jdavidbakr wrote:
The main updates that probably impacted this QB are that the OL play now is more important (the disparity between how well a good OL will protect the QB vs. how well a bad OL will protect the QB should be increased). Also, short passing is no longer as automatic as it used to be, although it is still going to give you the best completion percentage.
If this was the intent, I think it has backfired. The team I picked up in L21 has one of the (if not
the) best o-lines (on paper) in the league, yet there hasn't been a single drop back where my QB hasn't come under pressure (no matter how absurdly bad the d-line is they're facing). As a result, my QB, who has perfect ratings in every passing category, is playing like absolute rubbish (47% completion rating), despite having two near perfect rated WRs and a high rated TE and FB to boot. Initially in both L21 and L75 I'd been running a short pass attack, but was throwing more completions to the other team than my own. Switching to a deep pass attack has had zero negative impact on my completion %, interceptions, or sacks allowed, because the QB holds on to it for just as long whether throwing long or short.
The only area any of my o-line is deficient in is speed, because they're all "natural" o-linemen. Compare that to L75 where 3/5ths of my line are transplants, and thus grossly underweight, and they're playing far superior, despite being not only ~40-60lbs too light, but also severely lacking in actual blocking abilities.
In both leagues, the QB is still routinely overlooking open players to throw into double coverage, and my top rated WRs are seriously struggling to generate separation against man to man.