Improvements to QBs in Madden 10

by pastapadre
Posted February 23rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm

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Another posting on the Inside EA Blog details improvements that are being made for Madden 2010 to the QB position. Of note are five new ratings categories, layered blending, and changes to how accuracy is determined. This is a significant update and you can read it in full here.

1. Deep Ball Accuracy: Determines the accuracy on deep passes (streaks, deep posts, etc)
2. Medium Passing Accuracy: Determines the accuracy on medium passes (outs, corners, etc)
3. Short Passing Accuracy: Determines the accuracy on short passes (quick smash, flats, etc)
4. Throw on the Run: Creates a modifier to accuracy when the QB is throwing on the run. Every QB will take some sort of accuracy hit when throwing on the run, but a QB that has a high rating here will take a smaller hit.
5. Play Action: Determines the ‘effectiveness’ of Play Action for a QB, i.e. how often they can fake out or freeze the defense (which is obviously weighted against the defenders Play Recognition ratings)

I’m hoping along with the Play Action rating that they can work out the different speeds that QBs execute play actions. One thing that has frustrated me is how deliberate the animations are. However when you look at a QB like Peyton Manning it is quick and crisp. Each QB has their own tendencies or signature style even to that extent. There is little that I find more frustrating than getting sacked before even turning around or removing PA’s from my arsenal because of that risk.

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pat oak

I'm calling it on here that Pat White will be the next Mike Vick of video games cause of the play action feature.

Mr. EA Sports

I second your opinion.

pat oak

I'm calling it on here that Pat White will be the next Mike Vick of video games cause of the play action feature.

Mr. EA Sports

I second your opinion.

footballgamer

sounds great……….however, i wish there would be news of some sort of TEAM DNA for madden 10 that they did for LIVE 09………that would be the icing on the cake with the game play features they're implementing now. i've always wanted to play against teams that have stronger offense or defense or a run game or passing game, etc. i will continue to post this and on EA's site until they mention it. come on, EA………….TEAM DNA!!!
footballgamer

sounds great……….however, i wish there would be news of some sort of TEAM DNA for madden 10 that they did for LIVE 09………that would be the icing on the cake with the game play features they're implementing now. i've always wanted to play against teams that have stronger offense or defense or a run game or passing game, etc. i will continue to post this and on EA's site until they mention it. come on, EA………….TEAM DNA!!!
saints fan

Finally drew brees i will finally be drew brees in the game…… He has the best deep ball great short and medium passes so i cant wait… AND MR. EA SPORTS U PUT DREW BREES AT NUMBER 7 FOR THE DEEP BALL? LOL OMG ALL U WANNA DO IS SAY HOW TONY TURNOVER HAS ACCURACY BUT HE UNDER THREW T.O. HOW MANY TIMES??? AND TURNED THE BALL OVER HOW MANY TIMES??? AND NEW ORLEANS WAS THE MOST INJURED TEAM THIS YEAR WE HAD 18 PLAYERS ON I.R. AND U WANNA SAY HOW THE COWBOYS ARE THE MOST TALENTED?? WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YALL WON A PLAYOFF GAME?? UM LETS SEE 1996 LOL

Mr. EA Sports

1st off I call it like it is because as my fellow peers say "the film don't lie" 2nd I'm not a Dallas Cowboy's fan all I did was just acknowledge that they were the best team talent wise the NFL has ever seen. I have too much tape to prove that statement. As far as the New Orleans Saints go they play in a sub par division and have greatly underachieved 2 years straight by not making the playoffs. If your QB plays all 16 games you should ALWAYS make the playoffs. D.Bress didn't miss a game in that time span and went 2 years back to back not making the playoffs. When Romo plays 16 games the Cowboys have always made the playoffs. I think you should go back and review some tape before coming at a pro with weak information.

http://intensedebate.com/people/EPICgabe Gabe G.

lets get this settled out real quick
so basically we're on a sports gaming blog
and you're talking yourself up pretty good by calling yourself a "pro"
in all honesty if you were that "pro" you wouldn't have to be on a sports gaming blog trying to school all of us here (mainly KRIS, I don't why) about our "weak" information
not trying to offend just want to know

Mr. EA Sports

When you are a student of the game you like to teach others and share your knowledge with others. This is a great outlet to offer my expertise in analyzing football and breaking down film. A professional; is someone who gets paid for the work that they do and I sir am a professional. The only reason it seems that I "pick" on Kris is because he put out a lot of misinformation that the novices might take as fact. When you see a fault you have to make on-spot corrections otherwise that false information could spread like wild fire.

KRIS

what do i say that is misinformation? everything i say is either fact or my (usually fair) opinion. opposed to u who just types about how good u think romo is (that no one else sees)! and if the cowboys r not ur favorite team then y the hell r they all u talk about? who is ur favorite team? o i forgot u like all of them except the team that mcnabb is on. lol ur a loser. and its funny to c u afraid to admit ur a cowboys fan. theyre the most "talented" team right????
Mr. EA Sports

Kris your view of how the QB is played at the professional is a little misconstrued. You like D.McNabb because he is a big strong armed QB for your eagles, okay I'll give you that. but there are other intangibles that make some QB's elite and others a notch or two below. You have 3 elite QB's P.Manning, Brady and Romo a couple of 2nd tier guys such as Big Ben, P.Rivers and several mid-level players where D.Brees and D.McNabb falls into. An eltie QB show be able to do 4 things very well:
1) Be able to make the quick read
2) Throw a strong deep out
3)Lead the receivers
4)Throw a quick catchable pass on the behind LOS plays
If I had to grade McNabb on these 4 categorizes I would give him straight C's now when his game is on I would give him a B but he seems to have too much going on with him mentally and it's pretty obvious when looking at the tape. Game in and game out those top 3 elite QB's accomplish those 4 very important aspects of the game. To be honest though I'm really an fan of the Eagles and the Steelers but my job is to call a spade a spade and that is what I do. So from a team aspect the Dallas cowboys are a wreck but from a pure talent standpoint they are clearly the best group created.

saints fan

Finally drew brees i will finally be drew brees in the game…… He has the best deep ball great short and medium passes so i cant wait… AND MR. EA SPORTS U PUT DREW BREES AT NUMBER 7 FOR THE DEEP BALL? LOL OMG ALL U WANNA DO IS SAY HOW TONY TURNOVER HAS ACCURACY BUT HE UNDER THREW T.O. HOW MANY TIMES??? AND TURNED THE BALL OVER HOW MANY TIMES??? AND NEW ORLEANS WAS THE MOST INJURED TEAM THIS YEAR WE HAD 18 PLAYERS ON I.R. AND U WANNA SAY HOW THE COWBOYS ARE THE MOST TALENTED?? WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YALL WON A PLAYOFF GAME?? UM LETS SEE 1996 LOL

Mr. EA Sports

1st off I call it like it is because as my fellow peers say "the film don't lie" 2nd I'm not a Dallas Cowboy's fan all I did was just acknowledge that they were the best team talent wise the NFL has ever seen. I have too much tape to prove that statement. As far as the New Orleans Saints go they play in a sub par division and have greatly underachieved 2 years straight by not making the playoffs. If your QB plays all 16 games you should ALWAYS make the playoffs. D.Bress didn't miss a game in that time span and went 2 years back to back not making the playoffs. When Romo plays 16 games the Cowboys have always made the playoffs. I think you should go back and review some tape before coming at a pro with weak information.

http://intensedebate.com/people/EPICgabe Gabe G.

lets get this settled out real quick
so basically we're on a sports gaming blog
and you're talking yourself up pretty good by calling yourself a "pro"
in all honesty if you were that "pro" you wouldn't have to be on a sports gaming blog trying to school all of us here (mainly KRIS, I don't why) about our "weak" information
not trying to offend just want to know

Mr. EA Sports

When you are a student of the game you like to teach others and share your knowledge with others. This is a great outlet to offer my expertise in analyzing football and breaking down film. A professional; is someone who gets paid for the work that they do and I sir am a professional. The only reason it seems that I "pick" on Kris is because he put out a lot of misinformation that the novices might take as fact. When you see a fault you have to make on-spot corrections otherwise that false information could spread like wild fire.

KRIS

what do i say that is misinformation? everything i say is either fact or my (usually fair) opinion. opposed to u who just types about how good u think romo is (that no one else sees)! and if the cowboys r not ur favorite team then y the hell r they all u talk about? who is ur favorite team? o i forgot u like all of them except the team that mcnabb is on. lol ur a loser. and its funny to c u afraid to admit ur a cowboys fan. theyre the most "talented" team right????
Mr. EA Sports

Kris your view of how the QB is played at the professional is a little misconstrued. You like D.McNabb because he is a big strong armed QB for your eagles, okay I'll give you that. but there are other intangibles that make some QB's elite and others a notch or two below. You have 3 elite QB's P.Manning, Brady and Romo a couple of 2nd tier guys such as Big Ben, P.Rivers and several mid-level players where D.Brees and D.McNabb falls into. An eltie QB show be able to do 4 things very well:
1) Be able to make the quick read
2) Throw a strong deep out
3)Lead the receivers
4)Throw a quick catchable pass on the behind LOS plays
If I had to grade McNabb on these 4 categorizes I would give him straight C's now when his game is on I would give him a B but he seems to have too much going on with him mentally and it's pretty obvious when looking at the tape. Game in and game out those top 3 elite QB's accomplish those 4 very important aspects of the game. To be honest though I'm really an fan of the Eagles and the Steelers but my job is to call a spade a spade and that is what I do. So from a team aspect the Dallas cowboys are a wreck but from a pure talent standpoint they are clearly the best group created.

Mr. Professional

I do watch the NFL and I never said that you don't see that type of thing happening. In matter of fact, it happens all the time. I said I just hope they don't over-exaggerate the ratings, like giving a QB a really high throw power rating, but 50 for Deep Ball Accuracy to emphasize he can throw deep, but not accurately. If you're a starter in the NFL, you're not that bad.
Mr. Professional

I do watch the NFL and I never said that you don't see that type of thing happening. In matter of fact, it happens all the time. I said I just hope they don't over-exaggerate the ratings, like giving a QB a really high throw power rating, but 50 for Deep Ball Accuracy to emphasize he can throw deep, but not accurately. If you're a starter in the NFL, you're not that bad.
Mr. EA Sports

1st I call it like it is because as my fellow peers say "the film don't lie" 2nd I'm not a Dallas Cowboy's fan all I did was just acknowledge that they were the best team talent wise the NFL has ever seen. I have too much tape to prove that statement. As far as the New Orleans Saints go they play in a sub par division and have greatly underachieved 2 years straight by not making the playoffs. If your QB plays all 16 games you should ALWAYS make the playoffs. D.Bress didn't miss a game in that time span and went 2 years back to back not making the playoffs. When Romo plays 16 games the Cowboys have always made the playoffs. I think you should go back and review some tape before coming at a pro with weak information.
Mr. EA Sports

1st I call it like it is because as my fellow peers say "the film don't lie" 2nd I'm not a Dallas Cowboy's fan all I did was just acknowledge that they were the best team talent wise the NFL has ever seen. I have too much tape to prove that statement. As far as the New Orleans Saints go they play in a sub par division and have greatly underachieved 2 years straight by not making the playoffs. If your QB plays all 16 games you should ALWAYS make the playoffs. D.Bress didn't miss a game in that time span and went 2 years back to back not making the playoffs. When Romo plays 16 games the Cowboys have always made the playoffs. I think you should go back and review some tape before coming at a pro with weak information.
SAINTS FAN

UMm dude if u havent realized it yet it dosent even matter if u make the playoffs cause if u dont win the superbowl then your whole season is shit ..the point of making the playoffs is to WIN GAMES and win the super bowl… Yeah we been in 2 years but atleast the last time we went we actually won the game…. and all tony turnover does is turn the ball over when it counts… DO U HAVE FILM ON THAT TOO OR TO U JUST OVER LOOK THAT… AND DREW BREES DOESNT PLAY DEFENSE SO THATS WHY WE HAVENT MADE THE PLAYOFFS LOL I WILL ADMIT OUR DEFENSE SUCKS BUT WE HAVE HAD THE NUMBER 1 OFFENSE 2 OUT OF THE LAST 3 YEARS…BUT THE COWBOYS HAVE MORE TALENT ….LOL
SAINTS FAN

UMm dude if u havent realized it yet it dosent even matter if u make the playoffs cause if u dont win the superbowl then your whole season is shit ..the point of making the playoffs is to WIN GAMES and win the super bowl… Yeah we been in 2 years but atleast the last time we went we actually won the game…. and all tony turnover does is turn the ball over when it counts… DO U HAVE FILM ON THAT TOO OR TO U JUST OVER LOOK THAT… AND DREW BREES DOESNT PLAY DEFENSE SO THATS WHY WE HAVENT MADE THE PLAYOFFS LOL I WILL ADMIT OUR DEFENSE SUCKS BUT WE HAVE HAD THE NUMBER 1 OFFENSE 2 OUT OF THE LAST 3 YEARS…BUT THE COWBOYS HAVE MORE TALENT ….LOL
Mykal94

They should call the short-deep pass accuracy difference the Chad Pennington factor
Mykal94

They should call the short-deep pass accuracy difference the Chad Pennington factor
saints fan

UMm dude if u havent realized it yet it dosent even matter if u make the playoffs cause if u dont win the superbowl then your whole season is shit ..the point of making the playoffs is to WIN GAMES and win the super bowl… Yeah we been in 2 years but atleast the last time we went we actually won the game…. and all tony turnover does is turn the ball over when it counts… DO U HAVE FILM ON THAT TOO OR TO U JUST OVER LOOK THAT… AND DREW BREES DOESNT PLAY DEFENSE SO THATS WHY WE HAVENT MADE THE PLAYOFFS LOL I WILL ADMIT OUR DEFENSE SUCKS BUT WE HAVE HAD THE NUMBER 1 OFFENSE 2 OUT OF THE LAST 3 YEARS…BUT THE COWBOYS HAVE MORE TALENT ….LOL…AND ATLEAST WIN WE GET TO THE PLAYOFFS WE DONT CHOKE AND LOSE LOL ALL THAT TALENS MEANS SHIT IF U CANT EVEN WIN A PLAYOFF GAME
saints fan

UMm dude if u havent realized it yet it dosent even matter if u make the playoffs cause if u dont win the superbowl then your whole season is shit ..the point of making the playoffs is to WIN GAMES and win the super bowl… Yeah we been in 2 years but atleast the last time we went we actually won the game…. and all tony turnover does is turn the ball over when it counts… DO U HAVE FILM ON THAT TOO OR TO U JUST OVER LOOK THAT… AND DREW BREES DOESNT PLAY DEFENSE SO THATS WHY WE HAVENT MADE THE PLAYOFFS LOL I WILL ADMIT OUR DEFENSE SUCKS BUT WE HAVE HAD THE NUMBER 1 OFFENSE 2 OUT OF THE LAST 3 YEARS…BUT THE COWBOYS HAVE MORE TALENT ….LOL…AND ATLEAST WIN WE GET TO THE PLAYOFFS WE DONT CHOKE AND LOSE LOL ALL THAT TALENS MEANS SHIT IF U CANT EVEN WIN A PLAYOFF GAME
Mr EA sports

Why isn't anyone up over arms over EA's NFL Exclusive deal with the NFL its the shittiest deal in all of video gaming yet no one seems to care and gets an EA dicked shoved up there ass every year. Why can't video game companies call a truce and fuck exlusive deals. EA gets make a MLB baseball game and 2k gets to make NFL game.

its just like everyone just waits on there hands for 2012 but whos to say EA doesnt link another deal they did it already. 8 years is too long a wait and playing a 2004 game engine will get old eventually.

If they let this happen consumers will win. 2k already cut off its NCAA basketball division cause they didnt have the revenue for a football I dont want every sports game to have EA on the back it sickening who can I write too??? to stop this…something has to be done. somehow……do I have to send a letter to NFL PA president…..???

footballgamer

yeah, definitely the shittiest deal of them all………..i was heart broken a few years ago and suffer from always having to manually update my rosters for 2k5. madden sucks and many peeps who play it just don't have a clue. also, there isn't much that we can do……….we are the consumers………..unless we are head of EA or NFL or NFL players union………there's not much we can do. hopefully, there would be the elimination of exclusivity concerning this issue that is about to be brought up to the supreme court………i believe its the American Needle vs. New Orleans Saints…………google it if you haven't heard news about this.

Mr EA sports

Why isn't anyone up over arms over EA's NFL Exclusive deal with the NFL its the shittiest deal in all of video gaming yet no one seems to care and gets an EA dicked shoved up there ass every year. Why can't video game companies call a truce and fuck exlusive deals. EA gets make a MLB baseball game and 2k gets to make NFL game.

its just like everyone just waits on there hands for 2012 but whos to say EA doesnt link another deal they did it already. 8 years is too long a wait and playing a 2004 game engine will get old eventually.

If they let this happen consumers will win. 2k already cut off its NCAA basketball division cause they didnt have the revenue for a football I dont want every sports game to have EA on the back it sickening who can I write too??? to stop this…something has to be done. somehow……do I have to send a letter to NFL PA president…..???

footballgamer

yeah, definitely the shittiest deal of them all………..i was heart broken a few years ago and suffer from always having to manually update my rosters for 2k5. madden sucks and many peeps who play it just don't have a clue. also, there isn't much that we can do……….we are the consumers………..unless we are head of EA or NFL or NFL players union………there's not much we can do. hopefully, there would be the elimination of exclusivity concerning this issue that is about to be brought up to the supreme court………i believe its the American Needle vs. New Orleans Saints…………google it if you haven't heard news about this.

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saints fan

HAHAHA omg Mr EA …..LOL KRIS pla rspind to this MR EA IS CALLIJNG ROMO A ELITE QB…U DUMB ASS…U SAY YOUR A PRO WELL NO PRO'S ARE CALLING ROMO A ELIT QB…U KNOW WHAT ELITE QB DOES????? WIN GAMES WHEN THEY COUNT AND DONT TURN THE BALL OVER WHEN IT COUNTS AND ELITE QBS WIN THE SUPER BOWL AND WIN PLAYOFF GAMEs…..HAS ROMO DOES THAT?? HAVE U FORGOTTEN THE SEAHAWKS GAME??? THE GIANTS GAME??? OMG THE EAGLES GAME WHERE ROMO SUCKED AND TURNED THE BALL OVER…AND DREW BREES IS WAY BETTER THEN ROMO AND U KNOW IT LOL HOW DARE U SAY ROMO IS A ELITE WHEN HES DONE NOTHING AT ALL
saints fan

HAHAHA omg Mr EA …..LOL KRIS pla rspind to this MR EA IS CALLIJNG ROMO A ELITE QB…U DUMB ASS…U SAY YOUR A PRO WELL NO PRO'S ARE CALLING ROMO A ELIT QB…U KNOW WHAT ELITE QB DOES????? WIN GAMES WHEN THEY COUNT AND DONT TURN THE BALL OVER WHEN IT COUNTS AND ELITE QBS WIN THE SUPER BOWL AND WIN PLAYOFF GAMEs…..HAS ROMO DOES THAT?? HAVE U FORGOTTEN THE SEAHAWKS GAME??? THE GIANTS GAME??? OMG THE EAGLES GAME WHERE ROMO SUCKED AND TURNED THE BALL OVER…AND DREW BREES IS WAY BETTER THEN ROMO AND U KNOW IT LOL HOW DARE U SAY ROMO IS A ELITE WHEN HES DONE NOTHING AT ALL