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Run_of_Four_23's avatar
Run_of_Four_23
Seasoned Traveler
5 months ago

Onside Kicks

Let's discuss Onside Kicks...

I had someone call an unexpected onside kick on me last night. No big deal, but I tried to call a timeout and nothing happened. I tried to call an audible, nothing. Then he kicked it to the far sideline and my player ran ahead and tried to block the defender instead of going for the ball. The kicking team recovered it. 😡

In the future, I hope EA will add audibles or timeouts so we can adjust if we make the mistake of picking our kick return too quickly.

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  • Bigmulajohnson's avatar
    Bigmulajohnson
    Seasoned Rookie
    16 days ago

    This happens because the awareness of players go down because they are not expecting an onside kick I think it pretty cool

  • Run_of_Four_23's avatar
    Run_of_Four_23
    Seasoned Traveler
    20 days ago

    In all fairness to EA, it’s been awhile since I first posted this. You can call a timeout when someone calls an onside kick. 

    But to further the discussion, wouldn’t it be great if you could do an onside kick just by moving the kick meter how you want it, low power, down to the right or left. That way you could totally surprise the opponent. 

  • Boo95q's avatar
    Boo95q
    Seasoned Traveler
    21 days ago

    I've seen some great coaches try and recover surprise onside kicks, and I mean in really big games, too.  Nick Saban, Bill Cowher, and Sean Payton have tried it (and recovered it) in championship game or Super Bowl situations.  

    But those onside kicks were completely disguised.  It's different from the way an onside kick formation sets up mostly on one side of the field, making their intention obvious.    I remember on NCAA Football 2017 you could audible or call timeout in that kind of situation.  Strange that the ability to do this is not available on the current version of the game.  

    It's kind of silly that you can't do that anymore.  Why did EA change it?  Seems like a step back rather than forward to me.  I mean, how many patches have you guys already done for this game?  A lot of them have seemed kind of extraneous as far as gameplay goes. Why don't you fix this on the next patch, EA?  Do a relevant patch for a change.🙃

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