Madden 16 Defensive Tips - How To User Control 101!

Learn how to play better pass defense in Madden 16 by user controlling a defender and making interceptions!

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what's up gamers he farms here with a
lesson on user defense in madden 16 the
most important things that you stop
playing with the defensive lineman
yes user rushing has a time and a place
but overall the best players are
consistently going to use your control a
defender in the back seven here we
choose a three-down line like dollar or
big-time 146
this gives us a free defender was
rushing on the play
we can put him in a different assignment
we can put them in cubase five we can do
whatever we want
generally you want to graduate to the
user controlling who's ever covering the
halfback here am an assignment we're
looking at the routes a halfback could
possibly run in beat us with by holding
down they'll be after the snap or l-1
that's defensive assist that's actually
going to track us to our mandame an
assignment so without even having to
hold the left stick we can basically
hold lb at the snap and you'll see our
defender will follow the halfback out of
the backfield
now if the half x going to run routes to
the left which there isn't that many he
can run you can take that free defender
we talked about and put them in a flat
zone that will make him go to the left
side of the screen and then anything to
the left
he picks up and we're free to do
whatever we want
you do kind of have to worry about a
deep throw here but you'll see half the
time it's open other half
you have a safety in play just keep an
eye on a speed mismatch that's why i
recommend use your controlling a
defender who has low play recognition in
low awareness but great speed
you know about 85 or so good
acceleration because you turn them into
a monster here we're looking at the
tight end corner at this is probably the
most common route in the game by
standing right in front of it and
holding our B to C we can press the
tight end and get him off of his route
here regarding him too closely and so
the offense a good player knows not to
throw that a bad player will still throw
that so what we want to do is go and
hide out in the flat and then work
underneath it
you got her out too tightly the
quarterback will never throat yes bad
ones will but whereas if you stand here
you can cover the flat there you can run
up and make a tackle first
only a short game but then you can also
drop back and cover those desperate
corner routes the next lesson is to user
control a defender from where your
blitzing so right here we are blitzing
off the left edge which means we've only
got one flats on over there that's where
week on this play
so by using controlling over on this
side of the screen you'll see we can
make up a lot of ground we can go to the
middle if Larry Fitzgerald runs slam we
can jump in on that here there's two
receivers over on that side we're going
to drop back and play the deep route and
hopefully get an interception
there aren't that many concepts that two
receivers can run to get free over there
so one of them
we have to look is the deeper out and we
always play deep into short we always
try to get back as much as possible
before coming up and playing something
shorter
here we see a slant on this next play
from the inside receiver and we know
that we have to cover this land for just
a second but he's no longer our
responsibility once he cuts there that
allows us to drop back and cover the
extra advanced user play right there is
we don't lose our momentum we keep the
left stick rolling and see how we didn't
have to stop and cut we kind of kept our
momentum going that allowed us to get in
and make the play here is our middle
linebacker
that's now his responsibilities defense
is one of the only things where it's
okay to say that's not my job
you can't follow that receiver all the
way across the field now it's tough to
use a screen pass from that position so
if you smell something funny like 3rd 20
or a new formation
you've got to make an adjustment right
there we adjusted to controlling the
middle linebacker and we tried to shoot
through make tackle now if you miss the
initial thing you want to do is right at
the snap look and see if the linemen are
running away if they are you know it's a
screen get why I get why I get why force
everything back into the middle you're
going to give up a little game but
you're not going to give up a huge game
if you can't shoot right through
that's it I wanted to show you this
formation because it's a tough alignment
for many defenses and it's a common
formation that you see online so the
tight ends going to get a free release
so he's going to beat man
man right there however we want to use
your control and take that throw away
really quick but then we don't want to
follow that route all the way across the
field here we're gonna put Manny Lawson
in a flat route that slants going to run
into the flat so we don't need to follow
it past the initial so we're following
following following
and then we just drop across the middle
and right here will do one more time
we're gonna take three steps with the a
route so that the quarterback won't
throw it and now the quarterbacks gonna
move on to his reads and think he has
the crossfire and we're going to cut
back over now obviously any game things
will change you've got to keep in mind
your opponent's tendencies and the down
and distance but generally see how we
took three steps with it and then we cut
back
try to get to where the spot of the ball
would be and that's how you're going to
make most of your place you need to be
like a detective in a movie who doesn't
follow his victim too closely right
there
this is a very very popular for vertical
route look how we're able to undercut
this thro look at the range 15 yards
away from this ball by playing with a
big tall defender watch us drop back
hold down the Alt trigger to strafe get
in position and then hold down the Y
button right now and get up big and make
the play
now we've got to watch two routes on
this place so we just watched the deep
one
but now notice we kind of covered for a
second hopefully he gets a bad idea
about throwing it and then we break down
remember you always want to play back to
front it's like a fly ball and baseball
you
it's much easier to run forward than it
is to run backwards so right there that
is how you would break on a pass like
that that's a very popular concept the
four verticals what I want to show you
the other thing is identifying passing
concepts right at the snap at the snap
we saw both flat defenders both slot
receivers run-flat routes and that made
us know okay - crow flats or corner
strike we go through the playbooks we
generally know what formations air
this is a halfback angle this is the
most obvious pass in the world
gun spread very common for a factor on
an angle route we don't want to run out
at the right we just want to set up to
where he's gonna be like wayne gretzky
said go where the puck is going to be
not where it is right here
automotion you'll start to get very
aggressive with your defenses you can
learn to time automotion we'll talk more
about user run defense later but that's
some good general guidelines force
playing better user defense guys is
really going to improve your game
I know it's a headache but by user
controlling a middle linebacker in a
hook zone with cover three or in and a
man the guy covering half back you
really can't hurt yourself and you
really improve your defense quickly
it just takes a little bit of practice a
little bit of time a little bit of
learning formations
keep in mind the situation and you'll be
making big place in no time
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