M21 CB to WR Matchups

[dherrera1015]

First off, sorry if this has been talked about before. I am relatively new to being active in the Madden section of the forum.

But I'd like to know if there is a way to get your best corner to consistently matchup with the opposition's best WR. I feel as though a lot of times my number 1 CB is lined up with the other side's #2 WR. I wish Madden had a matchup system like NBA 2K has. That would be awesome. I guess for now, is my best hope to move my best CB to #2 on the depth chart?

[canes21]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

Use the coach adjustments which are found in the playcalling screen. You have multiple options that dictate who covers who.

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[TopSide83]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

First off, sorry if this has been talked about before. I am relatively new to being active in the Madden section of the forum.

But I'd like to know if there is a way to get your best corner to consistently matchup with the opposition's best WR. I feel as though a lot of times my number 1 CB is lined up with the other side's #2 WR. I wish Madden had a matchup system like NBA 2K has. That would be awesome. I guess for now, is my best hope to move my best CB to #2 on the depth chart?

Go into coaching adjustments on your play call screeen and change corner backup matchups to BY overall.

[utahman19]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

Use the coach adjustments which are found in the playcalling screen. You have multiple options that dictate who covers who.

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Yeah, but they don't always work which is a problem. Far too often when setting cornerback matchups to anything, I'll have a linebacker covering Michael Thomas or Tyreke Hill in the slot, regardless of man/zone/match coverages chosen.

I won't go so far as to say they're broken, but they just don't work some times.

[dherrera1015]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

Thanks guys. That helps a lot. I will try it out and if it messes up too often, I may have to keep playing without the adjustments.


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[DevSwerve]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

Put your number two corner at number one on the depth chart and move your number one to number two. That’s how you get the matchups right, not sure why it’s like that but it works for me.


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[Hooe]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

Yeah, but they don't always work which is a problem. Far too often when setting cornerback matchups to anything, I'll have a linebacker covering Michael Thomas or Tyreke Hill in the slot, regardless of man/zone/match coverages chosen.

I won't go so far as to say they're broken, but they just don't work some times.

As far as I know, defenses in Madden 21 have a hard-and-fast alignment rule that if a wide receiver is the last man on the end of the formation, a cornerback must line up over top of him. Note that a wide receiver in this instance is defined by the offensive formation, not the player that actually lines up in that spot; for example, using the TE Solo package in Gun Y-Trips, the solo TE counts as a WR because a WR normally lines up in that spot.

The implication of this is that if you want to consistently man up great receivers aligned in the slot with your best cornerback, you must match personnel - Nickel vs 3 WR sets, Dime vs 4 WR sets, etc.

At the very beginning of the Madden 21 cycle it wasn't like this - you could stick CB1 over top a great TE regardless of personnel - but this behavior was unfortunately patched out.

[ForUntoOblivionSoar∞]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

As far as I know, defenses in Madden 21 have a hard-and-fast alignment rule that if a wide receiver is the last man on the end of the formation, a cornerback must line up over top of him. Note that a wide receiver in this instance is defined by the offensive formation, not the player that actually lines up in that spot; for example, using the TE Solo package in Gun Y-Trips, the solo TE counts as a WR because a WR normally lines up in that spot.

The implication of this is that if you want to consistently man up great receivers aligned in the slot with your best cornerback, you must match personnel - Nickel vs 3 WR sets, Dime vs 4 WR sets, etc.

At the very beginning of the Madden 21 cycle it wasn't like this - you could stick CB1 over top a great TE regardless of personnel - but this behavior was unfortunately patched out.

Why would they do that? Was there some logic for it?

[Hooe]

Re: M21 CB to WR Matchups

Why would they do that? Was there some logic for it?

I'm not sure if you're asking why they would do it in the first place or why they would remove it. I'm assuming the latter for this post.

I don't know specifics, but I assume there was a complaint about linebackers ending up on the boundary against wide receivers in some particular formation or specific combination of personnel and it was removed. tl;dr - idiot-proofing against people who always expect CBs to only guard WRs. Which, on PS4 makes some sense because the player acceleration is so ridiculous that you have to match speed with speed in that game.

It was something my brother in particular has been very frustrated about this year; in our PS4 league, he chose the Rams, and he wanted to be able to easily stick Jalen Ramsey over top of George Kittle without formation subs or changing his position (we have a second user who always uses SF and knows how to get the ball to Kittle). After whatever patch changed the way best-on-best worked, he couldn't get Ramsey to easily align like this anymore unless he came out with one more CB than the offense had WRs. This is obviously is not a good idea against a strong running team like the Niners. So we were stuck with only linebackers and safeties guarding tight ends again.

Combine that change with pattern matching being turned off against 3x1 sets for most of the year (as to soundly discourage stuff like Y-Trips TE Over or Trips TE Verticals Y-Drag) and yeah it's been a frustrating year guarding tight ends defensively.