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Quote: Originally Posted by Palo20

I can see how that could adversely affect your Madden game, but I think the auto motion is very realistic. The only thing I would change is to add the ability to change the snap count on the auto motion. As it stands, it's easy to time the snap when facing Flexbone auto motion. As for the realism, I mentioned above, motion is always determined in the huddle, not at the line of scrimmage in real football. It's always a part of the play call. The Qb does not come to the line and say, "we're running right, let me just motion an extra TE over there." It's all done in the huddle. If the QB feels he's in a "bad" play, then his only choice is to audible to a different play. I think we've all grown accustomed to the Madden/NCAA way of picking any of 5 men to motion and making our decisions at the line of scrimmage. I have no problem with this, but if we're talking about true "sim" football, it doesn't happen that way.

Well, one way to change the point of the motion where the ball is snapped is to use the play clock. The ball will automatically be snapped at any point during the motion just before the play clock hits zero.

I agree with the motion thing though. You should be able to select at least one player that you can control the motion prior to the snap. You should be able to move him into position, then hit X (on PS3) to start the automatic motion. I would like to see them implement some of the automatic TE shifts that a lot of teams use. For instance the team sets with two TEs to the strong side, then both TEs move together to the opposite side of the line. I can do this by using two different forms of the formation & calling an audible, or by flipping the play, but when flipping the play, the WRs switch sides as well.

In real life, Temple likes to come out in a a twin TE set, then immediately switch the formation to a tackle over twin TE set & snap the ball the instant the tackle & TEs set the second time. It works great in real life, because a lot of times the defense is caught of guard trying to re-establish their assignments.