PS2 & the Panthers

Defense is not near as good. Obviously, they never saw it coming.

I started a season. Cut Byrd, L.Smith, Weinke, and Fasani. Signed FA's M.Westbrook, Ricky Watters, Willie Jackson, Antonio Freeman, Jeff George and Eric Zeier. Peete is 3rd string. I still lost. The play book really isn't as fun as the other teams. Less out routes, screens, and slants. Not many deep routes either. Everytime I run the sweep or draw play, I get crushed behind the line. My best target, Walls down deep over the middle, plus he breaks tackles. Moose dropped a couple. George throws the ball a lot harder than Peete.

And get this, first play from scrimmage, Foster gets a stress fracture in his ankle and is out for the season. Guess they DID see THAT coming!

 

yeah- for xbox madden2k3 is pretty off with the panthers defense. they make peppers a shell of what he really is- they're horrible against the run and the pass and dont put great pressure on the qb- however, mark fields and dan morgan are animals. foster is a pretty good rb for me. i just finished my 1st season 6-10, and now i'm in my second at 2-1- peete retired so i drafted a rookie qb, smith retired so foster is #1, and i drafted 2 wr, RG, CB, DT and LB. defense is remarkably better.

 

What kills me is the Panthers D just bounces off the runners, missing 5 and 6 tackles in a single play.

Peppers had a couple of sacks though. And Smith about broke a KR. He did fumble a punt. The very first time I turned the game on, Smith fumbled the kick-off.

 

>>The play book really isn't as fun as the other teams. Less out routes, screens, and slants. Not many deep routes either. Everytime I run the sweep or draw play, I get crushed behind the line.

Realism.

 

>>realism

Yep, that's fer sure. Willie Jackson out of the slot gets deep though. He's faster than Byrd too, and Freeman is certainly a better option than Jeffers (oh yea, I cut him too) to start the season.

 

dude if you have the PS2 simply get the ineternet hook up and it will automatically update your roster to reflect a more realistic team ability... for instance Peppers is a better player after the update... so is Rodney Peete

 

No shit? That's fucking cool. I've been asking about the internet hook-up if anybody had it. Now I reall can't wait fot the draft. Will it work with dial-up (actually I have AOL still) or do I need to go ahead and get the RR/DSL? Earthlink/RR has a pretty good deal.

And how is like playing over the net? Can you just play anybody or do you have to know someone that will play too?

 

high speed internet only...


...you can play anyone over the net

 

I got the NFL Fever 2k3 for xbox, and no matter what I do, Fred Vinson turns out to be a stud at CB. Wonder if they know something there that I don't?