The NFL has become Maddenized

[jyoung]

Some interesting correlations between last night's Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the average Madden gamer:

Every play from the shotgun.

4 - 5 WR sets every play.

Tons of slants, seams and other routes targeting the middle of the field.

Screen passes instead of real run plays.

4:1 pass to run ratio.

Blitz every play on defense.

3-4 and 3-3-5 as base defensive scheme.

Your thoughts?

[Mr5000]

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my thoughts

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I would hope the average Madden Gamer hadn't started watching Football yesterday because this has been going on for the last 6-7 years already.

[jeremym480]

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my thoughts

Pretty much.

[Hova57]

Re: The NFL has become Maddenized

Some interesting correlations between last night's Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the average Madden gamer:

Every play from the shotgun.

4 - 5 WR sets every play.

Tons of slants, seams and other routes targeting the middle of the field.

Screen passes instead of real run plays.

4:1 pass to run ratio.

Blitz every play on defense.

3-4 and 3-3-5 as base defensive scheme.

Your thoughts?

I think its more Madden adjusting to the NFL , rather than NFL adjusting to Madden.

[mestevo]

Re: The NFL has become Maddenized

Some interesting correlations between last night's Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the average Madden gamer:

Every play from the shotgun.

4 - 5 WR sets every play.

Tons of slants, seams and other routes targeting the middle of the field.

Screen passes instead of real run plays.

4:1 pass to run ratio.

Blitz every play on defense.

3-4 and 3-3-5 as base defensive scheme.

Your thoughts?

It's called the offensive and defensive styles of those teams, not something that can be generalized to being the entire NFL. Packers run a spread and their #3 and #4 WRs are better than the Steeler defenders that cover them, and also takes the Steelers out of a lot of their zone coverages, creating favorable matchups. Steelers are a blitz-often hard hitting defense, that is their style and scheme.

If anything your attempt to take a shot at Madden just makes the game sound more accurate

[TexasBorn1]

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Uh yeah no

What the Packers did was just the best way to expose the Steelers D

[Hova57]

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It's called the offensive and defensive styles of those teams, not something that can be generalized to being the entire NFL. Packers run a spread and their #3 and #4 WRs are better than the Steeler defenders that cover them, and also takes the Steelers out of a lot of their zone coverages, creating favorable matchups. Steelers are a blitz-often hard hitting defense, that is their style and scheme.

If anything your attempt to take a shot at Madden just makes the game sound more accurate

Steeler don't have the personel to play man , and the line though they held up they weren't comfortable with 5 and 7 step drops to get the ball deep.

[jyoung]

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Well it's not just Green Bay that is a part of this trend. Look at the last 3 Super Bowl matchups and they are all shotgun, pass-first offenses:

Steelers/Packers
Colts/Saints
Steelers/Cardinals

With the way the NFL is fining and penalizing defenses these days, the game has simply evolved in such a way that it has begun to resemble how Madden is played.

[SPTO]

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I would hope the average Madden Gamer hadn't started watching Football yesterday because this has been going on for the last 6-7 years already.

You basically said what I was going to say. If anything i'd say it's been a more or less simultaeneous (sp) development rather than one influencing the other.

[Chrisksaint]

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Just the way it has been in the NFL, more teams have been realizing if they have a stud of a QB why bother putting it in anyone else's hand put out more receivers to give him more options if the protection will hold.

[grunt]

Re: The NFL has become Maddenized

Some interesting correlations between last night's Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the average Madden gamer:

Every play from the shotgun.

4 - 5 WR sets every play.

Tons of slants, seams and other routes targeting the middle of the field.

Screen passes instead of real run plays.

4:1 pass to run ratio.

Blitz every play on defense.

3-4 and 3-3-5 as base defensive scheme.

Your thoughts?

I remember when guys would go 4 or 5 wr some would call them cheese back during the PS2 days. Those speed blitzes from dbs was also considered cheese. You may have something about the NFL becoming more Maddenized or more and more young coaches in the leagu that played or experimented with football sims.

PS

I always thought that Martz was pure cheese.

[lint]

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Well, once Madden gets what happens at the line of scrimmage right I may bite (like O line and D line interaction). Until then this is how I feel about how close madden is to realism: "Hey everybody he's a phony. A big fat phony!"

[Pared]

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