In my opinion sports games started going downhill when developers started worrying about chemistry. I wish developers would focus more on making the in-game realistic and stop worrying so much about players attitudes and locker room crap. All I want is for a game to play as realistic as possible and give talented pc'ers a way to mod to make it as graphically realistic as possible (I'm talking to you Madden developers). Until the game play is close to perfect I don't want to see bells and whistles in sports games.