Colin talks about Madden ratings with Adjuster Dustin Smith on this Saturday Special
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 20 July 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this exclusive podcast Colin talks to Dustin Smith, the leader of the Madden Ratings Adjustor team. They talk about NFL players getting upset every year at their ratings and which players actually reach out to him and his team to complain.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our Saturday morning podcast. Great to have you in. Took Friday off in Utah as I do in the summer. |
| 0:09.0 | Madden NFL one coming out released on August 2nd. So in our Saturday morning podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | We thought we'd bring out Dustin Smith, the Madden NFL ratings team leader. |
| 0:23.0 | He gives the ratings the creation and weekly updates for the ratings of every player in every game. |
| 0:28.0 | And leads the Madden ratings. Adjustor team and Dustin Smith is joining us. Let's start with this. |
| 0:34.0 | I ask every player this week. NFL guy on my show. |
| 0:40.0 | Demadden ratings matter and unequivocally in arguably they all say, oh, absolutely they matter. |
| 0:47.0 | How often Dustin does somebody reach out to you in the NFL about their rating? |
| 0:52.0 | I would say it's relatively frequent. I mean, even if it's not directly to me somebody tweeting about it. |
| 0:58.0 | Some of these sending you that tagging me in a 20-defer some sent me, you know, some private messages before. |
| 1:05.0 | Odell Beckham's reached out and FaceTime was Josh Norman just reached out and FaceTime was. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, there's plenty of guys that love to reach out talk about, say maybe where we disrespect to them. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, if I ever ask him if we got something too high, they usually too quick to say yes. |
| 1:20.0 | So I mean, it's a fun little gig to have players upset with you, but you know, fans get upset with them too. |
| 1:26.0 | So it kind of feels like the same thing. |
| 1:28.0 | Top four overall rated players this year, none were quarterbacks. Aaron Donald, the Andre Hopkins, Khalil Mac Bobby Wagner, all got a 99 rating. |
| 1:36.0 | There was no quarterbacks in the top four, including my homes. |
| 1:40.0 | Danny Cannell came on my show and said, you know, quarterbacks have to be the highest rating to have the greatest influence. |
| 1:47.0 | How do you come about the ratings for a defensive player who doesn't have near the impact generally on points? |
| 1:55.0 | Certainly Vegas doesn't consider any defensive player worth more than half a point or maybe a point. |
| 2:00.0 | How do you come about those 99 ratings? |
| 2:03.0 | So that's a fair question. I mean, I think one of the things is, is right, we take into account how great you are at your position. |
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