exactly! i havent played since madden 21. So much changed. i was trying to figure out the new pass rush moves, and instead i found 80 videos on glitched pass rush plays instead.
Same here. I'm from Germany and I did not grow up watching american football at all. So starting to play Madden is kind of a challenge and this helps a lot
Can you do this same video, but with a quiz section, where you show a defensive spread and ask us what the probable coverage is and what to do next before giving us the answers? That would help me a lot lol. Your videos are great, on another level
This is not ground breaking information. However this is probably the most concise explanation that I have seen to intro new generations of madden players to actual football strategies instead of teaching them cheese plays. You sir are doing the work of the Football gods.
Know what type of play you want to run (for pass: depth of route or quickness of release. for run inside or outside) Then read the defense, and I pull the route art up while I do that. Look for passing routes to attack the seams where the zones meet or good matchups for your guys (Audible to do that if need be.) I usually know which two routes I want to throw to, and keep my eye on the defender I want to pull.
@TheMadison86 I pick a route I plan to throw to, even if it's not the "designed" route (in red), then a backup route I'm comfortable with. The goal for me is to give the defenders multiple choices to cover, force them to make a decision, then attack the option they didn't choose. The key is that YOU pick the options for them and YOU dictate how the play is going to go. For Deep routes:I'll look first at the safeties to see how many/where they're at. If there's only one, I'll keep my eyes on him and when he moves to cover one side of the field, I'll attack the other. For Short routes: similar concept but with the linebackers For Medium routes: both safeties and linebackers. When I select a play, I'll look mostly for the route I want to hit first, and will see when other routes are being run that can help pull defenders away. For example, if I want to throw deep on the left side, I'll find/hot route to have another option on the right to force the safety to make a choice between the two. For medium and short I'll try to get multiple players crossing each other to create space for at least one of them. Disclaimer: I play to unwind so I like a challenge, but I'm not the kind of guy who has every playbook memorized.
CBs will always always play 3 different shades. Outside. Inside. Or Even. No matter what.... Btw moving the WR in motion don't always mean there in Man or Zone they do a good job of disguise the defense. Sometimes you think there in Man but they in Zone and vise versa...
I've been playing madden for a long long time and always been a pretty solid player but I've never gotten to the point of trying to read defenses presnap to this degree. Great break down, earned a sub 👌
Players can swap zone assignments and base align. There are also some plays like "cover 3 show 2" or the opposite that people can use, though back when I played madden a lot they were not commonly used. But for example madden lets you do some weird stuff like 2 man under with the deep zones swapped to cloud flats + user over middle, which can cause some trouble for man beaters. I do wish man shading and deliberate double team man assignments worked better than I've seen them work.
Dude I just stumbled upon this video today after picking up madden 24 after not buying a madden game since 22. You were the guy i watched the most for tips. Glad to see you're still making videos man!
Awesome Video as always! As I saw in your gameplay as well, the inside Zone run out of Bunch Str offset is SO good! from all the shotgun runs, this one is probably top 3 in my opinion (because it goes to the weak side and the blocking is so good) ! The audible over from Bunch offset is super quick and it is a good mix in, when your dotting up your opponent :)
😩 can we get some spread formation videos.... I see so much bunch and I just knew before I clicked and played this video it would be a bunch formation 😂.... I just find it much easier to read the Defense when there in spread type formations in general but that's just me...
This sounds good until you play the cheese balls that base align press every single play usually mixed with some over top coverage audible and qb contain.
Excellent breakout of coverages. I've started practicing the reads. The puzzling thing to me is how you view play art for defense while practicing as offense. You can even audible into different defensive plays. I'm sure it must be a setting somewhere, but I haven't found it. How can I change that?
Appreciate the comment and the kind words! I’m using two controllers to be able to switch defenses in practice mode and show the play arts. Hopefully this helps!
@@WinMadden Thank you. I'll have to give that a try. In practice, it helps to see what the defense is doing beforehand to get a better grasp on why the play unfolded a certain way. It's particularly useful when looking at how the same defense lines up against different formations. I'll try using a keyboard as the second "controller". I probably have a spare controller lying around somewhere, but I only need to see the defensive play art & maybe audible. Appreciate the help! 😃
I wish you told us which types of routes bust each defense. now i know how to tell what the defense is but I can’t even use that information because I don’t know how to counter
I like how you explain things easily and simple with no trying to be cool and using slang because old school guys like me that play Madden don't understand everything the youngbloods are saying. I know some and some I ask my girlfriend because she is young 20 years younger than me!! LMAO!!!
Love your content man. Do you offer any individual coaching services? I’m a new fairly new madden player struggling to string together wins in H2H refs and am looking to get better
When we are able to recognize what défense, our opposant play, is there a tips to play our offense ? Exemple run for cover 6 or 9 Quick slant ? Deep pass for cover 2 man ? Excuse me i'm french so i Hope that you understand me
Thanks for this contribution but it's quite frustrating that you never explain which play to use once you recognize the coverage. What is the "man beating play" you are doing for audible? Lots of information and no specific instructions of what to do with it.
So defensively in this situation would you need to try to audible your plays after some time or try to manually mess with alignment to throw the offense off from their read?
When I am in Gun doubles HB WK for instance and I motion my WR bc I see one high safety and the corner moves with my receiver It is still zone sometimes. I am confused?
Good contents! I practice almost evryday how to read defense with your M23 vid. By the way around the half of time, a formation looks cover 2 but it's cover3 and an opponent cooks my cover2 beater. do you have any advice?
The video is misleading because if you have two safeties the defense can still be cover 3. This is what’s typically called a cover 3 buzz or they are playing a cover 3 match. What this means is that instead of the safety playing the curl flat like in cover 3 sky that shows you a generic single high safety, the LB will play the flat, so the other safety will fall back to his normal spot, giving you a two safety look, but that one safety will still come down and play the middle of the field, not deep like a cover 2. To identify this, you are still looking at cornerback depth as it is mentioned in the video. This is because in cover 3 or cover 4 they will play farther than 5 yards off the ball unless they press.
@@bigpopppapump Players can base align/disable shifts to make it hard to key on it. There's also weird stuff like cover 2 invert. At some point, you can only do so much pre-snap information, and have to key on what one of the defenders does post snap to confirm if pre-snap tells are correct. Usually a safety, but sometimes you look at nickel CB first.
This is a great video but he said we are going to motion this man to go left then I got lost because he didn't explain how to motion my player to other side ... only motion I learned on this video was how to get motion sickness.. button explanation would have been super useful to know before he just assumes people just know the buttons
Motion should be disallowed in madden...offense already hff as every advantage..ya..its in the nfl..but your not qbing from 50 ft above the field like a game..motion is cheesy in madden
Aside from using motion, how do you identify man coverage when you are in compressed sets, like Deuce Close if the defense comes out in press coverage? The CB's don't seem to align inside the WR's.
NMS as well with an 86 OVR/85 O/86 D. It's quite easy this year for NMS because of how slow the OVRs are increasing. Scheme over team is truth. Especially for defense.
Honestly, this years meta defenses make the game not fun. EVERYONE comes out running the same shit Henry did in the MCS UK. Literally though, running the inside zone RPO out of gun trips TE can’t be stopped when they pull all their guys to the line. I don’t want to be that guy but I’ve called nothing but that play all but about 4 times in my last 5 Mut champs games. (Won every time and had possession 90% of the game.)
Not gone lie this video means nothing to a player who knows what their doing and edits their zones before the play starts this more for casuals who apply real life football to madden
great video! I'm somehow new to the sport and to the game (im not american lol)...it'd be awesome to know when to make certain type of offensive play depending on the reading of the defense...like: "OK, its a 4 man coverage, what play should i pick? should I run the ball? should I try to pass it deep? should I make a short pass?? If you have a video of this kind please let me know the title! Thanks !
Thanks for the comment, yes, to answer your question I have lots of videos on how to beat certain defenses. If you’re looking for something “generic” I would suggest the video on this channel titled “how to beat every defense in Madden 24”!
One of the more precise videos. Love that the community is teaching actual Football instead of broken plays now.
I appreciate that!
exactly! i havent played since madden 21. So much changed. i was trying to figure out the new pass rush moves, and instead i found 80 videos on glitched pass rush plays instead.
Especially defensive plays that just abuse gaps instead of reading formations
I agree
Fantastic explanation. As a NON natural NFL/Madden player/watcher, this vid really helps to understand the nuances of American football. Cheers
Same here. I'm from Germany and I did not grow up watching american football at all. So starting to play Madden is kind of a challenge and this helps a lot
It’s so frustrating playing lol😭
I LOVE this video every year
Can you do this same video, but with a quiz section, where you show a defensive spread and ask us what the probable coverage is and what to do next before giving us the answers?
That would help me a lot lol.
Your videos are great, on another level
great idea tbh
@TyboGames taking notes 📝
This is not ground breaking information. However this is probably the most concise explanation that I have seen to intro new generations of madden players to actual football strategies instead of teaching them cheese plays. You sir are doing the work of the Football gods.
This is great. Now i can read a defense but still have no idea what plays to choose given each coverage. I suppose that’s probably another video😅
Know what type of play you want to run (for pass: depth of route or quickness of release. for run inside or outside) Then read the defense, and I pull the route art up while I do that. Look for passing routes to attack the seams where the zones meet or good matchups for your guys (Audible to do that if need be.)
I usually know which two routes I want to throw to, and keep my eye on the defender I want to pull.
SAME
@@johnstronz4672 How do you know what a good match up is?
@TheMadison86 I pick a route I plan to throw to, even if it's not the "designed" route (in red), then a backup route I'm comfortable with. The goal for me is to give the defenders multiple choices to cover, force them to make a decision, then attack the option they didn't choose. The key is that YOU pick the options for them and YOU dictate how the play is going to go.
For Deep routes:I'll look first at the safeties to see how many/where they're at. If there's only one, I'll keep my eyes on him and when he moves to cover one side of the field, I'll attack the other.
For Short routes: similar concept but with the linebackers
For Medium routes: both safeties and linebackers.
When I select a play, I'll look mostly for the route I want to hit first, and will see when other routes are being run that can help pull defenders away. For example, if I want to throw deep on the left side, I'll find/hot route to have another option on the right to force the safety to make a choice between the two. For medium and short I'll try to get multiple players crossing each other to create space for at least one of them.
Disclaimer: I play to unwind so I like a challenge, but I'm not the kind of guy who has every playbook memorized.
@@johnstronz4672 So helpful thank you
CBs will always always play 3 different shades. Outside. Inside. Or Even. No matter what.... Btw moving the WR in motion don't always mean there in Man or Zone they do a good job of disguise the defense.
Sometimes you think there in Man but they in Zone and vise versa...
I've been playing madden for a long long time and always been a pretty solid player but I've never gotten to the point of trying to read defenses presnap to this degree. Great break down, earned a sub 👌
Think of SCAN safeties,coroners, alignment, numbers. Numbers let's you know where the blitz or rush is coming from.
Pretty good rule of thumb! 👍🏻
Players can swap zone assignments and base align. There are also some plays like "cover 3 show 2" or the opposite that people can use, though back when I played madden a lot they were not commonly used. But for example madden lets you do some weird stuff like 2 man under with the deep zones swapped to cloud flats + user over middle, which can cause some trouble for man beaters. I do wish man shading and deliberate double team man assignments worked better than I've seen them work.
This is why i run Base alignment. Makes opponents have to read D after the snap
Great video! This madden has been great to play because of having to read the defense and not just find the broken plays
Dude I just stumbled upon this video today after picking up madden 24 after not buying a madden game since 22. You were the guy i watched the most for tips. Glad to see you're still making videos man!
Essential for anyone who wants to "git gud" at Madden.
Man thank you for this. I’m a returning player from 20 years ago and I needed this to refresh myself since my old brain doesn’t process as fast now.
Thanks for the kind words and welcome back!
Damn me too..
Same bro except it’s been about 8 years. I’m coming out of retirement lol
Awesome Video as always! As I saw in your gameplay as well, the inside Zone run out of Bunch Str offset is SO good! from all the shotgun runs, this one is probably top 3 in my opinion (because it goes to the weak side and the blocking is so good) ! The audible over from Bunch offset is super quick and it is a good mix in, when your dotting up your opponent :)
Thanks for the comment Matthias! Sorry I missed it until now - it’s always good to hear from you!
😩 can we get some spread formation videos.... I see so much bunch and I just knew before I clicked and played this video it would be a bunch formation 😂....
I just find it much easier to read the Defense when there in spread type formations in general but that's just me...
Next time you should add how to beat those defenses based on coverage
There are lots of videos on this channel about that. I even specifically have a video called “how to beat every defense in madden 24”
The best explanation ive seen. Thanks homie
Appreciate the comment and kind words!
This sounds good until you play the cheese balls that base align press every single play usually mixed with some over top coverage audible and qb contain.
Go compressed. If the corners come inside towards the numbers its man, if they stay outside the numbers its zone.
I’m struggling against user LB’s. What’s best to do against those?
Can you do a video on best offensive plays to beat the defensive plays here? (short pass, run, slants etc.)
The motion isn’t fool proof. Zone will follow the player if they matched up, most if not all players have that set by default
Missing adjustments for base align and when teams are in cover X show something else
This best information I received from madden this year.. 💯
What do you do if your opponent base aligns every formation?
Pray
Your playing someone who nice but still watch the dbs
Rpo
Or WR Screen
Won a Superbowl finally! 🎉🎉🎉 You're a G.O.A.T!
You are Brett! Skol! I’m predicting 15-2
@@WinMadden that defense is starting to look wicked. Young and raw but they have the swagger.
When's the parade?? I'll bring the 🍺!!
@@teegee289 Saturday when I go for #2!
@@brettseaberg5033 an old Wiseman once said... "When the mountains are blue go for 2
You should do a video where we have to use these tactics to guess the defense so I can get practice😂
Love it my brother ! Precise and very well spoken thats getting you a sub my guy 🤟🏾
3:42 sounds a lot like Joe Barry’s defense
I appreciate how you broke that down !
how can i tell if a play is a man or zone beating play?
You didn’t really give us any plays to beat the coverages
This has helped me so much in regs thank you champ
Now we wanna know man beating offense in used
Excellent breakout of coverages. I've started practicing the reads. The puzzling thing to me is how you view play art for defense while practicing as offense. You can even audible into different defensive plays. I'm sure it must be a setting somewhere, but I haven't found it. How can I change that?
Appreciate the comment and the kind words! I’m using two controllers to be able to switch defenses in practice mode and show the play arts. Hopefully this helps!
@@WinMadden Thank you. I'll have to give that a try. In practice, it helps to see what the defense is doing beforehand to get a better grasp on why the play unfolded a certain way. It's particularly useful when looking at how the same defense lines up against different formations.
I'll try using a keyboard as the second "controller". I probably have a spare controller lying around somewhere, but I only need to see the defensive play art & maybe audible. Appreciate the help! 😃
I wish you told us which types of routes bust each defense. now i know how to tell what the defense is but I can’t even use that information because I don’t know how to counter
uff this is so much information ..im lost hahaha but its a good video
What are you supposed to do when there is 3+ in the safety/prevent area???
I like how you explain things easily and simple with no trying to be cool and using slang because old school guys like me that play Madden don't understand everything the youngbloods are saying. I know some and some I ask my girlfriend because she is young 20 years younger than me!! LMAO!!!
Great content. Thanks
Much appreciated!
Do you have a vid of some good examples of man and zone beaters that aren’t the spam plays
Yep, there a a whole video on this channel called “how to beat every defense in Madden 24” cover concepts to beating everything
Great video ! First game trying this went 14-0 and he walked away👍
Some defenses have disguise audibles for their secondary. But definitely a great start .
Thank you bro honestly
Thank you for the comment and kind words!
I need this you should do how to find your own offensive scheme and dominate
Thanks for this bro
If I knew a buttons to click to do the things that you're saying to do, I wouldn't be watching this video
Love your content man. Do you offer any individual coaching services? I’m a new fairly new madden player struggling to string together wins in H2H refs and am looking to get better
Hey thanks for the comment and the question. I don’t do any individual coaching sessions - I’m sorry… hope to keep helping you with the videos though!
I do individual services for $10 an Hour.
When we are able to recognize what défense, our opposant play, is there a tips to play our offense ?
Exemple run for cover 6 or 9
Quick slant ?
Deep pass for cover 2 man ?
Excuse me i'm french so i Hope that you understand me
I needed this!
“Walk away” is a PG version of rage quitting and breaking the controller.
you have to explain how to motion players and etc.
Thanks, I hope I'll be a better Madden player
You will for sure if u work on this!
Thanks for this contribution but it's quite frustrating that you never explain which play to use once you recognize the coverage. What is the "man beating play" you are doing for audible? Lots of information and no specific instructions of what to do with it.
The rest of the channel explains how to beat everything. Literally just pick any video
What about base alignment tho
does this work for cfb 25
So defensively in this situation would you need to try to audible your plays after some time or try to manually mess with alignment to throw the offense off from their read?
Do you have a chart or spreadsheet showing man and zone beaters? Also, is it best to audible to a run when you see cover 4,6,9?
Thanks for the comment. There are lots of great videos on this channel giving you lots of man and zone beaters as schemes that u can use
@@WinMadden thank you
That's why I have my base align on in coaching adjustments
You should have played a better defense like the ravens
what if opponent base auto alignment？this read still work？
Thanks just scored 83 😂
How do you know if a play is cover 4 or cover 1 robber
When I am in Gun doubles HB WK for instance and I motion my WR bc I see one high safety and the corner moves with my receiver It is still zone sometimes. I am confused?
what if they baseline?
I'm still throwing it straight to a db
So I understand like how to read it like if it’s cover 4 whatever right but I don’t know how to change my offense to beat it can somebody help.
Good contents! I practice almost evryday how to read defense with your M23 vid.
By the way around the half of time, a formation looks cover 2 but it's cover3 and an opponent cooks my cover2 beater. do you have any advice?
The video is misleading because if you have two safeties the defense can still be cover 3. This is what’s typically called a cover 3 buzz or they are playing a cover 3 match. What this means is that instead of the safety playing the curl flat like in cover 3 sky that shows you a generic single high safety, the LB will play the flat, so the other safety will fall back to his normal spot, giving you a two safety look, but that one safety will still come down and play the middle of the field, not deep like a cover 2.
To identify this, you are still looking at cornerback depth as it is mentioned in the video. This is because in cover 3 or cover 4 they will play farther than 5 yards off the ball unless they press.
@@bigpopppapump Players can base align/disable shifts to make it hard to key on it. There's also weird stuff like cover 2 invert. At some point, you can only do so much pre-snap information, and have to key on what one of the defenders does post snap to confirm if pre-snap tells are correct. Usually a safety, but sometimes you look at nickel CB first.
This is a great video but he said we are going to motion this man to go left then I got lost because he didn't explain how to motion my player to other side ... only motion I learned on this video was how to get motion sickness.. button explanation would have been super useful to know before he just assumes people just know the buttons
9:11 - Man
How do u manually press on defense
You’re the type of player I cry against lol
Does anyone know what the three green dashes are above the highlighted defensive lineman?
They are indicators that the offensive line recognizes you a a blitzing threat.
great video.
Thanks!
u can’t motion in player lock good to know
Motion should be disallowed in madden...offense already hff as every advantage..ya..its in the nfl..but your not qbing from 50 ft above the field like a game..motion is cheesy in madden
Not if they use man align
Win madden will you put out a mini e book on here with an offensive a scheme?
Yep, there will be one coming soon!
And a full free ebook on the website!
Aside from using motion, how do you identify man coverage when you are in compressed sets, like Deuce Close if the defense comes out in press coverage? The CB's don't seem to align inside the WR's.
depending on formation or personnel, you could potentially bump a tight end off the line and see if a corner bumps out with him
Very nice video, and explanation.
What plays do I run against those defences?
Lots of videos on the channel covering schemes to beat sefenses
@@WinMadden could you link me some videos of you covering schemes to beat those defensive sweats?
Just click the channel button and scroll through
@@WinMadden what would the vids be called
In Mut it don't matter what u do if your team ain't good gonna get smoked I'm no money spent
NMS as well with an 86 OVR/85 O/86 D. It's quite easy this year for NMS because of how slow the OVRs are increasing. Scheme over team is truth. Especially for defense.
How bout them 3-0 Vikings 💜 💛
Skol!!! 17-0
Great explanation!!👍
How to read defense in madden 24. Look up gimmie plays on youtube. Then run that play. All you need to know about madden
Yo awesome video! Does this work in an actual nfl game. Like if you are watching and wanna know coverage schemes.
Honestly, this years meta defenses make the game not fun. EVERYONE comes out running the same shit Henry did in the MCS UK. Literally though, running the inside zone RPO out of gun trips TE can’t be stopped when they pull all their guys to the line. I don’t want to be that guy but I’ve called nothing but that play all but about 4 times in my last 5 Mut champs games. (Won every time and had possession 90% of the game.)
Why is there 7? I see 4 plus 3…
The back coverage is what determines the coverage
🏈
Love your videos. Vikings are 🗑️
lol, thanks.
You don't have to be a pro to recognize what a defense is lined up in. Just someone who played and knows alignments.
I fell asleep
Not gone lie this video means nothing to a player who knows what their doing and edits their zones before the play starts this more for casuals who apply real life football to madden
True lol I will come out in Cover 2 and change to cover 3 with a few adjustments or play cover 3 on one side of the field and man up the other side
So as long as you know the weakness of defensive formations, it’s touchdowns everytime.
I appreciate the info so much and have subbed. But damn is this overwhelming...
I haven't played a Madden in years. This is gonna take some chewing...
thanks for the video, defenses are well explained but would be helpful for an explanation of what to do offensively vs certain coverages
great video! I'm somehow new to the sport and to the game (im not american lol)...it'd be awesome to know when to make certain type of offensive play depending on the reading of the defense...like: "OK, its a 4 man coverage, what play should i pick? should I run the ball? should I try to pass it deep? should I make a short pass?? If you have a video of this kind please let me know the title! Thanks !
Thanks for the comment, yes, to answer your question I have lots of videos on how to beat certain defenses. If you’re looking for something “generic” I would suggest the video on this channel titled “how to beat every defense in Madden 24”!
Still waiting for a video that explains what type of offensive plays beat specific defensive formations.
There are several on this channel