The potential for Cover 1 is definitely there. With some heat and a scheme around it, plus how Zone Defense currently plays.. we definitely think Man Defense and Cover 1 in specific can be the Best Defense in Madden 18. Let us know what you thought of the video. Make sure you watch all of it so you don't miss on any key tidbits and new things you can do in Madden 18 (including New Deep Zones!) . I appreciate it if you Like the Video if you're enjoying them. Thanks!
I wish EA would pay more attention to the realistic/strategic side of madden. I didnt even realize you could do all of this because EA would rather advertise MUT and that half assed story mode instead of real football. This addition is late but im glad they put it in, they need to do more if they want to be a more respected football video game franchise. Lead blocking, tackling, route running, hurry up offense, and many more also need a big overhaul but i dont think EA really cares.
RichHomie Kel man Ea just want there money, they don't fukn careless nor lose sleep for true gamers notching about the unfootbally shit, if and no hundle nonstop, they will fuckin die on the field lol
can you imagine the advertising, explaining the new lead passing mechanisms and whatnot? Probably scare novice players away. Go to the skills trainer, watch these vids, dig in.
Thanks for the video. I thought man coverage was much better and you proved to me that it does. I love the press animations. I'm also a cover 1 guy but this is the year I can take it to the next level. Thanks
I used to play a 3-4 set against a 3, 4 or even 5 receiver offense. I had to do it because man coverage was so poor. I'm so glad to hear they fixed that issue. It's incredibly frustrating to play a "SIM" football game with such pathetic logic. I really hope they fixed this (LEGACY) issue.
Couple problems with this....the two teams used for examples have at least one great man coverage corner and high pass rush. He is right about the flat routes...those will be hit all day...but if you drop an extra rusher into the flat or curl and don't have a great 3 man rush then you will eventually get ate up still. Similarly if you don't have great man corners you will get hurt. Cover 2 sink has been really good for me so far.
@4:02 the LB switch assignments. The on playing man on the RB pass him on to the other LB then drop in a hook zone. So they don't got to cross. Not sure if that was in 17 or not.
haha yeppp! Class will be in Session all year my dude. For those that dont follow the Daily tips then thats on them.. but we're really not joking when we say we're doing Daily Tips. Looking to step up the Free Content and then take the PAID Content to an even higher level this year (memberships and ebooks). Not playing games Ron but you know this!
I'm a beginner, how do you know what defense to play especially if you playing online and you can't see the other opponent formation and how do you put the right guys on defense in their spot.
In man coverage, can you shade individual matchups inside or outside? Like in gun trips, can you shade only the lone WR outside so all the other CBs play straight up? Do the Safeties playing deep 1/3 defend against any pass other than a streak?
Good questions Alex and thanks for watching. You can shade individual defensive backs still . Also Deep Zones are not currently breaking on many routes. They did when I played the game at EA play but they toned them down. They heard our feedback and I believe they will be tuning or patching them to make them better again to guard more then just streaks.
Thanks for the reply and that's great to hear. I've been trying to tweet Rex and Clint (in a respectful manner) to get the zones back to how they were when you all first played them. Awesome video!
You're right on all your coverage tips but you're also using the broncos defense. By far best corners in the game. I use the Steelers. Their man coverage is pretty shitty. Cover 1 only works if you have good man cover corners which most teams only have 1 or two max.
Great Stuff !!! Thanks "Lights" and Madden Daily ---I learned something new Today from this. People say Madden 18 is the same as Madden 17 but with nicer looking visuals, but if they would just watch some of your videos like this one, perhaps they would better understand and educate themselves on learning pro tips like this, instead of bash hate the game every time a new one comes out. I'm going to enjoy Madden 18 for what it is an be thankful that we have it. ---DeX---
OK so you can't shade right or left its. Inside or outside. To shade my left CB to the right I shade inside. To shade my ready right CB left I shade inside. And it the same function. A little confusing
Are you going to tell them how to press and triangle- x- wr icon then shade inside yo take away corners slants and outs . In madden this year shading each individual wr can lock up every route shade opposite of what you want to take away. A real tip unlike all you youtubers give but you have to do what I said with each individual wr if ya hands slow you can’t do it b4 the snap practice
exactly.. thats what i thought too making these when I was at the capture event! You can see more in chopped up form when I can break it down then just showing you gameplays.
So basically on defense there are two types of coverages to use against the receivers. Just like soccer when on a corner you either use a man marking or zonal technique to defend them. Same thing here. Man follows a receiver zone stays in an area. When you hear someone say cover (then a number 0,1,2,3) that refers to how many defenders are playing in a deep zone or a dark blue zone in madden. Cover 0 is man to man with no deep zones. Cover one has one deep zone playing in the deep middle central part of the field and the rest of defenders in man to man. Cover 2 has two deep zones splitting the deep part of the field in half each taking one side (usually best against deep fly or go routes down the outside but beat fairly easily with deep post routes attacking the middle part of the field. Cover 3 splits the deep part in 3 sections which is very solid coverage against deep passes but is sacrifices coverage in he shallow part of the field. You could figure out cover 4 from there. Hopefully this helps you out and if you want to know more about different defensive formations let me know.
he sounds good in video but it’s terrible to tell people this is best defense not even close. man can be good with curtain adjustments but running it stock and shading is not enough to call this best defense
Cover 1, or any kind of man coverage really, in Madden sucks if you play H2H. Cheese plays that will leak out in the coming weeks are practically impossible to counter with man coverage, and even noobs who run Four Verts or Bench or Corner Strike can beat man. Man is the worst coverage in a video game-sense, especially because the blitzing in Madden isn't great unless you do Nickel or nano blitzes (but you are exposed in coverage). In real-life football, it is a different story.
Ok. I know you guys mean well. Really I do. But one to prove the coverage you seem to purposely throw into an INT. That is not an insult, but I'm sure when you play you would not have thrown the earliest C route to the left when the right was open. I'm sure. But it does SELL the IDEA the defense is better. 6:22 is where OLD game play shows its ugly head. Some things you CAN'T use a rating to catch up on because when you do you create SLIDING/GLIDING/FLOATING/SUCTION/MAGNET effects. This CLEARLY is the case. Now I'm not looking for the game to be perfect. But I am calling it the way I SEE it and the way it IS. Clearly the DB SLIDES if not GLIDES into position to deflect that pass. Why is this an issue? Because gamers will PRESS... STOMP... HAMMER... their swat button and DBs will literally move to jump BEHIND the receiver based on ratings and allow the catch. These videos make me can't wait to break down the flaws of the game LIVE. I've already seen PLENTY already in the videos put out already. PLENTY!!!! The DB Zone coverage in that cover one now adjustable if I'm correct was in 2ksports back in 2005 or earlier. The defense adjustment is not totally new. I believe they changed how it is implemented and added more options, which I will say makes sense, but even so, I will be looking for more sliding/gliding/floating/magnetic/suction that occurs in this game. More so now, because EA uses these techniques to force gamers into thinking it is their game play when it is the coding that floats defenders to the ball magically or turbo blast LBers to swat down a pass.
Andre Swagassi that doesn't mean all that much in madden tho, when looking at the Broncos in madden they have high overalls in the secondary but not really any stand out scary players. The Giants have DRC he has some of the best jumping and speed of any corner with high man coverage and he's 6'2 and they have Landon Collins. The jags have a two high rated corners and one of them is just straight up scary, Jalen has 80+ hit power, good height and coverage stats, and he's fast. I'm not hating on the Broncos in any way btw, they have a solid overall secondary that's going to be quite the annoyance especially with Von miller sniffing around the backfield, but if I'm looking for star players I just don't see that out of the Broncos, they have high overall players that are consistent but not all star scary, talib and harris just aren't that. Maybe ovr the Broncos are the best when talking about madden overall, but not all players play at their overall, players like jalen and DRC play incredibly they will be very dangerous this year.
Wow this is sad and pathetic that this game can come out and tell you what the best defense is. How arcade is that? And not a damn thing like real football. Good job EA
Madden been resting on the fact they only football game for years. The shading safety stuff was around back in older maddens and so was defensive assignments.
Beat man coverage easy wit PA. Unless your football illiterate and can't read coverages from before the snap to make audibles then you'll lose to MC easy
An entire first minute of nothing but him talking. You Tube cares about watch time and so many TH-camrs make content talking about getting to the thing that they are going to get to. Boring content.
The potential for Cover 1 is definitely there. With some heat and a scheme around it, plus how Zone Defense currently plays.. we definitely think Man Defense and Cover 1 in specific can be the Best Defense in Madden 18. Let us know what you thought of the video. Make sure you watch all of it so you don't miss on any key tidbits and new things you can do in Madden 18 (including New Deep Zones!) . I appreciate it if you Like the Video if you're enjoying them. Thanks!
Madden Daily u forgot to pin this (if u meant to, but I think u did.)
Madden Daily what playbook did you use in the video
I wish EA would pay more attention to the realistic/strategic side of madden. I didnt even realize you could do all of this because EA would rather advertise MUT and that half assed story mode instead of real football. This addition is late but im glad they put it in, they need to do more if they want to be a more respected football video game franchise. Lead blocking, tackling, route running, hurry up offense, and many more also need a big overhaul but i dont think EA really cares.
RichHomie Kel man Ea just want there money, they don't fukn careless nor lose sleep for true gamers notching about the unfootbally shit, if and no hundle nonstop, they will fuckin die on the field lol
can you imagine the advertising, explaining the new lead passing mechanisms and whatnot? Probably scare novice players away. Go to the skills trainer, watch these vids, dig in.
Welcome to the party, Cover-1...we've missed you
This is promising. Love running man coverage even though it's been no existent in previous maddens
Thanks for the video. I thought man coverage was much better and you proved to me that it does. I love the press animations. I'm also a cover 1 guy but this is the year I can take it to the next level. Thanks
I love your schemes Litezout. Especially your Jets playbook
Thank You. Expect even better things for 18 from us!
So pumped they actually added the defensive adjustments that are necessary. Should've been added a year or two ago, but better late than never
I used to play a 3-4 set against a 3, 4 or even 5 receiver offense. I had to do it because man coverage was so poor. I'm so glad to hear they fixed that issue. It's incredibly frustrating to play a "SIM" football game with such pathetic logic. I really hope they fixed this (LEGACY) issue.
This was absolutely fantastic. Well done man.
Madden 06 you could manually assign man coverage. This an old feature that they went 1 and done with. I prefer manually assigning matchups
Avatar Gaming somebody remembers!!
Avatar Gaming They'll Bring it back next madden and act like its new. Same bullshit
Couple problems with this....the two teams used for examples have at least one great man coverage corner and high pass rush. He is right about the flat routes...those will be hit all day...but if you drop an extra rusher into the flat or curl and don't have a great 3 man rush then you will eventually get ate up still. Similarly if you don't have great man corners you will get hurt. Cover 2 sink has been really good for me so far.
real zone blitzing is finally possible....going to see some crazy blitzes this year thanks to all these adjustments
@4:02 the LB switch assignments. The on playing man on the RB pass him on to the other LB then drop in a hook zone. So they don't got to cross. Not sure if that was in 17 or not.
Great video man. The gameplay here looks amazing. Still afraid using cover 1... What do you think about the zones this year?
You are putting g out the best videos of 18 by far!! Not even close. 👍
Thank you John. That really means a lot. Im confident we can keep that up for the entire Madden 18 season both here on YT and our website.
Easy chess. I run out of shotgun when i see box open for it, and pass to flats real quick to rb when box full, audible if i see different
Man coverage with the middle linebacker playing zone just audible to an inside for slants and outside for out routes
Yesssss!! Cover one is my go to coverage
Class is in session.
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absolutely. Madden daily is top dog.
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So drags won’t be so op let’s go.....finna be a good year of madden I feel ....great video bro
thanks a lot!
I'm a beginner, how do you know what defense to play especially if you playing online and you can't see the other opponent formation and how do you put the right guys on defense in their spot.
It only makes sense if you think about it. Zones aren't meant to blanket the field only to stop quick passes right?
In man coverage, can you shade individual matchups inside or outside? Like in gun trips, can you shade only the lone WR outside so all the other CBs play straight up?
Do the Safeties playing deep 1/3 defend against any pass other than a streak?
Good questions Alex and thanks for watching. You can shade individual defensive backs still . Also Deep Zones are not currently breaking on many routes. They did when I played the game at EA play but they toned them down. They heard our feedback and I believe they will be tuning or patching them to make them better again to guard more then just streaks.
Thanks for the reply and that's great to hear. I've been trying to tweet Rex and Clint (in a respectful manner) to get the zones back to how they were when you all first played them. Awesome video!
So can you put a soft squat zone in man coverage? Or a seam flat or a quarters flat into any defensive play?
What is a SEAM FLAT ZONE? Does it cover the hard flat or the curl--to-flat?
You're right on all your coverage tips but you're also using the broncos defense. By far best corners in the game. I use the Steelers. Their man coverage is pretty shitty. Cover 1 only works if you have good man cover corners which most teams only have 1 or two max.
Great Stuff !!! Thanks "Lights" and Madden Daily ---I learned something new Today from this. People say Madden 18 is the same as Madden 17 but with nicer looking visuals, but if they would just watch some of your videos like this one, perhaps they would better understand and educate themselves on learning pro tips like this, instead of bash hate the game every time a new one comes out. I'm going to enjoy Madden 18 for what it is an be thankful that we have it. ---DeX---
tried it on ea access and it's garbage same as madden 15,16,17
Can you guys make a video on user catching??🤔
OK so you can't shade right or left its. Inside or outside. To shade my left CB to the right I shade inside. To shade my ready right CB left I shade inside. And it the same function. A little confusing
is it best to have auto-flip on or off? didn't use it in '17
Are you going to tell them how to press and triangle- x- wr icon then shade inside yo take away corners slants and outs . In madden this year shading each individual wr can lock up every route shade opposite of what you want to take away. A real tip unlike all you youtubers give but you have to do what I said with each individual wr if ya hands slow you can’t do it b4 the snap practice
Yo these are better then gameplay TBH
exactly.. thats what i thought too making these when I was at the capture event! You can see more in chopped up form when I can break it down then just showing you gameplays.
Great vid. 👍🏽
Holy crap! I thought i was looking at Madden 17!
Charles Eddy Jr Psh, obviously the differences are there. Madden 18 has a 2% better light scheme and at least 5% better graphics, noob.
I don't do man unless i blitz. Otherwise those double moves and posts burn the defense
Show them Blitzes bro that's my bread and butter along with the man coverage
will that cover 0 with the cloud flats be Op this year like it was last?
No Shaqs All Kobes out if you have good corners then I'd say yes.
In mut this will be insane
WOW. I'm from England, can someone please explain what all these plays mean! there are sooo many!
So basically on defense there are two types of coverages to use against the receivers. Just like soccer when on a corner you either use a man marking or zonal technique to defend them. Same thing here. Man follows a receiver zone stays in an area. When you hear someone say cover (then a number 0,1,2,3) that refers to how many defenders are playing in a deep zone or a dark blue zone in madden. Cover 0 is man to man with no deep zones. Cover one has one deep zone playing in the deep middle central part of the field and the rest of defenders in man to man. Cover 2 has two deep zones splitting the deep part of the field in half each taking one side (usually best against deep fly or go routes down the outside but beat fairly easily with deep post routes attacking the middle part of the field. Cover 3 splits the deep part in 3 sections which is very solid coverage against deep passes but is sacrifices coverage in he shallow part of the field. You could figure out cover 4 from there. Hopefully this helps you out and if you want to know more about different defensive formations let me know.
Wull the 1-5-5 ever return?
Thank you sir man I can't wait to play this!!!
No problem! Thanks for watchingg
I tried it and I lost 117- 0
bfhry1 😅😅😂 chill man
show all the offensive playbooks, on your you tube channel
Man coverage op, Again
GET REKT he's using the best Man Coverage Corners in the league. It'll look op
Time to get Deion
Nick Saban said it himself. Cover 1 is the best coverage in football
Matthemagicman nick saban also has a nfl rookie roster or best talent in the nation to run man all day and have one safety back by himself
Dru LLoring even before that he's been preaching cover 1. Along with cover 3 and his pattern matching principals
is man double buzz a new play ?
It is!
I used to make adjustments and basically create that play on my own, good to see it.
Damn, this all sounds really useful. Too bad I don't know shit about football line ups.
How would Nickle with 3 safeties fare against the run?
Pete Frenna watch the video about run defense it explains it all.
when will the website be back up?
Anywhere from EA Access to Official Madden 18 Launch Date
Great Video
thanksss!
every1 just said to themselves fuck Jay is gonna be good now
What D playbook is this?
But your playing with the Broncos
he sounds good in video but it’s terrible to tell people this is best defense not even close. man can be good with curtain adjustments but running it stock and shading is not enough to call this best defense
lol you used the defense with the best DBs against the offense with the worst WR/QB
Gabe Brown lmao that was what I was thinking. It annoyed me lol.
Cover 1, or any kind of man coverage really, in Madden sucks if you play H2H.
Cheese plays that will leak out in the coming weeks are practically impossible to counter with man coverage, and even noobs who run Four Verts or Bench or Corner Strike can beat man. Man is the worst coverage in a video game-sense, especially because the blitzing in Madden isn't great unless you do Nickel or nano blitzes (but you are exposed in coverage). In real-life football, it is a different story.
I was disappointed with your offense ebooks on madden daily the Oakland defense was pretty good tho
So corner strike still op
Ok. I know you guys mean well. Really I do. But one to prove the coverage you seem to purposely throw into an INT.
That is not an insult, but I'm sure when you play you would not have thrown the earliest C route to the left when the right was open. I'm sure. But it does SELL the IDEA the defense is better.
6:22 is where OLD game play shows its ugly head. Some things you CAN'T use a rating to catch up on because when you do you create SLIDING/GLIDING/FLOATING/SUCTION/MAGNET effects.
This CLEARLY is the case. Now I'm not looking for the game to be perfect.
But I am calling it the way I SEE it and the way it IS.
Clearly the DB SLIDES if not GLIDES into position to deflect that pass.
Why is this an issue? Because gamers will PRESS... STOMP... HAMMER... their swat button and DBs will literally move to jump BEHIND the receiver based on ratings and allow the catch.
These videos make me can't wait to break down the flaws of the game LIVE.
I've already seen PLENTY already in the videos put out already. PLENTY!!!!
The DB Zone coverage in that cover one now adjustable if I'm correct was in 2ksports back in 2005 or earlier.
The defense adjustment is not totally new. I believe they changed how it is implemented and added more options, which I will say makes sense, but even so, I will be looking for more sliding/gliding/floating/magnetic/suction that occurs in this game.
More so now, because EA uses these techniques to force gamers into thinking it is their game play when it is the coding that floats defenders to the ball magically or turbo blast LBers to swat down a pass.
good tips bro gonna kill man coverage with motion tosses and smart routes when the cb follow my subbed te
what teams got the best corners this year...Broncos Giants...who else??
Nacho Louis jaguars, patriots
Nacho Louis cardinals got a good secondary
I'd say the Giants probably have the best secondary with the Cards being second then the Broncos, but the jags have killer corners.
Nacho Louis broncos, broncos , and Broncos lol 3 shut down corners, number 1 pass defense 2 years straight
Andre Swagassi that doesn't mean all that much in madden tho, when looking at the Broncos in madden they have high overalls in the secondary but not really any stand out scary players. The Giants have DRC he has some of the best jumping and speed of any corner with high man coverage and he's 6'2 and they have Landon Collins. The jags have a two high rated corners and one of them is just straight up scary, Jalen has 80+ hit power, good height and coverage stats, and he's fast. I'm not hating on the Broncos in any way btw, they have a solid overall secondary that's going to be quite the annoyance especially with Von miller sniffing around the backfield, but if I'm looking for star players I just don't see that out of the Broncos, they have high overall players that are consistent but not all star scary, talib and harris just aren't that. Maybe ovr the Broncos are the best when talking about madden overall, but not all players play at their overall, players like jalen and DRC play incredibly they will be very dangerous this year.
Dollar still my go to and big dime
Chadrick Goodger you haven't even played yet
Chadrick Goodger yea I was thinking dollar but I heard from cookie boy that you will get pan caked if he runs the football
Have fun getting ran on all day
Playbook?
Madden is horrible as of now I can't wait until they patch it up
Wow this is sad and pathetic that this game can come out and tell you what the best defense is. How arcade is that? And not a damn thing like real football. Good job EA
Bro you picked a team with a really bad o line
Madden been resting on the fact they only football game for years. The shading safety stuff was around back in older maddens and so was defensive assignments.
This is definitely wrong...
Beat man coverage easy wit PA. Unless your football illiterate and can't read coverages from before the snap to make audibles then you'll lose to MC easy
Moral of the story. C routes still trounce.
imnoone12 they haven't since February.....
hayden Watkinson lol. Okay. I guess you don't play the same game as everyone else.
imnoone12 if u put a cloud flat in madden 17 they stop c routes every time.....
imnoone12 and even before then if u had a soft squat and a hard flat it would cover the C route.
5:00
Man defense meta doesn't sound fun.... 😥😥
Cover 1 😏
Shikobeeeeeeee
ObiwanShiKobe oh Jesus it can't get better- Young Haydois
Im getting burned with this
this video has created so many noobs lol in madden 18
An entire first minute of nothing but him talking. You Tube cares about watch time and so many TH-camrs make content talking about getting to the thing that they are going to get to. Boring content.
This defense trash
This is fine when you choose both offense and defense plays, bogus bunch of talk.