I agree. And certain other things are just funny more than anything, like them calling their timeouts. I played a game yesterday where I was up a few points with 7 seconds left, with the ball. It was first down and the CPU had one timeout. I did a kneel and they called the timeout. Uh... dear CPU coach, are you just trying to make run over to your sideline and hit stick you, or what??
Only occasionally do you see really bizarre logic, like the thing cited above with the computer going for it on 4th and long when a field goal is the obvious choice. I imagine that situational logic is hard to get just right, but then again they've been releasing these games for decades now. Why not just have some football-obsessed brainiac sit down and script all the rules, and always use them every year? I think it's especially strange that some years the logic will be better and then it gets worse again. No need to rewrite something year after year, the basic strategy of football is more or less the same now as it was 40 years ago. Everything that relates to clock management, going for it or kicking/punting, when to go for 2, etc. should be pretty well locked down by now. It seldom makes a big difference in the outcome of a game (in my experience anyway) but it makes the game seem unnecessarily dumb.
I wouldn't mind if lower-rated coaches made occasional mistakes still, but most coaches in both Madden and NCAA should get the basic decisions always right.