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Quote: Originally Posted by edgevoice

The author claims that "Man coverage was tuned to help DB's be more effective on man beaters. This is very promising for the future of the Madden franchise." This is not a complete reflection of what was released in EA's blog which stated the following: Made some very surgical updates to man coverage: tuned the WR cut-moves to be more effective on post and corner routes (man-beaters) for Post & Corner specialist abilities. Made man coverage defenders respect the receiver cut immediately following a press (man beater routes like an ‘out’) The above shows that, while DB's will be more aware in certain situations, skilled wide receivers will be able to be more effective on routes and concepts designed to beat man coverage.

I find this information to be very important. I have always disliked the way certain routes were man-beaters in Madden, as in always successful against man coverage, because it just doesn't work that way.

I am happy that Madden finally broke up route running by area of short, medium, deep; but that is just a part of the route running abilities of a receiver.

Receivers all have routes they run better or worse, and this can help dictate Man coverages and what the defender will look for, along with other pre-snap setups. Most receivers have "tells" as they leave the line - are they shuffling their feet or driving hard? A skilled Man coverage player can pick up on what is going on and challenge so-called man-beater routes.

Then we get into pattern-matching which is zone/man. Which I hope M20 has continued to adjust from the knowledge gained in M19 where Cover 4 really suffered, along with other coverage concepts involving pattern-matching.