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| The quarterback is undoubtedly the most important position in football. They're often the face of the franchise, they touch the ball every offensive snap and typically are theleaders of the offense. But what if they simply did not exist anymore?We wanted to envisiona world in which NFL quarterbacks are no longer needed in the game.Super Bowl champ Patrick Mahomes? Gone. MVP Lamar Jackson? Vanished.How would teams react if there were suddenly no quarterbacks on their roster, and none available to sign in free agency? Before we get to the results, let's first explain how the proce s was done using "Madden NFL 20."MORE: Eliminating quarterbacks from the NFLMy initial plan was to enter the league as https://www.nepatriotsapparel.com/jonathan-jones-jerseys eachquarterback in an offline franchise and force them into retirement. But I quickly found out that the actual player doesn't really retire, despite the news feed saying they did. So my next best plan was to trade all of the quarterbacks to one team and then change their positions. So I did.I changed the majority of quarterbacks to fullbacks or offensive linemen since that seemed like the weakest position for them to be. So technically the quarterbacks aren't fully eliminated from the game, but their sudden desire to change positions renders them usele s for NFL franchises.So all of the rostered quarterbacks are now usele s, but I had to take care ofthe free agents now as well. So I did. I signed them all to one team, and changed their positions.All done, right? Wrong.If you've played Madden at all recently then you probably know the game likes to put kickers and punters in the quarterback depth chart. So getting rid of the quarterbacks would just put kickers and punters in at QB, which isn't really what I wanted for my experiment. So I changed every kicker and punter to fullbacks as well. There's now a surplus https://www.nepatriotsapparel.com/new-england-patriots-jerseys of fullbacks on the free agent market, but no quarterbacks, kickers or punters.An NFL game with no quarterbacksNow that the league is all set up, I wanted to see how the game would react to not having quarterbacks ... and the game did not like it.I ran into a small problem at first. When you go to play a game, you get an error me sage saying your team doesn't meet the minimum requirements for QB, K or P. However if you force advance the week, the game does play. But doing that doesn't really tell us a whole lot about what happened in the game. So I came up with a plan.Initially I was using a coaching role in my franchise so I could sign and trade players. But since that's no longer needed, I retired from being a coach and instead went into a player role. In the player role, you aren't in charge of free agency, so the game doesn't give you an error me sage anymore.It was finally time to see what Madden would do with no quarterbacks.Oh ... oh no.If you're curious what's happening there, Madden typically shows an intro video for each quarterback when they enter the game. But with no quarterbacks to choose from, it seems as if Madden just chose a random player to feature and had no idea what to do for the background, so it chose purple and green for some reason.Once we got past that weirdne s, we were finally able to see what https://www.nepatriotsapparel.com/ty-law-jerseys happens. Turns out the teams will just alternate different offensive players in at quarterback depending on the formation. In my test case I did Bengals vs. Seahawks, and Cincinnati turned to Tyler Boyd, A.J.Greenand Giovani Bernard all within just the first drive of the game. The Seahawks did the same thing when it was their turn on offense. At the end of the game, the Seahawks and Bengals each had four players with pa sing statistics. Interestingly enough, despite Boyd taking snaps at quarterback in certain formations, he never actually threw a pa s the entire game.Here's how the Bengals' pa sing numbers looked at the end of the first game.PlayerComp.Att.YardsTDINTAlex Erickson342600A.J. Green352400Giovani Bernard11500Joe Mixon11200The Bengals limited their pa sing attack, and actually weren't terrible considering there were no quarterbacks. Cincinnati instead relied heavily on the ground game with 66 rush attempts between four players. Mixon finished with 31 carries for 176 yards while rookie Rodney Anderson had 28 carries for 98 yards.The Seahawks, meanwhile, were lost without Ru sell Wilson, turning to Chris Carson, Rashaad Penny, D.K. Metcalf and Will Di sly for their quarterback duties. Carson had the most action, finishing 3-of-10 for 37 yards. Penny completed just 1 of 6 pa ses while throwing an interception.And while this experiment was initially trying to figure out what happened with no quarterbacks, I also made it a world with no kickers or punters. In this game, Bobby Wagner handled kicking and punting duties for Seattle while https://www.nepatriotsapparel.com/damien-harris-jerseys Geno Atkins did the same for Cincy. Wagner actually averaged 41.7 yards per punt with his four boots, so not bad. And Atkins went 2-for-2 on his extra points.However, the lack of kickers and punters wasn't so great for every team. As I later discovered in a playoff game, teams punted the ball in odd situations. Like 4th-and-2 on the goal line.You'd think even if the computer coach wasn't comfortable kicking a field goal with a non-kicker, they'd at least go for it in this situation. But for some reason, a punt from the 2-yard line seemed like the best idea.MORE:A full NFL season with no quarterbacksUnfortunately for us, Madden only provides full pa sing box score stats if we sim each game individually. Doing a ma s simulation (like the https://www.nepatriotsapparel.com/cody-davis-jerseys entire season) makes it so we mostly lose that information as Madden doesn't track pa sing stats for non-quarterbacks in individual box scores or league-wide stats.I could technically sim all 256 games individually and then add up the box scores on the season, but that would take entirely too long. Madden does allow us to see a few pa sing leaders, however, if we go to the character on each team. And if we go to that person's player page, we can see their pa sing numbers on the season. We can also see team total pa sing numbers, which I'll provide below.I simmed the entire 2019 season on All-Madden, Simulation game style with 6-minute quarters and injuries turned off. The rosters are also updated with current rookies and 2020 offseason roster moves. The Jaguars roster got a little me sed up as I used them as my team to trade all the quarterbacks to. So think of Jacksonville e sentially as the top Jaguars players as well as the top free agents currently available.Dalvin Cook takes home MVP With no quarterbacks, the running backs ran wild as MVP candidates. Since 2007,only one running back has won MVP (Adrian Peterson) while the rest were quarterbacks. At the bottom, you'll even see Myles Garrett placed seventh in MVP voting with a stellar season that had him finish with 28 sacks. You'd think having running backs and receivers at qua |
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The quarterback is undoubtedly the most important
