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EF is a fun game...it has the ability to challenge the mind and stimulate the creative juices.
I do take a bit of an offense to the logic that we have to evolve EF to account for "combination routes", etc.
To those of you that take that viewpoint, I'll ask you, "OK, how do you account for players jumping and diving?" Simple answer, no matter what you do, those types of things won't be accounted for.
As a vessel, EF can be played, strategized, and at some point there is some diminishing returns when you try to jam too much into this game. There are some interesting twists (dice, multi-stops, etc) that certainly can be done...but should we try to jam too much into this soda can?
Our kids would say that Madden and the other games account for those things much better and one can get creative with play design, combination routes, skill levels, customization, etc. One can jump, leap, dive, twist, spin, etc. They can play their friend who is in Pennsylvania in a live game, trash talk on the headset, and do this all in real-time.
I play EF competitively and enjoy seeing some of the twists and turns. But to turn this thought into much more of a "guys that don't play the way that we play just haven't evolved" is doing a bit of a disservice.
I too want the defender to make a play on the ball and favor some sort of pass simulation or ATTAC method for that reason (I'm a good passer so it isn't out of any sort of competitive advantage/disadvantage)...but because I haven't adopted some of the other things doesn't mean that I haven't evolved...it's simply that I choose a different vessel for my football gaming that would require some of the things that EF can't easily do.
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MplsTom I agree with you bro. It's my way or the highway has become such a cluster! that it has gotten downright ridiculous. Man play your way and have fun, why is it always a roundabout way of saying the way we play is the best solution and what you guys are doing is old and we haven't evolved.
Jimbo you supposed to be my man and you say this:
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It's all a matter of time, knowledge and experience. You and me and an increasing few are at a more elevated level of playing. No matter how many DVDs we do, most in this hobby are happy playing the way they play
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Come on loco, I have seen yo game man........
No comment I will leave that right where it is. My boys in the LAEFL can vouch for that. All I can say is that some like playing one way and others like to play another way and that should be it. People tend to grasp one way of playing because either they can't be competitive in a certain style of play or it bores them!! Either way it shouldn't matter how one plays but how much fun and how much fellowshipping is going on. Forget the DVD's and all that other garbage on trying to promote your way because you think it is the best.
Quite frankly this looks like another way of getting this board roused up again and I think this is headed down the same road that it has in the beginning. Football is all in one motion there is no stoppage of a play when the ball is snapped unless there is a penalty or time has expired. The game is played to the whistle folks and that to me is the way I want to play. If this was the way to play Miggle, Coach Rip (Winter, Summer, ETC), Don Smith and the Brawl, The Bash and other tournament holders would start playing this way.