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Old 11-09-2011, 12:31 PM   #1
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Tight Ends easier to use then WRs?

Has anybody else found this to be the case?

Its as easy as boxing out your defender. When I throw to the tight ends it is usually a slant, drag, or curl. With all of these routes I throw the ball as soon as the TE breaks and then user control the TE to get between the defender and the ball, once this happens, the TEs superior size makes it impossible for the defender to have a shot at breaking the pass up so they can only tackle him once the catch is made. This works consistently throughout each game, with every team I choose. I try to mix these routes into my play calling especially if the QB has struggled completing passes.
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Old 11-09-2011, 02:34 PM   #2
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Re: Tight Ends easier to use then WRs?

Another reason its easier is the tight end usually starts closer to the center of the field or quarterback, so the ball doesn't have to travel as far to a tight end as it does a receiver.
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Old 11-09-2011, 06:27 PM   #3
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Rob Gronkowski is a beast. Vernon Davis is unstopable againt the zone, and Heath Miller is a catch machine in my NE, SF, and Pitt franchises I have recently done. (Now I'm doing a DEN franchise, and they have no TE's to pass too.
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Rob Gronkowski is a beast. Vernon Davis is unstopable againt the zone, and Heath Miller is a catch machine in my NE, SF, and Pitt franchises I have recently done. (Now I'm doing a DEN franchise, and they have no TE's to pass too.
I can't speak for Heath Miller, but the others are definitely beasts. I found that I targeted GronKowski a lot when I used NE despite how loaded their roster is at WR. Vernon Davis is a beast on play actions when I take a break from owning the defense with Frank Gore. It might sound unrealistic but Kendricks off the Rams is a beast on this game. Every time I use the Rams, Bradford can hit Kendricks on a post off play action 8 times out of 10. He almost always gets over 100 yards REC.
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Madden is also notoriously easy to complete passes over the middle. YOu could put a WR in the slot or wing and get the same results. I do anyway.
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Tight Ends are incredibly easy to throw to. You can just send them on streak routes all day and time your passes well. Greg Olsen averages like 19 YPC. It's partially because the linebackers tend to drift outside, leaving a window on pretty much every pass play to the Tight End. Even in man coverage, my TE loses linebackers easily. And if the LBs are blitzing, it's really easy to just gun it to the Tight End before the safety has a chance to react and you have an easy 5 - 8 yard pass.
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Madden is also notoriously easy to complete passes over the middle.
I can't believe how often it works. It's really annoying. I know you can run a zone and that slows it down but it can be pretty easy to tell when someone is playing a zone then you can just hot route a reciever to beat the zone.
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Has anybody else found this to be the case?

Its as easy as boxing out your defender. When I throw to the tight ends it is usually a slant, drag, or curl. With all of these routes I throw the ball as soon as the TE breaks and then user control the TE to get between the defender and the ball, once this happens, the TEs superior size makes it impossible for the defender to have a shot at breaking the pass up so they can only tackle him once the catch is made. This works consistently throughout each game, with every team I choose. I try to mix these routes into my play calling especially if the QB has struggled completing passes.
Yes. I throw to my TE's quite a bit. I use more routes (streaks, ins, outs, slants, hooks, slant outs, posts, corners, speed outs, etc..). Regarding your offense though, I can think of at least 5 adjustments I'd run that would force you to change your plan and/or execution to move the ball consistently using this method.

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