What's considered off meta?

This guy I was playing the other day was getting upset because he couldn’t gain yards on me. He sends me a message “you spam blitz and think you’re good” and I just laughed because I was actually eating spaghetti while playing him and the fact of the matter was just that his offense was super corny and easy to stop. The final score was like 35-7 when he finally quit. 
 

Why do I have to run different plays if I literally can beat you one handed? I play to have fun not to impress dorks that tell me I need to let them score?

Daddy said:

This guy I was playing the other day was getting upset because he couldn’t gain yards on me. He sends me a message “you spam blitz and think you’re good” and I just laughed because I was actually eating spaghetti while playing him and the fact of the matter was just that his offense was super corny and easy to stop. The final score was like 35-7 when he finally quit. 
 

Why do I have to run different plays if I literally can beat you one handed? I play to have fun not to impress dorks that tell me I need to let them score?

Are you saying you just let the computer play defense and you don’t control any players? I’ve done that before because I had to go to the bathroom and when I came back I had the ball. Defense forced a turnover - lol. I don’t do it all the time though as a strategy.

CNIZZOTE said:

Are you saying you just let the computer play defense and you don’t control any players? I’ve done that before because I had to go to the bathroom and when I came back I had the ball. Defense forced a turnover - lol. I don’t do it all the time though as a strategy.

Lol no bs I do this all the time. Winning or losing. Figure either way I’ll have the ball in a couple minutes

Daddy said:

This guy I was playing the other day was getting upset because he couldn’t gain yards on me. He sends me a message “you spam blitz and think you’re good” and I just laughed because I was actually eating spaghetti while playing him and the fact of the matter was just that his offense was super corny and easy to stop. The final score was like 35-7 when he finally quit. 
 

Why do I have to run different plays if I literally can beat you one handed? I play to have fun not to impress dorks that tell me I need to let them score?

He said you spam blitz. Which NFL team spams blitzes and wins 35-7?

phatalerror said:

He said you spam blitz. Which NFL team spams blitzes and wins 35-7?

I don’t though lol thats the funny part. I just choose a blitz play and then manually audible all or most of the would-be blitzers to zones where I think they are needed based on the offensive formation. 
 

Also I’m not trying to emulate an NFL experience simply to satisfy my opponent. 

I’m in my Super Bowl RIGHT NOW typing messages on mut gg and winning

Daddy said:

I don’t though lol thats the funny part. I just choose a blitz play and then manually audible all or most of the would-be blitzers to zones where I think they are needed based on the offensive formation. 
 

Also I’m not trying to emulate an NFL experience simply to satisfy my opponent. 

I’m in my Super Bowl RIGHT NOW typing messages on mut gg and winning

I always knew you were that kind of player. You just let everyone else know. Carry on.

phatalerror said:

I always knew you were that kind of player. You just let everyone else know. Carry on.

Not sure what that’s supposed to mean. I definitely play a very “unique” style and my slightly above 50% record clearly shows it’s not up to the META standards. 

 But if claiming your opponent isn’t good while he beats you in a game, makes you happy, then more power to ya. Not sure how it’s supposed to make me upset lol you’re just butthurt.

phatalerror said:

He said you spam blitz. Which NFL team spams blitzes and wins 35-7?

If an NFL head coach could call the same play and it work to where they win 35-7....EVERY NFL team would do it

This is a video game...its not a football simulation.  It hasn't been for about 30 years.  If that's what you are wanting to play, Madden isn't (and probably never will be) for you.

lachry said:

If an NFL head coach could call the same play and it work to where they win 35-7....EVERY NFL team would do it

This is a video game...its not a football simulation.  It hasn't been for about 30 years.  If that's what you are wanting to play, Madden isn't (and probably never will be) for you.

That's my point. It's rather frustrating to turn on a football game and not have it play like football.

I get it: Some people want to play Top Gun (NES) and some people want to play Flight Simulator. But Top Gun still had elements of the complexities of flight in it. Football is significantly more complicated than landing one plane, since you have twenty-two moving objects instead of one or two. Therefore you'll have gaps in the AI despite efforts to correct it programmatically.

A significant number of users in the MUT community can play a game without using cheese plays exclusively. Some ramp up the cheese only when cheesed. Some never use cheese. And some gloat about their cheese, justifying it with truly empty arguments like, "There are counters," or, "My opponent can do the same thing." Or, "This isn't really football anyway."

Glitching is cheating. Period.

phatalerror said:

That's my point. It's rather frustrating to turn on a football game and not have it play like football.

I get it: Some people want to play Top Gun (NES) and some people want to play Flight Simulator. But Top Gun still had elements of the complexities of flight in it. Football is significantly more complicated than landing one plane, since you have twenty-two moving objects instead of one or two. Therefore you'll have gaps in the AI despite efforts to correct it programmatically.

A significant number of users in the MUT community can play a game without using cheese plays exclusively. Some ramp up the cheese only when cheesed. Some never use cheese. And some gloat about their cheese, justifying it with truly empty arguments like, "There are counters," or, "My opponent can do the same thing." Or, "This isn't really football anyway."

Glitching is cheating. Period.

I feel like if you spent less time trying to write these soliloquy’s and more time practicing H2H, you would win a lot more games

Daddy said:

I feel like if you spent less time trying to write these soliloquy’s and more time practicing H2H, you would win a lot more games

If I wanted to win at Bizarro Football, I'd probably achieve the result you suggested.

I'm afraid to walk through that door. I don't want to unlearn a bunch of critical football stuff, and then have another company get the NFL license and make a game that plays more like football, and have my brain telling me go right instead of go left.

phatalerror said:

If I wanted to win at Bizarro Football, I'd probably achieve the result you suggested.

I'm afraid to walk through that door. I don't want to unlearn a bunch of critical football stuff, and then have another company get the NFL license and make a game that plays more like football, and have my brain telling me go right instead of go left.

I lost my Super Bowl btw. The DDA kicked in and the guy did the same play on offense & defense, I couldn’t move! Maddening!

lachry said:

If an NFL head coach could call the same play and it work to where they win 35-7....EVERY NFL team would do it

This is a video game...its not a football simulation.  It hasn't been for about 30 years.  If that's what you are wanting to play, Madden isn't (and probably never will be) for you.

bravo 👏

you couldn't have said that any better

CNIZZOTE said:

Whenever I see someone in Trips formation - I internally think - here we go. I have never watched a YouTube video to determine what offense I am going to run, but I have (actually mid-game) when I wanted to know how to stop someone who is spamming a play over and over. I played someone the other day - for the first time who motioned the same receiver out of the same formation and when the player came to the other side of the formation I could not get my player to pick him up - kept switching assignments (I know because I can see my defense assignment art). I ended up figuring it out and winning the game - thankfully. But it was the worst game I have ever played in head to head - as far as having fun. On offense, I recently figured out how to audible out of pistol formation into at least 3/4 of my playbook formations and their 4 available audibles. People may think that this is meta - but I came up with it. Also, I feel like people wait for me to choose an offensive play and let the computer pick their defense many times and this is a good way to combat that - which I think is cheese. Oh well, one man's cheese is another man's steak and potatoes.

I Don’t think people are letting the cpu pick there play, they are waiting to see what type of formation you come out in to put the right personal on the field not cheese at all. The NFL allows the defense one to adjust to any personal changes the offense makes. that’s just football