[wwhickok]

Personally I prefer the 4-3. No matter what defense you run it requires a serious secondary. The Passing Defense seems to have been seriously nerfed in this game to exemplify the level of passing offense that actually exists in the NFL.I don't feel like I can get to the QB in the 3-4. Even in a 4-3 Defense I sometimes run a play out of the 3-4 or Nickel and it just doesn't allow me to get to the QB and heaven forbid if I run a play the requires zone coverages... not too many of them work...especially on 3rd down. Although 2 Man Under which has a mix of man and zone in it, seems to work like a gem.I think if you're going to run a 3-4 you need the best secondary money can buy. I say this because I am thinking that you're going to have to be able to force the QB to hang onto the ball for a long period of time in order to get to him.But the down side to this is that you have to be able to protect against the QB running for 20 yards, I've seen even the slowest QBs do it..it's frustrating.I don't think there is a perfect Defense in this game but I prefer the 4-3 and every time I've done a Franchise on Madden 25 (offline) I have signed DE Greg Hardy before anyone else in free agency. I'm not a big free agency spender, I tend to keep it to the draft but I have delved into free agency a little bit, for guys like Josh Gordon, Dez Bryant, KJ Wright, Aquib Talib, and Sean Weatherspoon. The only guy on that list that didn't end up getting traded is KJ Wright, (yet). What I do is I tend to sign guys who I can get on the relative cheap and use them for a few years until I get a draft pick that I feel comfortable replacing them with. Talib, Bryant, & Gordon I got AFTER the draft in free agency, I had no competition for them. All of them got turned elsewhere into at least a 3rd round pick (in most cases a 3rd & 5th, but in Dez' case I got a 1st from Houston).