Madden Playbooks?
 

I know the goal of Ian and company was to make every team (and player) play like their real life counterparts. After playing the NCAA demo I did like Floridas playbook and I think it was pretty true to life to what their playbook would actually look like.

My question to you guys is, for your favorite team what kind of special formations or plays would you like to see them add this year? I am a big Ravens fan and I know a big reason for the success they had last year was how well they ran the "unbalanced line." LBZ I know you are a Ravens fan did they have this in your CD build?

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yes they have unbalanced lines in their pb...it even shows one in the videos from what I saw

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I just want my panthers to have their own playbook. Instead of them having the same plays and playbook like it was in madden 09. I could not stand seeing everyteam last year madden have the same playbook and just bout the same plays. Thats why I hope like ncaa 10 that madden team made madden 10 playbooks more deeper.:y220:

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eagles should have some of the weirdest blitz packages known to man

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gameplayer321 --I agree with ya they better because jim johnson creates some crazy stuff also i like some of new offense plays they showed for the eagles.im getting a feeling they added at least 20 new plays n combine from the games they saw on tv plus madden 09 playbook.I am eagles fan of course

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Madden playbooks are going to always look generic compared to NCAA's, when in reality, Madden's have always been much closer to life.

What people rarely realize is 90% of whatever one team runs is ran by pretty much the entire league. There are a lot of basics in the NFL that repeat themselves, sometimes in different forms (different personnel, different formations) from one team to the next.

Prior to the Cowboys Superbowl runs of the early '90s, there was a lot of uniqueness to NFL playbooks. You had your Lombardi power teams (The Cowboys), West Coast teams (49ers), K-Gun (Buffalo), Single Back Power (Washington), but after '94 or so they all started to merge.

The closest thing to an innovative offense (and I'm talking base offense, not Wildcat type supplemental packages) we've had since then is the Martz spread (not to be confused with College Football's Spread Option), and that was really combining concepts from existing offenses; the real innovation was focusing on speed routes rather than timing; something that, like a Power Run attack, only works if you've got the talent to do it.

So, basically, now days you have Power Run teams and Stretch/Zone run teams, then there's Pro Spread passing teams and West Coast passing teams. And that's pretty much it.

I think you'll see the 49ers running something very similar to the early '90s Cowboys offense this year, btw. It'll be pretty retro, I'm looking forward too it.

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Actually, the playbooks used to be the same from Madden 06 to Madden 08, but for Madden 09, a lot of new plays were added.

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Thank you, somebody other than myself knows that everybody uses the same stuff....the same route combos, mostly the same formations.They mostly just take an existing formation and move a player 2 yards 1 way more... They just move people around personell wise. You can download alot of nfl and ncaa playbooks and everyone runs the same thing (it will also help your madden game out, esp in 09, its like getting free ebooks...lol)