Madden NFL 2001

Press Start at the coin toss screen before anything appears when playing against the CPU.

When you start a Franchise mode with any team, you can create more cap space by releasing a player and then signing him back for less money and more years. You can do this untill they stop taking cuts. Players 27 and older can be re-signed for up to 7-year contracts and take cuts, players 25 or 26 years of age can be re-signed for up to 6-year contracts and take cuts. Players 25 and under can be up to a 5-year contract and take cuts. Players will not except offers unless the years are good (not too many years or not too little) and the cut is not too much. They can take cuts from $500k a time to just $50k a time, depending on how much they want, how old they are, and how long the contract length is. After the first year is over, this will not work as players will want more every time they are released.

Note: This trick requires a controller pak to save your user profile. Go to "Custom Options" and highlight "Load". Load the user profile until there are four of the same profile. Go to Madden Cards and trade a Bronze Card for three Gold Cards. Repeat, then save your user profile and reset he game. Keep repeating this to get tokens to buy Madden Cards.

Buy all Gold, Silver, And bronze Madden Cards in each set of fourteen. After all 296 cards have been obtained, a 297th card (number 000) with the All-Time Madden team will be unlocked. You can use the Madden Cards to put players on rosters, cheats within the game, use legendary players, and unlock old teams, stadiums, or legendary teams.

When on defense, look at where the tight end lines up. Take control of the defensive end that is above the tight end and move him to the other side of the defensive line. When the ball is snapped, you'll have a clear path to the quarterback as one offensive tackle cannot block two defensive ends, while the guard on that side won't usually be fast enough to assist. One could easily accumulate well over 100 sacks or more through an entire season via this cheap AI exploit.

If there are no tight ends on offense, simply do this trick with whichever defensive end is faster. The only exception to this trick is when the offense lines up with two tight ends, though the sacks you'll accumulate will easily cancel out the rare times that the offense decides to use a formation able to stop the glitch.