Pivot Fork is a great play call in almost any situation. We have setups designed to get short yardage or long yardage as well as the ability to quick snap with a RB already in pass protection. Click the tabs above for a quick reference setup to use on the fly. Please be aware that these are just the setups for the play that we like best, and that you should watch the video to understand the depth of the play.

Cross Wheels is historically one of the most dominant plays in Madden. It provides a great way to beat all variations of Cover 2. This year it is not as dominant as it has been in years past (mostly because no one really plays man coverage), but it will still play a large role in our scheme. From this play we can dink and dunk with a deep option on each setup as well.

Tight Curl gives us a great base play to use common passing concepts like mesh and sail as well as the ability to motion snap a corner route on the outside against corners in man coverage or a deep third. This play also works really well against aggressive users because there is just too much to cover over the middle of the field, as well as a RB that leaks out almost unguarded on the mesh post setup.

If there was one weakness to this formation it would be the audibles. Unfortunately they are not the best. Our goal however, will be to make the best of a bad situation. In this section we will go over how to use our audibles to create all of our base passing concepts if need be.

There are a few plays in this formation that are outstanding when ran here and there. They don’t have enough going on in them to run them consistently, but when mixed in they can be very successful for us. In this section we will break down these plays.

For most people, picking up the blitz by blocking an extra player will be better than sending out different route combinations to exploit the coverage and dot the blitz. In this section we go over the easiest ways to pick up pressure without deviating from our offense too much.

In this section we take a look at exploiting cover 2 pressures that send 5 people on the play art. We do strongly recommend blocking the blitz and working within your normal offense generally, but this method is great when you have fallen behind the sticks or need to move the ball quickly.

Things to Remember:

• These blitzes have Squat Flats, and Vertical Hooks
• The RB going outside with a receiver motioned wide on the same side is key to the middle of the field
• Compressed Bench Concepts are tough for a Squat Flat to deal with
• Vertical Hooks only stay vertical until someone enters their hook area

Popular Blitzes/Defenses This Applies To:

• Dollar DB Fire 2 Press
• Nickel/Dime Blitz 2
• Big Dime Slant Zone 2

In this section we take a look at exploiting cover 3 pressures that send 5 people on the play art. These type of blitzes are ALL match coverages by default. A Match Coverage is cancelled by the use of Trips or compression, so if our goal is play against a true cover 3, then all we need to do is motion a WR across the formation or use no motion and we will be playing a true cover 3. For that just look to use basic blocking techniques. If you keep the coverage a match coverage (by motioning a WR out on the side he is already on), most of our offense is already geared to beat that because of the man-to-man principles of the defense. We will however show one play to beat a match defense for a one play TD.

Things to Remember:

• We can cancel their match coverage by motioning a WR across the formation
• We can also cancel their match coverage by using no motion at all
• To force them to keep their match coverage, motion a WR on the same side he started on

Popular Blitzes/Defenses This Applies To:

• Any Formation Buck Slant
• Nickel/Dime Overload 3 Press
• 3-3-5 Wide 3 Sam Will Blitz

This is a list of plays with a high success rate that you can go to in clutch situations to catch the defense off guard when they will be adjusting for the offense that have been running. Use these periodically, if you try to spam them they become less of a money play and easy to lock up.

The whole concept of avoiding the first and goal situation from in between the 10 and 5 yard line is the focus of this redzone tutorial. If you are at the 20 or outside of the 20 you do NOT want to end up with another first down outside of the 5 yard line. Go down outside the 10 yard line if need be by pressing both triggers and square/X.

Since we can’t change the way the game plays in terms of drops and block sheds, we want to manipulate our field position to give us the maximum number of plays inside the 20 yard line. Once you are inside the 20, posts, corners, streaks, and fades are rarely viable routes to call anymore because of the way that the zones attack the goal line.

Remember we don’t really need to score, we just need to get to about the 2 yard line with two downs or so remaining because at that point we can sneak, toss, or FB dive our way to 6 points.