I actually think it's the opposite: guys aren't taking the games seriously enough. They may
think they're taking it seriously, but in truth they're just going through the motions.
I'm to the point in NCAA now where every first down I get, and every TFL I get, makes me pump my fist in the air. Why? Because I'm involved - in the truest sense of the word - in what I'm doing. I'm actually running out the playclock not because I'm milking it, but because I
need the time to find the "perfect" play.
If I were just button-mashing the playcall screens - what I suspect A LOT of guys around here are doing - I would never experience the game the way I am now.
It's been a sort of catch-phrase of mine lately: these games are much better than a lot of people seem to think; it all comes back to the gamer and how much mental energy he or she is willing to put in to take them to that next level. The game - or any artform, for that matter - can't do it by itself.
I haven't been truly disappointed with a game in a long time now, and it's simply because I take them seriously.