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Quote: Originally Posted by CM Hooe

To be fair to what you are seeing, I do still see pulling guards have brain farts, especially if I don't stay behind them. It's really easy to overrun pullers on plays like Power and completely screw everything up. Honestly, I think the biggest thing that has helped the OL moreso than any AI changes is just the fact that everyone on the field has slowed down, so there's less pressure to just sprint out in front of a play past your blockers. I find that having patience as a runner, particularly with the sprint button, helps me on gap-running plays. Which, I realize that that's something people has said about Madden for years, but I think it's actually true now? Hopefully Tiburon continues to work on blocker targeting going forward because I think there's still work to be done here.

I started a franchise with a power run scheme, which is new for me. I’ve always been a spread team utilizing zone runs, so the only real issue I had running the ball were that on zone plays, linemen frequently double team when they don’t need to and often don’t get to the second level, leaving linebackers completely unblocked. Now running more power plays and such, I’m seeing more of the issues like mentioned, especially what you said.

Someone mentioned earlier that they just target what they see in front of them. I actually had a couple of plays where a pulling guard stopped and tried to block someone behind me. Not very often, but enough to make me think it’s not just a run straight ahead and hit whatever you see.