Madden sucks

It completely shatters the illusion of playing a football simulation. When a video game relies on broken AI pathfinding rather than actual ratings, strategy, and numbers, it stops being football and just becomes an exercise in exploiting code.
In real football, a defensive coordinator who repeatedly sends 5 or 6 rushers against a max-protection scheme would get carved up or fired. The offensive line would easily pick up the rush, the quarterback would step up into a clean pocket, and a receiver would be wide open in the vacated space