In today’s free Madden 25 tip, we are going over a way to beat one of the most common defensive styles in Madden 25 straight from our Detroit Offensive eBook.
You have multiple routes quickly getting open, which is very important against any blitz. Check out the full breakdown below!
Playbook: Detroit Lions
Formation: Gun Bunch X Nasty
Play: Y Option Pivot
Setup:
- Custom stem your X/square receiver up once on the left stick and then smart route him.
- Hot route your tight end to a drag route
Reads:
- Your first read is always the X/square receiver deep
- Then look to your B/circle receiver on the zig route
- Finally read between your tight end on the drag route and the RB/R1 receiver on the deep in route
Overview: There are 4 different routes that quickly get open against man coverage with all of them attacking a different part of the field.
This puts your opponent’s user defender into an impossible decision. Whoever he goes with, just throw to a different receiver.
Let’s take a closer look at how this play works!
This is how the play art should look right before you snap the ball. Notice the really unique route we’ve put our X/square receiver on.
You can see right when our opponent gets the snap, our X/square receiver is already 3 or 4 steps ahead of the cornerback in man to man coverage on him.
This screenshot shows us throwing deep it deep but you can see that all four receivers on the field have broken away from their man defenders.
Our receiver makes the catch way out in front of the defender and if we hold down X/square to RAC catch it, we can easily walk into the endzone.
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