Lets talk Defense!

[cubsball899]

i'm a defense lover, theres nothing i'd rather do more than win a grind it out game 10-7. so i want to post my defense and invite you guys to discuss, critique, and post your own defense. i just made a team today now with 8 defense and 3 offense. my defense is as follows:

G- Night Train Lane
G- Reggie White
S- Lem Barney
S- Too Tall Jones
B- Nolan Cromwell
B- William Perry
B- Brad Van Pelt
B- Ken Norton Jr.

defense will shut down ANY passing attack... right now unfortunately i'm playing the Rustlers in my season opener and Paul Hornung is tearing me a new one, as he always does

[Rayp]

Honestly I think its just gona come down to practice and more practice as u get used to your team and how they work around each other did u make a custom playbook for the D?

[cubsball899]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rayp

Honestly I think its just gona come down to practice and more practice as u get used to your team and how they work around each other did u make a custom playbook for the D?

i do custom playbooks for all my teams, honestly though with this team i'm likely just going to play man coverage 90 percent of the time, i have another team to with a great defense anchored by willie brown, i'll post that defense next time i turn the game on, lol honestly i like creating teams better than i like playin with them i've got like 8 teams all like 3-4 games into a season and then just create more teams

[2KVisual Concepts2K]

You don't need to waste a gold on a Dlineman. Clyde Simmons is a steal as a bronze.

Replace White with Derrick Thomas and Brad Van Pelt with Simmons.

Your D right now would get eaten alive by the run.

Good luck and wise choice in continuing to play the greatest Football sim to date.

[TecmoZack]

I created a 85 Bears team with 8 legends on Defense. I had McMahon, Payton, and Gaunt on offense. Moving the ball was rough with only A gold Rd and bronze QB and WR. Defense was shut down and fun though.

[K_GUN]

Quote: Originally Posted by vertigho

Your best bet is to manipulate coverages. I play in an APF league, and there's a guy that always plays shutdown defense, specifically pass-defense, and he normally has 2 bronzes in his secondary... Just put double teams on certain receivers and such. For instance: Come out in a cover-2 man-coverage Audible your FS to double the wide receiver to the left Audible your SS to double the WR to the right' Audible your LB on the FB to guard the TE Leave the LB on the HB alone By doing this you've doubled everyone on the field, accept for the HB who has single coverage, and the FB who is free (but he's a minor threat anyways).

yup..sure sounds *sim* to me

[Rocky]

Quote: Originally Posted by K_GUN

yup..sure sounds *sim* to me

It's actually done in real life and quite beatable.

[K_GUN]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rocky

It's actually done in real life and quite beatable.

show me a clip of an NFL team doing it more than 3 times on a drive