Just found your channel this week, super good stuff. Been checking out your older videos, great info. Remarking on your user comments, I don’t user so I design my defense with that in mind.
Love your breakdowns. Been working a lot so haven't got much tine to play but I'm so glad I found your channel. Executing a sim approach is so satisfying and can mask roster deficiencies that would be tough to overcome playing whatever the meta may be for the year.
Been playing Skills Trainer learning concepts and what Key Defenders to attack … something I have never done until seeing your videos… won two games tonight due to my opponent not knowing where to guard
Really good stuff bro! Really enjoy your videos! I have a good offensive scheme, not meta, that I know you will really enjoy out of the run and gun playbook using play action as well as quick hike plays. Let me know if you would be down to get in the lab.
Empty would also be pretty good against this defensive alignment. You isolating their linebackers in coverage against receivers or receiving type backs. Pass pro would be pretty simple as your by default be in a full slide with the OLB as the hot reads.
Honestly the thing that bugs me the most about seeing the other guy play, he clearly doesn’t know why he is pinching his D-Line and running cover 4 damn near every play, or else he’d take advantage of when you don’t. Cover 4 is a great coverage at preventing the run, as safeties crash. Pinching the line gives room for safeties to crash outside runs while DLine take care of inside runs. He clearly just follows meta without thinking why he’s doing it, and that’s the worst way to play madden imo
@@ozarka1110 in general cover 4 has the safeties drop down into the run game. You can actually check which players get involved in the run by holding “L2” or “LT” and then holding either square or “X” on PlayStation or Xbox respectively. You gotta hold both at the same time. But the idea is, with cover 1 or cover 3, your 3 deep zones will not help run game, or your 1 deep zone and outside corners won’t help run game. However, cover 2 and cover 4 will both have either the inside zones or just the safeties come up to support. It’s why safety is, imo, the most important defensive position in madden
Hi xandos. I need your help. I find it extremely difficult to defend the running game. Do you have any ideas or tips on how to read oline and HB correctly to get better?Are there structurally better fronts for run defense? Thank you!
hey Xando, I was rewatching the video and at 13:12, I find something in those third and forever that seems to work for me to rush the passer, I usually Pass Commit on those downs and I can feel like it gives a bit less time for the QB to make a decision. Let me know what you think.
That's excellent. D Lineman hard rush up field no fearing the run on downs like that. That's a good strategy honestly . . . I may start implementing that myself.
Love the content.. I feel you on that gimmick stuff . That's why I stopped play the game everyone would just run stuff that breaks the coding in the game and it's no football concepts.
What do u like against gun trey y flex I have tried cover 4 palm and cover 4 quarters all ppl do is run for vertical out of it and I just get gashed I like run real football concepts so what do u like against that formation what would u run
The reason he's just staying in this defense is because you're only getting 15 yards max each play, and he's banking on you making a mistake or getting bored doing that. It's frustrating facing these people but when they sit in cover 4 shells like this you either RPO them to death, screen them to death, or do what you're doing.
@@XandoFootball corners and safeties actually react to the ball and can defend corner routes…once yu dive into the chess match of having certain ability in different areas of the field and the counters its not corny 😂
It is corny. Having a pokemon ability attached to a corner that just magically knocks out the ball because it's in his area . . . or having a pikachu ability on your corner that makes him have eyes in the back of his head when balls are thrown in his area is corny. Corny as in . . . not realistic. I've played Madden on and off for 20 years . . . I've never ever been able to resort to gimmick bullshit@@Yahsan_yhwh
Hey I played this guy that I thought was play cover 3 but I think some people were manned up others were in zone. I couldn’t even get the ball off in time. I tried choice but that didn’t really work either. It looked like cover 3 seam or match
@@XandoFootball thank you Xando. He was ranked 700. For some reason I have a hard time beat these top 1000 players. I’m really good. I use everything you showed me too. This one guy was running on me constantly when I was trying to do cover 2 match. I probably should have based my alignment so he didn’t know if I was running cover 2 zone
@@XandoFootball oh it was a 2 x 2 formation too. And then he did a heavy set. So I tried cover 2 zone and user safety to get him but he kept getting through my defense. I was beating him too because he was play cover 2 man press but then he switch it to I believe cover 3
You and huddle gg are on the same page once again lol. They also released a video showing how to counter this defensive technique with this same method lol
So im messin around in practice mode today...random comment btw...Cover 2 invert plays Amazing against 4 strong bunch btw...especially the bunch strong nasty...the corner gets better depth the safety tends to play a bit better as well.....thought I would mention it to see if you tried that out? I think it would be pretty nice to mix it in there every so often.
@@kb1515ful go back and watch his 2 push vid. User the safety because the corner is the deep half guy. BUT…I didn’t mess with it against the RPO yet. I would assume that showing blitz would work well 🤷🏾♂️ I’ll mess with it. Xando just put a vid up about the RPO haha
@@kb1515ful lol aye I feel it. And mad respect haha I had a shift that was 3am to 12 for about a year…ngl even at 19 it was for the birds. Can’t be a punk and work those hours. But shoot, if you mess with it before I do. Lmk how that works against that RPO!
The pinch defense works against toters. If you get someone who knows what to do with w pinched defense, good f'n luck. This guy happened to be a set it and forget it ebook lazy player. Love playing these guys. You cant diss a person for pinching line all the time. At the end of the day, this is a broken ass game.
your way of fun on madden is a perfect 1:1 of mines. Your channel was a phenomenal find
Just found your channel this week, super good stuff. Been checking out your older videos, great info. Remarking on your user comments, I don’t user so I design my defense with that in mind.
Appreciate your hard work man. Truly helps me learn
Love your breakdowns. Been working a lot so haven't got much tine to play but I'm so glad I found your channel. Executing a sim approach is so satisfying and can mask roster deficiencies that would be tough to overcome playing whatever the meta may be for the year.
Been playing Skills Trainer learning concepts and what Key Defenders to attack … something I have never done until seeing your videos… won two games tonight due to my opponent not knowing where to guard
At 8:15 love how you slid with Marvin Harrison. Very realistic haha
How to beat Xando ? Just Throw the ball to his user 😅😂😂😂, playaction againts that kind of front u open my eyes , like always great video man
Lmao
Really good stuff bro! Really enjoy your videos!
I have a good offensive scheme, not meta, that I know you will really enjoy out of the run and gun playbook using play action as well as quick hike plays. Let me know if you would be down to get in the lab.
Empty would also be pretty good against this defensive alignment. You isolating their linebackers in coverage against receivers or receiving type backs. Pass pro would be pretty simple as your by default be in a full slide with the OLB as the hot reads.
Honestly the thing that bugs me the most about seeing the other guy play, he clearly doesn’t know why he is pinching his D-Line and running cover 4 damn near every play, or else he’d take advantage of when you don’t. Cover 4 is a great coverage at preventing the run, as safeties crash. Pinching the line gives room for safeties to crash outside runs while DLine take care of inside runs. He clearly just follows meta without thinking why he’s doing it, and that’s the worst way to play madden imo
Most players are like this. It'd sad. They copy n paste.
What team he used? I ran into a guy like that the other day as well
Is cover 4 drop good at stopping the run? Or just cover 4 quarters?
@@ozarka1110 in general cover 4 has the safeties drop down into the run game. You can actually check which players get involved in the run by holding “L2” or “LT” and then holding either square or “X” on PlayStation or Xbox respectively. You gotta hold both at the same time. But the idea is, with cover 1 or cover 3, your 3 deep zones will not help run game, or your 1 deep zone and outside corners won’t help run game. However, cover 2 and cover 4 will both have either the inside zones or just the safeties come up to support. It’s why safety is, imo, the most important defensive position in madden
@@pohorex6834 bruh I really appreciate this breakdown. Thank you.
Damn bro that's great breakdown so damn glad you beat him like that lmfao I hate them gimmick players so much. Keep it up bro
I love how you punish these copy paste meta nerds! 😂😂😂😂 . Thanks man.
Hi xandos. I need your help. I find it extremely difficult to defend the running game. Do you have any ideas or tips on how to read oline and HB correctly to get better?Are there structurally better fronts for run defense? Thank you!
hey Xando, I was rewatching the video and at 13:12, I find something in those third and forever that seems to work for me to rush the passer, I usually Pass Commit on those downs and I can feel like it gives a bit less time for the QB to make a decision. Let me know what you think.
That's excellent. D Lineman hard rush up field no fearing the run on downs like that. That's a good strategy honestly . . . I may start implementing that myself.
That was such a great breakdown! Ready to destroy the gimmicky players.
Love the content.. I feel you on that gimmick stuff . That's why I stopped play the game everyone would just run stuff that breaks the coding in the game and it's no football concepts.
Can’t wait to try this. Making offense so simple. See my message in another video about the Spread book? What are your thoughts on it this year?
What do you run against singleback
I have a question what defense is good against tight formations like gun tight ?
Check out my "how to defend tight formation series". I made 4 videos on them last year. Concepts are the same.
@XandoFootball I appreciate man big help fr I can't even watch part 2 tho
What do u like against gun trey y flex I have tried cover 4 palm and cover 4 quarters all ppl do is run for vertical out of it and I just get gashed I like run real football concepts so what do u like against that formation what would u run
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The reason he's just staying in this defense is because you're only getting 15 yards max each play, and he's banking on you making a mistake or getting bored doing that. It's frustrating facing these people but when they sit in cover 4 shells like this you either RPO them to death, screen them to death, or do what you're doing.
@xando what’s your psn? got something to show you regarding guarding bunch strong. think you’d love it
Can you do a video on formation that are tight like 2 wr 2 te 1 rb
What running concepts works best against a pinched line. Particularly single hi. Looks
A zone sweep play. The wider the better
outside zone run
Thanks guys
Can you run cover 9 against empty trips and bunch?
Yes. I don't know if I responded, but you would have to user the 3rec and match the final 3 in both cases or you'd run into a lot of problems
I’m having trouble becoming a member. I keep unsubscribing then subscribing. Is there a patreon or something connected to your channel I’m missing?
No. Idk. Just a note. Members as of right now just get early access to videos. If you still want to join for that, try desktop mode.
please but sum abilities on your players deep out zone works in match
It's just too corny for me bro. . . can't bring myself down to do it.
@@XandoFootball corners and safeties actually react to the ball and can defend corner routes…once yu dive into the chess match of having certain ability in different areas of the field and the counters its not corny 😂
It is corny. Having a pokemon ability attached to a corner that just magically knocks out the ball because it's in his area . . . or having a pikachu ability on your corner that makes him have eyes in the back of his head when balls are thrown in his area is corny.
Corny as in . . . not realistic. I've played Madden on and off for 20 years . . . I've never ever been able to resort to gimmick bullshit@@Yahsan_yhwh
@@XandoFootball bro i see it on twitter all the time no abilities defenses getting mossed by te in with xfactors….
I dont see the correlation here.@@Yahsan_yhwh
Hey I played this guy that I thought was play cover 3 but I think some people were manned up others were in zone. I couldn’t even get the ball off in time. I tried choice but that didn’t really work either. It looked like cover 3 seam or match
Salem concept.
Hank concept.
Yanked concept.
Comeback flat combo
@@XandoFootball thank you Xando. He was ranked 700. For some reason I have a hard time beat these top 1000 players. I’m really good. I use everything you showed me too. This one guy was running on me constantly when I was trying to do cover 2 match. I probably should have based my alignment so he didn’t know if I was running cover 2 zone
@@XandoFootball I think his name was fatnas or something like that. I couldn’t stop his run game
@@XandoFootball so if they are spread and they keep doing inside zone run on me when I’m trying to play cover 2 match what do I do then?
@@XandoFootball oh it was a 2 x 2 formation too. And then he did a heavy set. So I tried cover 2 zone and user safety to get him but he kept getting through my defense. I was beating him too because he was play cover 2 man press but then he switch it to I believe cover 3
How do we become members
You and huddle gg are on the same page once again lol. They also released a video showing how to counter this defensive technique with this same method lol
So im messin around in practice mode today...random comment btw...Cover 2 invert plays Amazing against 4 strong bunch btw...especially the bunch strong nasty...the corner gets better depth the safety tends to play a bit better as well.....thought I would mention it to see if you tried that out? I think it would be pretty nice to mix it in there every so often.
this is going off of the previous vid you posted about cover 2 against 4 strong btw haha
@WhosmanzYT, how is it against the Bunch strong RPO and who to user?
@@kb1515ful go back and watch his 2 push vid. User the safety because the corner is the deep half guy. BUT…I didn’t mess with it against the RPO yet. I would assume that showing blitz would work well 🤷🏾♂️ I’ll mess with it.
Xando just put a vid up about the RPO haha
@@WhosmanzYTI didn’t mean to ask who to user lol. Brain was thinking one thing and fingers did another. Graveyard shift messing me up.
@@kb1515ful lol aye I feel it. And mad respect haha I had a shift that was 3am to 12 for about a year…ngl even at 19 it was for the birds. Can’t be a punk and work those hours.
But shoot, if you mess with it before I do. Lmk how that works against that RPO!
The pinch defense works against toters. If you get someone who knows what to do with w pinched defense, good f'n luck. This guy happened to be a set it and forget it ebook lazy player. Love playing these guys. You cant diss a person for pinching line all the time. At the end of the day, this is a broken ass game.
Man looking back at Madden 24, looks way better than the dogshit that is Madden 25
Damn RUclipsrs stealing all your stuff!