Teams releasing star players and other strange stories

[steelsnarf]

So I'm in my second year of offline CCM with Philadelphia, and it's week 4 in the preseason. So before my last game I decide to pick up another player or two because I was a little short on depth. So I go into the FA list and I see Ndamukong Suh sitting there at the top with a 94 overall. At first I thought I was seeing things or maybe he was injured, but I checked and he had a pro bowl season the year before.

Has anyone else seen strange things like this happen?

[Minzey]

After my first season with the Dolphins, they released Greg Jennings, and then the Broncos release Von Miller. I signed both. I'm not sure if it's a glitch or real thing.

[JayD]

I have yet to see anything like this happen in any of my CCM.

[moveitsjosh]

Flacco, Forte, Schaub, Peterson, Weddle, Cruz, Nicks, etc. All Ive seen hit the Fa list in at least one of my ccms.

[RyanMoody21]

Seen strange things happen too. For example the Cards drafted both a MLB and LE in the span of about three seasons. In that same time frame they released both Calias Campbell and Daryl Washington.

To make matters worse, I had attempted trades for the players in the first year of my franchise.

Logic is clearly broken when your not willing to take 1st rounders for a player then drop them the following season.

I've found similar terrible issues with resigning. In the same franchise, the first year saw both Tony Gonzalez and Dwight Freeney getting 6 years extensions.

[thrust]

I once saw Adam Pacman Jones released as a FA. I knowd the game was broke den!

[SloeyEZ]

First, given the off-field problems with Suh, it really isn't that odd is it? Second, when I take over a team, I have no problem letting go of star players (hopefully for draft picks, but if not then FA) that do not fit the philosophy of my team! Perhaps, Suh no longer fits what the coach of Detroit is trying to do with his team now?

I just don't find anything odd about what an AI does in a game...soon enough, something similar will happen in real life. Montana to chiefs, Barry Sanders quitting football, Donovan McNabb to Redskins (within division), Kurt Warner to Cardinals (& Superbowl), Tampa firing Gruden, Coach Payton being suspended for a year (Williams for life), Suggs coming back from injury, AP coming back from injury, Jahvid Best NOT coming back from injury, Hillis to the Chiefs, Weeden being drafted, Luck & RGIII coming out of same draft. Luck & Fleener on same pro team, Manning on Broncos, Tebow to Jets as a backup to Sanchez, Sproles to Saints, Jackson to Bucs.... really, i could continue...

All of these things would have been "unheard" of before they happened. In fact, we could start a thread of just things that happen in the real NFL that would be thought impossible before they happened...Gretzky to Los Angeles!! <3 <3 <3

[steve mcgeeno]

Ive seen it in every CCM.

Andrew Luck, Cam Newton, Matt Ryan, Brandon Marshall, etc.

I usually A) Sign them to a zero bonus contract and trade them to their original team or B) Turn off salary cap.

Turning off the cap feels less realistic, but teams seem to keep key players more often, IMO.