Max Pass Protection

[pairunoyd]

APF's manual says you can adjust your pass protection to standard, max, left, right.
Wouldnt you always want 'max' protection or am I reading that too literally?
Would it be more accurate to say that max protection is 'up the middle' protection?
How do you guys adjust your pass blocking?

[Chop Stick]

i think all it does is instead of making your fb rb or te run a route.. it makes them block.. so if u use it with an empty backfield.. youre essentially wasting your time.

i could be wrong.

[Alai]

I think it means exactly what it says. But your run protection, receivers out of backfield, TE's as recievers, even one of the WR's would be protecting not catching. But your pass protection will be Fan-Tastic.

[rl52]

Max protection like in real life is just having a back and/or TE block rather than run their route. This will usually give you 2-3 receivers and everybody else is in a pass protection. I don't think max protect makes them read blocks. Ex: block inside then out. It just puts players into a pass protection.

[NPYYZ]

APF's manual says you can adjust your pass protection to standard, max, left, right.
Wouldnt you always want 'max' protection or am I reading that too literally?
Would it be more accurate to say that max protection is 'up the middle' protection?
How do you guys adjust your pass blocking?

To adjust the pass protection hold the left bumper and move the d-pad or left stick LEFT for left side protection, RIGHT for right side protection and DOWN for maximum pass protection. You can also assign a player to block by using the hot route and clicking the the right stick to block.

I used all of the above depending on the play I'm running. Obviously if I'm going to move my QB to the left and pass then I'll use left pass protection same thing for the right side, and if I'm dropping straight back I use Max.

[tpaterniti]

Who stays in depends on the formation. In Ace, the 2 TEs and HB stays in, on I Pro the TE, FB, and B stay in. I throw to the TE a lot so I definitely don't want max protect all the time. Also if you max protect on screens your HB stays in to block instead of running the screen. Doh!

[GoodSense]

Who stays in depends on the formation. In Ace, the 2 TEs and HB stays in, on I Pro the TE, FB, and B stay in. I throw to the TE a lot so I definitely don't want max protect all the time. Also if you max protect on screens your HB stays in to block instead of running the screen. Doh!


I think that sums it up best.

The best way for people to really find the answers to these questions really is to go in practice mode and just call max protect in single, split, I, empty formations to see how it effects their play.

I'll take a look at that screen thingy tonight. That is interesting. I've never seen the need to use it on a screen, but it is nice to know. Sounds like another product of poor programming. Something again that should have been caught in testing.

[Gunner969]

I'll take a look at that screen thingy tonight. That is interesting. I've never seen the need to use it on a screen, but it is nice to know. Sounds like another product of poor programming. Something again that should have been caught in testing.

Let's say you were the tester, obviously in real life you didn't think of calling max protect on a screen, so why would you have thought of it as the tester?

They can't possibly test for every bizarre situation a player comes up with. I mean, really, who in their right mind calls for max protect on a screen?? It makes as much sense as calling a hail marry with 2 seconds left cause you need a TD to tie the game and then changing to a goal line run play because the D is in dime prevent.... If something doesn't make sense, why do it?