Is Madden 11 Without NFL Playbooks If so Its a Shame

[LoRd_iNFamousX1]

The madden playbooks weren't that good anyway in the first place but, at lease you had different opinions. Lets hope its hope its not the case. What you guys think?


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[qcsavagelife25]

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I think its just a new "quick" mode bruh, at least thats what i picked up on

[NoTiCe_O]

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They use the teams real life playbook, plays, and tendencies to pick your plays

[LoRd_iNFamousX1]

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Expect for the auto motion, all of those playbooks has been the same expect for the coaches names that label them.


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[oneamongthefence]

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Its a shame you didn't read the whole blog. They still use the playbooks. The gameplan feature Is optional so if you wanna use the actual playbooks you can. Sorry if that sounded mean. Just thought it went well with the name of the thread. Lol

[Cnada]

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The trick with any upcoming game especially a franchise is to find out what they remove not add into a game...

last year they told us about removing lead blocking which was a good idea but i think everyone is still feeling the pain everytime they book franchise...you know what im talking about

[Cryolemon]

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The playbooks in Madden have been dire for years, and I don't really see this gameplan thing helping that too much. I think it was mentioned somewhere that there are ~330 different plays in Madden. That is no-where near enough in my opinion. APF2k8 had >2000 plays, and that lacked any real trick plays.

I've said it before, but I think each team should have 250+ plays, with as many unique ones as possible.

[Exonerated]

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The NFL playbooks in Madden are realistic.

[splff3000]

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The offensive playbooks in Madden are realistic.

Fixed that for ya.

[MJenness]

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The NFL playbooks in Madden are realistic.

LMAO, you MUST be joking.

[LoRd_iNFamousX1]

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I agree about the lack of trick plays, only one I know of if the Flea Flicker. I don't mind trick plays being used as long as their aren't use as glitchy exploits for cheaters online.


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[Senator Palmer]

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LMAO, you MUST be joking.

I don't know. Personally, I've found the playbooks I've used to be pretty close to the teams I watch. Granted, I haven't really explored every one in depth then cross-checked with the real life counterpart. The problem I've noticed is that they always seem to be a year behind the curve, which can't always be helped. The Bengals, for example, last year went to a run-first offense with a lot of heavy formations, while the Madden playbook was almost unusable if you wanted to reflect how they actually played.

They still have a bunch of three receiver sets in the Madden playbook that are outdated since the loss of T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Chris Henry. Truthfully, they haven't done much with the Bengals playbook since last gen. The first time I popped in 08 on PS3, I recognized just about every play from ps2 Madden 07. But I don't know if that's really their fault since the Bengals have had the same offensive coordinator since 2001.

Now watch this year Madden implements the run based offense with a lot of two tight end stuff right as Bratkowski has promised to re-design the passing game and press the ball vertical to take advantage of the new receivers.

[SA1NT401]

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I still dont believe they ADD plays every year if at all....Sure, there are a few here and there, but for the most part they are pretty much the same they have been for several years. Are they Bad? No...I know they keep most of the plays so many wont have to "learn" a new playbook (i actually use every teams playbook based on who i am playing and who i have).

Now the Defensive playbooks on the other hand....Have they even been looked at in the last 10+ years?

[mvb34]

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I don't know. Personally, I've found the playbooks I've used to be pretty close to the teams I watch. Granted, I haven't really explored every one in depth then cross-checked with the real life counterpart. The problem I've noticed is that they always seem to be a year behind the curve, which can't always be helped. The Bengals, for example, last year went to a run-first offense with a lot of heavy formations, while the Madden playbook was almost unusable if you wanted to reflect how they actually played.

They still have a bunch of three receiver sets in the Madden playbook that are outdated since the loss of T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Chris Henry. Truthfully, they haven't done much with the Bengals playbook since last gen. The first time I popped in 08 on PS3, I recognized just about every play from ps2 Madden 07. But I don't know if that's really their fault since the Bengals have had the same offensive coordinator since 2001.

Now watch this year Madden implements the run based offense with a lot of two tight end stuff right as Bratkowski has promised to re-design the passing game and press the ball vertical to take advantage of the new receivers.

Madden will always be a year behind because they are going on what teams did the year before. Poor Seattle playbooks this year they will probably be generic westcoast plays. What would be cool is if they did what NCAA Basketball 10 did and gives us new plays each week but I guess first they need to give us custom playbooks..

[Senator Palmer]

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Now the Defensive playbooks on the other hand....Have they even been looked at in the last 10+ years?

Yeah, but it just looks like the 3-4 playbooks with a slight addition here or their like the prowl, predator, and last year the 4-4 and Nickel Odd Split. The 4-3 hasn't had anything added to it since... I don't know.

I know the last gen Madden I played there were subtle differences in the defensive playbooks. For instance I'd see a Middle Linebacker blitz from Dime in Del Rio's playbook that wasn't in Marvin Lewis's. Dungy and Lovie Smith, two Tampa 2 coaches, but their playbooks looked different. Smith's had more pressure packages, the Bear and this odd coverage in Nickel that I've never seen before.

I'm hoping this year they at least give us the 4-4, 5-2 and a 46 in every playbook.