Important: After the latest patch, some of the blitzes in this ebook will no longer work. Everyone who purchased this ebook will get acess to the New England Defense eBook (which was designed specifically to work after the latest patch) for free. You can access that ebook here: New England Defense eBook
Thank you for purchasing the Madden 16 Advanced Defensive eBook for PlayStation 4 and XBOX One. The eBook will be viewable directly on our website. This eBook is based out of the San Francisco 49ers defensive playbook but many of the plays can be found in other playbooks as well. Keep in mind this ebook is not supposed to act as an official strategy guide. It is just a collection of tips from our team of professional madden gamers organized in a way that is easy to understand.
Important things to maximize your effectiveness in this eBook!
1. Making defensive adjustments can be delayed this year. So if you are used to just speeding through your defensive adjustments, you must check to make sure that they are actually registering. For example, if you crash your defensive line down make sure that they actually crash down. Sometimes you may need to do it 2 times in order for it to work. If you wait a half second between each adjustment, you should be fine.
2. Although it is tempting to try to call nano blitzes the whole game, it is strongly recommended that you don’t. The coverages in this eBook are much more effective than the blitzes. The blitzes become much more effective if your opponent does not leave extra guys in to block.
3. The majority of the nano blitzes in this eBook were filmed with no extra guys blocking. If your opponent is blocking extra guys, you should call a coverage play instead. If he blocks an extra guy, he only has 4 guys to throw to. If you drop 8 guys into coverage, you can now double team every receiver and manually take away on receiver. You want your opponent to have to block extra guys. If he does that, your nano blitzes won’t work as often, but you will win many more games.
4. No nano blitz is 100% effective. Most of the nanos in this ebook will work under the right conditions but you must find the ones that work best for you, your play style, and the team you use. You can’t just call the play and expect it to work like it works in the videos every time. Some will work better for you than others.
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Formation #4: Nickel 2-4-5 DBL A-Gap
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I have looked through these and maybe I am missing a good run stopping play but is there one?
I been playing more and more people calling these same amazing run plays you have in your offense books but I cant stop them. Keep running into players just running over me. Even when I know they are running cant stop them.
Anything in the 3-4 Bear does a decent job but this year there aren’t really run stoppers. There are things that stop most outside runs and things that stop most inside runs but there really isn’t much that stops every run.
Is there a play that completely stops the pass over the top?
Nothing completely stops passes but any sort of Cover 2 man defense works well if you are worried about getting beat deep.
The 3-4 bear cover 3 seems to work well on passes so I use it about 90% of the game, what is a main defense play I can use when expecting the run without to many defensive changes because I get hiked on fast against many players.
The 3-4 Bear cover 3 does a pretty good job against most runs as well. You just have to user that deep free safety and bring him up toward the line of scrimmage.
I use Cover 3 out of 3-4 bear 90% of the time, Does anyone have a dominating run stopping play though without to many defensive changes? I give up around 3-5 yards quite a bit and Many opponents hike the ball to fast for 4-5 step D-Changes.
Any plans this year to cook up some nano’s or coverage D’s out of the 46 ?
Possibly. We do have some of those in the free section of Madden School
The 3-4 bear cover 3 gets shredded by qb’s rolling out, and it seems my de’s never can keep contain on the qb.
A quick solution is just to use the QB contain adjustment before the snap.
The right and left hb sweeps are killing me! I tried 34 bear but with no luck! What do you suggest?
Against tosses and sweeps I’d use more Nickel 3-3-5 Wide
Ok, should play zone 3 with that? Or man to man?
Either should work.
My 3-4 bear had been getting shredded too by rolling qb but great job so far on the entire EBOOK both offense and defense buy that 2-4-5 double A-gap will 3 buzz isn’t working as effective anymore had there been a patch, does slide protection kill it, are my players just aren’t fast enough, or maybe I’m not pressing the correct sequence because in the ebook under the video it says reblitz the end
To stop the rolling QBs either use a qb spy or just put your defensive ends in QB Contains. Will 3 Buzz still works but remember you are only sending 5 guys so if they slide protect or block an extra guy it won’t work.
Can you guys do a 46 defensive playbook scheme?
I play with the bill all the time an I played the lion tonight an Calvin Johnson was killing me on the streak pass an I was in 34 cover 3 what can I do
Unfortunately there just isn’t much at all you can do against that with any defense. It is extremely overpowered this year.