Basic Defensive Strategies In Madden NFL 20
 

Defense in the NFL can be a complicated issue, and the same goes for Madden 20....

Written By: Jeff Botkin

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Just like Cover 3 was awesome in Madden 19, Cover 6 is massive in Madden 20.

Re: Basic Defensive Strategies In Madden NFL 20
 

Pick a zone coverage that includes help over the top. From there, select your cornerback and change his coverage to man to man, or even double it up again and play both your corner and safety in man on Jones.

The basic premise of the article is well-meaning. X Factors need to be accounted for. However, as described above and diagrammed in the blog, I wouldn't suggest both man assigning a CB and Safety with Cover 2 called. Any receiver running down that deep half of the field, such as the slot receiver in the blog picture, will be wide open.

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I love COver 6. That and Cover 1 Robber with shade inside and overtop.

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One thing I like doing with Cover 3 Cloud is first, make sure your Curl/Flat zone is on the weak side, the single WR side in odd sets such as Bunch. Man the weakside CB with the deep 1/3 CB.

What happens is, the Curl/Flat will come down on any drag coming across the field. It will also come down on a HB or TE in the Flat. If you user a player, I would suggest usering the hard flat CB.

The reason to user the hard flat CB is because if no one comes into teh zone, he will just sit there. If you user, you can pull him out and cover another area.

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Did I miss something here? Has the zone defense been fixed?

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People just giving overall general advice.

We all know it hasn't been "tweaked."

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One thing I’ve learned this year in terms of coverage defense is Committing to the pass in passing situations, shading multiple areas (outside / underneath I.e.) , and playing the sticks are extremely important.

There’s a thread on coverage issues ... but those options help A LOT.

RPO situations too ... If you commit to the pass you don’t run the risk of the DB initially playing the Run.

Idk if any of this is intentional by madden but it does bring a sense of “The chess match” ... pass committing forces the Defenders to play pass. Yes you’re vulnerable to the run if you guess wrong. But User Defense does help get to Run gaps to soften the blow.

I’ve been mostly running Man Coverage , because I use Denver and I’ve been enjoying it. But when I do play zone I’ve learned playing the sticks in zone keeps AI defenders locked to play art so there isn’t very many instances of complete broken coverage


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