Psh you would love this years "wide open gameplay" then.
I really enjoy the strategy portion of football. So a more "sim" style works for me. Online of course just devolves into whatever cheese plays people come up with, followed by a long string of racial and homophobic slurs resulting from my slow, methodical, grinding style of football.
Most people run a spread and throw 90% of downs, I run at least 70% of the time. Eat of the clock, control the ball and limit turnovers. You wouldn't believe how pissed off unsupervised pre-pubescent 12 year old children get when they are losing.