James and I had a fun time with the Bills and the Steelers. Definitely not the insane 90-point game that we put up with his Texans in Week 2, but for the majority of the game, Pittsburgh was Buffalo’s bitch thanks to turnovers (an INT and a fumble both inside the 10 ended the Steelers’ initial drives - incredibly frustrating to try and play with that kind of random tomfoolery).
Thankfully Buffalo’s offense was stymied by EIGHT delay-of-game calls, slightly balanced out by Pittsburgh’s love of holding penalties on every kick return almost.
With James Farrior out with busted ribs, the Steelers’ defense was absolutely gutted. No coverage over the middle whatsoever, with only the 60-rated Bruce Davis allowed to sub in at MLB. Literally, the ONLY guy allowed. I changed the depth chart, it’d put Davis in no matter who I’d slot in there. Made subs manually. Somehow it would just decide to ignore them and put the incompetent retard in when I wanted nothing more than to chain him to a pipe in the locker room to keep him away from the field.
Subs did the same thing with insisting Rashard Mendenhall could play HB when I’d moved him as far down in the depth chart as he could go. It STILL put him in over my intended backup. Between that and the fact that I had the yardage/downs display literally vanish for an entire series leaving me clueless as to where I was on the field, I had to play against both the Bills AND the faulty game itself.
James absolutely dissected my slow-as-hell defense and exploited my lead-footed corners for some breakaway passes that I just couldn’t catch up to his receivers on. Once it hit 35-0, I realized that the game was a wash and entered full-on Fuck It We’ll Do It Live mode.
Onside kick! Steelers recover! And we began our Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
The fourth quarter was too late to make any real achievement, but we put up three touchdowns in a row on three series - if only we’d been able to play like that for the other three quarters, it could have been a real game.
Obviously the only way to keep unwanted players from automatically jumping into the lineup is to fire them, so Mendenhall and Davis may find themselves out in the parking lot with their personal items tossed into a Hefty bag unceremoniously. Seriously, fuck those incompetents. Mendenhall couldn’t break a tackle from a ten year old girl, and Davis is quite honestly absolutely unsuited for any role in the NFL except maybe the guy who wipes up the seats after elderly spectators have soiled themselves in shame watching this defense attempt to play.
From here on out it’s AI games for the no-longer-relevant Steelers, time to put in all the players angling for a spot on the 3rd season team and exile the others to the furthest depths of the abyss.
Yet I have no doubts the game will still automatically shove Mendenhall into the RB slot because that would piss me off to no end, and Madden apparently added that as a feature this year.
