Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #3: - Penalties that aren't already decided by the game before the ref even announces them - Hotkeys to call up user replays instead of pausing and going through the menu - Commentary and sound playing through user replays

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #4: - Locker room shots - Kid fans - Commentators commentating on big hits regularly - Split-screens for coaches during pre-game, and challenges - Split-screen player comparisons - Player spotlight montages - Cold weather option

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #5: - The capped sleeve that was removed from the game in 23 - Team-specific entrances - Starting lineup presentation - More chipiness and arguing between teams - Injury sequences where players don't always run off the field

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #6: - A sideline reporter - Commentators shown in the booth - Press and luxury box shots - Team mascots - helmet gleam - Built-in jersey handwarmers - Pulled jerseys during tackles (and done rarely) - Dangling mouthpieces

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #7: - Players with visible blood from cuts (I know the NFL probably won't allow it. Wimps). - Player ejections for egregious hits and/or fighting - More late hits - Chain measurements - Refs actually reviewing video for calls

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #8: - Endzone pilon cams - Sideline pilon cams - Roving skycam replays - Towels, bands, and mouthpieces knocked off/out onto the field (rare) - REFEREES ON THE FIELD DURING LIVE PLAYS!!!

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #9: - Accurate retro helmet styles (the current Riddell's in the game are completely wrong for 60's and 70's era players) - Accurate NFL field surfaces - Live Telestration (you know, the thing John Madden made famous)

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #10: - "Ask Coach Madden" (should be permanently available as a play option in every Madden game forever, using his voice). - The John Madden Legacy Game (should be permanently available in every Madden game, forever).

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 & beyond #11: - Oxygen masks - Coaches actually throwing out the red challenge flag - Refs flags actually being thrown down by refs *All of those things (& most things in this list series) were actually in the ancient 2K football games.

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #12: - Ability to choose temperature - Actual halftime and postgame shows - Snow on the ground that is affected by bodies - Field dirt that looks like dirt and not mud (there are dry times during the season) - Working FG cameras

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #13: - Gamebreaks to show highlights of other games - Highlights of other games at halftime - Highlights of other games at postgame - Crowd booing home team when sucking - Crowd going silent when away team scores or loses game

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 and beyond #14: - Home crowd showing real raw anger over a bad call, lost challenge, etc. - Highlights being under "replays" in the menu and not being part of "stats" like it is now (how does that even make sense? Highlight are not stats)

Fine details that won't be in Madden 24 & beyond #15: - Organic pileups - In-the-grasp rule for QBs - Forward progress rule for ballcarriers WITH standups drawing whistles - Proper line-to-gain recognition (game STILL struggles to recognize first downs!): youtube.com/watch?v=HTQB7m…

The number of things missing from Madden is just inexcusable and pathetic. Even if a dev team is bad at what they do, just by virtue of being football fans you'd get most of these things into the game by now because you'd know they should be there from watching games every week.

The only place where you can find Andy Reid not being huge, and Kyle Shanahan not wearing a baseball cap, is in Madden. @sgraddyEA Connor Dougan

A friend of mine showed me a video she recorded of a recent Dr. Phil show where the theme was about how the covid situation was handled wrong, how it negatively affected children, and how the rush to vaccinate them is not backed by sound medical science. My response? NO KIDDING!

I expect this sort of thing to slowly trickle into more mainstream media as time passes as they pretend as if they weren't calling for dissenters to be imprisoned & rights-stripped & as if dissenters weren't the ones saying these things from the beginning. x.com/TheSimZone/sta…

Finally getting the chance to try Beyond Steak today. Better not be nasty or we're gonna have beef. Beyond Meat

Not nasty. Gotta crust'em in the pan or they won't come out right, & the faint taco-like seasoning is interesting. But not bad at all. Would buy again. The ONLY thing is, I'd classify these as more like "steak crumbles" than tips as I've known them, but that's hardly a problem.

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