NCAA Football 10 Blog: The Rebirth of the Flexbone Offense

[thesteamontheboat]

GREAT BLOG!!!! IVE BEEN WAITING MONTHS TO HEAR THAT INFO IM DEFINITLEY STOKED ABOUT BUYING THIS GAME NOW THIS DID IT FOR ME.

[MacPlex]

Sorry, but I hate the idea of custom playbooks for offense. Can u imagine facing the flexbone, shotgun, wildcat and gator heavy all in the same offense. That's waaay too many schemes into 1 playbook. If they do implement it I hope it forces you too pick a generic offensive scheme limits the type plays you can use. Lately I've been playing with Navy, GT and texas a&m running the triple option killing high ranked players who choose to pick 95 and up teams. I love running the triple option, but this blog is no where near as good as pocket forming and teambilding blogs. I thought the blogs were supposed to get better as we became closer to the realease?!?!?!?

[heavy_hitter]

Quote: Originally Posted by MacPlex

Sorry, but I hate the idea of custom playbooks for offense. Can u imagine facing the flexbone, shotgun, wildcat and gator heavy all in the same offense. That's waaay too many schemes into 1 playbook. If they do implement it I hope it forces you too pick a generic offensive scheme limits the type plays you can use. Lately I've been playing with Navy, GT and texas a&m running the triple option killing high ranked players who choose to pick 95 and up teams. I love running the triple option, but this blog is no where near as good as pocket forming and teambilding blogs. I thought the blogs were supposed to get better as we became closer to the realease?!?!?!?

Custom Playbooks for online have been needed since online play began. If someone is going to cheese, they are going to cheese regardless of the formations in the PB. Plus, you have an adaptive AI now that will help you out against all the crap that people run.

[Wolverines05]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bwnarrow3

Did anyone else notice in the videos that the players seemed to move a lot faster than previous versions? I don't know if this has been brought up yet, but it seems that the player speed seems closer to real life.

This is exactly right! I have always had a problem with game speed with ncaa on ng consoles, and it seems that they have it fixed finally. Past versions had all players too slow, and if you watch real college football, it is obvious that every player on the field is extremely fast. Also, notice how the qb is fast enough to run the option, which cpu qbs ran so poorly in 09. (partially due to the huge speed curve) Not only does it seems as though the separation of speeds between players have been fixed, but the overall game speed has increased. (whereas madden has gone the opposite direction by decreasing game speed by 5%) Seeing the qb look like a fast runner means that cpu teams will finally be able to run the option more effectively, which corresponds to the new gameplanning mechanics in 10. If cpu qbs are a threat, it will make the game much more exciting, challenging, and realistic.

Great job EA of finally getting the game speed right!

[razcan]

I love them updating it but it definitely should not have been a priority. Flexbone accounts for what 2.3% of all real life NCAA plays in any given season? Playbook wise flexbone should near the bottom of the list.

[Tengo Juego]

I plan on converting Nebraska back to a flexbone/option offense. I always tried to in the past but the option hasn't been fun this gen for me. So I liked this blog.

[MacPlex]

I agree 100% until GT hit the scene last year this part of football seemed outdated. This should not have had its own blog.IMO I know this guy works really hard and deserves his shine, but what's next defensive playbooks and Uf get their own blog.

[Wet Bandit]

Quote: Originally Posted by razcan

I love them updating it but it definitely should not have been a priority. Flexbone accounts for what 2.3% of all real life NCAA plays in any given season? Playbook wise flexbone should near the bottom of the list.

Yeah, I agree. I certainly liked what I saw in the blog, but it did strike me that there were certainly more pressing concerns with the playbooks. I would have liked to have seen the attention they obviously devoted to the flexbone to be devoted to other more commonlt used parts of the playbooks.