Fumbling while diving down...

[Bullet Sponge]

This one HAS to be fixed. There seems there is no safe way to simply go down without having a chance to fumble. For instance on an interception, end of the game run etc you should be able to just go down on your own without having any chance to fumble. As it is now if you dive down (even with no contact whatsoever) you might fumble the ball. This almost cost me a game and it is completely ridiculous.

[LopaKa]

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i agree with you man, this sucks. Every time I try to dive for the first down or end zone, my guy always ends up fumbling.

[TheCapstone32]

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It is realistic but it needs to be toned way down. I wish it was easier to just simply slide. That is something I have never been able to do.

[onebmf044]

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Eli Manning would also like this to be fixed.

[blLLD0]

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Eli Manning would also like this to be fixed.

Ya, however, in the college game you are down as soon as a knee, elbow, hip, etc hits the ground. Eli was never touched down, so the ground was allowed to cause the fumble.

As to the original topic, I would agree with the OP. In one of my recent games, I dove with my QB toward the goal line after scrambling out of the pocket. My QB fumbled 1 INCH from the goal line WITHOUT ever being touched by anyone. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me...

[UniversityofArizona]

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i try to run out of bounds as quickly as possible but yea a knell option would be pretty incredible

[packersfan4eva]

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I just protect the ball and try and avoid people.

[Aggies7]

Eli Manning would also like this to be fixed.

Classic. Was about to post same exact thing.

[Pokes404]

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What they should do is make it so that if you hold down the protect ball button and then press dive your player will go straight to the ground to avoid fumbling (or slide in the case of a QB). This would give you the option of either pressing dive like normal to stretch the ball out for more yards, or pressing protect ball and dive in conjunction to cover the ball and go immediately to the ground. There's nothing more aggravating than making a 10 yard scramble with my pocket QB only to have him lay out and fumble the ball when I was just trying to slide to the ground.

[blLLD0]

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The problem is, guys are fumbling when diving WITHOUT ever being touched. If an animation occurred where the defender hit my diving player causing him to fumble, I'd have no problem. But the frequency of diving players dropping/fumbling the ball WITHOUT being touched is too high, the point I think the OP was trying to make.

[onebmf044]

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Ya, however, in the college game you are down as soon as a knee, elbow, hip, etc hits the ground. Eli was never touched down, so the ground was allowed to cause the fumble.

As to the original topic, I would agree with the OP. In one of my recent games, I dove with my QB toward the goal line after scrambling out of the pocket. My QB fumbled 1 INCH from the goal line WITHOUT ever being touched by anyone. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me...

Thanks for giving an official a rules update. I was merely trying to make a funny.

[Bullet Sponge]

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The problem is, guys are fumbling when diving WITHOUT ever being touched. If an animation occurred where the defender hit my diving player causing him to fumble, I'd have no problem. But the frequency of diving players dropping/fumbling the ball WITHOUT being touched is too high, the point I think the OP was trying to make.

Exactly (although I do appreciate and got a chuckle out of the Eli Manning reference lol). The way it is now it might be SAFER to simply use the ball protect button and get tackled than to dive down untouched. Which is silly. I'm surprised EA didn't include a chance for fumbling on the kneel down.

And for everyone who thinks they should simply "scale it down" I disagree. Eliminate the fumble chance if you're untouched and dive down period or you leave the door open for you to get screwed over by the CPU. I have never seen a college player go down intentionally without being touched and cough up the ball ever.

[voodoo_magic]

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What they should do is make it so that if you hold down the protect ball button and then press dive your player will go straight to the ground to avoid fumbling (or slide in the case of a QB). This would give you the option of either pressing dive like normal to stretch the ball out for more yards, or pressing protect ball and dive in conjunction to cover the ball and go immediately to the ground. There's nothing more aggravating than making a 10 yard scramble with my pocket QB only to have him lay out and fumble the ball when I was just trying to slide to the ground.

Love that idea. It's good because you have to press the combination of buttons, so hard to accidentally do it as your running to the end zone with no one in sight.
It also seems like it would be easy to do when you have a split second to decide if you should dive or try to go for an extra yard as you would probably already be protecting the ball at that point.

[XDats IgnantX]

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This is ridiculous I agree. One time on a kick return for a would-be TD, I dived into the end zone, however my kick returner fumbled the ball and it went out of bounds, instead of a TD, CPU's ball at the 20. They later went on to score the winning TD with 16 seconds left, their 67 OVR receiver broke 3 tackles and juked out 2 safeties after having the ball morph thru my DB's hands to score a TD, that was it for Heisman difficulty!