Playbook: New England Patriots
Formation: 3-4 Odd
Play: Cover 4 – Run Defense
Setup:
- Base Align
- Pinch your defensive line
- QB Contain
- Do whatever you want with your MLB on the right side of the screen – I spy him most of the time
Overview: This is great run defense if someone is in a two TE or two HB set and you think they will run, don’t do this against shotgun.
Playbook: New England Patriots
Formation: 3-4 Odd
Play: Any Play – Shotgun Run Defense
Setup:
- Lineup over the LT (Make sure you are on the opposite side of the HB)
- Shoot the gap between the LG and LT
Overview: This does a great job stopping shotgun runs such as base, inside zone and trap.
Playbook: New England Patriots
Formation: 3-4 Odd
Play: Cover 4 – Cross Man Bunch Defense
Setup:
- Base Align
- Spread your defensive line
- Pinch your linebackers
- Cross man both Safeties
- Put both corners into deep half zones
- Put your MLB on the right side of the screen into a deep blue zone
Overview: This is a way to cross man in Madden 18 to stop the more popular west coast bunch plays like Mesh Post and HB Dig Out.
Playbook: New England Patriots
Formation: 3-4 Odd
Play: Tampa 2 – Singleback Deuce Close D
Setup:
- Press coverage
- Pinch your defensive line
- Man up your OLB on the right side of the screen on the TE
- Put the outside linebacker on the left side of the screen into a QB Spy
- QB Contain
- Spotlight the WR that you think will be running the corner route in TE Angle.
Overview: This is my deuce close defense. If they start throwing up the middle, deep blue your MLB instead.
Playbook: New England Patriots
Formation: 3-4 Odd
Play: Tampa 2 – Gun Tight Slots Defense
Setup:
- Base Align
- Press coverage
- Man up the OLB on the left side of the screen on the X/Square receiver
- Man up the MLB on the right side of the screen on A/X receiver
- Put your OLB on the right side of the screen in a QB Spy
Overview: This is my tight slots defense, if they attack the middle deep blue your MLB instead.
How do you cross man the safeties? Like set them up on m2m against the WR on the opposite side?
Good question. I was thinking the same thing
You can click on the safety and then click “A/X’ and it brings up adjustments. You do man coverage, and then select the icon of the receiver you want to put him into coverage against.
What formation can you use to stop the HB Stretch or HB Toss?
When you base align press out of the cover 4 run defense how do you avoid being burned deep on the outside
If you are worried about getting beat deep, you can not base align or not press and it won’t throw things off too much