I suggest we as gamers stop letting EA Tiburon off the hook for intentional design decisions like this. It's common sense that a DT engaged at the LOS with a 45 jump rating should not be jumping like that to bat down a pass, so that animation has no business triggering in that scenario for that player.
That should be unacceptable because it's not such a major "fix", imo. It's these kind of things in Madden, that clearly show how screwed up the foundation for creating the game seems to be. So many things in Madden give me the impression of people that just want to get the job done, with little regard for the integrity of the process. I think that's why Madden game play "is what it is".