NCAA Football 12 Video - New Zone Coverage

[StL_RamZ]

Looks like the defender is ice skating...

[Bfreecloud]

more skating than the NHL

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

Is it just me or does it look like the D-Line actually gets off the line more realistically.

I do not have the most keen eye but it seems that the D-Line will move forward off the snap, rather than stand straight up and then forward.

The speed of the baackpeddal/sidestep still looks a little odd.

[Card-me]

I'll be honest, that was very disappointing to watch. DBs were floating all over the place, linebackers were backpedaling faster than receivers were running, and all the defenders seemed to react way too fast. The problem last year was that the defenders never committed to a route, they just stood around and let receivers run around them, so certain routes were almost always open. What this video looks like is that the defenders still aren't committing to routes, they're just floating around super fast covering all routes and jumping ones as you push the button. What they really should be doing is copmmitting to a route and trusting somebody else to cover the other routes. Good passing schemes are designed so that you force a defender to go one way and leave the other guy open. That won't work if the defender can just float around covering both guys.

[LionsFanNJ]

...Did I just see an edge rush??? Very nice. And i can deal with the sliding, its been in the game for years and i'm used to it. I would be nice if i got tweaked. The zone coverage/pre snap movement looks great too.

I'm really going to enjoy the game this year. Though i already see the whining about zone's too good, and a day 1 or close to it patch, and well never see the zone coverage fix again.

[frankrizzo380]

great vid, but i never had any problem taking away the skinny post or any other over the mid passes to TEs and/or slot WRs, never had any problem with stopping RB flats passes either, wish we could see some base 3-4 defense plays tho!

[drlw322]

good vid but why is everyone sliding

[backinblack23]

Quote: Originally Posted by frankrizzo380

great vid, but i never had any problem taking away the skinny post or any other over the mid passes to TEs and/or slot WRs, never had any problem with stopping RB flats passes either, wish we could see some base 3-4 defense plays tho!

Well consider yourself lucky than, I would say over 70% of the guys that I played online abused the hell out of it. I could stop the passing routes by manually controlling a safety but then they would just take off running with a scrambling qb or wait for a lb'er to quit covering a guy.