Quote Originally Posted by Rudy View Post
I'm not a very good offensive player so this ease of passing is not something I'm overly aware of.

I personally think the biggest problem with the passing game is the vertical spacing. EA does a pretty good job of getting the horizontal spacing right although they need to give the user the option to shade WRs inside or outside to take away certain things (like a quick slant). The vertical spacing is poor. LBs jump too high and the space in between zones is too hard to place the ball as the closer defender usually swats the ball too easily. They did say they tweaked the trajectory so if they made the ball a bit higher it might make it easier to drop it into tight spaces. Making QBs a little less accurate would help reduce the extra completions.
I believe they said that, but i don't believe they really did anything to affect vertical spacing. In one of their "highliting locomotion" videos, a defender 5 yards in front of the receiver bats a ball that was meant to be an over-the-shoulder grab, much like it has been in the past.