Why does Madden 11 hate sacks?

[guaps]

What bugs me the most about the current system is that QBs miraculously throw the ball even when the pressure comes from the blind side.

When pressured by a defender that they have seen and are aware of, I find it acceptable to not get a sack every time, but when I've got a perfect defensive effort and am approaching the QB from the blind side and he doesn't take a sack, then I get disappointed.

The problem is that this cannot be fixed by using sliders, but is a fundamental flaw in Madden as procedural awareness doesn't mean a thing. Basically on every pass play your receivers and the defensive players don't have to see the ball to react to it. The same problem exists with the QB and his blind side.

[youALREADYknow]

In real life, most QB's tuck the ball and cringe when a 275+ lb defender is coming straight at them in a collapsed pocket. The sack is obvious when watching TV even before the QB is touched.

This has never happened in Madden. It would be nice to see the CPU QB simply take the sack when the pocket collapses instead of making some poor decision or miracle throw 50 yards downfield.

The AWR, ELU, and AGI ratings along with QB style (Pocket/Scrambler) should determine how a QB acts in the pocket but it doesn't appear that way when I play Madden.

[sin18]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gordy748

If they're not, and if you have a fast DL with high black shedding, you'll get sacks.

Its really hard to find a good DE with high black shedding these days, maybe thats why no one can consistantly get sacks

[Senator Palmer]

Is the block shed rating more important than the Power/Finesse Move ratings?

[strife1013]

Quote: Originally Posted by Exonerated

i'm top 5 in sacks in each. Had 5 sacks in a game twice by two different people. Half of them manual. Its just the sliders.

What sliders did you change and to what value?

[Nunyerbiz]

Since the patch, I think the QB miraculously getting rid of the ball when under pressure has been nerfed a bit. I am see more sacks... probably too much in certain situations. I seem to be getting a lot more coverage sacks late in games if I have the lead. I've had a few games where I have finished with 5-7 sacks, with everything except maybe 1 or 2 coming in the 4th quarter when the CPU goes streak route happy if they are losing.

[jcar0725]

I get anywhere from 1 - 5 sacks per game. All-pro. I haven't noticed any real issue with it. I have noticed that the better the QB, the harder he is to sack.

[MichaelCook17]

You could always just try and focus more on your coverage. That's where I feel I get most of my sacks from, just forcing the QB to look and look for a receiver before my lineman makes he way to him. Which is a bit unrealistic as I would like to see more balls thrown out of bounds, but I wont complain.