Madden NFL 10 Blog: A Sneak Peek at the Wildcat w/ Screenshots

[damien6663]

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I don't understand what all the panic about the Wildcat being overpowered is about. The formation was used maybe 10 times all season to pass the ball. Most of the time, because of the unbalanced line and the fact that Ronnie Brown despite being the Dan Marino of Pop Warner QBs couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a beach ball, it is a power run formation. Ronnie Brown tried throwing no more than 3 times all season. Often the aim of package when trying to pass was to get the ball into an able passer like Chad Pennington's hands.

Since you know that this formation is going to be about the run, stack the box with 8 guys and control FS.

Because people remember mike vick, rolling out all over the place 30 yards behind scrimmage until a receiver gets WIDE open, it created some cheasing, and we are hoping the rbs-wrs who have played qb before dont turn into the new madden vick.

just speculation, we have nothing to go on.

[SouthernBrick]

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His name is Vernon Carey.

Oh ok thanks. I'm still hoping he was going to get doubled teamed though.

[damien6663]

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I'm quite simply blown away by the graphics again!!!!!

Really need to see some footage/play the game to completely lose my mind though...

I don't understand how Ian et al have been able to improve so many aspects of the game in 1 year when we had so little improvement in the last 4 years (might have regressed if you include how franchise sucked recently).

Thankyou so much devs.

Let's see some footage!!!!

id imagine the old crew spent to much time in the ball pit LOL

[Boucher]

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[marshallfever]

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Ian you guys have achieved something wonderful in the graphic department. I swear to you i thought it was real for a moment. My goodness you rock

[KANE699]

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Ricky Williams should also have a smoked visor, not clear, not black but smoke and also tucked sleeves

[DearbornDolfan]

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The way the game is looking right now it looks better than in the build we played. I'll wait for them to put it in a blog, but for those who are concerned, the Wildcat will not be hard to contain. They will show you why in the blog. Now I will say I had a chance to play with it in practice mode and Ricky broke quite a few long ones. But they have put some things in place for you to be able to contain this formation. Again, once they show the blog, you should be able to see it for yourself as to why it will not be hard.

Disciplined football should be able to contain the Wildcat. If the defense is making the correct reads, sticking to their assignments, and making good tackles then the Wildcat is nothing more than a 4 YPC play. It's making bad reads, not sticking to assignments, and poor tackling that allow the plays to be so dangerous.

[AndyBernard]

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Andy made mention of this in another thread, but with the forced 3 step drops, do throws like this get penalized? Cause that would suck on lobs down inside the 10.

[Boucher]

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Ricky Williams should also have a smoked visor, not clear, not black but smoke and also tucked sleeves

[TheWatcher]

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did the o-line double team as well in the wildcat as they did out of it?

I'm honestly not sure about that one. I only ran it a few times and I wasn't very successful. I think I threw an INT on one of'em. I had so much stuff on my watch list that whenever I did go into replay it was to make a note of a physics and collision issues if I found them. I was dead set on finding physics and collision issues. The good news is that I didn't find many and hopefully that's not just because I only had one day with the game.

As for the Wildcat, I wasn't very successful with it, and I tried to find an exploit each time I ran it. It just didn't seem as easy to run as I thought it would be.

[polamalu82]

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Shots look really good!

The DOF does seem to need toned down a bit.

Imagine how good it will look once they crank the lighting up.

[AndyBernard]

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I'm honestly not sure about that one. I only ran it a few times and I wasn't very successful. I think I threw an INT on one of'em. I had so much stuff on my watch list that whenever I did go into replay it was to make a note of a physics and collision issues if I found them. I was dead set on finding physics and collision issues. The good news is that I didn't find many and hopefully that's not just because I only had one day with the game.

As for the Wildcat, I wasn't very successful with it, and I tried to find an exploit each time I ran it. It just didn't seem as easy to run as I thought it would be.

Ty sir, appreciate the response

[KANE699]

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Shots look really good!

The DOF does seem to need toned down a bit.

Imagine how good it will look once they crank the lighting up.

DOF changes all the time, depends on who you are focusing on, its all about camera settings, its you can change dof at any point in time on a camera just due to settings.

[Obelysk]

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I just hope that the developers remember that the Phins use a offset line when they use the Wildcat.

[LBzrule]

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Disciplined football should be able to contain the Wildcat. If the defense is making the correct reads, sticking to their assignments, and making good tackles then the Wildcat is nothing more than a 4 YPC play. It's making bad reads, not sticking to assignments, and poor tackling that allow the plays to be so dangerous.

Yeah and a lack of additional fronts that would help you out. It will not be hard though. You guys will see why when they do the blog, IF they put up all the plays for it.