Welcome back everyone to another exciting episode of London versus. Today in madden London will be going against the washington football team (just a reminder, this is the washington football team’s preseason roster, so Haskins is still with them for example). In addition, i realize I had missed a GM bot for London, so i added him into madden. Hopefully he’ll shore up London’s pass coverage issues in madden. To avoid having to do everything over, and because it’s fun, i’ll be taking control of Charlemagne Cortez and the rest of the London squad, and hopefully we do better than we did versus Jacksonville. Time to go
london kicks off, and it’s returned by washington to the 31 yard line
first and 10 at the 31: Haskins completes a 9 yard pass to the right side of the field. The receiver of this pass, J.D. McKissic, then gets tackled in an extremely odd way. So do you know that thing where one person gets on all fours behind someone and the other person pushes them over the person on all fours? Well that’s basically what happened here. Duke Cheeks tries and fails to tackling him, and falls on all fours. Gav then, in his attempt to tackle him, pushes him over Cheeks, resulting in an extremely weird tackle.
second and 1 at the 40: Adrian Peterson (he was on Washington at this point??? Lol i don’t remember that at all) takes the handoff and runs for 4 yards before getting tackled in an awkward manner reminiscent of Dan Campbell’s “bite the kneecaps” comment by Duke Cheeks. Special shout out to Gav Lecerc who, in his attempts to tackle Adrain Peterson, tries to knock over an O-lineman by just running at him shoulder first. He is a 200 pound cornerback attempting to truck a 300 point O-lineman. Not only does he fail, but the impact of that knocks Gav on his back. It was one of the worst attempts at block shedding I have ever seen.
first and 10 from the 44: a RPO by Haskins, who chooses to pass to Cody Latimer, who immediately gets tackled. I’d like to shine a spotlight on our GM bot Y. Botman, who, after spending a couple seconds watching the ballcarrier runs toward him, decides to just run in the exact opposite direction. I don’t know what piece of programming decided this was the correct or smart decision, but like… that’s what happened
second and 10 from the 44: a 7 yard completion on a slant route before getting tackled. Nothing huge, but one of our other GM bots A. Spiders gets juked out by a wide receiver harder than I have ever seen in this game, so that’s cool
third and 3 at the opponents 48: A play action pass that ends up going incompleted. I want to take credit for this, but to be honest it was just a very bad throw, and the receiver he was targeting was wide open. Y. Botman gets a shoutout for having a wide open lane to the QB and instead deciding to try and get past his blocker, which would have put him even farther away than where he was then
fourth and 3 at the opponents 48: the washington football team punts it away and it goes out of bounds at the 31.
first and 10 at the 31: Tsuyu Asui gets barely enough seperation to make the catch for a 21 yard gain. During the play, one of WFT’s LBs is extremely unsure if he’s playing zone or man, and seems to switch back and forth halfway through the play, which makes for some very odd coverage.
1st and 10 at the opponent’s 48: A mix of a bad throw and bad hands by Speedman leads to an incompletion. Of note in this play is the bot O-lineman Manifest Destiny, who, instead of blocking his assigned man, completely backs up and blocks nobody the entire play. Nice job Destiny, you tried your best.
second and 10 at the opponent’s 48; A run up the middle by Terry Yaki for 4 yards. I’d like to compliment our bot tight end’s effort, who, instead of blocking, does this sort of pushing motion that essentially funnels the defender directly into the path of Terry Yaki. As well, there’s our bot center High Loew, who, after blocking for a second or two, just runs off to the left. He doesn’t block anyone else, doesn’t run towards a defender even. Just runs to the left. The person he doesn’t block after that second ended up being able to make the tackle.As well, there’s Manifest Destiny, who runs past a blitzing linebacker to block the safety, who is 15 yards away from the runningback, which is… extremely odd and useless. Then there’s Tsuyu Asui who, in her attempt to block a defensive back, runs so fast at him that he goes completely around him and falls over, serving as nothing more than a mild inconvenience to him.
Third and 6 at the opponent’s 45 yard line: Schumi Hulkunvettel gets the seperation to catch the ball, but immediately drops it, so it falls incomplete.
fourth and 6 at the opponent’s 45 yard line: a pass to Frank Michell on a crossing route that is batted incomplete
first and 10 at the 45 yard line: Adrian Peterson runs for nine yards up the middle before getting tackled. While he runs, both Duke Cheeks and Logan Sarrasin get pushed in the way of him at the same time, and yet both decide at the same time not to tackle him and instead to engage back with blockers. As well, there’s Zane Cruz, who decides to try to get past his blocker butt first, which oddly enough does not work.
Second and 1 from the opponent’s 46 yard line: A 1 yard run by J.D. MicKissic. Of note is Logan Sarrasin, who, after completely missing the RB, just falls over. He isn’t pushed or anything, he just falls. As well, the way MicKissic gets tackled is very odd. He gets grabbed by Fergus Callaghan Jr, who, in the middle of his tackle, trips, and does a weird desperation push of the RB into a second defender, who ends up tackling him
third and inches at the opponent’s 45 yard line: Haskins completed a 14 yard pass downfield. While the pass unfolds, a WFT tight end decides to run three routes at once. I’m legitimately not sure what he’s doing. He switches from an angle route to a flat to a post route, and all three of them are done really badly. I’m just very confused. I think what happened was he was running an angle route and got stuck on a defender, and the AI panicked. Weird.
First and 10 at the opponent’s 37: Adrian Peterson runs for four yards, breaking a tackle in the process. Well, breaking a tackle is being used very loosely here. Rather, Duke Cheeks runs at him and then just kinda bounces off, miserably failing at his tackling attempt
Second and 6 from the opponent’s 27: Haskins completed an 11 yard pass, I don’t have one specific person to point out, but rather despite this being a man coverage call, it seems that the right side of the field all simultaneously decided to play zone coverage, which is… extremely odd and concerning. Or maybe they were playing man and they’re so bad at it it looked like they’re playing zone. I have no idea
First and 10 at the opponent’s 17: Interception!!!!!!!!! Caven Mcrae intercepts the ball!!!!! Hell yeah. Also Fergus Callaghan gets completely destroyed by an O-lineman, but that’s besides the point
First and 10 at the 14 yard line: A pass to a wide open TE bot, who drops it. Would have been a first down pass, but the bot just didn’t really feel like catching the ball
second and 10 at the 14 yard line: A check down to Terry Yaki, who runs for 10 yards before fumbling it. The ball is then picked up for a defensive touchdown. Way to make use of that interception guys.
And the call is overturned, as he was down before the fumble. Score remains 0-0
third and inches at the 23 yard line: catch by Frank Michell over the middle for 17 yards. Of note is Terry Yaki attempting to block a blitzing linebacker and, despite standing still, completely missing on his block. It looked a lot like Devonta Freeman missing his block during the Falcons super bowl (no i’m not salty about 28-3, shut up).
first and 10 at the 41 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball, escaped a tackle, and then immediately gets obliterated by three more tacklers. A defensive lineman also tried to jump to block the ball, despite being nowhere near the throw. I appreciate the effort though
First and 10 at the opponent’s 44 yard line: Terry Yaki doesnt even bother blocking during this pass, which leads to Charlemagne Cortez getting tackled as he throws, leading to the ball to be thrown directly to a defender. Luckily, he doesn’t catch it, so it’s an incompletion instead of an interception. On a side note, Frank Michell’s head goes inside a defender’s arm and body for a second or two, so that’s neat
Second and 10 at the opponent’s 44 yard line: Terry Yaki makes up for last play by making a great block against a blitzing defensive back, possibly saving the play. Tugg Speedman catches the ball on a slant route and gets tackled at the 29 yard line
First and 10 at the opponent’s 29 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball on an inside crossing route for 5 yards before getting taken down. Well, taken down isn’t the right way of wording it. Rather, the defender grabs on to Michell’s arm, falls over, and just kinda hopes that Michell falls with him. I mean it works, but definitely not proper form or anything like that.
Second and 5 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: Terry Yaki takes the handoff on an RPO and runs for three yard before getting tackled. Now, there were some things that could be spotlighted, blown coverages and all of that. But all of that pales in comparison to what happens with bot offensive guard Fran Chett. What happened is soemthing I have never seen in my years of playing madden. Immediately after the snap, Fran Chett runs into the defensive lineman and falls over. Now, that by itself doesn’t sound awful. At worst it just sounds a bit odd, but let me give more of an explanation. I first suspected something was off when my controller inexplicably vibrated during the very beginning of the handoff. I wasn’t sure why it vibrated, but i didn’t question it. Then, during me replaying the play, I saw Chett laying on the ground in a position I had never seen happen. In any animation where an offensive lineman falls, they will always fall forwards, every single time. At not point do they fall backwards in an animation. And yet, there Chett was, lying in a position that only could have been created by falling backwards. I was perplexed. And then I realized the time when Chett fell over was at the exact time my controller vibrated, and I was even more confused, because at no point in time would any O-lineman action necessitate your controller vibrating, and yet, that’s what happened. Looking at it now, it has to be some sort of glitch. Fran Chett runs into the defender and then falls backwards as though his muscles are made of paper. Even odder is it doesn’t stop or affect the defender in the slightest. There wasn’t even an animation of the defender pushing him over or any reason for Chett to fall. He just does. I don’t get why this happened, and I don’t think I ever will.
Third and 1 at the opponent’s 20 yard line: It’s a play action pass, and with nothing open, Cortez just chucks it away. Of note are that Cortez’s throwing motion in the throwaway is so very odd, looking more like a dance move than a throw. As well, there’s a bot TR who i’m not sure if he’s supposed to be a receiver or a blocker. There are times where TEs will serve as blocker for a second or two before running a route, but there is never a point where a TE runs a route, and then stops to block. It just doesn’t happen. And yet, that’s what happened. I’m not sure what the plan was, but there’s no way that was the plan
Fourth and 1 at the 20: A fullback run up the middle that just barely works. I’d like to point out how half the offense doesn’t bother blocking, and instead kinda just runs and and kinda pushes a defensive player instead. And not one of those pushes where the defensive player stables back, just one that kinda shifts their momentum for a sec and doesn’t really work to actually block
London gets a delay of game penalty because I had thought that there would be a 2 minute warning before I got the penalty, but I guess I was wrong
First and 15 at the opponent’s 23 yard line: Nobody gets open and Cortez gets sacked, which isn’t ideal
Two minute warning
Second and 24 at the opponent’s 32 yard line: Ball gets batted away by linebacker
third and 24 at the opponent’s 32 yard line: Frank Michell catches it on a post route and just barely doesn’t get a first down. As well, our center High Loew just doesn’t bother blocking for a good 5 seconds, so that’s fun
4th and inches at the 8 yard line: Terry Yaki runs up the middle and just barely manages to push the pile enough for a first down. As well, one defender gets stuck under a pile of people and gets heavily trampled, which is nice.
First and goal at the opponent’s 6 yard line: Speedman catches it on a slant route before immediately dropping it
second and goal at the opponent’s 6 yard line: Yaki catches the ball on a screen pass before getting tackled at the line of scrimmage. So an unforeseen consequence of having such bad offensive linemen is that they aren’t fast enough to keep up with your runningback, meaning they can’t cover him on the screen, which is annoying
third and goal at the opponent’s 6 yard line: The ball gets intercepted, which sucks. On the bright side, he gets tackled at the 12 yard line and there’s only 53 seconds left, so hopefully they can’t score points in that time
first and 10 at the 12 yard line: Dwayne Haskins dumps it off to his runningback, who runs out of bounds
second and 4 at the 18 yard line: 49 seconds left. Haskins throws a bad pass that goes incomplete
third and 4 at the 18 yard line: 46 seconds left. Great man coverage by Caven Mcrae to knock the ball away.
fourth and 4 at the 18 yard line: WFT punts it away, Yaki returns it to the 38 yard line
First and 10 at the 38 yard line: 36 seconds left. Asui makes an amazing catch on a crossing route in the middle of the field
first and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: Tsuyu Asui drops the ball
Second and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: 26 seconds left. Tsuyu Asui can’t keep hold of the ball and drops it.
Third and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: 21 seconds left. Asui gets stuck on a defender and doesn’t make it to the ball in time.
fourth and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: 17 seconds left. Pink Panther makes the 41 yard field goal:
3-0 London Royals
London kicks off, ball returned to the 26 yard line
first and 10 from the 26 yard line: 11 seconds left. On the last play of the first half, J.D. Mickissic breaks off a 74 yard run for the touchdown. Goddamnit all to hell. Everything went right for them. Cornerbacks tripped over each other, defensive linemen couldn’t block shed for their life, and linebackers all decided to engage a blocker rather than chase the ballcarrier. Ugh
Extra point good. 7-3 WFT
second half
London returns the kickoff for 24 yards
first and 20 at the 24 yard line: Despite two offensive linemen falling at the same time, Terry Yaki managed to run 14 yards upfield before getting tackled. Hooray for Yaki!
first and 10 at the 38 yard line: Pass to Tugg Speedman on an inside crossing route for 11 yards. In one defender’s excitement to get to Tugg Speedman to tackle him, he accidental pushes his own teammate through the floor, which is fairly disturbing
First and 20 at the 49 yard line: To the surprise of everyone, the blocking on this run honestly wasn’t half bad. A 5 yard run by Terry Yaki.
second and 5 at the opponent’s 45 yard line: A catch by Terry Yaki on an angle route for 9 yards. The blocking has been very good these past couple plays, which makes me very suspicious that something bad is going to happen soon.
First and 10 at the opponent’s 36 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball on a beautiful angle route for 8 yards. Okay so, there’s one linebacker on this play for WFT who literally just could not care less that there is football in front of him. Halfway through the play, before the ball is even thrown, he just turns around. He design turn around to keep up with anyone or get somewhere quickly, he just stands there, facing away, refusing to play football. He is simply fed up with the game, and I get it.
Second and 2 at the opponent’s 28 yard line: Terry Yaki gets tackled after running three yards. Of note is the fact that a WFT defender literally just falls over just because he’s in the general vicinity of Terry Yaki. He doesn’t get pushed or anything, he just kinda runs up to him, and then falls over without any sort of prompting. A flop mayhaps?
First and 10 at the opponent’s 25 yard line: A 1 yard run on a pump fake draw by Terry Yaki. Of note is Schumi Hulkunvettel doing what can only be considered a block in the back. He literally goes behind a defensive back and just forces him to fall, and then puts all his weight on top of him as he falls as well. Probably shoukd be a penalty, but eh, what do I know.
Second and 9 at the opponent’s 23: Tugg Speedman catches a slant route in the middle of the field and takes it upfield for the touchdown. Terry Yaki, trying to block for the QB, seems to take the appproacch of attempting to go under the defensive lineman, which, oddly enough, doesn’t work. Good effort tho
Extra point is good, 10-7 Royals
Kickoff returned to the 25 yard line
First and 10 at the 25 yard line: It’s so weird to see a receiver to make a cut, and then the linebacker to take five seconds to realize what just happened. That is what happened here, which led to a 25 yard completion.
First and 10 from the 50: 4 yard run by Adrian Peterson. Nothing notable reallly.
Second and 6 from the opponents 46 yard line: 2 yard check down to the running back
third and 3 at the opponent’s 44 yard line: 10 yard pass to Terry Mclaurin. Oddly enough, this is the first reception for him, despite him being really the best player in the offense for WFT
False start by the offense
First and 15 at the opponent’s 39 yard line: Haskins completed a 17 yard pas to Steven Sims. Of note is one WFT O-lineman switching from blocking one defender to blocking another one who was farther away. This led to that first receiver getting absolutely bulldozed by the offensive lineman
First and 10 at the 22 yard line: Caven Mcrar makes an outstanding hit to knock the ball out of the receivers hands, leading to an incompletion
Second and 10 at the 22 yard line: an extremely immaculate pass to his wide open runningback. Lol get wrecked
third and 10 at the 22 yard line: Haskins makes a pass to Terry Mclaurin for a touchdown. He was completely wide open.
Extra point good. 14-10 Washington
Good return by Terry Yaki on the kickoff to the 28 yard line.
First and 10 at the 28 yard line: pas by Charlemagne Cortez to Tugg Speedman for 12 yards. Good protection by the offensive line somehow.
first and 10 at the 40 yard line: Tugg Speedman somehow makes an insane catch in double coverage with a defender literally laying on top of him. He was genuinely getting crushed between a defender flying into him and another defender and somehow he still made the catch. Great job Tugg.
first and 10 at the opponent’s 48 yard line: Tugg Speedman the absolute star of this drive. He catches it in the slant route for 10 yards before tripping over a defender and falling
First and 10, at the opponent’s 48 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball on a slant route and runs upwards before getting tackled by a safety. 18 yards in all.
Two minute warning.
first and 10 at the opponent’s 20 yard line: pass goes incomplete. Tuff Speedman was interfered with during the play, but it wasn’t called by the refs. Damn, even the refs in madden suck
second and 10 at the opponent’s 20 yard line: completion to Tsuyu Asui on a curl route for 10 yards
First and goal at the nine yard line: 1:34 left. Frank Michell catches the ball on an inside crossing route before getting tackled at the five yard line
Second and goal at the 5 yard line: 1:26 left. Ball intercepted at the goal line. Returned for a pick six. Goddamnit. This is bad.
extra point good. 21-10 Washington Football Team
Kickoff returned to the 28 yard line.
First and 10 at the 28 yard line: 29 yard pass to Schumi Hulkunvettel complete.
First and 10 at the opponent’s 43 yard line: Ball falls incomplete, due to being thrown into basically double coverage
Second and 10 at the opponent’s 43 yard line: Cortez is sacked, and fumbles the ball. The defense picks up the fumble and is taken down by the facemask.
Washington kneels, and the game is over. 21-10 Washington Football Team.
So not an ideal end to all of this, but honestly we were competitive, which is basically half the battle. Thank you guys for reading, and I apologize in advance for all the typos that i’m sure are in here. Thanks again, and i’ll probably make more!
london kicks off, and it’s returned by washington to the 31 yard line
first and 10 at the 31: Haskins completes a 9 yard pass to the right side of the field. The receiver of this pass, J.D. McKissic, then gets tackled in an extremely odd way. So do you know that thing where one person gets on all fours behind someone and the other person pushes them over the person on all fours? Well that’s basically what happened here. Duke Cheeks tries and fails to tackling him, and falls on all fours. Gav then, in his attempt to tackle him, pushes him over Cheeks, resulting in an extremely weird tackle.
second and 1 at the 40: Adrian Peterson (he was on Washington at this point??? Lol i don’t remember that at all) takes the handoff and runs for 4 yards before getting tackled in an awkward manner reminiscent of Dan Campbell’s “bite the kneecaps” comment by Duke Cheeks. Special shout out to Gav Lecerc who, in his attempts to tackle Adrain Peterson, tries to knock over an O-lineman by just running at him shoulder first. He is a 200 pound cornerback attempting to truck a 300 point O-lineman. Not only does he fail, but the impact of that knocks Gav on his back. It was one of the worst attempts at block shedding I have ever seen.
first and 10 from the 44: a RPO by Haskins, who chooses to pass to Cody Latimer, who immediately gets tackled. I’d like to shine a spotlight on our GM bot Y. Botman, who, after spending a couple seconds watching the ballcarrier runs toward him, decides to just run in the exact opposite direction. I don’t know what piece of programming decided this was the correct or smart decision, but like… that’s what happened
second and 10 from the 44: a 7 yard completion on a slant route before getting tackled. Nothing huge, but one of our other GM bots A. Spiders gets juked out by a wide receiver harder than I have ever seen in this game, so that’s cool
third and 3 at the opponents 48: A play action pass that ends up going incompleted. I want to take credit for this, but to be honest it was just a very bad throw, and the receiver he was targeting was wide open. Y. Botman gets a shoutout for having a wide open lane to the QB and instead deciding to try and get past his blocker, which would have put him even farther away than where he was then
fourth and 3 at the opponents 48: the washington football team punts it away and it goes out of bounds at the 31.
first and 10 at the 31: Tsuyu Asui gets barely enough seperation to make the catch for a 21 yard gain. During the play, one of WFT’s LBs is extremely unsure if he’s playing zone or man, and seems to switch back and forth halfway through the play, which makes for some very odd coverage.
1st and 10 at the opponent’s 48: A mix of a bad throw and bad hands by Speedman leads to an incompletion. Of note in this play is the bot O-lineman Manifest Destiny, who, instead of blocking his assigned man, completely backs up and blocks nobody the entire play. Nice job Destiny, you tried your best.
second and 10 at the opponent’s 48; A run up the middle by Terry Yaki for 4 yards. I’d like to compliment our bot tight end’s effort, who, instead of blocking, does this sort of pushing motion that essentially funnels the defender directly into the path of Terry Yaki. As well, there’s our bot center High Loew, who, after blocking for a second or two, just runs off to the left. He doesn’t block anyone else, doesn’t run towards a defender even. Just runs to the left. The person he doesn’t block after that second ended up being able to make the tackle.As well, there’s Manifest Destiny, who runs past a blitzing linebacker to block the safety, who is 15 yards away from the runningback, which is… extremely odd and useless. Then there’s Tsuyu Asui who, in her attempt to block a defensive back, runs so fast at him that he goes completely around him and falls over, serving as nothing more than a mild inconvenience to him.
Third and 6 at the opponent’s 45 yard line: Schumi Hulkunvettel gets the seperation to catch the ball, but immediately drops it, so it falls incomplete.
fourth and 6 at the opponent’s 45 yard line: a pass to Frank Michell on a crossing route that is batted incomplete
first and 10 at the 45 yard line: Adrian Peterson runs for nine yards up the middle before getting tackled. While he runs, both Duke Cheeks and Logan Sarrasin get pushed in the way of him at the same time, and yet both decide at the same time not to tackle him and instead to engage back with blockers. As well, there’s Zane Cruz, who decides to try to get past his blocker butt first, which oddly enough does not work.
Second and 1 from the opponent’s 46 yard line: A 1 yard run by J.D. MicKissic. Of note is Logan Sarrasin, who, after completely missing the RB, just falls over. He isn’t pushed or anything, he just falls. As well, the way MicKissic gets tackled is very odd. He gets grabbed by Fergus Callaghan Jr, who, in the middle of his tackle, trips, and does a weird desperation push of the RB into a second defender, who ends up tackling him
third and inches at the opponent’s 45 yard line: Haskins completed a 14 yard pass downfield. While the pass unfolds, a WFT tight end decides to run three routes at once. I’m legitimately not sure what he’s doing. He switches from an angle route to a flat to a post route, and all three of them are done really badly. I’m just very confused. I think what happened was he was running an angle route and got stuck on a defender, and the AI panicked. Weird.
First and 10 at the opponent’s 37: Adrian Peterson runs for four yards, breaking a tackle in the process. Well, breaking a tackle is being used very loosely here. Rather, Duke Cheeks runs at him and then just kinda bounces off, miserably failing at his tackling attempt
Second and 6 from the opponent’s 27: Haskins completed an 11 yard pass, I don’t have one specific person to point out, but rather despite this being a man coverage call, it seems that the right side of the field all simultaneously decided to play zone coverage, which is… extremely odd and concerning. Or maybe they were playing man and they’re so bad at it it looked like they’re playing zone. I have no idea
First and 10 at the opponent’s 17: Interception!!!!!!!!! Caven Mcrae intercepts the ball!!!!! Hell yeah. Also Fergus Callaghan gets completely destroyed by an O-lineman, but that’s besides the point
First and 10 at the 14 yard line: A pass to a wide open TE bot, who drops it. Would have been a first down pass, but the bot just didn’t really feel like catching the ball
second and 10 at the 14 yard line: A check down to Terry Yaki, who runs for 10 yards before fumbling it. The ball is then picked up for a defensive touchdown. Way to make use of that interception guys.
And the call is overturned, as he was down before the fumble. Score remains 0-0
third and inches at the 23 yard line: catch by Frank Michell over the middle for 17 yards. Of note is Terry Yaki attempting to block a blitzing linebacker and, despite standing still, completely missing on his block. It looked a lot like Devonta Freeman missing his block during the Falcons super bowl (no i’m not salty about 28-3, shut up).
first and 10 at the 41 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball, escaped a tackle, and then immediately gets obliterated by three more tacklers. A defensive lineman also tried to jump to block the ball, despite being nowhere near the throw. I appreciate the effort though
First and 10 at the opponent’s 44 yard line: Terry Yaki doesnt even bother blocking during this pass, which leads to Charlemagne Cortez getting tackled as he throws, leading to the ball to be thrown directly to a defender. Luckily, he doesn’t catch it, so it’s an incompletion instead of an interception. On a side note, Frank Michell’s head goes inside a defender’s arm and body for a second or two, so that’s neat
Second and 10 at the opponent’s 44 yard line: Terry Yaki makes up for last play by making a great block against a blitzing defensive back, possibly saving the play. Tugg Speedman catches the ball on a slant route and gets tackled at the 29 yard line
First and 10 at the opponent’s 29 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball on an inside crossing route for 5 yards before getting taken down. Well, taken down isn’t the right way of wording it. Rather, the defender grabs on to Michell’s arm, falls over, and just kinda hopes that Michell falls with him. I mean it works, but definitely not proper form or anything like that.
Second and 5 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: Terry Yaki takes the handoff on an RPO and runs for three yard before getting tackled. Now, there were some things that could be spotlighted, blown coverages and all of that. But all of that pales in comparison to what happens with bot offensive guard Fran Chett. What happened is soemthing I have never seen in my years of playing madden. Immediately after the snap, Fran Chett runs into the defensive lineman and falls over. Now, that by itself doesn’t sound awful. At worst it just sounds a bit odd, but let me give more of an explanation. I first suspected something was off when my controller inexplicably vibrated during the very beginning of the handoff. I wasn’t sure why it vibrated, but i didn’t question it. Then, during me replaying the play, I saw Chett laying on the ground in a position I had never seen happen. In any animation where an offensive lineman falls, they will always fall forwards, every single time. At not point do they fall backwards in an animation. And yet, there Chett was, lying in a position that only could have been created by falling backwards. I was perplexed. And then I realized the time when Chett fell over was at the exact time my controller vibrated, and I was even more confused, because at no point in time would any O-lineman action necessitate your controller vibrating, and yet, that’s what happened. Looking at it now, it has to be some sort of glitch. Fran Chett runs into the defender and then falls backwards as though his muscles are made of paper. Even odder is it doesn’t stop or affect the defender in the slightest. There wasn’t even an animation of the defender pushing him over or any reason for Chett to fall. He just does. I don’t get why this happened, and I don’t think I ever will.
Third and 1 at the opponent’s 20 yard line: It’s a play action pass, and with nothing open, Cortez just chucks it away. Of note are that Cortez’s throwing motion in the throwaway is so very odd, looking more like a dance move than a throw. As well, there’s a bot TR who i’m not sure if he’s supposed to be a receiver or a blocker. There are times where TEs will serve as blocker for a second or two before running a route, but there is never a point where a TE runs a route, and then stops to block. It just doesn’t happen. And yet, that’s what happened. I’m not sure what the plan was, but there’s no way that was the plan
Fourth and 1 at the 20: A fullback run up the middle that just barely works. I’d like to point out how half the offense doesn’t bother blocking, and instead kinda just runs and and kinda pushes a defensive player instead. And not one of those pushes where the defensive player stables back, just one that kinda shifts their momentum for a sec and doesn’t really work to actually block
London gets a delay of game penalty because I had thought that there would be a 2 minute warning before I got the penalty, but I guess I was wrong
First and 15 at the opponent’s 23 yard line: Nobody gets open and Cortez gets sacked, which isn’t ideal
Two minute warning
Second and 24 at the opponent’s 32 yard line: Ball gets batted away by linebacker
third and 24 at the opponent’s 32 yard line: Frank Michell catches it on a post route and just barely doesn’t get a first down. As well, our center High Loew just doesn’t bother blocking for a good 5 seconds, so that’s fun
4th and inches at the 8 yard line: Terry Yaki runs up the middle and just barely manages to push the pile enough for a first down. As well, one defender gets stuck under a pile of people and gets heavily trampled, which is nice.
First and goal at the opponent’s 6 yard line: Speedman catches it on a slant route before immediately dropping it
second and goal at the opponent’s 6 yard line: Yaki catches the ball on a screen pass before getting tackled at the line of scrimmage. So an unforeseen consequence of having such bad offensive linemen is that they aren’t fast enough to keep up with your runningback, meaning they can’t cover him on the screen, which is annoying
third and goal at the opponent’s 6 yard line: The ball gets intercepted, which sucks. On the bright side, he gets tackled at the 12 yard line and there’s only 53 seconds left, so hopefully they can’t score points in that time
first and 10 at the 12 yard line: Dwayne Haskins dumps it off to his runningback, who runs out of bounds
second and 4 at the 18 yard line: 49 seconds left. Haskins throws a bad pass that goes incomplete
third and 4 at the 18 yard line: 46 seconds left. Great man coverage by Caven Mcrae to knock the ball away.
fourth and 4 at the 18 yard line: WFT punts it away, Yaki returns it to the 38 yard line
First and 10 at the 38 yard line: 36 seconds left. Asui makes an amazing catch on a crossing route in the middle of the field
first and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: Tsuyu Asui drops the ball
Second and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: 26 seconds left. Tsuyu Asui can’t keep hold of the ball and drops it.
Third and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: 21 seconds left. Asui gets stuck on a defender and doesn’t make it to the ball in time.
fourth and 10 at the opponent’s 24 yard line: 17 seconds left. Pink Panther makes the 41 yard field goal:
3-0 London Royals
London kicks off, ball returned to the 26 yard line
first and 10 from the 26 yard line: 11 seconds left. On the last play of the first half, J.D. Mickissic breaks off a 74 yard run for the touchdown. Goddamnit all to hell. Everything went right for them. Cornerbacks tripped over each other, defensive linemen couldn’t block shed for their life, and linebackers all decided to engage a blocker rather than chase the ballcarrier. Ugh
Extra point good. 7-3 WFT
second half
London returns the kickoff for 24 yards
first and 20 at the 24 yard line: Despite two offensive linemen falling at the same time, Terry Yaki managed to run 14 yards upfield before getting tackled. Hooray for Yaki!
first and 10 at the 38 yard line: Pass to Tugg Speedman on an inside crossing route for 11 yards. In one defender’s excitement to get to Tugg Speedman to tackle him, he accidental pushes his own teammate through the floor, which is fairly disturbing
First and 20 at the 49 yard line: To the surprise of everyone, the blocking on this run honestly wasn’t half bad. A 5 yard run by Terry Yaki.
second and 5 at the opponent’s 45 yard line: A catch by Terry Yaki on an angle route for 9 yards. The blocking has been very good these past couple plays, which makes me very suspicious that something bad is going to happen soon.
First and 10 at the opponent’s 36 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball on a beautiful angle route for 8 yards. Okay so, there’s one linebacker on this play for WFT who literally just could not care less that there is football in front of him. Halfway through the play, before the ball is even thrown, he just turns around. He design turn around to keep up with anyone or get somewhere quickly, he just stands there, facing away, refusing to play football. He is simply fed up with the game, and I get it.
Second and 2 at the opponent’s 28 yard line: Terry Yaki gets tackled after running three yards. Of note is the fact that a WFT defender literally just falls over just because he’s in the general vicinity of Terry Yaki. He doesn’t get pushed or anything, he just kinda runs up to him, and then falls over without any sort of prompting. A flop mayhaps?
First and 10 at the opponent’s 25 yard line: A 1 yard run on a pump fake draw by Terry Yaki. Of note is Schumi Hulkunvettel doing what can only be considered a block in the back. He literally goes behind a defensive back and just forces him to fall, and then puts all his weight on top of him as he falls as well. Probably shoukd be a penalty, but eh, what do I know.
Second and 9 at the opponent’s 23: Tugg Speedman catches a slant route in the middle of the field and takes it upfield for the touchdown. Terry Yaki, trying to block for the QB, seems to take the appproacch of attempting to go under the defensive lineman, which, oddly enough, doesn’t work. Good effort tho
Extra point is good, 10-7 Royals
Kickoff returned to the 25 yard line
First and 10 at the 25 yard line: It’s so weird to see a receiver to make a cut, and then the linebacker to take five seconds to realize what just happened. That is what happened here, which led to a 25 yard completion.
First and 10 from the 50: 4 yard run by Adrian Peterson. Nothing notable reallly.
Second and 6 from the opponents 46 yard line: 2 yard check down to the running back
third and 3 at the opponent’s 44 yard line: 10 yard pass to Terry Mclaurin. Oddly enough, this is the first reception for him, despite him being really the best player in the offense for WFT
False start by the offense
First and 15 at the opponent’s 39 yard line: Haskins completed a 17 yard pas to Steven Sims. Of note is one WFT O-lineman switching from blocking one defender to blocking another one who was farther away. This led to that first receiver getting absolutely bulldozed by the offensive lineman
First and 10 at the 22 yard line: Caven Mcrar makes an outstanding hit to knock the ball out of the receivers hands, leading to an incompletion
Second and 10 at the 22 yard line: an extremely immaculate pass to his wide open runningback. Lol get wrecked
third and 10 at the 22 yard line: Haskins makes a pass to Terry Mclaurin for a touchdown. He was completely wide open.
Extra point good. 14-10 Washington
Good return by Terry Yaki on the kickoff to the 28 yard line.
First and 10 at the 28 yard line: pas by Charlemagne Cortez to Tugg Speedman for 12 yards. Good protection by the offensive line somehow.
first and 10 at the 40 yard line: Tugg Speedman somehow makes an insane catch in double coverage with a defender literally laying on top of him. He was genuinely getting crushed between a defender flying into him and another defender and somehow he still made the catch. Great job Tugg.
first and 10 at the opponent’s 48 yard line: Tugg Speedman the absolute star of this drive. He catches it in the slant route for 10 yards before tripping over a defender and falling
First and 10, at the opponent’s 48 yard line: Frank Michell catches the ball on a slant route and runs upwards before getting tackled by a safety. 18 yards in all.
Two minute warning.
first and 10 at the opponent’s 20 yard line: pass goes incomplete. Tuff Speedman was interfered with during the play, but it wasn’t called by the refs. Damn, even the refs in madden suck
second and 10 at the opponent’s 20 yard line: completion to Tsuyu Asui on a curl route for 10 yards
First and goal at the nine yard line: 1:34 left. Frank Michell catches the ball on an inside crossing route before getting tackled at the five yard line
Second and goal at the 5 yard line: 1:26 left. Ball intercepted at the goal line. Returned for a pick six. Goddamnit. This is bad.
extra point good. 21-10 Washington Football Team
Kickoff returned to the 28 yard line.
First and 10 at the 28 yard line: 29 yard pass to Schumi Hulkunvettel complete.
First and 10 at the opponent’s 43 yard line: Ball falls incomplete, due to being thrown into basically double coverage
Second and 10 at the opponent’s 43 yard line: Cortez is sacked, and fumbles the ball. The defense picks up the fumble and is taken down by the facemask.
Washington kneels, and the game is over. 21-10 Washington Football Team.
So not an ideal end to all of this, but honestly we were competitive, which is basically half the battle. Thank you guys for reading, and I apologize in advance for all the typos that i’m sure are in here. Thanks again, and i’ll probably make more!