Why Madden 11 Fails - Episode 5 (Fumble Recoveries & Possession)

I get a little pissed off in this video because of how ridiculous this play is.. This was just a practice session with a friend too..

What should have happened...

Suh just palms the ball with his right hand like a boss.
The ref's entire right leg is shattered and gets ripped off of the hip joint.
The chain gang dude has a hell of a story to tell his grandkids.

The dumbest thing happened last night, I was the cardinals and I played the skins (held him to 93yrds total offense) in the last 5mins I picked him off with DRC and run it back for a td the ref calls clipping on the offense and it shows where to take the 1st and 10 or the 35, or touchdown........... how about the fucking ******* on the other side got to choose when it was an offensive penalty!

suicide-manual wrote:

The dumbest thing happened last night, I was the cardinals and I played the skins (held him to 93yrds total offense) in the last 5mins I picked him off with DRC and run it back for a td the ref calls clipping on the offense and it shows where to take the 1st and 10 or the 35, or touchdown........... how about the fucking ******* on the other side got to choose when it was an offensive penalty!

It was an offensive penalty because you were the offensive team when you had the ball. It was legitimate. It just sucks that you didn't know

I thought it was a glitch lol

btw Wang we need to play some time!!

the players feet were inbounds and the ball was in the air there ball

stritzo wrote:

the players feet were inbounds and the ball was in the air there ball

What? The ball warped into Suh's hands.. that shouldn't happen..

Suh was in mid-air. Suh's foot did touch down before he had the ball in his left hand.. but that doesn't count because he didn't possess the ball at that time. He gets the ball when it first WARPS into his hand.. lets say that was possible.. Now he has to establish possession in bounds..

I see where you say his feet were in bounds, but because it occurred before touching the ball, it doesn't count. He dives for the fumble, which puts him in mid-air.. Ball warps into left hand. Nothing else touches in bounds to establish possession meaning it should be my ball where the ball went out of bounds.

Maybe Suh is secretly a jedi and used the force lol



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haseo15

my little bro seemed to uses "Force" often with strips/hitstick fumbles that don't see daylight without morphing into his defenders hands... Makes me mad just seeing it...

just poor animations. Somebody brought this kind of thing up when a ball passed through their hand to the WR. The animations aren't real time, so sometimes things get messed up.

Bottom line is you fumbled and they recovered. Same with sometimes it looks like one team gets the ball, but the other is awarded the football.

It's a video game, so there will be issues regardless. If the details weren't so good, we'd never see them. So it's good and bad.

Having said that, it is disappointing when it shows up because it can be SO glaring.

Madden does crazy stuff like this every year...

I would love an Mad Den episode focused on getting fumbles and avoiding fumbles.

We all know hit power/carry ratings helps, but other ratings help? Would a 99 strength, 99 hit power rated player get fumbles every time when hit sticking at player with 0-50 carry *& 0-50 strength rating?


Also what button presses will help with trying to get strips (I've heard people use defensive assist right before using down the strip button, and others pressing Y+X when the animation for stripping the ball is shown). & What buttons help with trying to hold unto the ball. I've literally had games where my opponent would strip the ball almost at will, and I had to keep pressing the right button on xbox 360 and run toward the ground.