How to call plays in Madden like a real NFL Coach 💯 

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As a non American trying to get into the tactics, that was super interesting, thanks a lot.

As a High School Football head coach/offensive coordinator and Shanahan fan…this was awesome! I’ve always tried to study these coaches- so this is GOLD to me!

You know it's a good day when Kurt uploads

As an aspiring NFL head coach this is really cool! There are so many layers to professional football and it’s really interesting to learn about!

Kurt I'm a european fan for years and I've done pretty good in madden franchises the last decade. But these insights are just next level man absolutely love your channel! Keep going my guy

Man seeing football from a perspective like this is crazy. All the work and info that goes into the week preparing for each game, freaking sick man! Great content! Hopefully you keep making it for years to come!

This was really awesome. I think I got like 65% of what you said. I’d love to see how McDaniel’s scheme compares to Shanahan’s at some point boss. Great content keep it up ol son

This is gold! Literally in the mind of an OC and QB. Great content bro

ive been a football fan for a long time but just this year i really started nerding out on it and trying to learn more about the game and kurt has been a godsend for helping me do that the way he breaks down game clips and explains the game through madden makes it so much easier to understand ive really been diggin his videos man

Absolutely love this content. 💯 And the fact Madden is refined enough to allow nuanced concepts, plays and player skills to translate into its gameplay is amazing. just Kurt, careful of the audio levels with some of the SFX. Distractingly loud.

This is the exact type of video I’ve been looking for. So helpful for madden but also just for football knowledge in general. I’ve always been a defensive mindset kind of guy so any help on offense is appreciated. Thanks for the video, Kurt!

Really interesting to see how much more there is to the game than most fans can see. I would not be surprised if KB becomes a D1 or NFL OC someday

You're videos are super underrated. Using madden to explain these concepts helps a lot for me as someone who has played Madden and the Ncaa games since I was around 6 years old.

As a former cfb player and top 100 mcs player, this video provided great insight on how games are called in real life and not just running meta cheese. Really shows average madden joes the mindset of an offensive coordinator dialing it up.

It's been so great seeing you continue to share your knowledge of the game and grow with your online presence after seeing you part ways with the Packers. Keep it up, love all your content 👍 -Lifetime Packers fan #GoPackGo

Yo, I'm an editor. A general rule of thumb is just to keep your sfx audio at least -6-8db under your dialogue. Those paper tears are a bit hot!

I absolutely love this. So much to learn and play as close to real football as possible. This is so dope. Please keep making more!

I'm a highschool football freshman QB and this is the type of thing I would love to learn. Offensive plays and how to make / when to call them. Great vid btw!

This is beyond amazing to watch. Thank you so much, Kurt! I've read Pat Kirwan's helpful "take your eye off the ball" books, but these videos really take my understanding of playcalling to a different level

Awesome video! Totally unique perspective that's just nowhere else! For a small tid bit of feedback that totally doesn't affect much, the page turning audio was slightly too loud in comparison with the rest of the audio. Keep up the great work!

You have one of the coolest and most interesting channels out there and I hope you blow up on a huge level. Really cool having madden and football broken down by a pro for the more common fan. Thanks!

Hey Kurt! I just used the plays in madden and I destroyed the other team. I was wondering if maybe u could explain a little to me about what some of the terminology means?Clamp, Larry etc

4:33 “in real football he’s be on the run” haha that shit drives me nuts in madden. So clunky

Great video Kurt! Please make more videos about Playcalling and Gameplanning.

dope seeing someone who i don’t wanna say knows what they’re talking about, but you just have experience… most pro madden players know the basics of formations and personnel, you take it to the next level and really explain it very well for those who wouldn’t know any of this

I really appreciate your content! By far my favorite madden creator !! Keep up the work Kurt

You should do a Madden franchise mode.. Would be great content

I'm coaching youth football with a goal to get to higher levels and this is so insightful to what goes on at higher levels.

In the jets playbook the only plays under the 3rd and 12+ category are checkdowns to the running back and inside zones.

Sick vid. This will send many down the Dunning-Kruger curve

Stuff like this is gonna bring so many more eyes to your channel. Such a dope video!

As a Falcons fan I always thought Kurt was going to make it. Super happy to see him still around!

Im huge UVA fan just wanted to let u know that YOU THE MAN KURT

Love your videos bro! Love to see former players achieve success outside of coaching and playing! Keep up the good work! Keep educating the people!

Hi Kurt. I really like what you're doing here since though I never played or coached, I'm kind of an X's and O's geek. One humble request, I wonder if you'd mind doing a video similar to this, but just showing what a call sheet looks like and explain how it's put together. Because I generally get what you're saying but much of it goes over my head, especially the strategy, play breakdowns, pre-snap reads, etc. I'm having a tough time following. Maybe do a deeper dive into the strategy you're talking about here.

This is such a thorough video, not just from a Madden perspective, but from a football insight perspective. Very insightful for the real life game and an amazing breakdown. Big fan of your work @kurtbenkert

Insane breakdown, definitely need more classes before I understand the other 50% of the play calls, but great visualization with Madden. NFL game sense IQ is wildly overlooked by the average viewer. Keep up the great content man

Quickly becoming one of my favorite RU-vidrs. Live the schemes and tactics behind football, and you provide the good stuff. Thanks dude 🤙🏾

All I know is I'm way better at Madden than I should be

Larry!!! That’s my favorite show 😂😂😂

Okay so I would legit buy this off you or something like this. I know you've got the "Real Football" guide, which I'm considering purchasing once I'm done pissing money away on my doctorate later next year, but just a legit-looking call sheet - or even better a real one (though I know that's a precious resource, as you alluded to at the end of the video) - would be a cool thing to have and show off to people.

This dudes such a good teacher, keep up the great content man

Elite video, love your work.

I’ve been waiting for this

Since watching this channel I’ve been on a 6 game streak. Bro is a cheat code lol. I fuck with it man!

bro!!!! this might be the only human on you tube not getting any hate in comments!!! its so relieving!! I'm a hockey guy trying football! keep up the contect!

Great content! It’s great to see the mindset in playcalling like this. I watch all of your videos on the different platforms. Keep the videos coming. It’s greatly appreciated, man!

I love your contact this is so informational. To see Madden through a quarterbacks eyes is awesome thank you

You should play NFL Head Coach 09 it’s crazy in depth and let’s you create your own plays

Wish Madden had a "call sheet" we could go off of, for me I go thru a playbook and "favorite" plays so that way I have them right there in that tab ready to go and I don't have to look for them

Need more Kurt vids!

Kurt this is so fire bro

As a steelers fan I would love No I need, a Matt Canada play calling break down like this. We need to understand!

Madden needs to hire you you would make the game amazing

Please keep making these videos. What an interesting and seasoned analysis over a video game I love it

Great video! Enjoy the concept.

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This is dope, thanks bro! Keep grinding out this content!

Appreciate these kind of videos. As a young coach trying to learn and learn this is great content. Thank yoi

First of all, LOVE your insight Kurt! The problem is that Madden is so arcadey and unrealistic you cannot map a real playbook onto its plays. I gotta be honest, as a casual fan 90% of your terminology went right over my head in terms of your own play calls and strategies, but the way Madden names the plays is so simplistic, and the game play not physics based at all, so good on you for exposing the horrible weakness of Madden and its AI. They say "it's in the game" but as you've clearly demonstrated Kurt, it isn't. The game should force you to think like a real NFL playcaller, but it doesn't. I could just choose random defensive plays (which I basically did) and still have a top-ranked defense, it was clear to me that no actual strategical game-planning skill is required, it's all how fast can you flick a stick.

Thanks for the video Kurt Mahomes. You're the goat at these Madden breakdowns, just like your brother Patrick is the goat in football.

as a defensive coordinator in the NFL, these are the amazing! great vids

i wish personnel was easier to swap around during games in madden.

I’ve always wondered how a pro madden game would go with an actual team.

Kurt is amazing

Let’s gooo long form content!!!!

I’m gonna stop watching this to go watch Joe Gatto yell “Larry” in crowded public places. Congratulations, you just played yourself.

Next level video right here I truly appreciate this video

All i do is run 1 form, read defenses and i have each route a go to base off look concepts and now im on a 168 game win streak and top 100

This is a great video my man.

This is so cool to learn. Great video

8:45 I read this as the dig being the correct read. S and LB bite to the outside, corner stays flat. Showing outside leverage wanted. The LB bailing outside with the safety shows me there will be an opening in the middle of the field. You check your eyes to the other LB to make sure he isnt hitting a Tampa 2 hole and then you just fire it in there. Interested to know why you specifically went to the RB there?

That CMC corner throw was high key nasty and madden dot

This was awesome

There's so much going on every play. Too often we get stuck watching what goes on on the field when coaches/coordinators are battling it out on the sidelines as well.

Been waiting on this lol

You were in the room. Can you give some insight on why Brock is so good? Like, his accuracy and placement seem otherworldly sometimes.

Everyone calls the same plays in Madden repeatedly if it’s working or not.

W Kurt very useful

Bro love your content! Why do you wear #6

Watching this, I wonder how someone like Lincoln Riley can have all the info he needs on the tiny call sheet he uses 😂

Falcons legend. Great videos and idea period, folks looking for inside football knowledge from a former Pro

How are the concept names chosen? Like Chevy and Ninja. Is it word association? Thanks a million for this content. I’ve always been interested in the call sheets

Got me a PS5 last week and first thing I bought was Madden 24, I really like watching it on TV and was eager to play Franchise Mode with the Cowboys, during my few games I was like WTF is this haha, so complex. But after watching a couple of your videos I feel like I'm starting to understand how to pass the ball and play efficiently on the Red Zone. Thank a ton! I'm ready to go for it on Ultimate Team haha!

The NFL is really hard stuff. Chess….. Great content my man. 💜💙

Madden needs to incorporate play sheets into the play call menu so we can consolidate our playbooks down. Would make the game really fun.

can you make a custom playbook. i’m interested to see what YOU would come up with when deciding on formations and plays.

Meanwhile my dad used to just yell "Run the damn ball. It's not that complex!" when our team hit the red zone. Really shows that armchair experts are really only experts in armchairs.

Love the video. Keep it up!

You should be working for NFL and Madden.. both would benefit from your Beautiful Mind 💯

Video idea, show us some unconventional defenses, disguised, hybrids, a few years back when i still played madden I had an awesome Double Robber defensive play I want you to look at if you have time. It was disguised really well and looked like a flat out Cover 4 pre snap worried about the deep ball. Both safeties were the robber in hook curls, 2 outside CBs were in Deep Zones making it a Cover 2. Than the front 7 would be assigned to whatever. A couple curl flats and hook curls and maybe a blitzer. The only weakness was really deep middle of the field but post snap the QB User would be in really bad shape if he attacked with underneath play that beats Cover 4.

Yeah, I’m just gonna stick with being in the Waterboy 😌😂

Very great content. I'm going to try and implement this using the favorites play tab in Madden. 3 to 6 plays per some of the situations you mentioned.

Hey, I hear there's an OC opening in Buffalo. I'm sure they would love someone who can analyze and pick apart a defense like this.

W vid Kurt, keep it up!

This is awesome thank you for this

Great vid

Any way there’s a vid kinda inteoducing us yo the vocab that’s used in this word? Trying to get more into the chess part of football but I’m not familiar with its “slang” for lack of a better word.

You’re my favorite RU-vidr!