Do you know how to stop Bo(s)?

We all know that Bo Jackson is the most popular player in MUT 24 at multiple positions and has been for over a month. But have you figured out a strategy for stopping him? 

Over the past few weeks I shifted from using zone defense to a hybrid one. I have found that my opponents with QB Bo throw a ton of picks against man coverage. I haven't figured out why because QB Bo still has a cannon of an arm. Nevertheless, it’s definitely helped me wrack up a few more wins. 

What have you discovered is Bo’s kryponite?.

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I just really dont understand why this is such a hot topic the past few weeks???. It doesnt really bother me at all when i see they have a bunch of Bos on Offense. And they really dont cause that much of an issue. No more than Flash/Quadfather from last year, or that Eric Dickerson/Randy Moss from that NFL 100 program a couple of years back... Maybe its the defense i run??? I dont know, its just never really an issue.... And actually, the Bo that i notice more than others is the LB Bo...  Are you guys saying that you just cant stop them, regardless of your opponents skill level??

Mokascloud said:

I just really dont understand why this is such a hot topic the past few weeks???. It doesnt really bother me at all when i see they have a bunch of Bos on Offense. And they really dont cause that much of an issue. No more than Flash/Quadfather from last year, or that Eric Dickerson/Randy Moss from that NFL 100 program a couple of years back... Maybe its the defense i run??? I dont know, its just never really an issue.... And actually, the Bo that i notice more than others is the LB Bo...  Are you guys saying that you just cant stop them, regardless of your opponents skill level??

I don't really know, obviously I can only speculate, but I think that Man coverage has been so rare most of this entire year (because it's been kind of terrible) so folks simply aren't familiar with it, they lack the necessary reps to get comfortable defeating Man to Man.  Whereas with everyone running Zone, which is objectively superior, people have been forced to learn which route combinations will actually work... or else they revert to the usual Angry Runs + RPO cheese fest, which takes significantly less skill and is equally (if not more so) effective.

I would tend to agree with OP, that some type of hybrid defense, especially if you are comfortable setting up bracket type coverages using a Zone shell, with a couple/few individual Man to Man assignments to help fill in the gaps.  Even then, Man isn't really that difficult to beat, our receivers can almost always get the one step they need on their defender in order to keep moving down the field.

Bo is the most annoying RB to face, because his Angry Runs X-factor never goes away (after 9 plays), unless we have Aaron Donald and/or William Perry to cancel that stuff out.  Personally, i find the YAC `Em Up receivers (especially ones that also come equipped with either Jukebox and/or Evasive) to be even more annoying and difficult to defend.  I continue using the Bo Jackson (TE) with the X-factor, and he remains more powerful than both Big Yeti and Musgrave, IMO.