Gaming Madden 18 Connected Franchise - PS4

[LicoriceAllsorts]

This is how the game basically went chronologically, if one wants to make sense of the highlights....

Basically Blacky and myself both bottled each other up on D. I was trying to run the ball but Mixon had like 10 carries for 12 yards. Fournette also struggled with like 7 carries for 10 yards. Bridgewater was getting sacked a lot and missing wide open targets. But Kellen was killing him. But Eiffert fumbled in the redzone. Lost opportunity. He went three and out multiple times. Bridgewater was like 0/7 early on. I kept converting 3rd and long with Kellen strikes downfield, but then threw a pick. He again went three and out, and this time a 50 yard bomb to Green for the TD. Me up 6-0 near the end of the half. Then he had a great long drive, Bridgewater finally started to connect and Fournette getting 4 yard runs. He drove it up to the goalline, I stonewalled him 3 or 4 times, but eventually he barged over to lead 7-6. It stayed that way thru the entire second half. I never punted, turning the ball over in his half of the field. He punted often. I had the ball with about 1-2 mins left, driving effortlessly into his redzone. Then I threw that back-breaking pick where his CB peels off Mixon in the flat and jumps the corner route Eifert was taking.

So it was 7-6 for like all but the last 1 minute of the game. Points explosion in the dying minute and first play of OT.

That's the take-away from this game.....when you play Blacky, you might be able to stop Fournette, but Blacky persists and eventually he'll break some huge TD runs and/or get a good drive going where he mixes up the short passes with Fournette barging thru traffic for 4 yard gains, and Bridgewater scrambling for 10 yards. You can't contain Blacky ALL game. But I feel I lost that game, considering I pretty much dominated, on both O and D for most of the game, but for the costly turnovers.

I make no secret of my gameplan...I try to run and open up the play-action for always deep shots to my outside receivers. Mixing in a screen here and there or a pass to the TE down the seam. And if my run gets bottled, I'll just drop back and go vertical all the time. Don't care if I get picked off, I feel I can "bend not break" on D, giving up FGs rather than TDs.

Credit to Blacky tho, don't want what I wrote to disparage him at all, just feel I let myself down.

So he's the 2015 Broncos offense then

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

the 3rd and goal that i scored the GW TD on you covered well. i changed to play to have Ty go from blocking to the wheel. he was open if i didnt run it with Rodgers. my 3 reads were taken. i had ran that play a few times before including on that drive. If i threw to the TE it could of been picked or incomplete, Nelson on the slant had to run through 3 zones. Cobb was covered but ended up clearing out the middle for Ty.

on the 25yd pass you threw to Sanders before the CJ 5yd TD run. my CB Randall has his arm stuck in Sanders hand, thats how close it was to a PBU.
I will post a few clips tomorrow. they should be saved.

Virgil Green fking dropped that 40 yd TD just before the half. To be fair I should have waited and set my feet and put it out in front of him where it wouldn't get broken up but I sensed pressure, on further analysis I definitely had time to set my feet

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

the 3rd and goal that i scored the GW TD on you covered well. i changed to play to have Ty go from blocking to the wheel. he was open if i didnt run it with Rodgers. my 3 reads were taken. i had ran that play a few times before including on that drive. If i threw to the TE it could of been picked or incomplete, Nelson on the slant had to run through 3 zones. Cobb was covered but ended up clearing out the middle for Ty.

on the 25yd pass you threw to Sanders before the CJ 5yd TD run. my CB Randall has his arm stuck in Sanders hand, thats how close it was to a PBU.
I will post a few clips tomorrow. they should be saved.

I called cover 4 on the 3rd and goal. My last 5 or 6 had been blitzes and a few penalties cost me big time (face mask and offsides)

Thought the Cover 4 would get you and it did but you made a clutch play to just run it in

 

[exe ex machina]

What I love about human-human games, there's a lot of salt there for the loser. When you break off a TD you wanna showboat a dive over the endzone. It feels good to rub it in. When you hammer someone and cause a fumble, awesome feeling. High stakes. Tooth and nail struggle for most of the game. Ebbs and flows. So when you lose against a human, you feel dirty, like you oughta feel. And want the week to advance already so you can play the next human and even up the feeling, get that win so they're salty.

This is why I want to recruit more humans. Win or lose, it's so much fun dishing out the salt or copping it.

 

[Dirty Bird]

I actually refused to dive into the end zone when I broke a 4th quarter lead vs carl.
Trying to be sportsman like.

 

[Cockliff38]

I actually refused to dive into the end zone when I broke a 4th quarter lead vs carl.
Trying to be sportsman like.

Yeah I'm the same. I'm all up for some pre and post-game trash talk but feel like there's a level of humility within a game. We all know how damn frustrating this game can be

 

[Dirty Bird]

Yeah I'm the same. I'm all up for some pre and post-game trash talk but feel like there's a level of humility within a game. We all know how damn frustrating this game can be

Even post game I'm iffy
Pre game yes though
And I feel it's a close game and you're taking the lead, dive in then.
Showboating into the end zone?
That ****s me off,
I havnt even taken the effort to learn how to do anything more than dive.

 

[Blacky]

I never showboat

It’s a fickle game

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Wait, did we advance?

It says for me that Blacky and GG.exe's game hasn't been played yet and we're still in week9


It says it's been started once but the game hasn't been logged

 

[exe ex machina]

Wait, did we advance?

It says for me that Blacky and GG.exe's game hasn't been played yet and we're still in week9


It says it's been started once but the game hasn't been logged

Woo hoo! Replay! Live stream

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

It even gave me a notification taht Blacky beat GG 20-14

 

[aussiedude]

thats strange. in the notifications it says Blacky one but in the franchise nothing.

did someone console quit in the postgame and not go back to the main menu?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

this is fkng annoying

 

[aussiedude]

in the schedule it says times played 1. but not in a franchise hub.

 

[Cockliff38]

Force win Blacky and advance?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Force win Blacky and advance?

^

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Predicted standings

AFC:
1. Jags
2. Broncos
3. Ravens
4. Dolphins
5. Bengals
6. Texans

NFC:
1. Buccaneers
2. Packers
3. Seahawsks
4. Redskins
5. Falcons
6. Panthers


NFC is stacked

 

[Blacky]

Nooooo

That means there are injury chances and no 200 yard Fournette game

 

[Cockliff38]

Nooooo

That means there are injury chances and no 200 yard Fournette game

Isn't there a difference between force win and simulate?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Isn't there a difference between force win and simulate?

it's the same thing. But simulate is a random winner. Force win forces that team the win

 

[exe ex machina]

Wasn't me, I saved all the highlights post game and clicked FINISH GAME

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

ffs

commissioner worse than goodell

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Added a few new sets into the playbook and took a few bad ones out


You better be ready GG

 

[exe ex machina]

Added a few new sets into the playbook and took a few bad ones out


You better be ready GG

If we advance today you able to play tonight?

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

If we advance today you able to play tonight?

that's next next week. I'm playign the pats week 10 and you week 11