This is an old glitch players used to do on older maddens. I've found a counter for it is to call a timeout when the other player is in the forever pause. Upon you calling timeout I believe it resets the other players pause time.
If this ever happens again try this out and hope it helps!
Happy gaming and best of luck out there
@AsianGod777 This is an old thread but, essentially on the madden games you could call a team timeout in game at any point whether it is paused or not so long as there is not a play in action and the ball is live on field. The timeout buttons should be the TouchPad on Playstation or the windows button on Xbox. By tapping the timeout button during the game, in or out of pause it will opt for a team timeout. You would be allowed to call timeout by input of this button in the even that your opponent paused and abused this old glitch. As mentioned it's been noted to see an opponent timeout before doing this glitch because if they called the timeout within the same series of a in game Play then you can not call one untill the next down of play in game. Hope this helps and happy gaming!
