Drew Brees talks Madden video games in this exclusive interview.
Do you feel being a quarterback gives you an advantage when you pick up a controller and play Madden?
Yeah. A lot of it’s just obviously knowing where the buttons are and knowing how to click quickly once you see where you want to throw the ball. It’s just having that feel, but initially when you’re just flank the coverage and it’s a play that you’ve run routinely, then it’s a lot more natural to know who to throw to.
What do you think Kinect adds to the Madden video game?
Kinect adds a whole nother element, because now you’re off your feet, you’re off the couch, you’re active, and you’re breaking a sweat, you’re burning calories. You actually get to display some technique and some form, which adds another element to it.
What would you like to see EA add to the next Madden?
What’s going to be interesting is with the new style of offenses like the pistol and some of the read options, just to see how the game evolves. Madden has been evolving with the actual NFL game. It’s going to be fun to see those styles of offenses that are being run now and the quarterbacks that are executing them just to see how it all evolves.
Do you ever go online and play against the Madden competition out there?
I haven’t done that before, but I know that that’s an extremely competitive deal. A lot of the guys on our team will do that, so I hear stories about one of our guys who thinks he’s a pretty good Madden player he’ll get online and get smoked by a ten year old kid who lives in Massachusetts or something pretty funny like that.
Those guys have a lot of time to play Madden online.
Yeah. Exactly.
