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Era, seriously, I was pleasantly surprised to see him at a 76. Might he make a jump to 80 this year? yeah, he really could.

https://www.ea.com/games/madden-nfl/player-ratings/player-name/James Cook/22054 75. Really not bad for a rookie rating and where he was drafted. If he shows a lot (keeping mind it might be difficult showing a lot if he is the RB 40% of the time) he could get close to 80 by the end of the season.

Oh boy, Andy, you are going to make me date myself. If memory serves me correctly they did Madden ratings by numbers even early on and as such then there was, at the very least, one other time. To explain it to those who might not know on the timing of Madden releases, Madden '93 was the game released in the Summer / Fall of 1992, which means it was after the Bills 1991 Super Bowl campaign year in which Kelly was the League MVP and the Bills lost to Washington. The Bills were just about the best team in the game. Jim Kelly was just about the best QB in the game. I still have it and the Sega Genesis it played on. Part of my gaming history which you can come visit and see in the storage area of my basement. Like the Albright Knox this is a limited exhibition as my wife is complaining about needing more storage space for things we actually use. No. Historical. Perspective. Whatsoever. EDIT: For crying out loud this is going to be the 30TH ANNIVERSARY of the first Madden game I ever bought!! EDIT 2: 11 years after I bought my first Madden game I joined a particular message board for the purpose of interesting, diverse and intelligent Bills talk and I can say with all honesty there has definitely been Bills talk. I kid, I kid.

Seemingly by insider predictions gonna be a 95, but I’d kiss you right now for above if we were in the same room, JP. Which would be awkward because my daughter is here right now watching Bluey on Disney. Not too awkward as I have a book at the ready to explain things. “Daddy Just Loves The Bills!” Quick Edit: I honestly now can’t get the 97 out of my head. Dang it, it isn’t likely to happen, but it seems so right.

Matt, I forget which Madden (‘04, ‘02?) but with Bledsoe (still rated well…likely 2002) throwing to Moulds, Price and Reed, and Travis out of the backfield and Larry Centers catching balls…man, it was just a mediocre Madden team with a dynamic and productive offense. You could some games back in the day with the stock team online…which nobody plays with the stock team anymore online…I’m old. 😢

Please knock it off, Reign. I worked kind of hard here. I don't need you coming in this thread and making a mess all over the place just because of your juvenile humor. Although I refuse to be a manager here because it is the Mods' job to beat you off of this thread if they believe it appropriate. That's it...I'm spent.

With potentially six skill positions players on the field at once if Morse and Dawkins are both in the 80s then 8…8 players on offense could all be on the field for the Madden Bills. I know the game is Madden, but it also could be considered Unreal. See what I did there? I’ll go now.

Kdiggz I am hoping for about 95 and at least 5th among qbs. I hope and wish he would be higher, but I know how EA Tiburon works. It honestly becomes WTF if he is a 92, the 9th or 10th qb and not even in the top 20 overall in league. edit: Kelce is a 98 (I believe), and I just don’t think he is a better TE than Allen is a QB.

When haven't I been? Honestly, you write it like it's a bad or creepy thing.

Royale...brother, it is not mine or some of the other followers' imaginations...EA Tiburon, the makers of Madden, are not the biggest Bills fans. It was like getting your teeth pulled watching them slooooooowwwwwwllly raise Allen's rating last year. In short you are spot on correct on him needing to be higher. Hell even at least an 85.

BTW, Rigotz, my bad on missing that other thread. I just scanned the main page and I didn't see it. I am still likely to do the dailys with update and commentary, but if the mods ditch mine because of the May 27th thread I get it.

If you like the Bills and you like Madden and you like the Bills in Madden what do you think we are going to talk about now?!! ?...who told you? OK, cutting to the chase here, EA has started to release the individual player ratings on Madden starting with WRs/TEs and followed yesterday with Edge Rushers/LBs and RBs today, with CBs and Dline on Thursday. Here's the link: https://www.ea.com/games/madden-nfl/player-ratings/player-filter/player-position/LE,LOLB,MLB,RE,ROLB#ratings-database This will not be an exhaustive list of Bills, just the primary impact players/starters with maybe some commentary. Please feel free to add your own thoughts and research. I will try to add each position daily culminating with the QB and team ratings this Friday. However, please know that my schedule may change as I am an incredibly important and busy person as Chief Operating President Officer at Important Tech, INC. LLC, a multi-national Erie County branch of Big Deal, LTD. (key: bold number is the player's overall rating, and the ranking number in parenthesis is their rank at that position) (7/18) Wide Receivers / Tight Ends: Stephon Diggs 95 Overall (5th WR, 7th of WRs/TEs) Dawson Knox 83 (11th) Gabriel Davis 80 (57th tied) Jamison Crowder 80 (57th tied) iMcK 76 (91st) OJ Howard 75 (41st) I believe Diggs may have dropped just a bit from last year(96 maybe?), but I am fine with that. I thought Knox might have been a little higher than 11th, but I am also comfortable with that and his 83 is respectable. Should he be an 85? Yes, but again not quibbling here. Given that it is not an extensive body of work Davis at 80 is good, too and I am pleased to see Crowder at 80, as well. I am having difficulty as a Bills fan wrapping my head around having an offense that may have 3 WRs 80 and above, with a TE 80 and above hitting the field at once with a QB that should really be at least a 95 (we'll see). Crazy. (7/19) Edge Rushers: Von Miller 92 (8th) Edmunds 84 (44th) Milano 83 (61st) Rousseau 76 (103rd) As with Diggs I think Miller dropped as well from 94. And as with Diggs, too, I am fine with it. Are our LBs a tick higher than what they were given? Probably. After that, nobody until Rousseau. (7/20) Running Backs: Singletary 81 (35th) Cook 75 (65th) (Further) Duke Johnson 73 (75th) Moss 72 (88th) Again, maybe I am getting soft as I turn the corner into my teen, acne and urges years, but I am perfectly fine with DS at 81. Cook at 75 is so easily to be expected as a rookie and what round he was picked in. As with my comment up with the receivers and tight end the Bills could take the field on offense in Madden with every single skill position (5 or 6) at 80 or above, with two of those (Diggs and Allen) for sure in the 90s. Good times compared to how bad this team has been in Madden in previous years. (7/21) Cornerbacks and Dline: Tre White 93 (9th Overall, 3rd CB) Von Miller 92 (16th, 5th RE) Micah Hyde 91 (29th, 6th S, 3rd FS) Jordan Poyer 90 (37th, 10th S, 6th SS) Taron Johnson 82 (93rd) Ed Oliver 81 (100th) DaQuon Jones 75 (203rd) Jordan Phillips 73 (228th) Kaiir Elam 73 (255) Tim Settle 73 (264th) AJ 72 (267) I know, I know, weird grouping for release of ratings mixing Dline and DBs. Don't shoot the messenger, this is on EA. Tre White still getting the love, but it may be a step back from last year. I believe he may have been a 94 or 95. Still, 3rd overall amongst the CBs I will live with. Hyde and Poyer right where @Warcodered showed us they would be yesterday. Right or wrong that is where they are. TJ, getting a bit of surprising love, but I will most certainly take it. I may be in the minority, but I think Oliver should be a tic or two higher...82 might just be right for him. I am quibbling, but still. The thing is we see a steeeeeep drop off after that before we get to Jones at 203. The big debate or the one I have the biggest problem with is Elam at 73 (EDIT: Elam is the 111th rated CB overall...jeepers. will check the rookie at some point) . Yes he is a rookie, but he is a 1st round pick. I may check later to see where other first round DBs rank. I will recheck the list later, but boy. You guys be the judge if some of our other guys should appear earlier. I will say that with our LBs this puts us with 8 potential players on the field in the 80s or above on D...big day tomorrow with QBs and Teams. (7/22) Quarterbacks: Allen 92 (4th) 4th…OK. 92…not really ok, but it is to scale. Brady had a great season last year, but it is more than that in the ratings and I just don’t think he should be number 1 at 97. (7/22) Teams: Bills 89 (2nd) Bills under 90 I don’t like, but will take the number 2 spot in the league. However, Tampa at number 1! EDIT: However, Tampa at number 1?1?! Your moms could take Tampa Bay out at any given time. So...ummm...I guess we are done here... ... ... ...well...bye you guys.

You're not kidding, Badol. Back awhile when my wife and I were coming up on our 10th anniversary I kept hearing from friends and family (and her) how great she was and how "she's the best!" and how much she liked diamonds.

I don't know if it has been brought up and I didn't watch the game, but going on memory the Stars have tied the Bills for making it to 4 straight football championship games. 1983, 1984, 1985, 2022

You made my day, Chandler, because I mistakenly thought camp opened on the 28th. You shaved off 4 days. Three weeks, baby, three weeks!

Guns, I promise you I am not watching it. Truly, as I have stated this in another thread around here, I really don't like sports talk shows. Radio? yes, but not TV and I haven't watched for awhile. BUUUUTTTTTT this showed up on my twitter. I think Prime-time Buffalo Rumblings posted it with the comment "Mother of God". ...which is bad form because I truly believe God would never allow such lunacy. Although he did allow "Hello Larry" to have a full season.

Meh, it's a lengthy video segment (the original) about Baker/Browns/Panthers and this was just a piece of their discussion. More click baity, Batty, if Skip didn't have a history of adulation for Mayfield.

Starting at 7:36. I submit to you all...Skippy. EDIT: I was able to start it, or rather link it, right from where Shannon asked the question. EDIT 2: Clinging...clinging to his talisman Baker and that he is better than Josh.

The summer offseason makes me want to kill myself.

I'll believe this when Jason La Canfora tweets it from his mom's basement or from when he notes it in his new blog "What's a Canfora?". After he does his chores, of course.

Yeah, and you guys know more than me because isn't it also three OCs in 4 years? That can't be really good for your first 4 frames in the league as a QB.

Waiting with baited breathe for the Mark Brammer photo. EDIT: i couldn't wait any longer.

Yeah, Tuel, also they just plain really ARE NOT making the game from scratch. You don’t need as big a development team. and who is anyone kidding, this is still a tremendous money maker for EA, especially with the micro transactions of MUT.

You have no idea how much I couldn't agree more.

The only thing this story about an NFL talking head reminded me of...is that John Clayton passed away. I forgot or hadn't real thought about it since it happen. The season will be just a little bit different.