Originally posted by robponce
Looks like what is happening, is the Defender is judging their "threat to being tackled" as the nearest player. They're thus avoiding the WR by jumping towards the center of the field.
Nearly 100% of passes will come from the QB at the middle of the field passing to a WR/TE/HB outside of the box. The defender obviously must "Jump" the route and by rule, be closer to the middle than the receiver.
They then determine the receiver to be the nearest threat and run away which, as stated before, would be, by rule, towards the middle of the field. Only when another player (o-linemen) in these cases become the closest threat do they run an alternate route.
Thoughts?
Yeah, it very well could be something like that.
But say when a RB is approaching a defender that he needs to avoid, he changes direction much quicker than when a defender has intercepted a pass. A lot of these defenders don't even seem to notice the offensive player they are about to run into, until they are right on top of them.
It is something to do with the open field pathing bug, probably. I was just trying hard to keep it out of that never ending trap.
I don't think it was always like this though, although it is something that I've been noticing for a long time.
See, the open field pathing thing usually isn't a big deal on offense, because it usually only happens in really long TDs. But this, or at least to me, is a much bigger problem, because these run backs could very well be the difference in winning a game or not.
Looks like what is happening, is the Defender is judging their "threat to being tackled" as the nearest player. They're thus avoiding the WR by jumping towards the center of the field.
Nearly 100% of passes will come from the QB at the middle of the field passing to a WR/TE/HB outside of the box. The defender obviously must "Jump" the route and by rule, be closer to the middle than the receiver.
They then determine the receiver to be the nearest threat and run away which, as stated before, would be, by rule, towards the middle of the field. Only when another player (o-linemen) in these cases become the closest threat do they run an alternate route.
Thoughts?
Yeah, it very well could be something like that.
But say when a RB is approaching a defender that he needs to avoid, he changes direction much quicker than when a defender has intercepted a pass. A lot of these defenders don't even seem to notice the offensive player they are about to run into, until they are right on top of them.
It is something to do with the open field pathing bug, probably. I was just trying hard to keep it out of that never ending trap.
I don't think it was always like this though, although it is something that I've been noticing for a long time.
See, the open field pathing thing usually isn't a big deal on offense, because it usually only happens in really long TDs. But this, or at least to me, is a much bigger problem, because these run backs could very well be the difference in winning a game or not.
