When I play Madden in franchise mode, I hardly play the game I usually sim week by week. Checking stats and going on how the team is doing game by game. I use to love the Madden 06 franchise offseason for PS2. Man that was a damn good game, before they got Kiper involved in 07.
One of my biggest pet peeves with the game is the announcing, I dont like how choppy it is. I like how they have Gus now doing the games, but still they should be able to make that a lot smoother than it is then "Touchdown {hard cut to different tone} Bills.
I would like to see (well hear I guess) during the play annoucing, the annoucer getting excited by a long thrown ball, or a broken tackle or a big hit. Not just announce the after the play.
There was a game for original PS that had Terell Davis on the cover (NFL Gameday I do believe) that the pre game was good. They would fly in saying welcome to (wherever you are playing, and give a stat about the city) then would give a weather update, it was so smoothe.