There was a coat of mint on the ball so technically the ball never hit the ground . Faf you ' ve done it again . <| sep |> This was exactly my clinic ' s ER protocol too . The only difference is my SO couldn ' t be in the room with me . <| sep |> doesn ' t look like anything to me <| sep |> No , you ' re right . The more successful the team , the quicker they developed as well . If you only went through 1 season , it wasn ' t that noticeable , but if you kept a prolonged undefeated streak going , andor a franchise kept a prolonged losing streak going , it snowballed HARD . Best example , I took a franchise to multiple Super Bowls and kept them undefeated the whole time , but I had to keep u n l o a d ingtradingdraftingdealing well , because players would quickly become too valuable , and of course require more pay . Meanwhile , the Cowboys sorry , after one mediocre season , quickly became terrible because they let TO and Romo go Romo being the backup during the prior season , and Brian Griese the starter retired . Every player had their stats plummet after a winless season 2 , a 1 win season 3 , and a winless season 4 as of week 14 iirc . Terrence Williams had been a 90 OVR towards the tail end of season one , and was about a 75 OVR because his awareness dropped like a brick during the losing streak , going from an 8284 to around a 45 . And that was very representative of the whole team as well . The most amusing to me was Patrick Crayton having his awareness at around a 5 , but his catching and physical skills still around 90 . All from Madden 08 , btw .