I primarily play squads. Over the past few days, I have encountered the same duo 3 times. Each time, from the very beginning of the game, where our cards are being shown, the game is unbearably laggy. In the first drive the lag is ridiculous to the point the game isn't functioning. After a few plays the game seemingly stops completely in some sort of crowd animation, then the timer ticks down to 0.1 seconds and stays completely paused forever. Until one team completely leaves it is stuck. That duo will sit there until my team leaves.
I have never experienced this outside of this duo. I have had times where a player leaves and it glitches the game into a never-ending cycle of delay of game penalties, but that has only happened once or twice and is obviously a unintended glitch.
I know lag switching is a massive issue in 2k26 but is it in madden? I mean this is just blatant. Anyone else deal with this bs?