Earn Madden Cards With EA Bio 
Gain levels in your EA Bio by completing specific challenges and playing other EA 
Sports title to unlock Madden Cards. Unlockable Cards include: 
Level 2: #204 Bingo! Cheat 
Level 4: #246 1990 Eagles Classic Team 
Level 6: #186 Steve Spurrier Coach 
Level 3: Ray Lewis

Preist Holmes:
Reach level 9 in your EA Sports Bio.

Super Bowl 38 card:
Reach level 12 in your EA Sports Bio.

Super Bowl 38 stadium:
Reach level 19 in your EA Sports Bio. 

Tiburon Complex stadium:
Reach level 29 in your EA Sports Bio.

Ricky Williams:
Reach level 27 in your EA sports Bio.

1988 San Francisco 49ers:
Reach level 35 in your EA Sports Bio.
 
Free Advertising 
At the beginning of each week, check a game later than yours time-wise (Monday 
night being the best choice so after you play your game, the week doesn't end). 
Before playing your game, go to Owner's Box and max out money on all 
advertising. Play your game and you'll receive the attendence for the max 
advertising. When your game is over, go back to Owner's Box and drop all 
advertising to $0. Go back to Play Week, uncheck the checked game and simulate 
the rest of the week. When you go back to Owner's Box and check your balance 
sheet, the amount of overall spending for attendance will stay the same, but you'll 
recieve the attendance boost.  

Play Football 101 to Earn Easy Tokens 
One place to garner quick Tokens is Football 101. Run through all of the plays in 
your playbook to get a substantial helping of Tokens, which you can use to 
purchase Madden Cards. 
 
Unlock Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards 
To unlock the Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards, beat the Game 
Situation in Mini-Camp. The team who you complete the challenge with is the 
Cheerleader/Pump Up Card you will unlock. 
 
Unlock Madden Cards in Mini-Camp 
Get Gold in Mini-Camp challenges to unlock Madden Cards. Cards directly relate to 
the challenges you complete. For instance, getting a Gold in the Ground Attack 
challenge will yield a Priest Holmes Card. Be sure to get Golds on all of the 
difficulty levels to collect all of the cards! 
 
Avoid The Cap 
The salary cap is pretty easy to manipulate. If you don't like a player for whatever 
reason, than re-negotiate his contract so that he doesn't get a signing bonus. Than 
work out a trade with another team and you won't take a hit against the salary cap 
for trading him. 

Trade for Any Player 
In Franchise Mode, Create a player (or 3, or 20) and set all of his attributes low so 
that his overall rating is 12. Sign him as a free agent for cheap then return to 
Create-A-Player and max out his stats. You can now trade this player to any team 
for the very best players in the NFL. 

Thanksgiving commentary:
Set the system date to the third Thursday in November. 

Christmas commentary:
Set the system date to December 25. 

New Year's commentary:
Set the system date to January 1. 

Extremely bored crowd:
Get the highest amount of points you can in the game. After this, if you get an 
interception, touchdown, etc., the fans will not have any reaction and seen 
extremely bored.

Add stats to Bio:
Every time you simulate a season, if your team makes the playoffs it raises the 
stats on your EA Bio. You only have to save the Bio, and not the season.

Always receive at kickoff:
When you first choose teams, select the keyboard. After you select "Play Game", 
keep pressing D after the game loads. About 95% of the time, you will get to 
receive the ball.

Easy interceptions:
While in defense, choose the play Nickel-Normal, go to cover 2. Now that you 
chose the play move your line in, your LB to the left, and your coverage in. Note: 
This only work about 85% of the time in rookie mode, sometimes in pro, if you are 
lucky on all-pro, and almost never in all-Madden settings.

Easy sacks:
If you have Bill Callahan's defensive playbook, go to Nickle defense and scroll 
down until you find Middle Blitz. Select that play then shift both your line and your 
LBs inside. You should get a sack about 85% of the time.

When on defense, enter the 4-3. Find the Man Buzz play. Flip the play until the 
blitzing outside linebaker is blitzing on a side where there are no TEs, and 
preferably no RBs. Shift your D-Line and LBs to the outside. Your outside LB 
should be able to get to the QB cleanly, and get the sack. 

Pick a play where the middle linebacker blitzes and move the left DT to the center 
block the center. This will work about 70% of the time.

Easy punt return touchdowns:
Chose "Block Punt" then when they come out, audible to a middle punt return. This 
will work about 85% of the time. 

Easy onside recovery:
Choose "Onside Kick", move the arrow as low as possible, then kick a full kick. 
The returning team will drop the ball and give you a chance to recover.

Choose "Onside Kick". Set it far as you can to right and far down as possible. Then, kick as hard as you can. You have a good chance of getting the ball.

Easy two point conversion:
Once you score a touchdown, go to "Special Teams", then choose "Fake Fieldgoal 
Pass". Once you snap the ball, the CPU will immediately drop back into coverage, 
which lets your quarterback rollout and run it in, or pass it to your tight end.

Skip into the endzone:
Get to about the 1 yard line, then do a passing play. Go left or right and the 
quarterback should be skip into the endzone. 

Easy tokens:
Go to "Rosters" and select the Green Bay Packers' Wide Receivers. Make Donald 
Driver 6'8'' or taller in his information. Next, get out and go play the two minute 
drill with the Packers as your team and the Amsterdam Admirals as the defense 
(European Team). Then, go to Shotgun formation, then to Shotgun 4WR and find 
Hail Mary. Keep throwing touchdowns to Donald Driver. Just throw bombs; 
because of his height he should easily catch it. After your done with the two minute 
drill, go to your Madden Cards and save your profile. Next, buy a pack of cards. 
Usually when you have about 250 cards out of 285 cards, you will get a lot of 
repeats. You may have 400 points and get nothing. This is why you should save 
the game before you buy the cards, so that you get a second chance at getting a 
card that you do not already have and do not waste your points on cards you 
already have.

Easy money in owner mode:
While playing your franchise in owner mode, wait until you play any home game. 
While playing, go to menu options and save your game. Immediately quit the 
game and completely exit out of franchise mode. Reload your franchise game, and 
repeat as many times as necessary. The trick works off your ticket sales for that 
game. For example, if you normally make $5 million a game, multiply that by the 
number of times you saved/quit/reloaded. If you do it ten times, then you will 
make $50 million in ticket sales for that game. Note: If you save and do not quit, 
most likely your game will crash after a few plays. 

Before you face a team that is very bad, go to owner mode and 
select "Advertising". Max out everything, then go to Fan Appreciation Day and 
choose the top option. This would be what the crowd would like the most. Get your 
win (simulate or play one game). After the game, go to owner mode and 
select "Advertising". Bring everything down to zero. If you winm you should gain 
about $6 to 7 million. 

Quick blitz:
If you want to blitz fast, go to the setting menu, then choose "Penalty", and turn 
off "Offsides". You can now run before the play.

Low salaries for star players:
Before you start a season or franchise, go to "View Rosters" and edit all of the 
player's attributes. When you do this, his salary does not go up but his overall skill 
does. Do this with younger players so you have them longer and they do not retire 
in franchise mode.

If you created a character that is maxed out in everything and has a high salary, 
trade him for either a draft pick or, look into the salary section while trading and 
sort it out. The lowest, yet best player is yours. Try this with a maxed out CB at 
age 24 and see what happens when you trade him for Champ Bailey and perhaps 
a first or second draft pick.

Players become coaches:
Great players that retire in franchise mode can return to be coaches. Wait a couple 
of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free 
agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.

In owner mode, go through a couple seasons, then in the off-season select "Staff". 
Select "Hire Coach". You can select old players as head, offensive, defensive, and 
special teams coaches.

Getting good players:
Enter owner mode and create a player. Intentionally keep his stats very low and 
sign him to your team for the maximum number of years at a minimum salary. 
Then, return to the player creation screen (not through the rosters), and change 
his attributes to full. You will be able to keep the player through the length of his 
contract for the original low salary. 

While in franchise or owner mode, when asked to input players at the end of a 
season, begin this by doing the regular offseason procedures. When the next 
screen appears, go to your features to create-a-player. Create your player, but 
make his attributes between 12 to 20. Save the player, then go to offseason 
features until you get to re-sign free agents. Begin the bargaining process on your 
created player (if the above steps are done correctly, his salary should be 
between $200,000 to $400,000) and sign him. When main screen appears, go back 
into the features and highlight your created player you just signed. Go to attributes 
and raise all the attributes to 99. Notice that although the overall rating goes up, 
the salary remains the same. 

Check to see what teams you are playing. Then, create a player with a 99 overall 
rating. WRs work best as they are not used every play on offense. Sign the free 
agent, then go to trade block. Look carefully at what your true needs to make your 
team better are. Put the created player on the block. Ask for the two positions with 
a rating of 90 you need the most and a first round draft pick. You can usually get a 
first rounder with a 90 to 95 player depending on what position you ask for. When 
you trade, try to get the best deal from teams that you will not face. You can do 
this with probably three to five created characters, depending on the deals that 
you get and the needs of your team. This is easy because you do not have to 
spend any time creating the player and you benefit by trading to teams you do not 
face.

To get unbelievable players, create a player, in a position that you need who is 
only 18. Make him rated about 75 overall. After training camp, pre-season, and a 
good season, you can have a player near 83 overall. Then, down the road, you 
can easily produce a 99 overall player.

To have a good team with one player or more and a low salary, create a player 
that would be very bad at his position. Sign him for as cheap as you can without a 
bonus for seven years. A bonus would make you pay more in the long run. 
Change his rating to perfect and make him good to a position which is common to 
his position on offense/defense. For example, WRs can be good secondary players 
and defensive lineman can be good offensive lineman, or if they are smaller and 
fast a fullback or tight end.