Defensive Plays

Update

Had a bit of a breakthrough today. Building plays isn’t easy. This DL rushes in this direction OR this CB is in man on this receiver OR this LB is in zone. The biggest problem I had was how to handle man coverage.

For example, I call a nickel man coverage against a 2 WR set. Who does the 3rd CB cover? Until now it was a real gap that left receivers, especially TEs and RBs, wide open. I implemented 2 changes that really helped here.

1 - Man defenders auto-align over their targets When building the playbook I would set a CB3 to cover a WR3, but didn’t know where exactly that WR would line up. This covered it.

2 - Personnel-aware defensive play calling HOWEVER, if there was no WR3, CB3 would just hang out doing nothing. Now the play design allows for mismatched man coverages and provides opportunities (blitz, drop to zone, double cover) when one occurs. This drastically changed the game play and made it much better.

Current Dev

What I’ve found is there’s little reason to develop my bench or engage with the marketplace. I’m just building 11 studs on each side of the ball and will never utilize bench or market. I have to figure out a way to make the season force owners to look to those options.