by TJ Fri Nov 16, 2012 2:40 pm
I voted yes, here's my thinking on it...
I've played joey and he is about as good as it comes on Offense. The best thing you can do against him is slow down his drives and pray he makes a mistake. When I look at the stat line from his game it looks to me like he was stat padding a little bit. Nothing as downright obvious as what Stop did (which I still believe he should be held accountable for, among other things), but to me it still feels like he was forcing it to certain players in an unnecessary way.
What irks me about his stat line is Staffords passing. He threw for something like 18-34, barely over 50%, along with his team only score 1/10 TDs inside the redzone. His top 3 receivers had an unusually high % TD catch compared to their total catches. Mega 50% (4/8), Percy 50% (2/4), and Blackmon 75% (3/4), if i remember correctly. Add on top of that the surge of scoring in the 2nd qtr to me it looks like it went from simply playing his way and went into get as much out of my passing game before the half, and that's where I feel it starts to become more about getting those plays in than simply beating up on a poor cpu.
That's why I voted yes, I feel like he pushed the issue too far in the 1st half to get what he could out of it. Regardless of whether it's 4 qtrs or not, to me it looks as if he was forcing it trying to get his WR big production in the 1st half and that to me that is a form of stat padding, not a very egregious one, but still a form of it brought on by EAs stupid weekly XP shit (which I don't like cause I suck on O too much to get em).
But, to add, I feel like this is a very touchy issue to deal with unless it is undoubtedly blatant (Stop's game). There is a simple drive summary provided, but without it explaining the length and time between TDs it's hard to tell what really went on other than from what the player says (if it's CPU only). Even though he had only 1 Redzone TD, it's hard to tell if every passing TD was 60 yards or simply 21. Along with that, I remember a game last Madden between two shitheads that ran up the score in their games to get crazy stats, but luckily last year you could see that detailed summary and you could tell it was BS due to scoring plays for 1 team happening seconds between each other.
Oh and URB, taking your "foot of the gas" deals with running up the score. Usually guys do it at some point in time (though there are plenty of jackwagons out there that don't), and yes I know from personal experience Joey usually doesn't let up till later in the game lol.
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