What's going on with my defense?

I invested a lot of coin into my defense. I run a 4-3 out of the Panthers playbook. I have Isaiah Simmons, Mean Joe, SB Aaron, Deforest Buckner, Maxx Crosby, Jeremy Chinn, SB Ronnie Lott, 99 Kam, etc. Some of the best players you can get. I run zone coverage. I have inside stuff/El Toro on my DTs and Edge threat on DEs.

Yet, some games (most games), I can't generate pressure and people run all over me.  I use the full extent of the presnap adjustments from D-Line adjustments, to guessing pass or run, shading over the top, and I user Chinn or Simmons.  I have a rare bull rush strat card with STR and TAK as the bonus. This sends my entire D-line up to 99. Also have  in the zone with speed boost.

Is that just how MUT is? My players play as bad or worse than when I had a 93 ovr team. I upgraded to a 97 ovr team and they play like crap 80% of the time. I know I'm in All Madden in H2H so maybe people have even better teams. When people run inside stuff on me, I can't get 2 yards. Yet, mine completely fails.

Is there something I need to do in order to make the pass rush generate or stop the run? I check my run gap assignments presnap and run inside stuff. But it doesn't work.

I'm a decent to good player. I'm not complaining or hating on EA.  I just want to know is there something I'm missing so I can get better as my defense is letting me down.

I also find it hard to stop the run most times. I have 2 inside stuffs and people still average 4 yards a carry or more on me if they’re really committed to the run game. I play on next gen so not sure how much different it could be but to my knowledge that’s just how the game is. You kind of have to either guess run and be right or play coverage and try to make open field tackles. Madden 22 is EXTREMELY biased in favor of offense no matter how you put it and MUT glorifies this greatly. Not saying great D isn’t possible but the best offensive player VS the best defensive player offense is going to win 9/10 times. I’m not sure how to exactly solve your problem as I face it too but I am in Legend division and I play against some absolute sweats. Your best bet like I said is to try your hardest to stop the run

Defense just sucks this year. 

Also usually for run 3/4 is better but depends on how you play.