Waaaaay too many inches to go situations

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Id say 99 percent of "close" finishes near the sticks turn into inches when irl its the other way around. They NEVER fall forward or put the ball slightly out in this game (unless an equally goofy animation gets triggered for no good reason where you were CLEARLY stood up and stopped yet another defender becomes involved and the tangle of bodies defy the laws of physics and completely change direction and gain another 4 yards)

Does that "reach for it" ability help? I dont recall it ever doing anything but been a long time since i tried it.

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It's crazy that each year this game becomes more of an animation trigger battle. But I don't even think what you do correctly drives this game anymore, moreover it's who hasn't done something stupid last. If that is you, then you get animations triggering left and right that go in your favor. First down lines and the goal line are obviously the two places they have created the most animations for, so they are manipulated the hardest.

Jusst gotta go for it again on 4th down. Knowmsayn?

Edit: reach for it was a decent ability when I used it at the beginning of the year. I think now more RBs have reached better stat thresholds and have better traits, so I use my AP elsewhere.

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Bro I legit juggled some dudes OBJ into the endzone the other day. There were seconds left in the second half. I called man 3 deep. He chucked it deep to OBJ on a streak after he got behind my safety. I shit you not, my safety goes to tackle him and he's going down, then my CB hits him and it restarts the animation, then my safety decides to hit him again and it restarted the SAME EXACT tackle animation for the 3rd time and he falls into the end zone. I think the 2 animation resets gave him at the bare minimum 5 extra yards. It was the difference between 6 points and 0 going into the half anyway lol. Dude came back and beat me by a fg in the end. 😂

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The only reaching is that spinning like a ballerina stick the ball out one, if only this game wasn’t animation based.

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SquishySoldier21 said:

Id say 99 percent of "close" finishes near the sticks turn into inches when irl its the other way around. They NEVER fall forward or put the ball slightly out in this game (unless an equally goofy animation gets triggered for no good reason where you were CLEARLY stood up and stopped yet another defender becomes involved and the tangle of bodies defy the laws of physics and completely change direction and gain another 4 yards)

Does that "reach for it" ability help? I dont recall it ever doing anything but been a long time since i tried it.

I use reach for it on my rbs pretty often, it is probably a good idea to use it

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Reach for it has always been good for me. It definitely helps with those “inches“ situations. I usually still have it on my RB’s. Beginning of the year I had it on everyone, but now there’s better abilities to use for AP on receivers.