Madden NFL 2004 Cheats

Create a player without increasing any of his attributes.  You
can even lower them a little more to make his price as low as
possible.  Sign him for 7 years for next to nothing, then go back
into ‘create a player’ and increase his attributes to whatever you
want them to be without raising salary.  You can even max them
out, but how much fun would that be?

Great players that retire in franchise mode can return to be coaches. Wait a couple of years after your favorite star retires, and he will show up in the coaching free agent list to be signed as an assistant or head coach.

If you're trying to build up your team but don't want to use created players or use a lot of them trade for the players you want.
Found out what player you want then found out if his team needs another type of player. EX. U want W. Sapp and his team needs a QB.
You can go into create a player and creat a QB with a low overall.
Sign him up from the free gents list and then go back in a change max out all his areas.
Take this charactor then and trade him for whatever player you want.
Once you're done with the trade and have all that you want, you can go back into the create a player area and lower the characters overall to 12.
It's dirty but it's business
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To unlock the Cheerleader/Pump Up Crowd Madden Cards, beat the Game Situation in Mini-Camp. The team who you complete the challenge with is the Cheerleader/Pump Up Card you will unlock.

In Franchise Mode, Create a player (or 3, or 20) and set all of his attributes low so that his overall rating is 12. Sign him as a free agent for cheap then return to Create-A-Player and max out his stats. You can now trade this player to any team for the very best players in the NFL.