Quote Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn View Post
The shake blitz is the most recognizable glitch in the entire game, but it's also one that's fairly easy to beat. If your opponent's Linebackers are moving back and forth repeatedly, they're shake blitzing. When defenders are moving prior to the snap, they start at full speed when the ball is snapped. Most of these lovely human beings who do this do it out of 1-5-5 where there's a ton of speed right at the line of scrimmage which is when it's most effective. It's been in the game for years and EA FINALLY took notice and tried to do something by slowing down the speed at which you can shift the linebackers multiple times, but if you time it right, you can still do it.

There's a number of ways to beat it. You can try to time your snap so that you snap it right when the linebackers make their shift to a pinched look or you can do my preferred method: get in a 2 back shotgun formation and hot route the 2 RBs to block to each side with aggressive slide protection. I don't think I've ever been sacked doing that. I usually have a drag and slant going to one side of the field, and then a streak to the other. Good luck defending that shit with cover 0 coverage.
Ok, yeah I have seen this a million times. I thought that may be it, but I was unsure. What a pain, man! I wish people just played this game without exploiting it. What is the glory in saying "oh, I just owned you because I used cheesing methods to do so." I want to win playing sim, real football style. Seems to be the minority these days. One of my favorite quotes from these guys, "Well, stop it, then. Don't hate the player, hate the game."