[Dayze]

Played a few games last night on Franchise / Sim mode.

I had a horrible game, tossed 4 picks. And every single one of them the other team went on a drive for a TD after the pick. Definitely feels like any time your team has a turnover, the other team automatically will get 6 points.

on a few picks, the defender ice skated directly into the path of the throw, even though my WR had a good 5 yd lead. That's the one frustrating thing I've always had with these games. I want a little realistic feel to the game in terms of scoring and stats etc, but in order to get point you have to adjust the 'difficulty' - which is really just how much the CPU defies physics to **** you over.

needless to say, I'm adjusting my play style slightly at QB. Out routes, I make damn sure the defender is way off, and my receiver has to be WIDE open. I was undercut at least 3 times last night for a pick on passes that I have normally completed all day long in past years. Zone windows / Zone AI seems to be tightened up. Defenders will drop to their zone, but will re-adjust and pass off receivers to the next zone. No more defenders just roaming aimlessly in a zone unecessarily.

Had a few completely horrible plays in pass blocking by my OL - to the point where when I watched the replay after getting smoked at QB, my OL fires off the ball like a run play, the DL basically leaps OVER him, and my OL continues to stumble towards the LBers, then falls flat on his face.

Running the ball is still a bit difficult for me. Though, I spent some XP on Ware for Awareness, and he doesn't seem to run directly into blockers as often after getting the ****ing ball, and doesn't appear to get suctioned into the arm of an engaged DL every single time he goes through the hole. That's what has made running the ball so hard for me - I get the ball, and it's like there's a lag between my controller in put and what the RB actually does for a split second. But after I added some awareness, I started having some reasonable rush stats. No idea if the attribute helped, or if I've just been slowly improving a little here and here. Cracked a 100yds a few times. Compared to games up to that point where I would have 22 carries for 25yds etc. So bad that I just abandonned the run altogether and passed the ball (which isn't how I like to play).

Still digging the game overall though.