Quote Originally Posted by Jayrah View Post
Mmmmhmmm. That's Wisconsin's staple running play. They averaged 5.5 yds a carry and had 48 touchdowns on the ground last season. Yup, that's supposed to get 3+ yds a play. In fact a mere total of 17 schools last season average less than 3.5 yds a carry. Against a Wisconsin type rushing attack, you have to load the box all the time. That's how you give yourself a chance to stop it.

It's not impossible to stop a run play this season, nor is it impossible to stop a great rushing offense for an entire game. Just like in Real Life, you need the players to do it against your particular opponent, and the play call has to be somewhat aggressive. I don't understand why people here have such an issue with offenses working. College football is a generally high scoring game. Could the defense be better? Especially in play variety (already being upgraded significantly), coverage and coverage animations that only end in ints or catches instead of a clean breakup, yes. In fact those last 2 things being improved would eliminate so many completions, which would bring more drives to an end and across the board create lower scoring games. But offenses work, they're designed too. It seems we are getting more tools to stop it more often, so the complaints at this point are unwarranted, especially considering that for 10 we were all disgruntled about how terrible the run game was, remember that?
It's the normal rubberband fixing that EA has become know for that Jay. First, it's too hard, then it's too easy. For god's sake, if you gave me any team that was fairly decent at running the ball, had an offensive line that actually blocked for a bit, and sliders that weren't Heisman cheating shit, I could run the ball for 500+ yards a game without having to throw the ball once. Believe me, THAT'S not realistic AT ALL. And then, what's the incentive for running the ball in this game when I can throw the ball for 500 yards using a hurry-up offense the whole way and basically be unstoppable as long as my offensive line and WRs are halfway decent? Offense is so far beyond easy in '11, it's disgusting. When you have to hope and pray you can actually stop a dude on defense (and holding a good team to a FG is like winning the fuckin' Super Bowl), there's something wrong with the equation don't ya think?

And this is coming from someone that always was the defense wins championships kind of team builder. Offense will score when I need to, but my defense is going to shut you the fuck down. Good luck trying to do anything like that against someone even halfway decent at the game in '11.