Before today, I had made two previous successful runs on Ultimate Seasons mode. Both title games were as sweaty as a game against the CPU could be. But today things were different. This time, it was the CPU that was sweating.
Steve Smith Sr covered half the field on the kickoff return, and Dak Prescott threw to Julio Jones on the first play from scrimmage. Sam Howell was harassed for a pair of sacks and a throwaway. Smith houses the punt. Breece Hall gets the first positive yardage of the game for the Chiefs, and then Howell gets smacked around for another two downs. Smith houses a second punt, and now the CPU is down 21-17, and there's still 1:13 left to play in the third quarter. The Chiefs' lone highlight of the game would be tackling Smith just one last time after going three-and-out. Breece Hall would get three carries in a row and fail to reach the sticks, and the third quarter ended with a punt return for a touchdown. The Chiefs wouldn't manage either a tackle or a first down in the game's final quarter, and stopped running hurry-up after yielding yet another punt return touchdown just after the two-minute warning.
The final score was 56-17. Steve Smith Sr had returned six punts for touchdowns, and somehow didn't win MVP, even though him running into the endzone was shown on three of the four post-game highlights. Warren Sapp holding the Lombardi did have better optics than what you usually get with a quarterback or runningback.
The CPU DM'd after the game. It was impolite, but it made me laugh.