Sadly I'm not impressed with Earl's gameplay :(

I was SOOOO excited to get an Earl Campbell card but his abilities are eh. Tank is good but as far as actual riding abilities he doesn't get any discounted power abilities. It's only been about 1.5 hours but he doesn't animate much on trucks or stiff arms and he's not knocking people back....

For a card with 98 accel 96 trucking and 95 BTK... I'm not seeing it

Plus they really did him dirty on the stiff arm. 90? This guy could have stiff armed a bus. 

They gave him higher juke and spin than stiff arm WTF EA? Did you watch this guy play? Or is some 18 yr old with no football knowledge deciding the attributeson these cards

On paper he looks like a crazy card (don’t use abilities on rbs) 

sad he doesn’t preform well

kaotikords said:

On paper he looks like a crazy card (don’t use abilities on rbs) 

sad he doesn’t preform well

I want so badly to like the card.  

I swapped in LaDanian and then Marcus and they just ran twice as well. Even on power runs.

It's quite frustrating 

Maybe it's just me and my stick skills , I dunno

LT is slippery and good that way.  Earl won’t be.  He will play like that LTD Ricky Williams did…ground and pound.  Give time to dial in on best plays for him but every single running back I’ve used this year has had a learning curve.   First few games seemed awful but then started hitting gaps and barreling dudes over with him.  Still some work left but starting to see the Tyler Rose come to life

sensicough said:

LT is slippery and good that way.  Earl won’t be.  He will play like that LTD Ricky Williams did…ground and pound.  Give time to dial in on best plays for him but every single running back I’ve used this year has had a learning curve.   First few games seemed awful but then started hitting gaps and barreling dudes over with him.  Still some work left but starting to see the Tyler Rose come to life

No i understand what you're saying but it's the power animations that aren't even showing up that concerns me

Earl’s been a demon for me so far. Been loving him once he can break into the open field, nobody wants to tackle him…….but what do I know

kiingexcell said:

Earl’s been a demon for me so far. Been loving him once he can break into the open field, nobody wants to tackle him…….but what do I know

Same here for me. Dude is absolutely nasty and 98 accel don't even make me care about him not getting 95 speed  on the legends TT.

bcolby20 said:

Same here for me. Dude is absolutely nasty and 98 accel don't even make me care about him not getting 95 speed  on the legends TT.

What's crazy is In played a game with him and ran it 21 times and he had 20 broken tackles. I didn't even realize it.

But still, I used LaDanian after that and he was just so much better and more successful.  I prefer power rushing, I don't have more than 2 or 3 outside runs/stretches that I use,  but Earl had too many 2 yard runs for me

Does he fall foward on tackles?  Thats allI look for on my RB

karmaklaw said:

Does he fall foward on tackles?  Thats allI look for on my RB

Not as much as I thought he would.  LaDanian, Marcus , and Faulk all fell forward more.

Martyr1968 said:

Not as much as I thought he would.  LaDanian, Marcus , and Faulk all fell forward more.

sad times :(