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Blitzers now always get "locked in" to pass rush mode and will keep rushing the QB until they get close to the ball or make an awareness check, regardless of if it's a run or pass play. This should allow runs to better beat those edge blitzes.

Ok, I am kind of confused. Havent this been always the Case? What exactly changed here?

I thought they will always rush the QB until their Blitz Awareness will help them finding out that the QB may have already given the Ball away?


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The problem was vs inside runs. They would just kinda auto funnel to the middle where the run was going to before, auto targeting after the handoff, meaning there was little downside to blitzing the edges. Now they get locked into blitzing the QB every time and have to make a much more difficult awareness check before turning around.

Corndog can probably explain it better than I; he did the work on it.

Originally posted by Bort
The problem was vs inside runs. They would just kinda auto funnel to the middle where the run was going to before, auto targeting after the handoff, meaning there was little downside to blitzing the edges. Now they get locked into blitzing the QB every time and have to make a much more difficult awareness check before turning around.

Corndog can probably explain it better than I; he did the work on it.

Ah lol, OK, I thought it was about beating it with outside Rushes. But I havent seen Outside Blitzers making the Tackle on Inside Runs I think, but if that was the Case, then yeah, I guess the Change was needed. I never had trouble running Inside vs ZEB or similar.

http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/33695/3631929

Oh, nvm. Are you talking bout stuff like this?

Partially, it addresses stuff like this...
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/33119/3563860

The OLBs that are "blitzing" just immediately converge to the middle of the field rather than take normal blitzing lanes since they were omniscient and just knew the QB was running up the middle. Now they actually have to pass an awareness check to switch from "blitz pathing" to "pursue ball carrier" pathing.

Originally posted by Corndog
Partially, it addresses stuff like this...
http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/33119/3563860

The OLBs that are "blitzing" just immediately converge to the middle of the field rather than take normal blitzing lanes since they were omniscient and just knew the QB was running up the middle. Now they actually have to pass an awareness check to switch from "blitz pathing" to "pursue ball carrier" pathing.

I like it, hopefully gives a bit of a boost to the rushing game, which I have been waiting for.

So it only changes things vs QB runs?

Originally posted by NiborRis
So it only changes things vs QB runs?

No, but it has the largest effect on QB runs.

So the Tampa Bay Thunder will be even better in Sophs than they were in Rookie.

Originally posted by Corndog
No, but it has the largest effect on QB runs.

I'll expand on this a bit.

Previously, players set to blitz would immediately "pursue" the ball if it was a rush play. On HB handoffs and whatnot, blitzers still had to make an awareness check to realize that the QB handed off...but until that point they were "pursuing" the QB. Obviously, in this set up, if the QB never handoffs, they never need to pass any checks, and just immediately go and tackle him.

With the change, players should fire off the line and rush forward like they were actually blitzing, whether it is a pass play or not. They can pass a blitz awareness check to break off early, otherwise they will just run themselves out of the play.

I don't know, somebody run some scrims...easier to look than try to explain.

Looks like some of the other changes didn't make it in yet.

Originally posted by Corndog
Looks like some of the other changes didn't make it in yet.

May want to take a look at the man coverage now, it's letting guys run wide open.

Originally posted by Parab00n
May want to take a look at the man coverage now, it's letting guys run wide open.

Link?

Oh yeah, nevermind, found a replay.

Yeah that should be fixed when the newest code gets uploaded...bugging Bort.