Madden 23 - Cover 1 defense is the best defense in football - Nick Saban - Part I 

Yup, same against the Chiefs in the AFC title game in 2018. - Doubled Tyreek with McCourty (FS) & Jonathan Jones (4th corner) - Singled up Gilmore on Sammy Watkins the entire game - Singled up J.C. Jackson on Kelce (He explained that they treated Kelce like a receiver, thus putting a corner on him instead of a safety) Patrick Chung robbed the middle, Hightower & Van Noy manned up the back & blitzed Reek finished with 1 catch for 51 yards & Kelce 3 catches 31 yards, even with the game going to overtime. It was brilliant

Wow thank you so much! I don't even have the words. I appreciate this so much! Peace to you.

Shout out to you for the shoutouts 👌🏾

I'm trying to get like you big dawg - I don't know too much . . . just what I read. I have a long way to go. Your words are much appreciated.

@@XandoFootball just stuff like the divider line nor even these madden pro's know that. I have an offense that beats everything but learning this defense has been helpful

All good Doolow. Man coverage is actually better in Madden. It's pretty damn good. I typically run it against more spread sets, and when they decide to bunch it up, or compress the sets, I jump to something else to avoid the crossing action.

@@XandoFootball what I was doing against bunch was shading outside and pressing the point...playing high safety looking for post if none I try to rob the crosser or at least make them think about the read...I run with the chargers

@@TeddyCruxpin Nasty. I guarantee you'll come up with other ways to play it the more you do. Then imagine mixing it up with other defensive calls while giving the same look. You'll really start smashing when you can play a cover 1 blitz where you are bringing 5 and are able to get that 5th guy to come scott free while still playing cover 1 behind it.

Corner route* should win

Oh nice man good catch!

If youre ps5 . . . I believe it's Triangle, then the icon over the receiver your defender is on, then you can make that specific corner play outside or inside shade.

Yes.

@@XandoFootball another question for you if you don’t mind. What situations do you prefer cover 1 vs cover 1 robber and vice versa?

@@aaronhernandez9053 Cover 1 robber does not play the way it's supposed to. Envision a 2 x 2 set . . . From left to right . X receiver - Slot - Offensive line - Tight end - Z receiver. Let's say the safety on the Z receiver's side is playing robber and the safety on the two receiver side is deep middle. Well, if the slot receiver runs a crossing pattern, his man defender will play with outside leverage and pass that receiver off to the robber safety on the opposite side, who will then convert into man to man coverage having better leverage on the crosser. That corner who passed off the slot to the robber safety now becomes the NEW robber. In madde, the robber never converts to man to man coverage on receivers like this . . . However . . . I like to play regular cover 1 without the robber when I want to bring a 5th defender on a blitz. If I don't bring a 5th defender ona blitz, than I use Madden's robber. I hope this makes sense. If not . . . I can make a vid for you.

@@XandoFootball I think i understand but would also welcome a video. This video was great and im sure people would love to see more. I know I would.

@@XandoFootball you think running cover 4 match with the outside corners pressed for the Meg concept is a good substitution for cover 1 robber since the logic is messed up for robber?

Cover 1 has improved big time. I don't play enough cover 3 stuff to give a valid opinion on it. I will need more playing time. All the other coverages they have in the game that I know of have issues. There are some bugs in the match coverages. They are missing coverages we should have. Cover 4 stress check . . . Cover 5 cougar . . . Matching problems from 2 read coverages . . . etc. There's just a lot of problems with Madden. The coverage they improved the most is cover 1 man in my opinion. I'm not really that satisfied to be honest. For the amount of money we as the consumers have put into this game over the years, there is just no excuse to the amount of stuff they are missing or have wrong.

@@XandoFootball u are right because. I tried using coverages you went over to defend certain formations. It just doesnt work

​@@XandoFootball madden needs all of the checks for Cover 1 DBL, Switch, Rabbit, Duece,. Cover 3 checks for trips, Cover 4 checks. So much missing. The real issue is players are running unrealistic route combinations that teams would NEVER run.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G7x7X5iQ_bc.html

@@XandoFootball can you tag the other RU-vidrs as well?

@@jbigg2371 The sim experiment - ru-vid.com The qb school - ru-vid.com Here is a former quarterback. He goes over good stuff. ru-vid.com Another very good channel with an excellent website on football. ru-vid.com There is more - but this should be good for now.

@@XandoFootball thnx

it seems as if he deleted all of his social media. His discord, youtube channel...discord....everything.

@@XandoFootball excellent breakdown btw definitely gonna run it like this with cover 3mixed in

Saban was talking about real life. If he could run it the majority of the time, I think he would. But you can't run it if your opponent has superior talent. They will just run you off the field. That's one of the reasons why Saban wouldn't play it. For instance, years back, when he was with the Browns - they went 13-3 for the year. They lost 2 of their 3 regular season games against one team - The steelers. They played each other in the playoffs. They lost again to the Steelers. Essentially, they couldn't play cover 1 man against them {Superior talent at the wide out position iirc}. But he wanted to keep an extra defender in the box {One of the benefits of cover 1 man} . . . so they played cover 3 zone instead knowing that they couldn't play man . . . but at least they can get 8 in the box against the Steelers. Steelers just 4 verted them when they went 3 zone. So they couldn't play 1 man, or cover 3 zone. Now they go to 2 man or 2 high stuff? Steelers run on them. Season over. That summer, he designed cover 3 match to solve that problem.