I always figure football is a tough game to program because it's basically 5-10 seconds of chaos after the snap, but i could just believe that because EA has been thrashing around in the shallow end for 10+ years. Maybe it's just simpler and more cost effective this way? I doubt we will ever know. I gotta say, it works good enough to make a decent game, just sucks that it's more sleight of hand than artificial intellegence.