The Ravens had some big losses in our franchise mode. Therefore, we slapped ourselves with some handicaps.
I told myself if this difficulty mode in Madden continued with me having little trouble, two things were apparent: A: the rubber band mechanic that I have grown to hate in this game has been toned down and B: a different difficulty would need to be enforced. Why? Fooch has me doing these at the cost of my sanity. It's not enjoyable unless I get to watch Madden's broken mechanics manifest before my very eyes.
Booting up franchise though, I realized we had the Ravens.