Madden NFL 16 Community Impressions

[N51_rob]

Playing more I have one more thought that falls under "legacy".

The 3-4 base defense needs a complete overhaul. Technique, philosophy, assignments and how important the front 7 plays off one another in their runfits, blitzing and flow are all wrong.

Would love to see them devote more time to the 3-4 and defensive playbooks overall for Madden 17.

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[FluffyTonka]

Quote: Originally Posted by muelly

Realistic? Rodgers tossing 3 ints isn't, expecially against the Bears. But I do agree the game plays very nicely. I played vs Dallas last night and swapped Hundley for Rodgers and the dropoff is huge between the 2. Dallas utilized Bryant/Witten early and often. Just wish the patch would drop.

rodgers has put up 3 picks in a game before.

i guess it was more the variety of play I was talking about. Every game has a feeling of just about anything can and will happen despite player ratings.

Like I just played indy as the Bills, and i forced Luck outta the pocket and he broke three blind tackles by super mario, williams and detruel all in a row and threw it for a 40 yard strike to Johnson.

The following play on a play action i sent a corner on a blitz and and Luck lowered his shoulder to the oncoming CB and lost the ball on the hit.

it's the variety of not just no two games being the same, but no two plays.

[bad_philanthropy]

Quote: Originally Posted by N51_rob

Playing more I have one more thought that falls under "legacy". The 3-4 base defense needs a complete overhaul. Technique, philosophy, assignments and how important the front 7 plays off one another in their runfits, blitzing and flow are all wrong. Would love to see them devote more time to the 3-4 and defensive playbooks overall for Madden 17. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Can't like this post enough!

[JOS1181]

Quote: Originally Posted by N51_rob

Playing more I have one more thought that falls under "legacy". The 3-4 base defense needs a complete overhaul. Technique, philosophy, assignments and how important the front 7 plays off one another in their runfits, blitzing and flow are all wrong. Would love to see them devote more time to the 3-4 and defensive playbooks overall for Madden 17. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Both sides could use a complete once over. They are just so plain and basic.

[TeamHawkins]

This gameplay has serious issues.

1.) Since when can a safety run 15 yards from the secondary, and stop a 220 lb. RB at or behind the line of scrimmage? Where does EA get this stuff?

2.) Since when have you seen in the NFL a zone cover 4 stop two Tight-End run packages consistently?

This is how you find money plays or nano blitzes yearly. Because the gameplay never performs like real life or sim.

[N51_rob]

Quote: Originally Posted by TeamHawkins

This gameplay has serious issues. 1.) Since when can a safety run 15 yards from the secondary, and stop a 220 lb. RB at or behind the line of scrimmage? Where does EA get this stuff? 2.) Since when have you seen in the NFL a zone cover 4 stop two Tight-End run packages consistently? This is how you find money plays or nano blitzes yearly. Because the gameplay never performs like real life or sim.

I've seen this a lot too. Defense is in cover 4 and at the snap 3 of the 4 DBs in the 4 deep zone drop and then one comes crashing down on a running play (usually a safety) and makes a nice play. It always looks very odd.

[rudyjuly2]

Quote: Originally Posted by N51_rob

Playing more I have one more thought that falls under "legacy". The 3-4 base defense needs a complete overhaul. Technique, philosophy, assignments and how important the front 7 plays off one another in their runfits, blitzing and flow are all wrong. Would love to see them devote more time to the 3-4 and defensive playbooks overall for Madden 17. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

I would argue that EA does the 3-4 better since all DL interactions are two gap, crash into each other type of plays. None of the DL shoot gaps, especially the three technique. They all play two gap. I believe they need more work on 4-3 one gap play.

On a positive note, The CPU qb play is so much better on all-pro this year. Playing against Romo he would buy time outside the pocket and kill me. The improved cpu qb play combined with new WR improvements makes madden 16 a huge improvement.

[Smoke6]

Quote: Originally Posted by N51_rob

I've seen this a lot too. Defense is in cover 4 and at the snap 3 of the 4 DBs in the 4 deep zone drop and then one comes crashing down on a running play (usually a safety) and makes a nice play. It always looks very odd.

I brought this up before and its the manually controlled ones that do it, what iiritates me the most is they would still be able to break up pass plays after engaging to blitzing in which the wr should have been long gone by then.