goldandfaceted

Can we please get an exchange set for coach whistles?  ;-)

Quote from theballer1998 >> Since there are two grandmasters, will we be able to acquire both? Or will we have to choose one of the two?  50k points required to get your first one, 100k points to get the other.

Don't care about the captains but new coaches is interesting. Can we have a players-for-whistles exchange set as well please?

Honestly, you have to laugh. Someone at EA really loves fucking with people. :grin:

Any discussions about pass coverage (including picks) has to be nuanced and based on what game mode we're talking about. OD vs Arena vs LvL vs, say, a league champs on All-Madden vary hugely. The only common thread I can see is that man coverage on certain route types is pretty bad most of the time.    If we're talking about LvL, there can definitely be picks that feel 'random', ie everything about the process by the user felt correct but something unusual happened after release and it ended in a pick. As others have said, that's probably why most players are run-first in LvL. However, there are also a significant amount of drops by defenders where passes are sent directly to them that is equally unrealistic as the super-speed transportation that sometimes happens. Overall, I don't think interceptions in isolation are a huge problem.    The bigger problems as far as pass coverage in LvL is concerned, imo, are: 1) the LBs (and DL occasionally) being able to jump 15 feet in the air or developing 10-foot arms to bat balls down

At least nominally it's supposed to have been All-Pro for the last few years. Sometimes it feels like it's All-Pro with a few changes to make things more difficult/chaotic but it's definitely not All-Madden (just compare ease of rushing, for example).

Didn't the stream yesterday show images referring to the promo players as 'Most Feared' players rather than 'FoF' players? Why were people buying FoF elites?

I find it better to think of Arena as basically equivalent to live events, from which you gain a decent amount of gems and some H2H tokens. The idea it's a competitive game mode is obviously a farce.

The mode is based on the 'tournaments' from last year so most of the stuff mentioned in this thread would require starting from scratch (or close to it) and as such won't be happening this year. Ultimately the idea of H2H returning in any meaningful/competitive way was a con job.

If competitive LvL is your focus then Vrabel makes the most sense imo. Three exceptional run plays, a couple more adequate runs, Texas, a couple more decent short passes, and two great bail out plays (Titans Y Cross and WR Corner). It's astonishing to me that more people don't use him as their principal LvL coach.