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Official Madden Season 11 Thread: The school books say it can't be here again!

Rorschach

Member
# DT Warren Sapp – 89 to 86 – Only 2 sacks in 8 games. He’s not in there to stop the run
Fucking bullshit. There's been other people getting the sacks because HE flushes them out of the pocket. There's more to playing defensive tackle than getting sacks. He constantly gets pressure. On every fucking down you can see him getting the the QB's face. And he's pretty damn good against the run to add to that.


# LG Robert Gallery – 86 to 84 – Who falls on the ground more than this bust?
Bullshit. The only thing wrong with him is the penalty calls and I don't know if they have a stat for that. He's a good run blocker.
# CB Fabian Washington– 83 to 81–Gets picked on because of Oakland’s other CB. Recently benched
Oh come on! You see what happens when he's out (he was injured last game). There's no problem with him. The problem is Schweigert.

# HB LaMont Jordan – 86 to 84 – Back might be bothering him. Still the best runner in OAK
Sigh.

# HB Ronnie Brown – 89 to 90 – Was having a break out season before his injury
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol See? Dolphins win. EA just hates the Raiders. Other teams get upgrades on IR.
# DT Warren Sapp – Raiders – Loses Finesse Move – Slow start after his 10 sack season last year
Huh? He didn't have it anymore, anyway.... *hopes the update is a lie*


Slo said:
Reggie Bush needed a ratings jump.
...why? They never downgraded him when he was playing like absolute garbage. He isn't playing that great right now, either.
 

DCX

DCX
SickBoy said:
Hey DCX, midnight Pacific is 3 a.m. ET.

What's the earliest you're available during the week?
Tomorrow i can try to be up at that time as i have Wensday off.

DCX
 

Fifty

Member
You guys can bitch all you want..but my STARTING FULLBACK was cut. We're allowed to use IR players who won't play this year, but I can't give poor Luke Lawton his job back!

Lawton_Luke.jpg


2 rushes, 11 yards, 2 broken tackles. 1 broken tackle for every rush...yeah, let's cut him!
4 catches (tied for the team lead), 19 yards, 1 TD in one glorious game played.

I'm dedicating this season to the memory of Luke Lawton. The gloves are off now.
 
Man I wish I knew the bears roster better, I couldn't find anybody besides three people in the update (berrian and brown -, and gould +), although maybe that was it. Two people going down isn't too bad I guess but they mentioned berrian's catching problems and thats really all I need is more wrs who can't catch the ball. In other news they finally upgraded ARE and ST.
 

Rorschach

Member
Birdman02 said:
Rors, I came in here to ask if we're still playing tonight, but it looks like xbl is down for maintenance. Same time tomorrow?
Yeah, I tried to log in and couldn't... :[ MS fails me again. >:| 1 hr my ass!

That's fine with me.
 

CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
LiveWire said:
LOL, Brady now a Cannon Arm QB as well? Welker 90 OVR with Route Running? Stallworth bumped up too? :lol


Make your time...

Holy shit i totally forgot i gave you that avatar. i was like oh shit another eagles fan! Swear to god
 

LiveWire

Member
ColdBlooded33 said:
Holy shit i totally forgot i gave you that avatar. i was like oh shit another eagles fan! Swear to god

:lol







:(

And if losing wasn't bad enough, Taylor's done for the season now too.
 

Birdman02

Member
Rorschach said:
Yeah, I tried to log in and couldn't... :[ MS fails me again. >:| 1 hr my ass!

That's fine with me.

I was finally able to log in. Msg me on live if you still wanna run it tonight. GT is Birdman1702.
 

Rorschach

Member
Birdman02 said:
I was finally able to log in. Msg me on live if you still wanna run it tonight. GT is Birdman1702.
You can? It locks up my xbox...let me give it another go...


[edit] ok it works...I'm still up for it.
 

CB3

intangibles, motherfucker
LiveWire said:
:lol







:(

And if losing wasn't bad enough, Taylor's done for the season now too.

im making that my avatar after the week is over.

and your a skins fan you should know the wheels always start to fall off on you guys at about this time. Either a RB or WR will get injured next week. aaaand the season will be over
 

Rorschach

Member
Birdman02 said:
Looks like I'm home...what's your GT?
) ...having trouble logging in again, though. I can log in, but after I try to access my friend's list, I get lock up...

Maybe if you send the invite and I just hit the home button really fast. Let's try it. :p
 

LiveWire

Member
sableholic said:
Where did you hear this? Everything I've heard is 3 games at least. Nobody said anything about the whole season.

I know, but he's not gonna be 100% even if he comes back so he might as well be gone for the season. :/
 

LiveWire

Member
ColdBlooded33 said:
and your a skins fan you should know the wheels always start to fall off on you guys at about this time. Either a RB or WR will get injured next week. aaaand the season will be over

Whatever, it's right about time for McRibb to get his yearly injury. 'cept this time you won't have Jesus Garcia to be your savior.



And I had such a nice James Thrash avatar ready for you....... ;(
 

Birdman02

Member
GG Rors. So were we playing good defense or just bad offense. It looked like we were headed towards a 3-3 game until I threw that first pick, and it all went downhill from there.

I think that was my 3rd straight 3 INT game with Trent Green :( Cleo Lemon
or Jon Beck (God, help me!)
future!
 

Rorschach

Member
GG, Bird. Good luck in the future.

Those two wide open throws that resulted in nothing were pretty frustrating because I couldn't do anything else. Maybe it's the rust, but I didn't feel confident in anything offensively. :[

Luckily, my defense heard about the upcoming downgrades and stepped up.
 
Malley, I will be able to play tomorrow afternoon from 3-6:30 EST and possibly late in the evening, Wednesday later in the evening (after 10 EST), and Thursday afternoon/late evening.

Let me know if any of those work for you.
 

bluemax

Banned
So I think I got one weapon out of this upgrade, for my FS? Heavy hitter to go along with my smart LB and smart SS. Not bad, I wish Big Ben could've got something on offense, but alas.

Also I haven't played a game in forever, anyone around?
 

LiveWire

Member
Birdman02 said:
GG Rors. So were we playing good defense or just bad offense. It looked like we were headed towards a 3-3 game until I threw that first pick, and it all went downhill from there.

I think that was my 3rd straight 3 INT game with Trent Green :( Cleo Lemon
or Jon Beck (God, help me!)
future!

3 down, 50 to go! Lemon actually seemed better than Green though. Have fun!
 

bluemax

Banned
So I'm curious, does anyone have any good advice for PA passing besides running for the sideline before throwing? In my game with Ramirez last night I kept trying to practice PA but I ended up getting sacked on nearly every one I called. I had like one instance where I didn't get sacked, my receiver was wide open and when I made the throw the DB jumped 30 feet in the air and swatted it.

A big part of my offense last year was short timing routes and PA passing and I can't seem to do either this year. Either I get picked or sacked and its driving me nuts.
 

daw840

Member
bluemax said:
So I'm curious, does anyone have any good advice for PA passing besides running for the sideline before throwing? In my game with Ramirez last night I kept trying to practice PA but I ended up getting sacked on nearly every one I called. I had like one instance where I didn't get sacked, my receiver was wide open and when I made the throw the DB jumped 30 feet in the air and swatted it.

A big part of my offense last year was short timing routes and PA passing and I can't seem to do either this year. Either I get picked or sacked and its driving me nuts.


I have the same problem, I have a TERRIBLE o-line and if I try a PA pass that is not of the roll out variety I almost always get sacked. But, with my o-line I can't stay in the pocket even on a regular pass:lol The only way that I have found to prevent this is to throw the ball immediately, usually to someone in the flats. But that still does not work well because o-line blocking on this game sucks, and I think the Chiefs probably have the worst o-line in the whole game (correct me if I am wrong)
 

Fifty

Member
If this was a normal week, we'd be advancing today..with 7 games unplayed! Although I have every reason to assume people are taking advantage of the long week and that's the reason, it's still not very heartwarming. Good luck to all and to all a good night.
 

Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
Well, I had a bad Football Saturday, that gave football a bad taste for a few days, then on Sunday, watched more...football. And COD4. And yesterday, was Monday night Football. And COD4. And today, maybe I'll get to try COD4 online! If live works. Does Live work.

Powerthirst
 

Rorschach

Member
Has it ever happened where two whole divisions had 0 wins the first week?
I don't think so...

NFC EAST: I know your division is supposed to be a tight, highly competitive division, but UR DOING IT RONG!


bluemax said:
So I'm curious, does anyone have any good advice for PA passing besides running for the sideline before throwing? In my game with Ramirez last night I kept trying to practice PA but I ended up getting sacked on nearly every one I called. I had like one instance where I didn't get sacked, my receiver was wide open and when I made the throw the DB jumped 30 feet in the air and swatted it.

A big part of my offense last year was short timing routes and PA passing and I can't seem to do either this year. Either I get picked or sacked and its driving me nuts.
Advice: don't play against monster defensive lines. :p I don't think you can get them off on a team like the Giants. They're monsters!!
 

Slo

Member
On PA, you have to make your reads while the fake is going on, and throw the ball immediately when the PA animation stops. You're either going to get insta-sacked, or you won't, so there's nothing productive about watching the pass rush.
 

bluemax

Banned
Slo said:
On PA, you have to make your reads while the fake is going on, and throw the ball immediately when the PA animation stops. You're either going to get insta-sacked, or you won't, so there's nothing productive about watching the pass rush.

Hmm is there some sort of delay between when the fake animation stops and when you should press the button? I swear if I hit anything before the fake is completely over it ignores. I can't count the number of times I was mashing the button and my QB didn't respond after the fake.
 
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