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Official Madden '15 PS4 League Thread: We Know DOTA
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It was fucking priceless.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
You know who I mean!
I actually IMed GCQ yesterday because I wanted his twitch handle so I could study his game against LJ. I thought he was the ravens, but that's a whole different GQ haha.
Sickboy beat me so soundly it was absurd. My defense allowed 3 points but he completely shut me out. It was incredible and forced me to change my offense going forward. That game against LJ last night will have the same effect.
I've got to work on my defense game as seen by a lot of the 3rd down conversions I've given up this season and by the points I've given up... but Sickboy just absolutely abused me on offense. And then to top it off, I couldn't do squat on offense myself.
This NFC East division is stacked against me. At least it gives me some practice and new ideas. I just wish I could see what most of you guys do on defense (aside from the play call). My team just looks so inefficient against the pass game. I do think the horrible confidence is playing a huge part in it though.
The film has finally been processed and ready. Here is the footage from Texans v Titans broken up by quarters
Q1
http://youtu.be/L1aJfyXBC6g
Q2
http://youtu.be/peWdp6a54Yc
Q3
http://youtu.be/h8sqa42PExQ
Q4:
http://youtu.be/ERlmxpjE3Wc
OT
http://youtu.be/p5ofkfLFpYQ
Q1
http://youtu.be/L1aJfyXBC6g
Q2
http://youtu.be/peWdp6a54Yc
Q3
http://youtu.be/h8sqa42PExQ
Q4:
http://youtu.be/ERlmxpjE3Wc
OT
http://youtu.be/p5ofkfLFpYQ
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Everything starts with your defensive line. It's less important in Madden but a good DL makes a very big difference. I made adjustments galore and had the #1 O going in but literally could get nothing done against the Rams DL last night. LJ could rush 4 and get to me no problem. Further, the solution to stopping my run game, or any run game, is too have DL that can get off their blocks and fill the gaps quickly. A lot of times I've seen guys user their best DL which I do myself, but then it becomes easy to target them with directional runs. I've had a lot of success stuffing runs this year at or behind the LOS usering JPP. You should be targeting DL players with high strength and block shed. No other stat really means much of anything except maybe tackle.
To follow that, none of us in this league can really throw the ball consistently and not throw picks, especially the top tier players. More than anything on defense I care about stopping the run because it will create opportunities for interceptions. I'm not huge on having the best LBs since they're overrated in the modern NFL, but play design and having guys with the right attributes is important in Madden. I'm ok having 70-80 OVR LBs as long as their PRC and BSH is high.
Moreover, sometimes a great offense is better than a good defense. I've experimented with my playstyle this year. I am known for a slow methodical game in which I want to get down the field taking as much time as possible and still scoring. This creates pressure on the opposing player to score and score quickly because the opportunities will be limited. This forces additional mistakes. I've been changing up in certain situations to going very quickly and just putting up tons of points. There have been games where I don't punt until the 4th quarter, and that again creates problems. I have no issue dropping 8 guys into coverage is my opponent wants to start forcing the pass because they are behind by a lot or need to score quickly.
I think that the best thing for me has been really not treating it as two separate parts of the game but meshing them together. It's an overarching scheme in which my offensive and defensive gameplans tie together. For you, I remember your offense was giving me fits in season one. Build off of that and create a great pass rush. It's how the Colts and Saints won their super bowls. They didn't need complete defenses just ones that complimented the other half of their team.
Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
I don't think our good friend Soka used his full bag of tricks in that game. But thank you.
Thanks for the words Wellster. I've never given too much of a shit about my DL now that I think about it. I've got to check them out when I get home tonight. I know Hatcher is the best and Cofield isn't too bad at DT but I could probably use some upgrades at those positions. I have noticed that I've given up quite a high average per run this year. Maybe it's time to go back to the drawing board.
My MLBs are pretty much the range that you mentioned and my OLBs should be tearing it up but I know their lack of confidence as affected their gameplay this season. I guess it's time to start spending my scouting points.
My MLBs are pretty much the range that you mentioned and my OLBs should be tearing it up but I know their lack of confidence as affected their gameplay this season. I guess it's time to start spending my scouting points.
The read option keep with Dysert was mysteriously missing. You can see I was planning for it all game.
http://youtu.be/p5ofkfLFpYQ?t=3m26s
Strangely, my defense has gotten better when I stopped controlling my D-Lineman. I used to be okay with it but I don't think I have gotten acquainted with the new controls. I was never stopping the run or getting to the QB. So I essentially was playing 10 on 11.
My user LB/Safety has gotten better and a lot of times I'm actually in the right spot to make a play or I guessed my opponent's route correctly, but I'll under/over play it and totally whiff sometimes because user controlling is sometimes like controlling a goddamn Landmaster.
My user LB/Safety has gotten better and a lot of times I'm actually in the right spot to make a play or I guessed my opponent's route correctly, but I'll under/over play it and totally whiff sometimes because user controlling is sometimes like controlling a goddamn Landmaster.
Wait...what!?
TheDrizzlerJ11
Member
2016 Possible Free Agents
All players are 80 OVR or high, and that's to my schemes, and currently on the last year of their contracts
All players are 80 OVR or high, and that's to my schemes, and currently on the last year of their contracts
Geno has throws like that every game. I see no wrong there Xbro
EA
Perhaps the greatest post ever made in the history of this league
This is making me laugh as much as it did the first time hahahaha
Wonder where he went. He lives less than 15 minutes from me in real life, I know this!
LMAO
In about a year and a half I will have been on this forum for a decade or maybe 9 years, Christ
I guess it has been 2 years since we started. And Luke said it wouldn't last. Ha, we got the last laugh.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
Little did Frenchie realize that "balance returning" meant that he and Smokes would eventually defect to Dota 2.
That guy had 3k posts in the madden 10 thread and I'm not sure he was there in the beginning.
I played Destiny this morning! I have nothing left to do in Destiny now.
I say hello
I have been reading/posting on gaf since it was part of the gaming-age website. I just don't post a crazy amount. Pretty crazy to realize how long I've been part of this community, I think Az might be the lowest member # though here.
edit: I lie, FMT is 214... and DM is 77, well ok then!
I'm technically in the 30k's but that's because I didn't realize my
other original]/spoiler] account was verified a year before I started posting on this one. So I just use this one and ignore that one exists.
Shit! I bought destiny and it was even digital so I couldn't return it. Fucking hell, luke actually got the last laugh along with my money. WP
Azwethinkweiz
Member
I joined in 1999. I'm sure there were others here before that though. Maybe Lonestar?
I would never hold back against my division rival Smokey when my undefeated streak was on the line! I had a gameplan and had to stick to it, okay?
You joined in 04 my friend.
On here, 99ish would be gaming age prior to the database crash right?
Edit: Can't remember its been so long. Pretty sure this version of gaf went up June 04.
Azwethinkweiz
Member
Yeah, in 2004 everyone had to sign up again. But I was part of the old site as well.