Defensive Shifts

[ODogg]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

The safeties don't man align. If they did, it would give away their intention before the snap. The CB's do. And kapo is right. It's fine. Just a very stupid implementation. Since the system man aligns your CB's automatically, why even have that as a defensive option? To un-align them? I don't see the point.

well the safeties should man align if you ask them to, just moving up some closer to the LOS isn't going to give away who they're covering, i guess i see their point, but my point is they are 25-30 yards back or whatever and i'm asking one to double cover a WR and by the time he gets over there the pass is long ago completed. i'm hawaii so my midget cb's need all the help they can get for some big WR's and TE's that I go up against.

[SoMiss2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

The safeties don't man align. If they did, it would give away their intention before the snap. The CB's do. And kapo is right. It's fine. Just a very stupid implementation. Since the system man aligns your CB's automatically, why even have that as a defensive option? To un-align them? I don't see the point.

what do you say when my SS's coverage responsibility is on a TE lined up on the left side of the formation. I have to manually move him over to get the coverage or he'll be wide open most of the time.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoMiss2000

what do you say when my SS's coverage responsibility is on a TE lined up on the left side of the formation. I have to manually move him over to get the coverage or he'll be wide open most of the time.

Yeah, either that or flip the entire play. It's really, really stupid in a football sense. In a video game sense it works like it's supposed to.