It's a bit better if you switch the playcall screen to the advanced view (click the right stick down) and then, as someone else suggested, hold LT to switch to the Bluff view -- you can scroll three plays at a time that way.
But yes, it looks like the devs botched the playcall screen this year. There are 40 plays in the 4-3 defense; that's a lot of scrolling to pick ONE play in the middle.
Bad design decision. Sometimes I think EA just makes changes to disguise the fact that the game is made of 75% recycled materials.