Start to building a Defense

Started where I left off with Madden 08. Multiple D playbook with audibles set-up as, 4-3 Buzz Duo, 3-4 OLB Dogs Fire, Nickle 2-4-5 Double Z Bracket, Nickle 3-3-5 Cover 1, and Quarter 2 man under. I feel this combination of D's pretty much helps cover everything that can come up and these plays make up 75% of my defensive play calls. However, in Madden 10 I was getting eaten up by short dump routes (ins, outs, slants). Usually Nickle 3-3-5 Cover 1 is great at stopping these because everyone is in man coverage and you have two LB's dropping into zone over the middle to cover these routes. If a particular route is killing me I can always call any Quarter D then audible to 4-3 Buzz Duo, control the second lineman on the left who is actually one of your corner backs that has moved down with the audible, put him in zone coverage (A + left stick back) and manually cover the routes. Neither of these was 100% effective, but in 6 games I gave an average of 15.5 points a game. Not where I want it (under 10 is where it should be) but not bad for less than 10 games played. As I work out the kinks and see new wrinkles from other players I'll keep updating Defensive Strategy