Why are streaks so glitchy this year?

interesting i like this idea

Just played a guy using the colts. He ran the ball alot and kept me honest, but literally EVERY SINGLE TIME i didnt have two safeties over the top, he just bombed it up to Garcon and had my corner beat every single time by about 5 yard. I never played BNR once, just regular man to man. I had a 93 speed corner assigned to garcon the whole game. Cover 1 didnt stop it, i literally had to play 2 man under. And he beat me deep once when I was in a cover 2 invert to stop the run, where the corner is the deep blue and should never let anyone behind me. Ugh SO FRUSTRATING. I just dont get it. I cant even switch on to try and make a play because the defensive back in beat so bad. Why reward people for just chucking it up, something that takes no skill?

what formation?

there might be a wierd streak route in it or something

But in a cover 3 i very rarely (mean like prob 5 times) will get st8 out beat deep on a streak to the outside and i have brent grimes 88 spd out there.

hows your CBs zone defense rating?

was it a lead pass inside?

no I went back and looked at replays. Just a simple streak. He was in a shotgun formation with garcon on the far right.

No pass leads. He just threw a lob every time and garcon had him beat. I ran with saints and had porter manned up to garcon, 93 speed, 92 overall, so im pretty sure his zone rating has to be fairly high. On the play where I got beat in the cover 2 invert, I did shade my zones to the middle and put my deep safety in a spy and played the run. When I went back and looked at the reply the corner over garcon started sliding in like he was supposed to, and since garcon was on the far outside, when the passed was lobbed up there he was too far inside to make a play on it. He may have had a slot receiver on garcons side running a post or something, that might have sucked the corner in too much. Not sure.

Yea that happens.. Been running saints lately and mostly zone.. Dont remeber his man cov but im pretty certain its not great... Have you tried cov audibling zones to sideline (do it twice seems like it makes a diff but dunno lol)

Slimreaper256 wrote:

wandeezy623 wrote:

sgibs wrote:

i agree wandeezy i think defense this year is much better then last year.

are there issues well yes of course. the man assignment switch offs are a trade off for issues with how stick use to work.

Exactly, no more stick and no more canoe.. Stick can be used to beat zone this year which is how it should be! I really like this game and the more I play it the more I enjoy it

I disagree. The thing that makes defense supposedly "better" this year is the randomness of QB's accuracy & the long QB wind-up. I hate when ppl say defense is better this year. Because truthfully, it isn't. For instance:

"Players in Yellow Zones still only play a position on the field, instead of the man that runs into their zone (Sgibs himself even showed this in a vid). This becomes a problem because the A.I.seems to have trouble identifying which defender should try to make a play on the ball. Which sometimes causes the defender to let a ball go right past his face and not do anything.

Players in Purples Zones don't properly defend the area in their play art. This has been a point of frustration for ALL OF US at one point or another this year. (Sorry Gibs, but its dumb that they do that. What's the point of putting a Purple on the field if they're gonna play like a Blue?)

Players in Deep Blue Zones don't know how far to drop back. I could understand the CPU having trouble vs a "Flood Concept". But if its a single WR on your CB, & you call Cover 3 Press, Curl routes shouldn't be open 100% of the time. That play is supposed to guard against that.

Players in Flat Blue Zones shouldn't randomly jam WRs off the line of scrimmage. WF Colonel mentioned this earlier. This really hurts your defense, because it allows players to throw to the Flats vs Cover 2 plays.

And please don't get me started on Man Coverage!!! SMH."

What I will say is that most of these things don't happen 100% of the time. But they happen enough to be an issue. I know Madden 11 had defensive limitations. But at least they were pretty clear cut & you could adjust accordingly , if you knew what to look for. This year it seems you have to sell out at times to cover up some of these things. I don't think we should have to commit 2 defenders in zone (and a spotlight!!! LOL!) to defend a simple "Slant out" concept.

the way zones play in madden is how the vast majority of zone defenses are played in football. They play a area of the field - some spot zone defenses will play a area but will actually tail off to play man to man if offensive players come into there area

sgibs wrote:

Slimreaper256 wrote:

wandeezy623 wrote:

sgibs wrote:

i agree wandeezy i think defense this year is much better then last year.

are there issues well yes of course. the man assignment switch offs are a trade off for issues with how stick use to work.

Exactly, no more stick and no more canoe.. Stick can be used to beat zone this year which is how it should be! I really like this game and the more I play it the more I enjoy it

I disagree. The thing that makes defense supposedly "better" this year is the randomness of QB's accuracy & the long QB wind-up. I hate when ppl say defense is better this year. Because truthfully, it isn't. For instance:

"Players in Yellow Zones still only play a position on the field, instead of the man that runs into their zone (Sgibs himself even showed this in a vid). This becomes a problem because the A.I.seems to have trouble identifying which defender should try to make a play on the ball. Which sometimes causes the defender to let a ball go right past his face and not do anything.

Players in Purples Zones don't properly defend the area in their play art. This has been a point of frustration for ALL OF US at one point or another this year. (Sorry Gibs, but its dumb that they do that. What's the point of putting a Purple on the field if they're gonna play like a Blue?)

Players in Deep Blue Zones don't know how far to drop back. I could understand the CPU having trouble vs a "Flood Concept". But if its a single WR on your CB, & you call Cover 3 Press, Curl routes shouldn't be open 100% of the time. That play is supposed to guard against that.

Players in Flat Blue Zones shouldn't randomly jam WRs off the line of scrimmage. WF Colonel mentioned this earlier. This really hurts your defense, because it allows players to throw to the Flats vs Cover 2 plays.

And please don't get me started on Man Coverage!!! SMH."

What I will say is that most of these things don't happen 100% of the time. But they happen enough to be an issue. I know Madden 11 had defensive limitations. But at least they were pretty clear cut & you could adjust accordingly , if you knew what to look for. This year it seems you have to sell out at times to cover up some of these things. I don't think we should have to commit 2 defenders in zone (and a spotlight!!! LOL!) to defend a simple "Slant out" concept.

the way zones play in madden is how the vast majority of zone defenses are played in football. They play a area of the field - some spot zone defenses will play a area but will actually tail off to play man to man if offensive players come into there area

if they fix purples zones will play like they do in real life

purples play perfectly in terms of depth. they arent meant to cover the deep corner. they are a curl to flat route.

they cover the curl UNLESS there is a flat route which they will jump.

the issue is that visually purple routes look like they should cover the deep corner

The issue with these streaks isn't the regular playmakered streaks, it's the angled ones up the seams that you can throw versus man and SPC versus zone. sooo good. tooo good.

The issue with these streaks isn't the regular playmakered streaks, it's the angled ones up the seams that you can throw versus man and SPC versus zone. sooo good. tooo good.

curl flat zones are supposed re route seam routes (if in the position to) but I would most def let that slide in madden because that could get ugly for a defense. Then drop to the curl area and if no curl threat they play the flats if there is a flat threat. If none of the above the player is supposed to gain depth

thats my main problem with them. Its a zone that is ment to be a bend but dont break zone. Its a "let them get the catch in the flats, we will take that 3 yard gain all day long" zone

Literally, thats the exact sentence that my coach told my HS when we were at 7 on 7 events

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7005204/louisiana-state-vs-west-virginia

Quote :

Thus, the first responsibility for the SCIF defender is to play the seam. If the receiver releases vertically, the defender must divert him to destroy the route's timing and spacing. If he succeeds, the defender must run with the seam route for 14 or 15 yards, where he will pass the receiver off to the deep safety. If the receiver continues deep, the defender moves to his curl responsibility, meaning he will slide to defend the area that would be occupied by a receiver on a curl route. If no receiver threatens, then he expands to defend the flat.

If the inside receiver doesn't release straight upfield but instead breaks inside or outside in the first five or six yards, the SCIF defender must react differently. If the receiver runs to the outside flat, the defender drops into the curl area. If the ball isn't thrown to the curl area, the defender can flow to the flat to defend there. Finally, if the receiver breaks inside early, the SCIF defender will bump and reroute the receiver so the inside defender can pick him up. Next, the SCIF defender returns to his assignment of covering first the curl and then the flat.

that my main issue with the zone in madden is because a cover 3 with purples instead of flat zones going against a curl flats play should be an amazing play call. As an offense your only clean read is the flats and I will give up that 3 yards all day long..Or you could try and test me if you have a sit down route over the middle


but the issues of purples are for another thread at another time lol

The issue with these streaks isn't the regular playmakered streaks, it's the angled ones up the seams that you can throw versus man and SPC versus zone. sooo good. tooo good.

i remember when madden 10 was the game, and if ur opp even THOUGHT about face throwing the d was already running it back for 6....

sigh, Locomotion FTL