Quote Originally Posted by WolverineJay View Post
Thanks Jeff. I look forward to your impressions from the next visit to EA/Tiburon. I think I just want an overall feel for movement by your ball carrier in the open field and whether the special moves are able to be used a split second before contact with defender.

I'd have a hard time imagining that the contact slightly before going past a CPU defender would be much different this year. I have felt while the big moves with the Right stick weren't great in 2011 the ability to cut back using the Left stick was the key to long gains and positive yards. PapaLoneStar was very good at this and I know he had/has studs at his RB positions but even myself with converted FB's as HB's was able to cut back towards the middle of the field for solid gains or break them for TD's.

I guess what I am saying is that this could and should be a very fine line to walk as far as effectiveness in my opinion. I wouldn't want it to be easy to flick either analog stick to go past a defender at the last second because it just wouldn't seem right to me. I also don't want the ball carrier to get sucked into the defender either, maybe a couple new arm tackle animations would fit here.