This is another thing that really needs to be addressed.
Taylor Mays isn't the best safety in the league but if you are controlling him he may as well be. They need some sort of system that actually lets using a crafty veteran or just a very smart player worthwhile. Something like their old Smart QB/LB Weapon where you could see certain assignments.
Not sure how you'd make a system like that work in a face to face game but there should be something to make it so that the guys with all the physical attributes aren't necessarily the best players. This goes over to WR more than any position in my opinion because if you have a 6'4" WR then you can dominate shorter CB's all day long in Madden with face throws and the strange fact that routes like the man beating wheel route is more consistent when you run it with a poor route runner. For instance Tori Gurley should never be seeing the field with GB but I know people who use him for his low route running and height....there is something wrong with that.
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Oh while it is still fresh in my mind after watching someone do it. How in the world could they have missed the glitch where you can run out of the end zone and then back through the back of the endzone on a kickoff and not have count as a safety during the development cycle?