Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

[The Lob Mob]

I'm still looking for the actual pocket. . .

[NYyankz225]

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I'm still looking for the actual pocket. . .

You should look for your glasses then.

[xblake16x]

Re: Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

please change the size of the ball, heres a picture, look at the size of the ball in proportion to the players body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BWCxqbXSsY

i dont know how to make the link a click-able link, but just put this in the search bar and take a look

APF 2k8 got the size of ball spot on

there was something said at the very beginning of the time when blogs first started coming out that the ball size couldnt be shrunken this year because they would have to rewrite their whole formula or whatever... but im pretty sure they are supposed to get it switched for the next iteration of madden...

[apexbronx]

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Great Stuff I'm impressed <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gxx7mSIamzA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gxx7mSIamzA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[PGaither84]

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Great Stuff I'm impressed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxx7mSIamzA

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Fixed Apex. I learned if I use Firefox [used to only use IE] that you can encode/embed these videos now. way cool IMO. good video btw.

[Derrville]

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Receivers still stand with the wrong foot back.

[raphael]

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Great blog, I like the props to 2K football.

btw I really like how the game is looking so far!

[arhymemaster]

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So how exactly does Haloti Ngata a 3-4 DE just easily blow by either Flozell Adams or Marc Colombo with no help at all? I can understand Julius Peppers or Jared Allen doing this, but how does a 3-4 run stopping DE/DT just easily blow past one of the top pass blocking O-Lines OT's. Andre Gurode seems to be doing nothing on the play, and from the video it seems like there is no LB's blitzing, and its not like Trevor Pryce is going to command a double team?

[Exonerated]

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Imo. Ngata is close to the level of Peppers. Its just that there are so many other superstars on the ravens D you don't notice him.

And they are tackling the QB that has left the pocket. Showing branching animations during pass blocking....

[arhymemaster]

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Imo. Ngata is close to the level of Peppers. Its just that there are so many other superstars on the ravens D you don't notice him.

And they are tackling the QB that has left the pocket. Showing branching animations during pass blocking....

Ngata is a really good player, but hes not a pass rushing specialist.

And I hope that was just a demostration, because I sure don't wanna see Ngata kill 80-85+ rated pass blocking lineman like they are nothing 1 on 1.

[TheWatcher]

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Game looks good. The movement looks a lot better than previous years.

[RGiles36]

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The blocking looked pretty good to me.

It's off topic, but I wish the last steps of the QB dropbacks were more fluid. You only see glimpses in the M10 vid that Ian posted, but I can see the awkwardness in it . I just wish they were more fluid like those in this youtube clip (included the link in case the vid doesn't show up; my embedding skills could use work):

Upon further review, looks as if the QB dropback was possibly interrupted by the user. That could've contributed to it looking so jerky. It didn't look as 'jerked' in the first gameplay trailer or the other vids . Could probably still use some smoothing out in the future, but not as bad as previously thought.

[ImReady77]

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Ian - can you comment on this?

offensive linemen are supposed to look straight at the beginning of the kick slide because his first assignment is to make sure there is no inside pressure. If there is no pressure from the inside when he is done with his initial steps then he turns out and faces the d-end.

[rudyjuly2]

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I loved this blog. But Ian needs to state whether this stuff is in NCAA or not. It's killing me every time I read these blogs and wonder this stuff.

[dannydufflebags]

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I'd like to know if they've worked on adding TE and HB's chip blocking to help out their tackles against the elite pass rushers. as the Eagles, I don't want to be sacked 10 times every time I play the Giants just cause they're the Giants. I want to be able to scheme against them and protect my QB.

Do you mean 12 times? (sorry, I just couldn't resist.)