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Originally Posted by Devildog Frank |
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This is not an Impression, or a Glitch/Bug. I have bought Madden Football every year since it first came out in 1989, and at 57 years old I keep hoping that one year they get it right, before I die, or am too old to play this game. I'm the Bucs, down 26 to 9 to the Falcons in an offline CFM game, and I have no time outs left. There are 40 seconds left in the game, and the Falcons are at my 35 yd line, 4th down 8 yds to go. The Falcons line up for a FG, and fake it, throwing a TD. WTF! and WHY? Any reasonable football fan, coach, player or ******** monkey would assume that the Falcons would either kick the FG, run the ball, or simply TAKE A KNEE. After all these years with this game, my question always has been and will be, who the hell is programming the play calling for this game? And do they have people with actual knowledge of football that are assisting with the programming? What I just experienced is something I would expect to see in an ARCADE FOOTBALL type game, not SIM TYPE FOOTBALL.
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I could see the actual logic behind that call.
Even though the chance of a 17 point comeback is very small it's not invalid to decide that you don't want to give your opponent the ball back even with just 40 seconds and no timeouts. That seems to be the logic behind this.
Let's examine the possible alternatives:
1. Punt - from the 35 there's a good chance of only netting a 15 yard punt or possibly giving up a big return.
2. Go for it with a traditional play - almost certainly a pass which risks an int/return.
3. Kick a fg - still up by 3 scores and a missed kick gives you the ball at the spot of the kick
4. Kneel on it/run up the middle - no real benefit for the offense. Might as well just punt it out the back of the endzone.
5. Fake FG - low chance of a turnover/return, if it fails the ball is at the ~35, better than a missed FG attempt and only marginally worse than a punt.
To sum it up it's a low risk/moderate return proposition. Not something you'd expect to see regularly but then again we see weird/head scratching decisions in real NFL games every week.