EA Sports Simulates Season With and Without Brett Favre

Origional article courtesy of SportsGamer.com

With all the speculation currently surrounding Madden NFL 09 cover athlete Brett Favre and his pending return from retirement, EA SPORTS used Madden NFL 09 to predict how the future Hall of Famer would perform on a select group of NFL teams.  Comparing the results between teams with and without Favre, the Minnesota Vikings stand to gain the most with Favre as the starter, while the New York Jets will miss the playoffs without him. 

Brett Favre is currently a playable character in Madden NFL 09, on the “NFL Greats” roster.  In Franchise Mode, players can transfer Favre to the free agent roster pool, and pick him up on any of the 32 NFL teams for the 2008 season.

Multiple news reports have named four NFL teams that Brett Favre may play for this coming season – the Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings. Listed below are the results of the 2008 NFL season simulated in Madden NFL 09, with Brett Favre starting for each of these NFL teams.

NFL Team	Passing Yards	TDS	INTs	Rating	Record	Playoffs
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	3827	34	19	98	12-4	Lose Div Playoff Game v Eagles (28 - 34)
New York Jets	3964	31	15	103.1	11-4-1	Lose Wild Card Game v Browns (19 - 22)
Green Bay Packers	3769	24	10	100.7	9-7	Lose Div Playoff Game v Cowboys (17 - 25)
Minnesota Vikings	3356	29	10	100.7	10-6	Lose Wild Card Game v Bucs (11 - 6)

As a comparison, below are the results of the 2008 NFL season simulated without Brett Favre on any NFL team roster.

NFL Team	Starting QB	Pass Yards	TDs	Rating	Record	Playoffs
Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Jeff Garcia	3508	19	80	11-5	Lose Conference Championship v Eagles (28 - 35)
New York Jets	Chad Pennington	3542	22	108.4	9-7	No Playoffs
Green Bay Packers	Aaron Rodgers	3211	26	95.6	12-4	Lose Div Playoff Game v  Bucs (37-31 OT)
Minnesota Vikings	Tarvaris Jackson	2962	11	66.8	5-11	No Playoffs

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What I find interesting is that the Packers are actually *worse* off if the bring back Brett. Now, Im not sure what the statistics are for the post season, but personally I would be against Green Bay bringing Brett back for the sole reason of watching the Divisional Playoff game against the Bucs.

- YOUbeQB Team