Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Deeper Look Into Pass Blocking

[Droopy03]

YES SIR

[lostintravise]

looks good Ian. nice job

[DreaIVIS]

Quote: Originally Posted by N51_rob

Good read. Didn't see any mention of double teams, but I like the direction of this.

Yeah,

[salbowski]

Impressive stuff....

I would be very interested in finding out how the players ratings affect the process and outcome of the o/dline interaction.

In m09, it was often said that you didn't need highly rated lineman because they didn't play any better or consistently than lower rated lineman... how has this been changed in m10, if it was even the case in 09.

Looking forward to the run blocking blog very muchly.

[Deegeezy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sauk

in the new animations it does seem better, but it still seems like when they take off they are going right at the guy instead of trying to avoid the guy. So in reality it still seems suction cup type. Do you have any more videos we could look at? I like the look once they get there with their hands and what not, but why do they always bee line it into the offensive player?

Yeah I've always hated the "suction cup" feel of EA blocking. We need to feel like the D-lineman are trying to avoid their blocker from the outset and only engage when it is necessary (which is almost always but we still need to FEEL it, if that makes sense).

[dougdeuce]

Quote: Originally Posted by Deegeezy

Yeah I've always hated the "suction cup" feel of EA blocking. We need to feel like the D-lineman are trying to avoid their blocker from the outset and only engage when it is necessary (which is almost always but we still need to FEEL it, if that makes sense).

It did appear that they were able to disengage from the OL when they needed to.. I guess we'll just have to play the game.. I feel that the new blogs are creating as many questions as they are answering...

[tonynyy]

Sweet, any news about the 3-4 OLBs blitzing angles? I remember LBzrule noticed something off about this.

[Sauk]

oh I agree. A defensive lineman unless he reads run will never run right into an offensive lineman especially a edge guy. He will work to a shoulder and do his "branching" from there. In those videos he just runs right at him and hand fights him.

That is not how it works unless it is a run wherehe will then usually play a two gap or pick a side and take away some gap