Keontez
07-18-2011, 09:21 PM
Im usually the type of guy that sticks with one playbook and try to get things to work for me, but this year EA has made that very hard for me to do. I'm a Flexbone/ Spread Option guy and in my talks with other Flexboners, we've come to the conclusion that EA has absolutely neutered the Flexbone playbooks by taking a number of plays out of the Flexbone books. IE:
- Flexbone Normal - Fake Toss Pass. Great play and is needed now that the Toss is back viable.
- Flexbone Normal - FB Load Option Pass, I know theres the FB Load Option Strong Pass but its not the same this play worked a hell of a lot better than the one with the counter motion and passing concept made since.
- Flexbone Normal - FB Seams, Just a bang up play when facing players who load up the box and go with 1 high safety.
- Flexbone Normal Speed Option Pass, Passing plays are off of Option looks are very important in this offense. Especially, When the Triple Option pass plays have been instant sacks since they added them in 10.
- Flexbone Split Formation, The only formation to have a WR Sweep or a Dive/Trap play off of the Wing Sweep motion. I still cant, for the life of me, figure out why this formation was taken out.
- Flexbone Split X/Z Wing - Triple Option to the Awayside, With the extra blocker to the backside these plays were great to hold the backside contain. The removal of these plays make the playbooks useless making the formation predictable when your opponent sees that all of your runs are going to the the TE side.
- Flexbone Trips/Trio Right - Wr Mid Screen, in 10 the flexbone had 1 screen play, EA added these plays in 11, and ripped them out of the play book in 12. I understand that we have a GT Bubble screen which is great... Some of us are kinda 50/50 on if these plays were needed, but we all agree that these were great to have.
- Flexbone Trips Left - Corner Cross - I absolutely fell in love with this play towards the end of 11's season and almost had a aneurism when I saw that this play was removed for what I guess was Post Curl
- Flexbone Trips Left - FB Option, I understand that you gave us the Quick Option to the Trips side, but if I could, I'd love to showcase the fact how important the Wingback Blocking on the edge is now. You line up in a trips formation, and your opponent calls man and lines a player up directly over the WB with the way the programing is this year thats play accounts for a instant loss. If the pitch player was the FB instead of the WB, that player gets blocked and the play is more potent in a trips scheme.
With that being said, we all clamored to praise your work when we saw things added to the flexbone playbooks. The FB Draw was MUCH MUCH needed. We also greatly appreciate the WB Dive added to the close formation (but can we get the FB tuned to block correctly instead of running outside to tackle to block? PURTY PLEASE!?) The Bubbles are great. And the fix to the backside pursuits on the Triple Option and Midline are very much appreciated. But there are still some improvements us Optioneers would like to see. (Flexbone Trips- Slot Triple Options would be a dream come true.)
The majority of guys who play this game are split between two groups, X's and O's wise. You have your Pro-Style guys and then you have your Spread guys. We're just asking a for a bone to be thrown our way. We understand that you guys want to try to cut the size of the playbooks down and remove plays to make room for new ones but if your going to do that take out the flippable plays from Normal and Close. Why should we have 2 Toss plays when we could use 1 and flip it to the other side if need be?
Hopefully you guys see this or one of the CD guys point you in this direction. The very small community that I'm speaking for would love it if some of the old play could some how get patched or tuned back in. Or just fix the FB's blocking on the WB Dive.
/rant
Thanks for your time.
- Flexbone Normal - Fake Toss Pass. Great play and is needed now that the Toss is back viable.
- Flexbone Normal - FB Load Option Pass, I know theres the FB Load Option Strong Pass but its not the same this play worked a hell of a lot better than the one with the counter motion and passing concept made since.
- Flexbone Normal - FB Seams, Just a bang up play when facing players who load up the box and go with 1 high safety.
- Flexbone Normal Speed Option Pass, Passing plays are off of Option looks are very important in this offense. Especially, When the Triple Option pass plays have been instant sacks since they added them in 10.
- Flexbone Split Formation, The only formation to have a WR Sweep or a Dive/Trap play off of the Wing Sweep motion. I still cant, for the life of me, figure out why this formation was taken out.
- Flexbone Split X/Z Wing - Triple Option to the Awayside, With the extra blocker to the backside these plays were great to hold the backside contain. The removal of these plays make the playbooks useless making the formation predictable when your opponent sees that all of your runs are going to the the TE side.
- Flexbone Trips/Trio Right - Wr Mid Screen, in 10 the flexbone had 1 screen play, EA added these plays in 11, and ripped them out of the play book in 12. I understand that we have a GT Bubble screen which is great... Some of us are kinda 50/50 on if these plays were needed, but we all agree that these were great to have.
- Flexbone Trips Left - Corner Cross - I absolutely fell in love with this play towards the end of 11's season and almost had a aneurism when I saw that this play was removed for what I guess was Post Curl
- Flexbone Trips Left - FB Option, I understand that you gave us the Quick Option to the Trips side, but if I could, I'd love to showcase the fact how important the Wingback Blocking on the edge is now. You line up in a trips formation, and your opponent calls man and lines a player up directly over the WB with the way the programing is this year thats play accounts for a instant loss. If the pitch player was the FB instead of the WB, that player gets blocked and the play is more potent in a trips scheme.
With that being said, we all clamored to praise your work when we saw things added to the flexbone playbooks. The FB Draw was MUCH MUCH needed. We also greatly appreciate the WB Dive added to the close formation (but can we get the FB tuned to block correctly instead of running outside to tackle to block? PURTY PLEASE!?) The Bubbles are great. And the fix to the backside pursuits on the Triple Option and Midline are very much appreciated. But there are still some improvements us Optioneers would like to see. (Flexbone Trips- Slot Triple Options would be a dream come true.)
The majority of guys who play this game are split between two groups, X's and O's wise. You have your Pro-Style guys and then you have your Spread guys. We're just asking a for a bone to be thrown our way. We understand that you guys want to try to cut the size of the playbooks down and remove plays to make room for new ones but if your going to do that take out the flippable plays from Normal and Close. Why should we have 2 Toss plays when we could use 1 and flip it to the other side if need be?
Hopefully you guys see this or one of the CD guys point you in this direction. The very small community that I'm speaking for would love it if some of the old play could some how get patched or tuned back in. Or just fix the FB's blocking on the WB Dive.
/rant
Thanks for your time.