08-11-2010, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Re: Getting better at Madden
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Originally Posted by JordanC |
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The best advice I can give you that will IMMEDIATELY improve your game is to choose your own plays on defense by formation, after watching how many RB's, TE's, and WR's the defense is coming out with.
It'll pop up in the bottom of the play calling screen.
For me, if they have two TE's or two RB's (with a few exceptions) I assume run. In this, I play 4-3 or 3-4. If they have 3 wide, I go nickel, and 4 wide gets Dime or Dollar, depending on the team.
The defensive formations are set up to counter specific types of plays, and it drives me crazy when people call Cover 3 out of 4-3 to stop the pass and a blitz out of dime to stop the run.
In my experience, the most pass effective play out of 4-3 will still stop the run better than the most run effective play in dime, and vice versa.
Once you actually get your play calling down, then you have to actually execute. In my opinion, MLB or in special cases OLB is the best position to play. I cannot keep up with WR's as DB's, and I don't like the idea of being the last resort as a safety. I will, however, play d-line occasionally, especially with teams like the vikings.
As MLB, I play all-out. While some would definitely say differently, my first instinct is what I do. I almost always bite on play action, and almost always hold back on draws. Its a natural instinct, and typically I can get the quarterback or the rest of my team will help me out enough to make up for it. However, when I guess right, the offense is shattered, often for the entire possession. this remains especially true on multiplayer, as if I blow up an inside run with Patrick Willis a few times early on, I can essentially eliminate that part of the opponent's game from my defensive gameplan.
When in doubt, choose a safe play from a formation you are comfortable with. I like 2 Man Press out of nickel when I have no clue. Another good idea is to find a good zone play with a LB or DB blitzing, and play as that player. blitzing is fun.
Remember, offense wins games, but defense wins championships.
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I call cover 3 out of base formations(46, 4-3 or the 3-4) quite frequently. For instance, it's first down and the offense comes out in 11 personnel, that's one back and one tight end, I want to have seven men in the box, maybe eight. If I call a man defense,in base personnel, my SS is matched up one on one with the slot WR and my corners are on left on islands. Cover 3 allows me to manually, or by showing blitz, to put the SS down in the box while having three defenders guarding against anything deep.
Last edited by LiquorLogic; 08-11-2010 at 09:02 PM.
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