FOF 8 gives you/us a lot more control over most things - actual play design and calling, most especially. Allows for much finer tuning of the offense and the player usage in it.
Defense is more of a lateral move, but again more serious football concepts to employ.
I don't feel like "realism of aggregated player stats when paying a season in single player mode" is a wise metric to measure the two games. But if that's truly the be-all to you, then maybe you have your answer.
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