Madden NFL 25 Blog - Position Changes Are In

[Maelstrom-XIII]

Quote: Originally Posted by BFem09

LT are a lot more important than RT in real life....

Only if you have a right handed QB.

[Lukin4]

Great news for Pats fans... You can move Hernandez from Tight End to Loose Rear...

[JeriousNorwood]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lukin4

Great news for Pats fans... You can move Hernandez from Tight End to Loose Rear...

I know that's the first move his fellow inmates will be making.

[WickedFastball]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tengo Juego

Position changes are in; does that mean that they've also lightened up on cross-position play? i.e. Can Patrick Peterson play WR? Can Randall Cobb play RB? Can Percy Harvin play RB? Can Joe Webb play QB? All while remaining at their current, respective, position? Limiting it to an off-season action is a bummer. Say you switch Tebow to TE and Brady gets injured for the season. You probably want to play Tebow at QB. Having the ability to start a player at any position has been abused when it was possible in last-gen Madden, but it doesn't make banning it justified. There is legitimate use for it. One of my favorite position swaps was moving Reggie Bush to WR. He was so damn good as a slot receiver. I want to be able to have fun like this, again, with position changes.

I would put Bob Kraft, or even Mr. B in at QB WAYYYYY before I thought about putting Tebow in a game.....you must not have watched the first preseason game?

[Tengo Juego]

Quote: Originally Posted by WickedFastball

I would put Bob Kraft, or even Mr. B in at QB WAYYYYY before I thought about putting Tebow in a game.....you must not have watched the first preseason game?

Completely missing my point.

[OU SOONERZ 1]

Quote: Originally Posted by Boomdox

I can now move Jamarcus Russell to Defensive Tackle.

lol...............

[KBLover]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tengo Juego

Limiting it to an off-season action is a bummer. Say you switch Tebow to TE and Brady gets injured for the season. You probably want to play Tebow at QB. Having the ability to start a player at any position has been abused when it was possible in last-gen Madden, but it doesn't make banning it justified. There is legitimate use for it.

Not to mention it's realistic and teams do it all the time.

"Positions" in real life are no where near as limiting as they are in video games. It's just where you line up and your responsibilities on that play.

If Tebow is decent at throwing and decent a catching in traffic and using size like a TE, the he should be decent at both. What's the need for the designation other than during contract time (where it matters then mostly for franchise player tagging)?

Things get exploited not because of position changing but because the game can't represent the demands of the position. If a QB can play DT, that's not position changing, that's inability to require size, strength, and power at DT. Banning changing is just yet another case of focusing on the symptom instead of the cure.

Same with this "awareness penalty". Why have a global penalty and not some sort of experience system like in OOTP? If a guy has played that spot before in real life (like say I switch Suggs back and forth from DE to OLB), why is he going to be penalized? And why just awareness? Why not PRC? Or CTH? or RTE? or M/ZCV? Reading the field, the play, the keys, etc, is all different.

[SWynn]

Ideally you should be able to put any player at any position. You want your lineman to play receiver? So be it. Wanna have your DT play QB and throw every ball in the dirt? That should be your choice without having to go through some process.

Think of the early 2000s Patriots when they'd have Vrabel line up at TE or Seymour at FB. This is impossible in Madden. If it's in the game, it's probably not in Madden.

Look at the Jaguars and Denard Robinson. You should be able to have him play QB, WR, RB, whatever without having to lock him into one role.

How are they going to handle Patrick Peterson playing WR? Are you going to have to move him there?

Also, are players going to be limited in regards to which positions they can be switched to? If so, what a load of garbage.

Give us complete control EA!