raymattison21 wrote:
jdavidbakr wrote:
Basically the only change I made in this update was an attempt to eliminate the 'long pass nerf' as setherick loved to call it. What I am wanting to evaluate is: 1) does it feel like the medium and long pass game has returned (the #1 complaint about 0.4.5 is that the passing game went away) and 2) can it be exploited (are we back to an all-long pass game being overpowered)?
When a WR cuts and loses the defender, that is a dice roll of route running vs man coverage. If the defender wins that dice roll, he should stay with the WR pretty well.
QB pocket presence and scrambling is outside of the scope of this release, at least at this point.
When a WR cuts and loses the defender, that is a dice roll of route running vs man coverage. If the defender wins that dice roll, he should stay with the WR pretty well.
QB pocket presence and scrambling is outside of the scope of this release, at least at this point.
That said I like it alot. If this were pushed in 4.5 feedback would have been different for sure. I thought we dropped like 1 out of 10 wide open long passes even though the stats had none.
#2 would need a larger sample to really find out. As I would like to see faster/better defenses spamming certain senerios along with different styles approach toward defending that long pass.
We threw no short passes . ..so personally it was hard to evaluate , but my bets are the long passing is over powered when compared to shorts passes in how effective they might be now.
But I will chalk that that up to reads , scrambling , and among other things....still reads act slightly different due to the tweaks made. Qbs are now throwing it deep (pending ratings ) so i see the timing of other routes/reads changing a bit .
As 4.5 seems to have plays were the qb almost always throws it to the same guy pending senerio . Wide open or even when they are triple covered . I didn't really see that too much here, but sample size.......As a season of stats accumulates it's kinda easier for me to see what numbers stand out . Then go back and see why that happened.
Last season a wr Barrett was targeted alot out of the wr1 position. 17 times in one game....Looking back he did using really only 2 plays. If that still here in 4.6 I am ok with it as long there's some balance of these "money plays". They were short routes and Barrett averaged less than 10 yards a reception so spamming those plays may not be the worst compared to say the flanker hitch busting 60 yards every time.
The sample is too small now, and the level of competition too uneven to draw conclusions.
The flanker hitich may need a defense meant to stop it specifically, and that would be ho-humif the gameplan was totally altered in fear of a specific play.
