ESPN Football Online Gripes....

1. Why is it that EVERY SINGLE random person i play have to play as Tampa Bay, Raiders, Eagles, or Miami? same plays over and over...exploiting the AI with the deeeeeeep passes. or in Miami's case, use R.Williams over and over again. (because apparently Sega decided to make him "superman like")


2. Every person I play so far (except for my friends) seem to go for it on every 4th Down....even when they are 22 yards behind. No punting...just deeeep passes.

3. During the kickoff, they dont bother kicking it off regularly.....its always an onside kick where they can get the ball back constantly.

4. Hurry up offenses are used all the time for no reason...if one play works, they have to milk that play over and over and over...

5. 2pt conversions....all the time

6. Fake Field Goals, Fake Punts...all ..the ...time


Now...after a few times playing these guys online, I learned to put a stop to these most of the time...but now my love for the game is dying....

You know..i dont mind it so much if people play the popular teams..but do they have to cheeze with em too?...whats the purpose?..

thankfully, I have friends who play online who are at least "honorable" when playing...

sorry...needed to vent. I just think its stupid thats all. And I'm pretty sure the same thing happens in the madden games as well....


k..bye now...

yup. thats why i dont play it too often online the balance if the teams is just to way off.

I was dumb enough to pick the Bengals against someones Dolphins, i learned that leason hard.

It took one dolphin to tackle Dillon and like 5 bengals to just slow williams. and my recievers would drop every ball..it sucks. even wide open passes,
dropped..... The chezzing is pretty bad too though, i can overcome that easy if the teams are balanced. Im suprised not more people pick the Ravens too. There defense is solid on the right places and Jamal lewis is a beast as well.

I dont mind playing as a weak/medium team now and then....my team is the NY Giants or the NO Saints .....and I dont mind playing a much better team...its just the tactics other ppl use is ridiculous....its crap...

Madden 2004 is tried somewhat to make sure those problems don't occur. Like with onside kicks, you can only try it in the 4th quarter and only if you are loosing. You also can't go for 2pt conversions if you are winning. To prevent people from trying to run up the score, you have to punt on 4th down, etc, etc.