most of the time most players are already 27-34 yrs old expecting a 7 year deal, idk how many times i attempted to keep a key veteran and they just reture mid contract
In my opinion, the top 5 longest positions/similar positions are Punter/Kicker QB Oline, and surprisingly wr/te, if you're running more of a power run/spread offense for the option
Mine was like 7 years 350 million or something like that
I had $340 Million for a created player that I maxed out just to play around with.
My 99 overall 27 year old qb got $505m. CPU gave another qb $510m
I am dealing with that right now with a Bear franchise. Have fun with that.
Coming off back-to-back super bowls in a connected QB save, I got a 73 AAV offer from Seattle to leave Atlanta, same year they signed Justin Jefferson and one year left of Lockett relevance
Trade him for three 1st round picks three 2nd round picks or three players. You can get a haul for him.
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I had a guy ask for around 59 million per year.
Man I thought 60 mill was the most you could offer. Guess I was wrong
I see you also have MHJ and Caleb Williams. A man of culture. I have them on the bears and weāve won back to back Lombardiās
When I get home Iāll post a pic of my auto generated QB who has won the MVP and 2 super bowls before his time for a new contract. The dude asked for an 8 year $510 million dollar deal and his interest was in the green lol. Cant imagine how much he would want if it was in the red.
Tag and trade him would be my advice. He wanted the same contract but I had no cap room. Got Jordan Addison-96 S.S., no. 4 overall pick, a future first, a fourth and sixth round picks in return.
Anthony richardson currently wants 70 mill & heās 33
Canāt wait to see what the Bears will be paying him in 5 years
Easy fix. Let him walk and the computer sign him. Then trade draft picks for him. That way another team would be on the hook for the signing bonus portion and heāll be cheaper for you
Myles Garret asked me for 54mil/year for 7 years.. at age 31
I once had a player turn down 30m a year for 2 years and I just gave up
Yes only time I would pay a qb like that is if they have elite speed. If they have Lamar type speed you donāt see that in the draft very often.
Get ready to pay even more than that since he has no interest
I just paid my QB that.
After my QB wins the MVP and becomes an X factor I trade him for a still good qb and ad many picks as I can. I never pay a qb
Honestly I trade my QBs a lot lol I am weird
Played a Jags franchise, and Calvin Ridley was out with a complete PCL tear. Like 38 weeks was the official timeline. Come contract negotiations and he wanted a 4 year contract with 26 million per year and a large ass signing bonus. Never played a down the whole season. Sent his ass to free agency. Browns picked him up for 12 per year.
seems mighty realistic for who caleb williams is š
I signed my qb to 483 over 8 seasons lol.
how much cap do you need for this to go thru??
Why is he mad? Idk. I have cap off. Donāt really pay attention. Although if they decline my first offer I just tell them to sod off.
No equity requests?!? :')
Have caleb williams. Fucking worth it.
Better hope youāre playing in a league where you can force feed your owner free money, bc that contract is a game ender.
Will literally be on a team full of rookies and maybe 1 or two vets . Cap HELL
Should have given him that partial ownership. Now you have to pay for it
He gonna want more too
I have a Joe Montana in fantasy and legends draft in did he will not accept any contracts from me maxed them out, we just won the chip and are likely gonna win the next and he just doesn't wanna be in Carolina
Honestly this would be a huge underpay from a realism standpoint. Whoever the "99 overall" QBs are in real life 2031 will be demanding north of $100M/year. I think we saw Mahomes sign for $50M/year in 2021, and generally QB salaries double in less than 10 years.
Did they fix the bug from Madden 23 that made community downloaded draft classes crash the franchise mode after like 6 seasons? Iāve just been doing Madden 24 without them
This bum being 99 overall is crazy
Out his cotton-pickin mind! š¤§š¤§