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Re: General App Shenanigans

How is this a pick!? It's bad enough when playing a team 400 overall above me but when i throw back shoulder passes against hard and very hard opponents my receivers drop passes at a ridiculous rates, why? Just like a good NFL quarterback I'm throwing my receivers open but my skill is being killed by terrible programming! Why? Fix your game already! Just look at this total horse poop play! Awful just Awful! EA you should be ashamed of this product that does not do John Madden justice! Shameful and unprofessional!

5 Replies

itsmraj2u
4 years ago
@drtydozen13You gotta tag one of the @EA_ people or you won’t at least get a response.
itsmraj2u
4 years ago
@drtydozen13 @EA_Blueberry
Like three weird things happening here. First, there’s a TE lined up as the Left Tackle, second is Darnold is lined up behind the Left Guard for the snap, the snap even goes sailing over to Darnold in the wrong formation and Third, the actual Left Tackle is on the right side lined up as a TE. Multiple shift and formation issues with this but that’s rulebook stuff that’s beyond casual can knowledge so I’ll refrain.
drtydozen13
4 years ago
@itsmraj2uThat's actually a common and completely legal formation called an overload. As its name suggests it creates an overload of o linemen on one side of the formation to increase the chance at a successful running play to that side without actually having to bring in an extra lineman and have them report as an eligible receiver.
itsmraj2u
4 years ago
@drtydozen13 Hence the not going into more specifics about the rule book. This wasn’t designed to flow this way, you can tel that by Darnold being over a Guard and the ball zipping over to him. The overload makes sense with the rearrangement like what Belichik likes to do as well as having a TE in the backfield on the overloaded side, but more to it not being what we’re seeing here, their second TE is on the left and not overloaded side.
drtydozen13
4 years ago
@itsmraj2u Oh yeah the QB is in the completely wrong position for the snap, i was only commenting that the position of the OT and TE are as intended.