The Madden community can be toxic sometimes man. When people say play better players, it typically means players that do cheesy stuff. Not anything rooted in real football logic
Exactly this. Somebody who ran the ball every play and mixed in RPOs and glitchy option plays ruined my 34 winstreak, and funny enough he couldn’t stop me on offense. But I couldn’t do anything to stop his glitch run scheme (even while run committing with 7 blitzers) so he ended up chewing clock and kicking a game winning field goal.
A whole lotta truth here. That "better player" thing is really subjective when you take into account there is a whole segment of the online community who thinks glitching and finding flaws in the game is acceptable. For those of you that play regs....I've found that if you yourself just choose a team that is not one of the consensus top 8-9 online teams and limit yourself to also just playing people using teams outside those 4-5 cheesy teams......the online experience gets a lot better. The morons tend to use those top teams. I've been having some really good games lately since I started using this criteria .
@6:00 something I admire about Greg Romans run designs is that he leaves corners or backside safeties with no chance of making a tackle unblocked. Theoretically it would always account for every other player
Greg Roman is a genius of the power run game. I’d love to see him come back as an OC bc I think he’s good for the overall sport (same reason I want Kingsbury back somehow as an OC)
@@kevinstucki8644 it has its limits but it also never had good receiver, the best one was Hollywood Brown, who’s is a good 2 as the best WR on the team. He’s an abysmal #1
@@kghostthegreat hollywood left bc of the scheme. They had Likely for two years and he's now blowing up? Coincidence. I think not. Look at his track record. Performance of Roman's scheme falls off each year after the first. I wanted him gone after the 2019 debacle. Now look how that offense is flying with proper balance and scheme. Roman cannot scheme the pass game. Would always have 3 WRs in the same space lol.
I’m not sure if turning the middle saftey into a deep half like you suggested around 38:00 would be wise. Seems like a good way to turn a concept like yankee(which is already a cover 3 beater) into possibly a one play touchdown, cause who would be in the window to stop the post?
Love the sarcasm about being in the mvp league lol, there’s always going to be haters, next thing they’ll say is play in weekend league because that’s where the best players are but you’d crush them too
Another great video brotha you have taught so much great things I appreciate all you do. May I ask when picking a playbook is their anything you really key on that makes that book great?
Thanks for the love. It really varies with what you like to do. One book may feel like trash to another who thinks it is gold. Being that I'm a spread type guy, certain books are more appealing than others. It really depends on your style. Some people don't even know their style . . . I think learning football concepts, and they gravitating to what you like will help in the long run to figuring out your style of play and what books you'd like.
@@XandoFootball thanks for this response brother. Yea I like spread style too tbh. Still learning concepts. Have you checked the spread playbook? I’ve been in it for awhile and like it but thinking of trying your offense out. I just play cfm in madden. Thanks again for all you do brother
I would say a progression read play should have routes that beat multiple defenses. Like a In, drag, corner can. The unique routes or a route that only beats like a cover 3 should be an alert. Let’s say i have a drag, in, corner and a unique route, i’d alert to the unique if it’s c3 but progression read if it’s anything else
Xando....awesome video as always. Easily my favorite YT channel at this point. I wanted to get one clairification from you on the "cop check". When you are usering the TE with the safety....do you stay with him if he crosses the formation back towards the trips (like a drag) or do you let him go and act as a deep post control on the original side you were aligned?
Are there disadvantages in madden of bringing safteys down like you did on that one play when you’re in quarters or cover 3 and they’re playing off/bail? Only thing i can think of off the top is you’re more susceptible to getting beat over the top with something like mills concept where you have to pump fake to hold safteys.
Theoretically, I would think play action would be a problem too. Nothing worse than putting a 3rd level defender in a run pass conflict. But Madden is a different story.
Hey Xando it’s funny how ppl say you have to play a certain game mode to find “good” players, when in reality no matter which mode you play you have to grind through the worse players to get there. Granted in regs ppl quit more, but for the most part, those high rank guys still give comp. It’s just not cut off at tiers like MUT is sadly (used to be a place where you could see the percentile where you ranked against every regs madden player on the platform in regs, would love to see this come back, as it made me like playing games to be in the 1% (got there in just about every madden since by the time I bought the next one)
@@XandoFootball I mean it was a little thing, when in reality it will still tell you your rank and how many people are ranked. Right now I’m closing in on the top 1% in regs, and a lot of ppl wouldn’t necessarily call me “good”
Xando question for you at 13:51, HOw do you know what slants or shifts to do based on pre-snap allignemnt from the opponent. Is this a trial and error?
@@XandoFootball thanks, man. By the way that Razor route you mentioned on the playaction by the end of the 1st game is called Y-Clown. Clown route Colts and Browns use it a lot.
Haha ran 5 if I counted right, but shoot…a boxing coach told me. If they can’t block the jab…jab them until they do haha that’s my mentality with life. You can’t stop some aspect of what I do…well I guess you’ll learn…or not lol
Different coaching trees have different terms for things. Someone else said it's a burst corner. I thought a dino route was something totally different. We could all be right depending on what coaching tree or coaching language we are used to.
@@XandoFootball d iagonal in o ut = dino... however as JT would say... call it strawberry ice cream if you like... as long as you know who's who in the zoo... 🖖
Madden community is definitely toxic and I don’t see a difference between people ranked 150000 and people ranked 2800. They all quit their once you shut down their go to’s or shred their defense nonstop. I refused to play ranked or mut for years. Finally played about 70 games in the last couple weeks with 9 losses. Probably 7 from me playing like garbage and 2 from dudes I didn’t t have answers for. Out of all the wins I’d say about 95% of them quit before the game ended. Several of them were up at one point in game by 14+ points. I don’t ever quit but they can’t deal with being exposed. These so called mvp players are usually just kids that spam plays over and over.
I literally lost a game 55 to 54. He onside kicked 8 out of 9 times and recovered 3 of them. He seemed to figure out a way to recover it at a high rate because the ones he didn't get were luck on my side. Madden is full of man children trying to expose coding of the game as opposed to learning football.
@@XandoFootball exactly., one of my L’s dude ran two plays… forgot the formation but was either a pa hb sprint with multiple check release te’s and the other was some funky pa with double moves. Ehh 3 plays bc as soon as he got inside goal to go he had some rpo wheel flat where te was bare naked open. If I played that side he would flip play and snap. Have seen fake punts get converted multiple times, and onside kick recovery seems to be an issue that’s spreading.
The "good" and "pro" players just abuse the coding. They know nothing about football, and most likely never took a snap pass HS. Can also get a lot of cool blitz sets ups from BAL unique quarter formation. I only use it in 3rd n long
You know I would declare anything packer related as being not allowed on this channel due to me being in Chicago . . . but , a few years ago, I really just turned into an all around football guy, and not just a bears guy. So we let this ride. I remember the packers used to wreck my bears every time they played and it would ruin my entire work week. I'm so happy I got away from fandom of the Bears because it makes life easier.
The Madden community can be toxic sometimes man. When people say play better players, it typically means players that do cheesy stuff. Not anything rooted in real football logic
Underrated comment!
Exactly this. Somebody who ran the ball every play and mixed in RPOs and glitchy option plays ruined my 34 winstreak, and funny enough he couldn’t stop me on offense. But I couldn’t do anything to stop his glitch run scheme (even while run committing with 7 blitzers) so he ended up chewing clock and kicking a game winning field goal.
A whole lotta truth here. That "better player" thing is really subjective when you take into account there is a whole segment of the online community who thinks glitching and finding flaws in the game is acceptable. For those of you that play regs....I've found that if you yourself just choose a team that is not one of the consensus top 8-9 online teams and limit yourself to also just playing people using teams outside those 4-5 cheesy teams......the online experience gets a lot better. The morons tend to use those top teams. I've been having some really good games lately since I started using this criteria .
I'm learning so much from your videos, keep it up bro.
Xando conngrats. 3K subscribers. I see your channel growing man. 🎉🎉
@6:00 something I admire about Greg Romans run designs is that he leaves corners or backside safeties with no chance of making a tackle unblocked. Theoretically it would always account for every other player
Greg Roman is a genius of the power run game. I’d love to see him come back as an OC bc I think he’s good for the overall sport (same reason I want Kingsbury back somehow as an OC)
@kghostthegreat his scheme has it limits. Look what Lamar has done freed from that system. Roman A+ run game scheme, High School pass scheme.
@@kevinstucki8644 it has its limits but it also never had good receiver, the best one was Hollywood Brown, who’s is a good 2 as the best WR on the team. He’s an abysmal #1
@@kghostthegreat hollywood left bc of the scheme. They had Likely for two years and he's now blowing up? Coincidence. I think not. Look at his track record. Performance of Roman's scheme falls off each year after the first. I wanted him gone after the 2019 debacle. Now look how that offense is flying with proper balance and scheme. Roman cannot scheme the pass game. Would always have 3 WRs in the same space lol.
Awesome video again, and big nickel already has the outer third adjustments. Definitely my go to formation because of that.
Man …. Just off the vids last year it took my game to the elite level 50 game win streak I’m on now much love for the help bro …
50 games!? Damn you killin' it.
Bro I learned how to play because of you keep making videos
I’m not sure if turning the middle saftey into a deep half like you suggested around 38:00 would be wise. Seems like a good way to turn a concept like yankee(which is already a cover 3 beater) into possibly a one play touchdown, cause who would be in the window to stop the post?
Love the sarcasm about being in the mvp league lol, there’s always going to be haters, next thing they’ll say is play in weekend league because that’s where the best players are but you’d crush them too
Another great video brotha you have taught so much great things I appreciate all you do. May I ask when picking a playbook is their anything you really key on that makes that book great?
Thanks for the love. It really varies with what you like to do. One book may feel like trash to another who thinks it is gold. Being that I'm a spread type guy, certain books are more appealing than others. It really depends on your style. Some people don't even know their style . . . I think learning football concepts, and they gravitating to what you like will help in the long run to figuring out your style of play and what books you'd like.
@@XandoFootball thanks for this response brother. Yea I like spread style too tbh. Still learning concepts. Have you checked the spread playbook? I’ve been in it for awhile and like it but thinking of trying your offense out. I just play cfm in madden. Thanks again for all you do brother
@@tjlovato2801 Yes I checked it out months ago and for whatever reason I didn't like it. I may have to look again.
33:00 Hey Xando if I’m trying out new plays and new playbooks how do I know if a play can be a progression read or not?
I would say a progression read play should have routes that beat multiple defenses. Like a In, drag, corner can. The unique routes or a route that only beats like a cover 3 should be an alert. Let’s say i have a drag, in, corner and a unique route, i’d alert to the unique if it’s c3 but progression read if it’s anything else
Love n your stuff. Thanks xo
Xando....awesome video as always. Easily my favorite YT channel at this point. I wanted to get one clairification from you on the "cop check". When you are usering the TE with the safety....do you stay with him if he crosses the formation back towards the trips (like a drag) or do you let him go and act as a deep post control on the original side you were aligned?
Are there disadvantages in madden of bringing safteys down like you did on that one play when you’re in quarters or cover 3 and they’re playing off/bail? Only thing i can think of off the top is you’re more susceptible to getting beat over the top with something like mills concept where you have to pump fake to hold safteys.
Theoretically, I would think play action would be a problem too. Nothing worse than putting a 3rd level defender in a run pass conflict. But Madden is a different story.
@@XandoFootball For sure. Also, are you planning on playing the college game when it comes out?
Hey Xando it’s funny how ppl say you have to play a certain game mode to find “good” players, when in reality no matter which mode you play you have to grind through the worse players to get there. Granted in regs ppl quit more, but for the most part, those high rank guys still give comp. It’s just not cut off at tiers like MUT is sadly (used to be a place where you could see the percentile where you ranked against every regs madden player on the platform in regs, would love to see this come back, as it made me like playing games to be in the 1% (got there in just about every madden since by the time I bought the next one)
I just don't understand why they keep ripping features out of the game.
@@XandoFootball I mean it was a little thing, when in reality it will still tell you your rank and how many people are ranked. Right now I’m closing in on the top 1% in regs, and a lot of ppl wouldn’t necessarily call me “good”
Xando question for you at 13:51, HOw do you know what slants or shifts to do based on pre-snap allignemnt from the opponent. Is this a trial and error?
yes, too much to remember due to so many variations. Trial and error through game.
@@XandoFootball thanks, man. By the way that Razor route you mentioned on the playaction by the end of the 1st game is called Y-Clown. Clown route Colts and Browns use it a lot.
Dan Orlosky haha. That's the only thing he's remembered for lol
My man really did a Dan Orlovsky 😂😂😂🥱 (Lions 0-16 qb who ran out of the end zone) 😭 good shit as always xando
Haha ran 5 if I counted right, but shoot…a boxing coach told me. If they can’t block the jab…jab them until they do haha that’s my mentality with life. You can’t stop some aspect of what I do…well I guess you’ll learn…or not lol
More than 2 plays, but even if it wasn’t then it’s up to the defense to make adjustments to stop them.
How do you cancel the PA animation
i believe it's r1 before the hand off
This is my level of petty , running through mvp opponents 😂
dude its a dino route sheesh 21:08
Different coaching trees have different terms for things. Someone else said it's a burst corner. I thought a dino route was something totally different. We could all be right depending on what coaching tree or coaching language we are used to.
@@XandoFootball
d iagonal in o ut = dino... however as JT would say... call it strawberry ice cream if you like... as long as you know who's who in the zoo... 🖖
Funny cause i remember that comment he made. I don't remember what video that was in. LOL.@@TeddyCruxpin
@@XandoFootball it was one of the route brkdowns.. but he says it slot ..
Comebacks can be thrown over curl flats with high passes…
Is using a computer the only way to become a member of
Dan Orlovsky is the name youre looking for
Pistol Bunch is the realest formation in this playbook.
My guy hate to do this to you. You still my guy. How bout them Cowgirls.
Yea they are pretty bad. LOL! You can't get wrecked like that at home in the playoffs. Just embarrassing.
Hey Xando, that comment you posted shows that some people play madden and some people play football if you catch my drift.
Dan Orlovsky
Unfortunately the comeback is damn near broken on last gen. For some reason it breaks the game’s pass lead logic and goes all over the place
Dan orlovsky
There is no skill based matchmaking in all madden seasons
Madden community is definitely toxic and I don’t see a difference between people ranked 150000 and people ranked 2800. They all quit their once you shut down their go to’s or shred their defense nonstop. I refused to play ranked or mut for years. Finally played about 70 games in the last couple weeks with 9 losses. Probably 7 from me playing like garbage and 2 from dudes I didn’t t have answers for. Out of all the wins I’d say about 95% of them quit before the game ended. Several of them were up at one point in game by 14+ points. I don’t ever quit but they can’t deal with being exposed. These so called mvp players are usually just kids that spam plays over and over.
I literally lost a game 55 to 54.
He onside kicked 8 out of 9 times and recovered 3 of them. He seemed to figure out a way to recover it at a high rate because the ones he didn't get were luck on my side.
Madden is full of man children trying to expose coding of the game as opposed to learning football.
@@XandoFootball exactly., one of my L’s dude ran two plays… forgot the formation but was either a pa hb sprint with multiple check release te’s and the other was some funky pa with double moves. Ehh 3 plays bc as soon as he got inside goal to go he had some rpo wheel flat where te was bare naked open. If I played that side he would flip play and snap. Have seen fake punts get converted multiple times, and onside kick recovery seems to be an issue that’s spreading.
😂😂😂
The "good" and "pro" players just abuse the coding. They know nothing about football, and most likely never took a snap pass HS.
Can also get a lot of cool blitz sets ups from BAL unique quarter formation. I only use it in 3rd n long
Yea I use the bal D book and I got videos i'm going to make on that quarters over load formation. Like you said, it's pretty unique.
@@XandoFootball interesting to see what you dial up bro.
Don't need more then 2 plays against scrubs.. 😂😂😂😂
Go pack go 🔰
You know I would declare anything packer related as being not allowed on this channel due to me being in Chicago . . . but , a few years ago, I really just turned into an all around football guy, and not just a bears guy. So we let this ride.
I remember the packers used to wreck my bears every time they played and it would ruin my entire work week. I'm so happy I got away from fandom of the Bears because it makes life easier.
@@XandoFootballLol I feel you there my guy. I’m a long suffering Bears fan so kudos to you for getting out in one piece 👍