Gotta love how Aikman puts up some of the most unimpressive numbers and is average at best and yet he’s the 4th highest rated QB in the game and somehow in the hall of fame
Funny seeing all these Madden 2001 QB today & knowing how their 2000 season and careers turned out Surprised not to see Dante Culpepper here. Maybe he wasn’t highly rated when the game came out but he took the Vikings to the NFC Championship… where they got smacked by the Giants 41-0. He did end up on the Madden 2002 cover where the Vikings had a dismal 5-11 season that saw the fire Dennis Green. Culpepper wasn’t a bad player (MN-IND in 2004 comes to mind), just part of the Vikings’ long story arc of a Legacy of Failure that is part of the larger Minnesota Sports Narrative: “Close but Never Close Enough”. Akili Smith: bust, part of why the Bengals were the Bungles for nearly 2 decades, became one of the reasons why you don’t take Oregon QBs high in the draft until Justin Herbert Jeff Blake: eventually got replaced by Aaron Brooks who led the Saints to their first playoff win ever Vinny Testaverde: part of the Jets miraculous comeback against the Dolphins on MNF in 2005, ended up bouncing around the league Donovan McNabb: 2000 was his breakout season. McNabb & Andy Reid took the Eagles to four straight NFC Championships and Super Bowl. Shame how Eagles fans responded to him being drafted and them not appreciating him while he was under center. Oh yeah, and why Rush Limbaugh’s time as a football commentator lasted only 2 weeks Randall Cunningham: backup (kinda sad because Minnesota in 1998 gave him what would be curtain call) & start of Cowboys QB carousel between Aikman & Romo Charlie Batch: if I’m not mistaken, he would win a Super Bowl in Detroit. As a member of the Steelers Super Bowl XL team Steve Buerline: fantasy QB in 1999, pretty much his high mark Steve McNair: led Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV & then in 2000 the AFC-1 seed before the Ravens literally snatched victory away from them (Ray Lewis pick-six), co-MVP in 2003 with Manning, ended career with the Ravens Brad Johnson: part of Dan Snyder’s plan to assemble the best players of the 1990s for the [NAME REDACTED]. Eventually won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers coached by John Gruden in 2002 Rich Gannon: Speaking of Gruden, Gannon fit well in that offense, got them to the 2000 AFC Champ game where the Ravens shut them down Drew Beldsoe: He was ok but I’m hearing things about this NE QB No. 12 guy. That QB 12 might be coming for Bledsoe’s job in a few seasons Mark Brunell: part of the Jaguars early success that saw them play in 2 AFC Champ games, but then the cap came for them Troy Aikman: could’ve had a better season *IF* the Cowboys were committed to long term roster building (their GM is Jerry Jones… so, no). The 2000 edition of the Cowboys was a shell of itself. Watch them play against the Ravens that season, it’s kinda sad. Also Aikman got the hell beaten out of him in that final season to where LaVar Arrington knocked him out of against Washington which was his final W. After that season, he joined Fox as the #2 team before being paired with Buck & Cris Collinsworth as the lead team in 2002. Now is on MNF with Buck. Went into the HOF in 2006 with John Madden Brett Favre: Randy Moss said it best in an NFL Films clip “It’s Brett Favre. I gotta see this.” MNF against the Vikings on a cold, rainy night at Lambeau throwing that TD pass to Antonio Freeman… Favre would eventually hold every significant passing mark until it was taken over by Brees, Peyton Manning, & Brady. Also… other things (late career retirement tour, dick pics, scamming social services in Mississippi). Ended up in HOF Peyton Manning: i guess he’s good… he would only win 2 Super Bowls one with the Colts and the other in his final game with the Broncos, end up as a first ballot HOF. Now does ManningCast with his brother Eli on MNF Kurt Warner: won Super Bowl XXXIV & game’s MVP & 2-time league MVP with the Rams, forgettable stop with the Giants, then led the Cardinals to a revival and came within 34 seconds of winning another Super Bowl. NFL Network analyst, MNF on radio w/Kevin Harlan, went undrafted to the HOF
@@SL-ld9tn for sure. I just like to play the older engine sometimes. Never played 02 or 01 if you have insight on those. 03 and 04 are cool but the player regression is ass
Akili Smith an 85 off draft hype?? 🤣
This game had the most realistic looking running animation ever
Eh
i miss these type of vids miles! imma fan of ur channel!
It’s so sad this games plays better than 22.
Should do it for Madden 2000 also since JM’s on the cover for 23 for the first time since Madden 2000. Running backs too
I love this Video 😎🙌🙌🏈🏈🏈
This game looks like it plays amazing.
This is dope
Testaverde really Winston’s prototype
Gotta love how Aikman puts up some of the most unimpressive numbers and is average at best and yet he’s the 4th highest rated QB in the game and somehow in the hall of fame
This was a personal favorite madden for me
Do more madden 2001 videos. My all time favorite madden
Funny seeing all these Madden 2001 QB today & knowing how their 2000 season and careers turned out
Surprised not to see Dante Culpepper here. Maybe he wasn’t highly rated when the game came out but he took the Vikings to the NFC Championship… where they got smacked by the Giants 41-0. He did end up on the Madden 2002 cover where the Vikings had a dismal 5-11 season that saw the fire Dennis Green. Culpepper wasn’t a bad player (MN-IND in 2004 comes to mind), just part of the Vikings’ long story arc of a Legacy of Failure that is part of the larger Minnesota Sports Narrative: “Close but Never Close Enough”.
Akili Smith: bust, part of why the Bengals were the Bungles for nearly 2 decades, became one of the reasons why you don’t take Oregon QBs high in the draft until Justin Herbert
Jeff Blake: eventually got replaced by Aaron Brooks who led the Saints to their first playoff win ever
Vinny Testaverde: part of the Jets miraculous comeback against the Dolphins on MNF in 2005, ended up bouncing around the league
Donovan McNabb: 2000 was his breakout season. McNabb & Andy Reid took the Eagles to four straight NFC Championships and Super Bowl. Shame how Eagles fans responded to him being drafted and them not appreciating him while he was under center. Oh yeah, and why Rush Limbaugh’s time as a football commentator lasted only 2 weeks
Randall Cunningham: backup (kinda sad because Minnesota in 1998 gave him what would be curtain call) & start of Cowboys QB carousel between Aikman & Romo
Charlie Batch: if I’m not mistaken, he would win a Super Bowl in Detroit. As a member of the Steelers Super Bowl XL team
Steve Buerline: fantasy QB in 1999, pretty much his high mark
Steve McNair: led Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV & then in 2000 the AFC-1 seed before the Ravens literally snatched victory away from them (Ray Lewis pick-six), co-MVP in 2003 with Manning, ended career with the Ravens
Brad Johnson: part of Dan Snyder’s plan to assemble the best players of the 1990s for the [NAME REDACTED]. Eventually won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers coached by John Gruden in 2002
Rich Gannon: Speaking of Gruden, Gannon fit well in that offense, got them to the 2000 AFC Champ game where the Ravens shut them down
Drew Beldsoe: He was ok but I’m hearing things about this NE QB No. 12 guy. That QB 12 might be coming for Bledsoe’s job in a few seasons
Mark Brunell: part of the Jaguars early success that saw them play in 2 AFC Champ games, but then the cap came for them
Troy Aikman: could’ve had a better season *IF* the Cowboys were committed to long term roster building (their GM is Jerry Jones… so, no). The 2000 edition of the Cowboys was a shell of itself. Watch them play against the Ravens that season, it’s kinda sad. Also Aikman got the hell beaten out of him in that final season to where LaVar Arrington knocked him out of against Washington which was his final W. After that season, he joined Fox as the #2 team before being paired with Buck & Cris Collinsworth as the lead team in 2002. Now is on MNF with Buck. Went into the HOF in 2006 with John Madden
Brett Favre: Randy Moss said it best in an NFL Films clip “It’s Brett Favre. I gotta see this.” MNF against the Vikings on a cold, rainy night at Lambeau throwing that TD pass to Antonio Freeman… Favre would eventually hold every significant passing mark until it was taken over by Brees, Peyton Manning, & Brady. Also… other things (late career retirement tour, dick pics, scamming social services in Mississippi). Ended up in HOF
Peyton Manning: i guess he’s good… he would only win 2 Super Bowls one with the Colts and the other in his final game with the Broncos, end up as a first ballot HOF. Now does ManningCast with his brother Eli on MNF
Kurt Warner: won Super Bowl XXXIV & game’s MVP & 2-time league MVP with the Rams, forgettable stop with the Giants, then led the Cardinals to a revival and came within 34 seconds of winning another Super Bowl. NFL Network analyst, MNF on radio w/Kevin Harlan, went undrafted to the HOF
Can you do RB’s next?
First madden i ever played 🔥🔥🔥
Crazy how 20 years later if a qb can’t get 4500 yards he’s not elite
Miles, how’s the gameplay in Madden 2001? Does the lack of playmaker controls kill this game?
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Is franchise mode better than 03? I hate how 03 and 04 players regress so easy
05-07 is where it’s at for franchise
@@SL-ld9tn for sure. I just like to play the older engine sometimes. Never played 02 or 01 if you have insight on those. 03 and 04 are cool but the player regression is ass
Early 2000’s madden graphics> any other game graphics
Notification gang
my damn Bengals hahaha
I loved this game played it on GameCube
Madden 2001 was never on Dreamcast