My least favorite play style

[BooblesTheClown]

What I hate even more than guys who don't read plays and just toss it up are guys who do this:

1. Have three legend receiving options.

2. Am I in zone defense? Hot route corner to one of receivers.

3. Am I in man? Hot route quick out.

It just becomes a guessing game of which one he's gonna do.

[jackpot_6902]

why not play man consistently and try to intercept his outs? too easy.

[nepharius4]

because then they start having 2 out routes and when they see you shading they go down the middle and then you're first trying to watch the outs and then youre shading outside and so your safeties are too late. I played one dude who did 2 WR on either side one out one up the middle once i shut that down he'll screen plus he had 2 silver recievers and a bronze wr at TE, had no fun that game.

[BofaDeezNutts]

why not play man consistently and try to intercept his outs? too easy.
There is no way to be successful playing man defense consistently.

[Numbski]

I've taken to the philosophy the Ravens have held for so long - nothing cheap, nothing deep.

That means for me, putting the corners and safeties back in a 4 deep zone, shade them outside. That leaves the post exposed. Then hot-zone an OLB back into deep middle zone. That gives you a cover 5. Use the rest of your defenders however you like to patrol underneath. If they're smart enough to find what you're leaving uncovered down underneath, good on them. More than likely they'll keep trying to hit the deep outs. Make them pay for it. Control your ILB, or another defender, and manually under-cut the left-side out route. By the time they go "crap, that out is covered, crap, the post is covered...", they won't have time to look at the right-side out route - they're sacked.

You just have to be patient enough to be okay with them taking stuff underneath. If you out-wait them to the point you get into the red zone, there's nothing deep for them to take. Then you can flood the underneath zones.

[kcxiv]

I played some dude the other night and he was always the cornerback on the open side of the field. He was good at manual coverage like that. I was impressed with his M2M defense like that.

[BooblesTheClown]

why not play man consistently and try to intercept his outs? too easy.

Because if they're smart they'll still get by with it. Start watching their out route manually, they throw a deep post directly over center, or they will make their slot do an out route and their outside receiver do a post or...you get the picture. Outs beat man everytime, unless you have way better CBs than their WRs, and hot route corners beat zone everytime. Just pick plays with lots of those options, and mix it up with some screens and what have you and you have a very effective but low skill offense.

You haven't encountered people who this is their whole gameplan? Man, it's so aggravating.

[GoodSense]

Don't take it as aggravating...
Take it as a challenge.

Effective audibling is the key.

[BooblesTheClown]

How do you know what to audible to? You have to guess which is running the out route, which is running the post, and which is running the corner.

[brian471023]

I also blame the lack of effectiveness of the other routes. I love the hitch/button hook for a WCO type offense mixed in with some slants and underneath stuff in this game, but this game makes the button hook/hitch pretty much useless making you have to rely on either slant routes inside, out routes, or post routes. The game doesn't reward you for picking routes that take longer to develop despite the fact you're taking the risk of waiting in the pocket like the more intricate routes. Instead, they make it easier and more rewarding to run out routes and post routes which is ridiculous.

[NTq]

I use Bruce (Silver), Davis (Bronze), B. Johnson (Bronze)