Per agreement with the run game comments listed up above, it is basically pointless to continue my current dynasty right now. It is just a passing game, as no run game can be really worked and built upon during gameplay against the CPU. User-playing games in 26 dynasty mode is basically pointless at the moment, just going to go back to online dynasty on 25 that we still have going on.
A patch to fix the blocking design and logic is a complete must-have, as 26 is sunk with run game as it currently stands. Hugely disappointing to say the least, especially as I don't recall it being so blatantly broken and missed assignments on the 7/7 early release day.......... it is hard to believe that simply fixing the LB speed bug in the first small patch affected the run blocking logic and targeting that much.
Extremely disappointing because so many good things about the game, especially on defense IMO. The passing game makes more realistic sense also instead of the magically aware DBs of 25.
But when the base foundation of football, the running game, simply is not designed correctly and simply ignores.....BLOCKING..... on even the most basic lead block by a FB.........the game is broken.
The messed-up part? No word from EA when or if it will be fixed. And the sad part is that it is 8/4/25, less than a month from release day. And just silence.