That why you don't run it all game. Au165 is absolutly correct cov 2 man out of Dime 3-2-6 and quarters will shut down 4 and 5 wide. If a person recognize you are in man; how bout calling man and right b4 the snap audible to a zone. Just switch it up.
People always cry cheese when someone calls the same play when in truth there are no money plays. There is a way to stop every play on the game but you have to be willing to use your total defense playbook. Could it be more robust. Yea. But there are def ways to stop people given what you have. Problem is people wait till they get under fire to try new stuff then when it don't work; they say the play can't be stopped.
Running the same play is sim. I coach HS football in Georgia and believe me if we run a play and we see you can't stop it. Guess what!? We are about to run that **** down your throat all game. Offensely or Defensively. And any other team across this country will do the same. Hell one game last year we ran Counter Trap 20 times cuz of how poorly the other team defense was aligned. We lost in the playoff cuz we couldn't stop read option out of trips. So they kept running it. The reason why you don't see it much on TV is b/c someone is getting paid as a DC to stop a offense, so if my job is on the line; i'm going to figure out how to stop 4 wide. The
only reason anybody mixes it up is to throw the defense off b/c the defense has shown that they know how to stop them.
So don't ban the formations. Football is a chess match. There are so many non sim aspect of real life football that its not even funny. If you think its chesse or BS. Get in the lab and figure out how to stop it and prove its BS. Its much more rewarding. If not, just except the fact that the AI my not be all that broken; it could just be your scheme.