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Originally Posted by blazer003 |
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To me there are two issues here.
A full house backfield read option is different than just running the read option out of, say, a random shotgun formation.
Balanced full house formations can be, for all intents and purposes, unstoppable with any defense. I have played against a few that have been nearly unstoppable.
The last two years the linebackers and safeties don't do nearly enough to read a play and as soon as the AI recognizes the run, will immediately start heading to the backfield, instead of getting in position to make a play. This happens in any run formation to the outside. The result is that you have to play as the safety or linebacker to make the play yourself. However, in a full house backfield there are enough blockers that they can pick up when you blitz every single defender and still get outside and still have enough blockers to pick you off and spring the run.
"So don't blitz!" some will say. Well, then, if you're playing against someone good, you're conceding the short runs. I have tried doing so many things, and if someone isn't great at running and just expects to get outside every time, I can stop them. And boy do I enjoy frustrating them that they can't pull their cheesey crap. But those smart players, especially ones that will also mix in a pass for a TD every now and then, are the worst.
The bottom line is this: If it can beat the CPU AI 100% of the time, it's cheese. Comeback routes against anything except press coverage? Cheese. If it only happened against coverage where guys were supposed to play off/play deep zones/or once in a while? That would be just fine. But I shouldn't have to key my whole defense to stopping one type of play over and over again.
But that's the nature of these games. I don't blame EA completely for stuff like the comeback routes. When it takes a couple months for people to really start abusing something, I can't blame EA for not catching it.
But stuff like losing contain (or never even trying to contain, really) every time, for two years in a row. That's frustrating.
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i think you had the best response so far, but I don't think i explained it clear enough and i also left out that he ran no huddle. Not only is it Full House, which means he could have optioned either way, but with the no huddle, he could flip the play with out me being able to tell. I did have some success in that game by bringing in a Normal Dime with four DEs and putting them in a QB spy, but then he would just hand it off up the middle, for atleast 5 yds.