Originally posted by jdbolick
The Patriots are exceptional precisely because they find a way to do things that other teams can't. Meanwhile the Tennessee Titans are extremely predictable in terms of what they run out of certain formations. Regardless, you're still missing the point regarding the game mechanic. With a much larger playbook, there is little benefit for the DC to guess what play will be run except perhaps on 3rd/4th down. In the current sim it's more effective to play vanilla defense that will protect against the pass or the pitch. I admit that it's more fun to watch games when a lot of different plays are being called, but it's made DCing into something dreadfully boring. Frankly I don't understand why we didn't get the full DPC back when they expanded playbooks. At least back then creating plays was fun.
In a computer game any team can be the patriots.
okay, now we are back talking about game mechanics not real football. To my point it is only more effective to play a vanilla defense if you don't feel like game planning. You can't cover both the pitch and deep pass at the same time unless you leave the middle wide open, but that comes back to scouting and game planning.
We just completely disagree on this one
The Patriots are exceptional precisely because they find a way to do things that other teams can't. Meanwhile the Tennessee Titans are extremely predictable in terms of what they run out of certain formations. Regardless, you're still missing the point regarding the game mechanic. With a much larger playbook, there is little benefit for the DC to guess what play will be run except perhaps on 3rd/4th down. In the current sim it's more effective to play vanilla defense that will protect against the pass or the pitch. I admit that it's more fun to watch games when a lot of different plays are being called, but it's made DCing into something dreadfully boring. Frankly I don't understand why we didn't get the full DPC back when they expanded playbooks. At least back then creating plays was fun.
In a computer game any team can be the patriots.
okay, now we are back talking about game mechanics not real football. To my point it is only more effective to play a vanilla defense if you don't feel like game planning. You can't cover both the pitch and deep pass at the same time unless you leave the middle wide open, but that comes back to scouting and game planning.
We just completely disagree on this one
