This game just plain sucks.
1) The "increasing difficulty" of the game just handicaps your players and makes their players elite.
2) The number of glitches is an absolute joke. Minimum of 2 per game, some worse than others. Worst one I've seen was a penalty at a 2-minute warning glitches the game and I got the ball with a 1st down and 97 YARDS FOR A FIRST.
3) Controls are spotty at best. Sometimes they are smooth and effortless, other times you can't get your guy to do anything at all.
4) Physics are totally unrealistic. Set at hardest setting, AI will jump 6 feet in the air to intercept a ball to an otherwise open player. Simply unplayable and not fun.
5) AI chooses random formations after choosing plays on defense. Don't even bother with zone coverage because your guys will just stand there and do nothing at all every time.
I wish I could upload the clips that I've made of this terrible, unrefined, unfinished game.