Bill Abner's first Head Coach Impressions

[Bill_Abner]

The regular season starts tonight! Preseason is in the books. I had an undrafted rookie make the squad with a 75 rating no less.

Josh -- quick question:

When playing defense and the AI goes hurry up, can I change my play at the line or can I only make "adjustments" like line shifts and calls for a DB press? Is there a way to call a defensive audible?

[Josh_Looman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bill_Abner

The regular season starts tonight! Preseason is in the books. I had an undrafted rookie make the squad with a 75 rating no less. Josh -- quick question: When playing defense and the AI goes hurry up, can I change my play at the line or can I only make "adjustments" like line shifts and calls for a DB press? Is there a way to call a defensive audible?

Unfortunately, you can only make adjustments. We should have handled hurry up better than we did.

[slingblade73]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh_Looman

Unfortunately, you can only make adjustments. We should have handled hurry up better than we did.

patch = audibles

[JRod]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh_Looman

Unfortunately, you can only make adjustments. We should have handled hurry up better than we did.

I don't know how it's handled but how much influence should the coach have in the hurry. He might be able to send in a signal from the sidelines. But this could be where your defensive captian's awareness and leadership kicks in. A defensive leader could make the proper adjustments.

[adembroski]

I've been debating canceling my reservation of CE until this thread. Thanks Bill, you've helped me look forward to pro football gaming again.

To Josh--- with Donny going over to Madden to do franchise mode, will you have any role in Madden 2010? Tuning gameplay perhaps:P

[faytes]

Just gotta say all this EA love has gotta stop . Just kidding, I'm really happy to say that there are so many things to do in this game. At first it bugged me I could only do 15 years. Then after seeing the amount of time to do stuff in this game, I am extremely happy its only 15 years. This game is shaping up great and is making me extremely excited to play a different type of game. Just wanna say thanks for what appears to be such a great game.

[lrarkman]

Bill, can you update us on how the running game is doing? Are teams running for realistic yards?

[thesimulator]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bill_Abner

The regular season starts tonight! Preseason is in the books. I had an undrafted rookie make the squad with a 75 rating no less.

Just freakin awesome! To know that there are true diamonds in the rough!!

[faytes]

Good god, I know I'm not getting any sleep when I go to the midnight release. I have to have it asap. I'm sure the Dev guys love hearing something like this. Has to bring a smile to their faces. Because they've been playing it for however long the dev cycle is. Those lucky ba$tards.

[theengine]

Yeah, I don't see the problem with fifteen years everybody seems to have. Fifteen years is much, much longer than the average length of a head coaching career. In the crazy fantasy world I'm going to create in my head for this, my coach will have already spent a number of years as an assistant or maybe a college head coach.