How to Beat a DL user?

Faced off with a guy in MUT Champs who was usering his interior DL and getting insta block sheds doing so... how can you beat this?

well i lost 16-14... came back from 16-0. most frustrating game I've ever played. literally couldn't do anything. he ran three reach elites on his DL and would switch between usering them. double teaming didn't work, blocking seven didn't work. nothing. havent' seen that this year.

I mean your best bet is to take advantage of a mixture of shorter routes. If they're running man while usering the Dline I'd struggle a bit more just cause I am bad, but have routes that are going multiple ways like a reciever running a slant, another on an out or zig, and so on and so forth. This will help if your opponent is shading their coverage in certain ways.

Against zone you just have to identify what they're running and attack the opening, every zone has one. Playing against fast pressure means getting the ball out fast consistently. Most of the time when you find something that works it's ggs because 90% of people don't switch up their defense.

If they're usering d line that means middle is wide open.   Always have something going quick over the middle as your first read if they rush, if they back off to cover you should have time for other routes to develop based on what they're doing.

Moderator Sevein131 said:

If they're usering d line that means middle is wide open.   Always have something going quick over the middle as your first read if they rush, if they back off to cover you should have time for other routes to develop based on what they're doing.

middle had a zone and man coverage mix and when i say he had insta sheds, i mean insta. my guys weren't 5 yards down field on routes before i was being hit. plus he had reach elite that kept activating.

I try to motion block to give myself more time. Just motion a player across the formation and snap the ball bf they pass the center.

Texas route, that should do the trick, route is insanely overpowered.

weplaythose said:

Texas route, that should do the trick, route is insanely overpowered.

Yeah didn’t work - my base play I run has a Texas route. resulted in inaccurate passes (I assume because reach elite?

Rollhumps said:

Yeah didn’t work - my base play I run has a Texas route. resulted in inaccurate passes (I assume because reach elite?

Probably,I didn't think about that

Rpo, running PA plays but blocking a running back, gives it a delay on shed.

Mishkabigcat said:

Rpo, running PA plays but blocking a running back, gives it a delay on shed.

i started running RPO and had some success - but not a ton. helped get me back in it.

My solution is move on. Seeing a lot of glitchy run stuffs and pass rushes from players that squeeze and pinch their line and make other manual adjustments to their linebacker positions, especially when the game is tight. Offensive linemen consistently let players rush by them or stuff runs.

In the NFL, if an opponent constantly pinched their defensive line that way, the offense should consistently have clear paths outside the tackles, but that's not what happens in Madden. The tackles don't seal off the edge, forcing the run toward the sideline, where the backside pursuit catches up with the runningback. If you have the very best and fastest players, you'll eke out a few short gains, but in real football, defenses playing this predictably would get gashed again and again by ordinary squads.

It was last night that I realized that the progression of the game's players' deepest teams were typically built this way: 1) Cheese your opponents with exploits and non-football measures, 2) Win games and rewards, 3) Strengthen your roster, 4) Repeat. Therefore, when people cheese, I take a quick look at their roster to confirm that their squad does in fact outclass my team (meaning that I have to get extraordinary breaks to stay in the game against offensive plays that typically auto-gain yardage, or to force a turnover on defense), and then I just leave.

I mentioned this exact scenario to my son the other day...oddly its only happened against a couple pc players but they would swap to a d tackle at the hike of the ball and immediately swim left walking right by my lineman nd on my qb in half a second