I used the triggers about 90% of the time. I would normally not have a stud QB so my cone was normally a small sliver of the field. If I was using Manning/Brady types I would use both the triggers and the right stick. I miss the vision cone myself. It let you have a way that made awareness mean something and it properly represented how a QB can stare down a part of the field ect ect.
Still to this day, madden makes having a QB with 99 THP/THAs and 0 awareness a "good" QB on the field. Is it just me or did taking out the cone take a step away from sim and a step towards arcade...