EA Sports clearly dislikes anyone in an Atlanta Falcons jersey
By Joe Beasley
The Atlanta Falcons are one of the more disrespected teams in the NFL. Just a few years ago, everyone was drinking the kool-aid, but now there’s no one in sight including some of the so-called fans.
The Atlanta Falcons also find themselves disrespected by the most popular (and currently only) football game on the market, EA Sports Madden football. When it comes to Madden, the Falcons haven’t gotten any love in a while.
This season won’t be any different.
The Madden franchise doesn’t like the Atlanta Falcons
This isn’t a petition or a ploy to get the Atlanta Falcons as the best team on Madden but the Madden player raters could give some of the guys on the Dirty Birds a bit more love.
This year, they have Kyle Pitts as the highest-rated rookie in the game, and looking back at the draft, he could very well end up as the best player in this draft. Don’t expect the love to be spread among the other Falcons players.
They’ve already made one mistake in excluding Calvin Ridley out of their top ten highest rated receivers even though he put up numbers comparable to some of the best receivers in the league. Everyone hates Matt Ryan so it was not a surprise they had his rating in the mid-80s.
Excluding Grady Jarrett from their top 10 of interior defensive linemen was an even bigger slight as Grady is among the top four defensive tackles in the NFL – if not top three.
Even last year, the Madden player raters did the unthinkable and rated Michael Thomas a 99, making the head of Saints fans everywhere grow even bigger thinking that Thomas was better than Julio Jones.
The same goes with Lamar Jackson. From an athletic standpoint, he is far and away better than Ryan but is he really the better quarterback? No, he isn’t. Madden has to show some love to the Atlanta Falcons this year and not let the news and football fans influence them into thinking this team just isn’t good.
On paper, this team should be the second-best team in the division but how it plays out is to be determined over the next several months.
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