Strange Squib Kick Result

[Valdarez]

In a game today, I had about 17 seconds on the clock at the end of the 2nd quarter and kicked a squib kick. The ball went down the field, further than I had seen a squib kick go before, stopping somewhere around the 15 yard line landing right at the feet of a player.

Sounds good right?

Only problem is the player just stood there! He never moved. Not even a little. Just stood there!

The rest of the team ran up field in an attempt to block for him, but the return man never picked up the ball!

My guys ran down the field, picked up the ball, allowing me to kick a free FG with 2 seconds left on the clock! lol

It has to be the downright strangest thing I have seen in the game thus far. Has anyone else experienced this?

[huskerwr38]

Re: Strange Squib Kick Result

yea, I actually experienced it in the demo. I thought, eh, it's the demo it won't make it in the actual game.

[jyoung]

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I had a weird play happen to me today, too:

CPU Bret Favre pitches the ball to Adrian Peterson on a toss play...nothing suspect there, except for the fact that the pitch flies by Peterson and goes about 20 yards behind him!

Peterson then ran back and fell on the ball for a loss of 22 on the play!

First time I have ever seen a missed toss in this game, but I thought it was funny how the toss just took off and went like 20 yards backwards.

[sammcculloch]

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never happened to me before

[jacory12]

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It's madden, what do you expect?

[dolphinfan333]

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I had a weird play happen to me today, too:

CPU Bret Favre pitches the ball to Adrian Peterson on a toss play...nothing suspect there, except for the fact that the pitch flies by Peterson and goes about 20 yards behind him!

Peterson then ran back and fell on the ball for a loss of 22 on the play!

First time I have ever seen a missed toss in this game, but I thought it was funny how the toss just took off and went like 20 yards backwards.

That happened to me the other day to... With the same players, Weird...

[Meast21Forever]

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never seen that. i've seen it bounce right by the returner, but he turned around and picked it up.

[Segagendude]

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It's a video game, what do you expect?

Fixed.

[canes21]

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No it's Madden. 2k5 and 2k8 don't have either problem mentioned in this thread.

[RedDeviled]

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No it's Madden. 2k5 and 2k8 don't have either problem mentioned in this thread.

Then why don't you go play then rather than trolling on a Madden forum?

[Pared]

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Cut it out.

[vaughn99]

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That happened to me the other day to... With the same players, Weird...

Me too! Crazy!

[bill2451]

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its reasons like this that I always play with rewinds offline... I dont use them to cheat, rather I use them to correct glitches, give the cpu another try on punts when they kick them 15 yards out of bounds, etc

you just have to have the will power not to use the rewinds when you make a bad play or things don't go your way (unless its because of a glitch of course lol)

[jyoung]

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Me too! Crazy!

It must have something to do with Favre, then.

EA just can't seem to get him in the game without some major glitch like 08's "Moonwalk" fiasco:

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[Valdarez]

Re: Strange Squib Kick Result

its reasons like this that I always play with rewinds offline... I dont use them to cheat, rather I use them to correct glitches, give the cpu another try on punts when they kick them 15 yards out of bounds, etc

you just have to have the will power not to use the rewinds when you make a bad play or things don't go your way (unless its because of a glitch of course lol)

Interesting idea. I think I'd be too tempted to undo a interception or a missed pass in a key situation though. Rewind was a nice feature for learning the game, but too tempting to have available at any time and still be challenging.