Quote Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn View Post
3 in a lot of cases, especially against random opponents, is not nearly enough. Virtually every play online you're going to have to slide protect and then hot route a RB/TE to block, especially this year since blitzing is much more effective. That leaves you with literally 1 hot route for your receivers and absolutely no time whatsoever for any motion.

It's fine in offline games. For online play, it's just stupid. The only thing is does is give the people who abuse the AI yet another crutch to help them out.
I only play in sim online leagues so I don't have to worry about the last portion. I also don't play offline whatsoever.

With the "max protect" option doesn't it already set your RB and TE to block? Almost certain I noticed that lastnight.

I typically make 3-4 hot routes quite a bit. I've played 2 random ranked games as I typically do every new release.

Some of my numbers so far in those two games is

Hot route %: 50

# of Hot routes: 41-44 I believe (have to check to be certain but I know it's in the 40's)

Can get definite numbers later but I don't have a problem with it as is. I just need to learn my playbook and get use to play call system which I cannot stand really.

On another note I don't play as many ranked randoms as you do so I'm sure it is a different story.