Punished For Your Mistake

Why you shouldn't mess around with crazy play calls

Punished For Your Mistake

There are some football games that will reward you for making ridiculous play calls.

One thing I always loved doing with games like Madden 2002 was calling ridiculous goal line defenses in the middle of the field. The funny thing is that it would sometimes work. If the other team called a run, we could frequently stop it for a loss.

But that doesn’t work in Action PC Football.

On third and inches early in the game, I figured that Miami was likely going to run. I went for a goal line defense looking to stop the run and force a 4th and short.

And, well, Kosar burned me with an audible:

This makes a lot of sense, of course. Kosar was naturally going to change the play as soon as he saw that we basically had nobody in the backfield.

And it goes to show you that you can’t get away with making ridiculous choices in this game. You’ve got to play it straight if you want to have any chance at winning.