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Just got it in the mail this evening, and haven't had a chance to fire it up yet. Probably won't get to fire it up until tomorrow, so we'll see...

I think everyone has heard about it at this point, but the game (by Ubisoft Montreal) finally drops on Tuesday May 27 across multiple platforms. I'll have impressions for the PS3 version sometime late next week (yeah, I bought the hype but the story has looked entertaining to me for months). In the meantime, here's the launch trailer...

Thanks for the update! Now that I've got a bit more time this summer and the OSFM rosters are out, I think I may actually also give running a franchise another shot.

If I could give the Lions a grade (and actually, I am doing just that here), they get an F just on the basis of wasting a Top 10 pick on a TE when they had much bigger areas of need (CB, S, OT) and players were available at those spots for the taking (Darqueze Dennard, Kyle Fuller, Ha-Ha Clinton Dix, Taylor Lewan). It was a dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb pick and it pisses me off. In other words, a typical Lions draft.

Pfft, I'll show you retro. 

Might be the best 80's theme song ever.

The bottom line is this: the team needs to do its homework, and developing players picked in those late rounds regardless of position also requires a little luck (although that's debatable too-if a team does its homework, odds are they'll find players that fit in their system more often than not). The Pats did their homework, felt comfortable with a guy like Tom Brady, and it paid off in spades-also helps Brady that he was drafted by the Patriots instead of a team like the Jags or even Lions (as a Michigan guy, I'm extremely happy Brady wasn't drafted here). Even Rodney Peete worked pretty well for a few years in the league, and I'm fairly certain he was a late round pick (sorry, don't feel like looking when he was drafted up-but he was drafted by the Lions, go figure).

I'm not surprised it's a Bears GM that says that-they could probably draft film in the late rounds and not be able to develop it.