Drop-Kicking

[edborstein]

Today I decided to try something, to see if the development crew threw in a few quirks, in kicking.

I was within the twenty, but I decided to choose to punt. I aimed the punt right through the up-rights, like a field goal. In the NFL you can punt a field goal, and you still get credited with 3 points. Doug Flutie made this famous, by doing it in combo with a fake-throw. So my question is, has anyone found a way to get drop-kick field goals to work?

TL;DR: Can you drop-kcik in M12?

[kashmir28]

A drop-kick and a punt are very different. If I'm not mistaken, with a drop-kick, the ball must first touch the ground (being dropped by the kicker) before being kicked, hence drop. I may be wrong.

Forget to answer your question. Have not seen a drop kick in any addition of Madden (going back 20 years). Guess it's on their to develop list with the shovel pass.

[xblake16x]

You are right kash

[edborstein]

Ahh, thatd make more sense. Thank you for clearing that up!

[redsfan4life]

They used to have shovel passes on PS2. I could swear they did. If you were close enough to the RB you'd just kinda flick it do him.

[BlackJackRabbit]

Quote: Originally Posted by redsfan4life

They used to have shovel passes on PS2. I could swear they did. If you were close enough to the RB you'd just kinda flick it do him.

They had a lot of things on the PS2.

[TNT713]

A ball must touch the ground before being kicked through the uprights to count 3-pts. That's why there's a holder on FG/XP.

A ball kicked from the air thru the uprights is a touchback.

In any case, any scrimmage kick that passes the line of scrimmage forfeits possession by the kicking team unless muffed or fumbled and recovered by the kicking team.

Later

[TNT713]

Quote: Originally Posted by kashmir28

A drop-kick and a punt are very different. If I'm not mistaken, with a drop-kick, the ball must first touch the ground (being dropped by the kicker) before being kicked, hence drop. I may be wrong. Forget to answer your question. Have not seen a drop kick in any addition of Madden (going back 20 years). Guess it's on their to develop list with the shovel pass.

True...

It's doubtful we'll see a drop kick in Madden... Considering Doug Flutie kicked the last successful attempt AND the most recent before that happened in the 1940's... ('47 I think) - don't expect it on Madden.

It's not a big enough part of the game.

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