Pocket Passing

[Brodie]

For passing how does the rating work the higher the number the more chance to pull it down or run

Danny McManus 40 rating little chance of rushing
Tracy Ham 80 great chance of taking it down to rush

or is it the oposite

[David Winter]

The higher the pocket passing skill attribute, the more likely the QB is to stay in the pocket. A Casey Printers is probably about a 35 pocket passer. A Danny Mac would be around 90 (mostly beccause he couldn't run to save his life!). The higher your pocket passer skill attribute is, the more investment you should have in better blockers!

[Maliki]

Interesting.

I would contend that a pocket passer is more of an asset to a team then one willing to cut and run.A QB is there for two reasons and two reasons only,pass and hand off.If a guys taking off running,even if it might lead to exciting plays,then either the play has broken down or the QB does not have enough skill or confidence in his line to stay in the pocket.

Me.I'm going for pocket passers 99.9% of the time when this game comes out.Take the sack and continue on.[:D]

[David Winter]

For my money I want a QB that can get out of the pocket and move around. A running QB provides an extra threat and someone else that the defense has to keep track of. If a LB always knows where the QB is going to be, that makes the defenses job awful easy. Also, if the defense is always running around trying to catch a scrambling QB they're going to worn out come the 4th.

[mudrick]

The idea is to have a good QB. Whether or not this game can correctly mimick it with these ratings is yet to be seen. For example.....John Elway and Randall Cunningham were excellent pocket passers, yet they had excellent mobility. Better than a good pocket passer without mobility.

Now of course there are variables to this. QB's that take off running before they should. I have no idea if there will be ratings for this.