Scum Kicking Isn't Cheating

Lukeski666 said:

Hold on, some of you think RPOs are cheating too? 😂

You have to press three buttons to execute an RPO: Select the play, snap the ball, throw the pass. But to defend against it effectively, especially when you need a stop on 4th-and-short, you need the right personnel, alignment, and coverage assignments, and about a dozen inputs on top of that, and that's just to cover a couple RPO variants from a single formation. If I haven't overridden certain defaults in the coaching menu, things get far more complex. Trying to defend against it from no-huddle is elite-level difficult, and when you know that your opponent is going to that well, the counter is ridiculously difficult to apply and to execute.

There are legitimate arguments to classify RPO as a should-be-banned class of play in competitive formats. And, of course, it is far harder than scum kicking to tactically "defend" against.

whodat247 said:

I’m not a fan but to be fair the real kickers in the NFL attempt to do this all the time. The fix is for everyone to learn the counter. When enough returns come out to the 50 instead of the 5 or worse then the scum kick goes away.

But do the real punt returners in the NFL just stand on the field having seizures?

It's not a skill gap, it's a glitch.

It’s not cheating, but it’s a cheesy way to play. I mean how it makes the players just not pick it up or even go to the ball is absolutely dumb. Correct , not cheating but if you have to “scum” kick to possibly give you a leg up , I’d suggest go watching so YT videos to get better at the game.

def 100 cheating when EA clearly cant do their job and fix it smh only scumbags defend this BS

SaintsTT said:

It’s not cheating, but it’s a cheesy way to play. I mean how it makes the players just not pick it up or even go to the ball is absolutely dumb. Correct , not cheating but if you have to “scum” kick to possibly give you a leg up , I’d suggest go watching so YT videos to get better at the game.

Sorry, going to YouTube makes the problem worse. They may win more often at Madden, but they're not better at "reading" defenses. They're just better at exploiting glitches. Whether they understand that's what they're doing or not.

I don't see why we should soften exploiting code by calling Cheaters merely cheesy.