[quote name='Dark Rider']I
ing hate madden sometimes! So many broken plays! You should not be able to throw to one person every other play, with the same routes. I may have zone, or even two people standing there next to him. It doesn't
ing matter. Dallas Clark will still jump 10 feet in the air and catch it. Or maybe he will just push off of one of them and make that catch as seems to be his tendency.
Listen, this isn't a personal attack against G33, although I was annoyed he kept using the same broken Dallas Clark slant. And yes I made a lot of mistakes, and G33 deserved to win. I just hate how the game screws me time after time. Madden can be so broken.
Anyway Good game G33.
Titans - 7
Colts - 10[/QUOTE]
To be honest, I don't really throw slants, as good zone coverage gets picks on those. What I was throwing was a lot of drag routes. If I remember correctly, of my 28 pass attempts, I threw 3 HB angles, 2 HB screens, and 1 HB out to Joseph Addai (for 3 completions, 1 TFL completion, one out to Pierre Garcon, and a pick), 3 curls, 4 slants, and 2 drags to Reggie Wayne (for 6 completions, 2 incompletions, and a pick), 1 drag to Austin Collie (for 1 completion), 1 drag to Jacob Tamme (for 1 completion) and 7 drags, 2 slants, and 2 ins to Dallas Clark (for 9 completions and 2 incompletions). These would be the routes I ended up throwing to, not the plays I actually called. I'll admit, I do throw to a lot of drag routes. It's my primary checkdown route, and I audible it often to make sure I have a checkdown route that doesn't have 3 defenders sitting on it. When my primary target is covered, I immediately look to my TE and fire off a pass in his direction. I do this for two reasons: One, it takes me a couple of seconds to recognize whether a route is open and I take too many sacks when I play like an actual QB and check primary, then secondary, then tertiary, then checkdown, and two, I don't know the throwaway button (I always forget what it is. For anyone that has played me before, have you ever seen me throw away a pass?). Since I use it as both a normal route and a checkdown route, if I end up passing a lot, I end up throwing to a lot of drag routes to the TE. Is the drag route strong? Yes. Is the drag route unstoppable? No. I've played against people who knock down passes and pick off my drag routes with regularity. For those games, I pick a different play to be my checkdown route.
I could make the same complaints about your running an almost exclusive hurry-up offense in the 1st quarter and beyond, or your back-to-back screen plays, but I was fine with you doing that, as that's your personal style of playing. The hurry-up offense on every play was irritating, but I countered that by playing slow and methodically, keeping myself calm and playing to my own rhythm and not getting swept up by yours. As for the screens, well, that's a problem with my defensive playcalling. I would defend left and the pass would go to the right, I would defend both and the pass/run would be up the middle, I would defend the middle and it would be a screen. I don't know the Colts playbook at all, so I would call plays, note what worked and what didn't, and adapt my playcalling on the fly. I think I was getting better by the end.
Good game to you as well, and sorry if it felt like I was abusing Madden mechanics to win.
