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So it took me a while to get out of the depression that was the Burghers crushing defeat to BOSS. But when I did, I started to notice some very weird things. One of the first plays I came across was this one, done during our first drive.

http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/replay/53963/3351583

A lot of things happen in this play, that up until the final league game hadn't been going on. I'm wondering if Bort did a ninja adjustment to the sim like he used to do back in GLB1?

So a few things are just totally wonky with this play. Firstly, every player on the Burghers, which I'm sure is no surprise has 40+ Run block awareness, and if applicable, the same or more lead block awareness.

So the oddity with this one play alone is, notice, Terrance Lloyd - 55 Run Block Awareness - Runs a route!? instead of picking up his CB.

Red Bynum - 47 Run Block Awareness, 46 Lead Block - picks up no defender and just idles in the snap position, and the same for the TE Phineas Cyr.



This happens multiple times in this game. I'm not questioning our loss to BOSS, a well played game and a great defense was obviously called by them. But can anyone explain what exactly is going on in these plays? Because I'm totally at a loss, considering just as far back as our game versus Denton, everything was fine.

Edit: It had crossed my mind that this is possibly the result of exceptional run blocking? But would high break blocking cause opposing players to develop down syndrome? I've seen players with high break run block to take excellent tackling routes to players, and to obviously get off blocks very fast - but never jedi mind trick the opposing defender into not even acting, or running a receiving route on a running play lol.

Well the guard just missed his block. Went out to grab the DE and missed.

Phineas looks like he was trying to get after one of the LBs and got confused or something. Not just dead sure on that.

The WR, the only thing I could guess is the block is based on lead blocking and he didn't pass his check.

But conjecture is just that, and I couldn't make any concrete guesses.

everyone's always doing "ninja adjustments" to things when you guys lose your games

Blocking has been britta'ed in this game for a long time. I've started more than one thread about it in the forums but I've never gotten a decent response beyond "fx yr bilds"

It could be a pathing issue with the play as well. Did this happen every time you ran this play?

Originally posted by Justiciable
Well the guard just missed his block. Went out to grab the DE and missed.

Phineas looks like he was trying to get after one of the LBs and got confused or something. Not just dead sure on that.

The WR, the only thing I could guess is the block is based on lead blocking and he didn't pass his check.

But conjecture is just that, and I couldn't make any concrete guesses.



I would agree with this. Looks like the TE was tied up with trying to pass an awareness check. He had to account for the DE, CB and probably the LB that his path dictated he was supposed to block. Just unlucky for this one. And the rest of the game could be a heart/morale issue.