Growing up, I played Tecmo Super Bowl, NFL Quarterback Club and Madden almost daily against my best friend, a Buffalo Bills fan. We had the kind of epic rivalry in those games that those two teams can’t replicate in real life, given that they play once every four seasons, but it was fun to pilot two teams who are impossibly star-crossed in real life to multiple championships even so.
I thought of all those old games while writing this because so often in Madden, my friend would build a Bills team with a scrambling, cannon-armed quarterback and a passing attack that was almost impossible to stop, and that’s roughly what the Falcons are about to square off against.