Another Deep ball thread.

[Volunteer77]

Hey What are you Professionals doing to combat this? I am not a Pro baller by any stretch of the imagination. 4-6 Online. Though I am proud to say that last loss was because I wanted to try to squeeze one in late Tuesday night and got disconnected when EA servers went down for maintenance. So much for "Your Loss and DNF will not Count"

But anyway. I am doing OK vs the run. But people are killing me on long ball to fast WRs. I admit I do use Tennessee. What are we now in Madden? A 69? I know I am not that good of a player and I am already handicapping my self from the start game screen. But Hey I was a College Football fan till we got a team in Nashville. So I'll Live and die with the Titans. I also don't put in Young and scramble from sideline to sideline either. I used Volek till new rosters. Tonight I used Collins.

But so far I'm on a 3 game streak vs people about the same skill as me but the games are close. My offense is pretty realistic in the sense I pound the ball and pass when it's there. It also helps that I don't have a receiver that out runs any corners. Most of my long passes my WR has been caught from behind after the catch. But for real I need to stop a lot of the 3rd/4th and long conversions I am giving up. Now I am having success blitzing, but when I play a guy that actually knows something about football he'll pass where I'm blitzing from. Luckily I have played brick heads that go for it on their own 16 when it's 4th and 19 and get sacked looking for the go to guy 50 yards down field.

Is it stick skills I can develop in practice mode? Or will my choice of the Titans hold me back here.?

[Warbuck$]

I'm by no means a professional. I think the db swat drill helps a great deal. I recommend mastering the swat before the catch. It's way more important this year. You need to learn where to place your defender to get the best animation. Certain animations reach further than others. You'll definitely need to practice this against a live opponent though. You'll get burned alot at first, but you have to take your lumps. Practice does indeed make perfect.
I think the Titans are a fine choice. There is nothing wrong with starting Young. It's nice to have a QB that can escape pressure if he needs to.

[jerseyjay14]

I dont think the team you use is really that big of a difference. If you are getting deep, it has ALOT more to do with:

- the plays you call.
- how and where you position your defenders.
- your ability to manual break up a pass.

The third you can obviously work on with practice. the first 2, against the deep ball, id pick plays with 3 guys in deep zones. id then position them by backing them up 8-12 yards before the snap.

[Balance]

I throw the deep ball so i see the mistake alot of people make. how i defend against it like others have said is make sure you have those safeties back there, by far i connect on the long ball when someone brings that safety out of position and does not bump the receiver at the line. pick something that leaves the safeties back there and bring the CB down to bump the receiver, this makes the play take more time to develop (he better have a damn good o-line now) and by the time the receiver gets done being bumped and gets around the CB the safety is there. that is how i deal with it and it seems to work well for me.

[SinghCity]

^^^^^^^^^^
along with that it's good to throw in a blitz as well when you bump, if the blitz comes quick enough u should have a sack well before receivers get down field.

[Volunteer77]

Yeah I think my main problem is the last one of jerseyjay14's points. I am still struggling with the DB Control. I use a cover 2 as my base defense so I always have 2 deep. I will mix in a cover 3 every now and then. Very rarely will I go cover 1, and even less so on a zero. I have called a cover zero may 2 time in this years game.

The bad thing is I am having trouble getting practice with the DB because 360 does not have a DB swat drill.

On a side note I thought i was doing good vs the run till i faced Jamal Lewis and the ravens tonight.

[dwmoss]

The bad thing is I am having trouble getting practice with the DB because 360 does not have a DB swat drill.

Can you go into practice mode, and set up the computer using a hail mary and work on defending those??

dm