 What's up chat, what's up YouTube man watching on YouTube, please hit the like button, please comment, please get going, this is the week we're in review, this is the needed podcast. We are on episode 41, 41 weeks man, let's talk about man, it's been a week since the game has come out. That's pretty much what the whole show going to be about. The game has been out for a week. So it gives us, last week we talked about our initial reactions, we talked about the armbar with Moe who came on and we kind of agreed the armbar was a little bit crazy. I'm messing up a little bit. Let's go to Mike, make sure my things are popping, right? Okay, okay. Like I said, this is like, this is week one. So we get a better idea about what the game is like, what our opinions on the game. And there's pretty much, I broke it down to three specific categories and that pretty much what we've been talking about the most is people fumbling a lot. We're talking about lurking, like did they take the lurk away? And we're going to talk about the X-Factors, which is pretty much the biggest topic of discussion so far in the man's season. But first I want to tell you guys, man, I haven't played a lot of regs, but I'm going to start playing a lot of regs. I made a huge deal with Players Lounge, man, me, Clef, and Boo Painter were going to stream a lot of regs, money games on Players Lounge, over $20 matches. To play some regs, get ready for the man classic, man. Players Lounge is a great spot for you guys to play for money. It doesn't have to be $20. It doesn't have to be $10. It's going to be $3. It's going to be $5. But it can definitely get you good reps, and those are the best reps you want to have in order to get better at the game, honestly. So there's great promotions as far as they're going to give away NFL tickets to whoever plays the most $20 games for the month. So that's a big deal. Definitely look for how, definitely look for much more things from us in Players Lounge working together, need a gaming in Players Lounge, man. I want to make it the top site in the country for you guys to gamble some madden on, and that's what it's about. But there's definitely some things in man we want to talk about. And like I said, I'm close to 900 subs on the stream. I'll take a look and tell you guys where I'm at right now. I want to tell you guys about Wednesday's sub stream only. That's as I have 890 subs. What Wednesday's sub stream only is, it's going to be Wednesday. Last week was 10 p.m. I was set your notifications because a lot of people said that was a little bit late, but what it's going to be is just we're just going to lab on. It's going to be my subs only in the chat asking me questions about man, how to get better, how they can improve their game. It can be the smallest thing for how do I run the ball better or how do I stop a corner route out a bunch when it's on the short side. It could be the most elaborate thing to the easiest, most basic thing. So don't think that you're like far behind, man. If you're subbed and you come in here and ask questions, I will help you guys as much as possible. Clef is going to be able to be doing the same thing as well from his point of view, so make sure you guys subbed to both me and Clef. You'll have the opportunity to check out those sub streams and be able to get better at man, honestly. That's pretty much the main things I wanted to tell you guys about. That Wednesday we're going to have sub streams. Weekend Wheel is coming up soon with a problem that's definitely going to be something we're looking forward to. I know all you guys are looking forward to. We can league as am I. Been grinding the hell out this man so far this year and you guys have been supporting it fully. Definitely started going, everything's going well. So I hope you guys enjoy it. I hope you guys are having a fun playing man. And one thing I want to talk about as I see Taylor Gang in the chat, man. Taylor Gang is, he is the number one player on Xbox. And it's a little bit crazy to me. And we'll go and we'll take a look at some things really. Drop picks compared to last year. And this is, there's things we can talk about. There's a lot of things to talk about honestly and drop picks are one of them. But I will, Taylor Gang is number one in the world. So listen, you guys don't really know Taylor Gang. He's not a person that's been in live events. He's not a person that really, but he's been streaming a lot. And I told him, just keep grinding and keep streaming and you will make a name for yourself. And not only is he going to make a name for himself, but he is the number one player in the world. So you guys can check this out right here. And he's the number one player in the world. Now me, myself, I feel like my record is better than him. I feel like problem's record is better than him. I feel like K-Max record is better than him. I feel like Hustle Pilsen record is better than him. I feel like The Croft record is better than me. Maybe not The Croft. The Croft is about the same. But he is number one. Um, this is how I judge. This is how I judge like the best players for me. Like, point differential, points to give up, points to score. Things like that. But, but that's how, but I'm going to bring Teagan here so we can talk to him because apparently he is the new problem. That's what I said. And I got to talk about some things, man. There's not, everybody has a lot of losses, man. But I'm going to save my man. My man, Trey, I'm going to talk, man. You see, that's what I'm going to be talking about. You try to bring the young boys on the stream and they don't got their mic ready. I feel like I was talking about the mic. Yo, yo, yo. What's up? What's going on? So, so, so I got to talk about this, this record right here. Do you feel you should be the number one player in the world as we go back to the record? I mean, subtract, subtract. I have forty three discreet losses to go to. We all do. Oh, yeah, we all do. Yeah, of course. Well, how the leaderboard goes then? Probably not. I mean, I would still easily be top five because I mean, if you even look at the top eight players, I see three that I can say that were probably better, better madden players to me. Three, like Jack has no business being there. Eris, ten, Diego. He has no business being there. Also, also, Pilsen has a sniff the wind against me. Snafa, not snow business. Look at this. Decraw, I mean, Decraw for one and one. So, OK, OK, definitely top five. So who has a winning record versus you in this top ten? In this top ten? Everybody. Nope. Me and K-Mac are even a two on two. Problems up on me, two to three. You're up on me, one to three. And that's it. Everyone else in Decraw's one on one. Everybody else in the Madden community is is under me. OK, OK. And so actually, actually, I lied. Fancy's not there. Fancy beat me. Fancy's good. Fancy's good. OK. I haven't beat Fancy. OK. Nice. Nice. Nice. OK, so so you feeling good about it? So so talk about because I feel like you were asked last year, not asked, but like you weren't like you ain't taken notes. You know what I'm saying? Like it's like tears. When I say asked, I mean compared to myself. I feel like you were asked last year. Talk about the mindset going from last year, going in this year. What did you want to improve on? Kind of just getting adjusted pre snap, honestly. That's my big thing is being real creative on defense. And it took a lot of me watching mostly players like Clef get real adjusted in their 335 for me to start catching on. And now pre snap, like it might say cover two. It might say cover one, but it definitely ain't that it looks nothing like it. So OK, OK, there you go. That's not there you go. So all right. Now, essentially number one player, I feel like we asked you a lot of these questions about different things. And the first thing we want to talk about, and we talked about this a little bit before the show, is the fumbles. Now, I feel personally that the fumbles is cool. I honestly feel like I feel like hit sticking is too easy, especially on everybody can hit stick. There's no point in having the cards that can hit. I feel like they all can hit. Although I will tell you the linebackers hitting for themselves is a terrible thing. The computer hitting for the user is a terrible thing. I think it's too easy to hit stick. So therein lies the problem with the fumbles. And there are ways to avoid fumbles. A lot of times, you don't need a sideline just so you don't fumble. And even if you do fumble, the ball goes out of has a 50% chance of going out of bounds if you do fumble. So that's one way that, I mean, it's tough to live over the middle field because you do run into that risk. But a lot of people are complaining about fumbles. And me personally, I feel like they will tune the fumbles because they want people playing the game. At the end of the day, it's about playing the game. And people are going to turn off mad if they fumble too much. And they're going to play Fortnite where they don't fumble. They don't have to worry about that. So that's pretty much why I think they will tune fumbles. But I want to hear what you think about fumbles because you had said it earlier and it was interesting. Well, I believe that when it comes to, I think that the whole Manic community doesn't really value the football. And I feel like this whole game, how it is right now, has taught people the value of a possession. There's so many ways you could not fumble. Conservative, I literally run around holding RB. Because I don't think people realize, no, you can't spin in juke while you're holding RB running with the football. But you sprint the exact same speed as you would without holding RB. And I don't think people even realize that. I do a lot of protecting the ball, getting out of bounds, getting down. People are complaining about fumbles when they're trying to juke on the sideline against a 2 on 1. I have two defenders there, one of them are hitch-ticking you. It's a 2 on 1. Ball should be popping out if you're trying to shuck and jive. That's how I feel. For sure. Now, I mean, I do feel like I do fumble on conservative. But I think you should be able to fumble on conservative because I don't think there should be any game where it's impossible to fumble. I think that will also be bad and be boring to watch if you can't fumble. Because let's say I'm using my Patrick Mahomes or whatever and I'm on conservative. I need to scramble, pick up five yards, and I'm holding RB. Being on conservative and holding RB shouldn't stop Jamal Adams from popping the ball out when he hitch-ticks you. That's the stuff I'm talking about. For sure. I mean, yeah, I think the fumbles are annoying. But I think it's the least of the problems that I like. I think they do make it. And a lot of things I say I've been told in meetings with EA is that they want little Johnny, little Jimmy, little Ray, to feel the power of buying a new Bobby Wagner. Or I just pulled a new Ken Houston. I want Ken Houston to do a lot of the work for me. And that's something that EA has told us that, man, it has to mean something to buy that Ken Houston. Because yeah, I can buy Ken Houston and I can use Ken Houston that much better than little Johnny. But at the end of the day, they want little Johnny to want to buy that card because it's doing a little bit more for him. And so far in this week of man, I've noticed that these good cards are playing a lot better than gold cards or baselines or something. As they should. But as they should, though. This is a matter where they made the good players stand out. I mean, that's something we complained about. And now good players stand out and now we're complaining again. I mean, I don't understand. Good players are good. They are. They're amazing. But it just adds that much more to you got to have a team and you've got to grind mad. And it has to almost be a job for you. You can't just casually play mad. Or at least you can't casually play mad and ultimate team. That's the biggest. That's the thing. You've got to really lock in on this. You can't casually play mad and ultimate team. You take a three week break and you're so far behind, you're going to be getting popped. Yeah, sure. Especially they already put tons of different content out. And the good players are definitely, you've got to have them at this point. But what you're saying about little Johnny getting the new Ken Houston. Yeah, this new Ken Houston might make me fumble, but I mean, I know I did not get hit by that Ken Houston. I know how to avoid taking those big hits. So I mean, it sucks, man. The fumbles suck when they happen to you, honestly. I don't have that problem much, because I just go out of your way to protect the football, get down, stop sucking and jiving, possession catch. Just value that football, honestly. For sure, especially when you get into these big tournament games and everything, you really do have to value that football and do hold that RB, do fall down, do throw the ball near the sideline. There are sometimes, obviously, where you go post-rout or something, you really can't move when you're going to get hit. And that happens from time to time. But the possession catches in this madden we're playing right now are so good, you're usually getting down automatically for possession catching. That's one thing that is frustrating. In chat, you guys talk about this. Is these possession catches? Is these aggressive diving catches that, honestly, the wide receiver should be in the hospital after somebody's plays? And you're just not allowed to touch the wide receiver. And that's something that's frustrating. Something that was like that in Man 18, where I feel like a possession catch was you couldn't touch them. But now, Man 19, it was a lot easier to knock the ball out of possession catches. Now they're just, I feel like they're getting down and you can't even touch them when they're falling to the ground. And that's something that's frustrating to me. And I know you guys are on defense, all right? I like the possession catches. I'm not going to like that. I like to ask, because I mean, you can get hit. I mean, because if you don't, you're going to get hit and you're going to fumble. So I mean, the only possession catch I'm not a big fan of is the diving forward two arms out, just safe. Like, you can't, no one can touch that animation. But the other ones are pretty, I like them. I've got no problem with people possession catching. I feel like sometimes, I mean, there's really not, I guess it's not that big a deal. But for me, there's times where I want my safety to take somebody's head off. I want my safety to knock the ball loose. And because they're getting a certain animation, now all of a sudden you can't, you know, you can't touch the wide receiver. So for me, that's definitely a frustrating part about the game is some of these possession catches are pretty wild. And then- I'm not going to lie, but you have to admit, some of them are pretty cool. Like a lot of the end zone possession catches are getting the knee down, sliding. Though they're really cool, but some of them need to be getting touched in the middle of the field. Definitely. I mean, yeah, I mean, it is cool. They do have a bunch. I do feel like they have a bunch of new animations in the game. It's definitely something that's good for little Johnny loves the new animations. I will say this, a lot of these, some of these sideline catches, one foot is getting down and their countness catches. A lot of them. Yeah, I feel like the sideline is really easy to catch the ball. The way the wide receiver plays on the sideline is great. They can definitely even slow down and catch the ball on the sideline. And that's pretty much how you guys should really try to, you tend to put your offense to the sideline because one, it's hard to get hit. You go out of bounds, boom. And if you do fumble, it is going out of bounds. It won't be recovered in bounds. So that's pretty much why people like throwing towards the sideline for the most part. When you catch a good two, it's less likely that you're gonna fumble. And it's about the possession catches. And that brings us to the whole, the way the linebackers lurk and not even linebackers. At this point, I feel like it's everybody. I don't feel like it's something they talk about where if you put a safety linebacker, he's gonna move like a linebacker. For me, I feel like I move the same if I'm, I mean myself, I have a user to safety probably 90 to 95% of the plays on defense. So for me, I've noticed the user being a little bit weak and not so much a little bit weak, but a little bit different. And part of this to me goes to kind of how identifier is, it's a simple thing in the game that they essentially make us have an ability to have. And I don't know what this lurking, the lurking thing is going to be. What his ability is gonna be, is he gonna be outrageous? Is it gonna be like the old ballhawk? Are they gonna make us buy an ability for a player to be able to lurk like we could in the past? I think ultimately that's pretty crazy that you could go ahead and all of a sudden, now I have to pay for what I was able to do for free the last couple of years. And there are some good things about it because like a lot of people in chat is this pretty wild that Anthony Barker cover the whole middle of the field. Now they can't, now I feel like it's the complete opposite. You really can't cover, you have to be pretty much guarding a wide receiver and really lower the lurk and just allow the people to be able to almost throw right at you or anything, but how do you feel about the lurk? How do you feel about the user in general when playing defense? I feel like I get a lot of, I get a lot of alligator arm animations when I was jumping. That's the one thing, I get a lot of alligator arm animations with Shazeer. And then maybe I'll use it like an Amos and I'm still getting some of these like alligator arm animations. The only player that really jumps for me is Ken Houston and I don't know if there's some kind of jumping threshold or anything like that. I haven't checked out, the only player for me that jumps right now is Ken Houston, but my biggest problem is I can, I can deal with alligator arms. They try to make it so you have to be in absolute perfect position to get a pick. There's no more ball hawk is pulling me four yards in front of the receiver to pick up a drag and stuff like that. And today, adjusting to that, like I was playing fancy, he's throwing a lot of drag routes and I just could not pick them. I could not, I'm diving in my DBs are just missing. So I kind of like that, you're not ball hawking to four yards away. Ball hawk is usually meant for like balls that are lofted in the air, not like drags and stuff like that, but the alligator arms that it is getting annoying. Yeah, for sure. And I think it's one thing that I have definitely gotten used to, not gotten used to, I'm getting used to if that makes sense. Just being able to be in the right spot to catch picks, even when you're clicking on you can't, a lot of times I send a lot of people to ball over their face. They don't get the same or they don't get the animation that they want. And for the most part, once we get used to it, I think it'll be okay. I'm just stuck on the fact, I think they removed the ball hawk so they could then make it an ability, which is kind of crazy to me. I think that's how it goes. How it is, man, it's a lot of things. I mean, conductor, they took away the ability to do multiple hot routes and now you can buy it for an ability. And I feel like that's what they're slowly doing with lurking, but I will reserve that judgment so I see what this lurk ability is and what the Y receiver can, or what the DB can do when he has this ability. How do you feel about how the zones play? Well, I see Wesley in the middle of the field. At happy birthday to Wesley, he is a whole, he is, Wesley might be 19, his hair is 37. 15? No, his hair is 37. He got the old comb over, you know. And Wesley said, yellow zones and linebackers. I think linebacker zones are absolutely terrible. And this is a man that has one run three, four, pretty much the whole year till today when I ran a little bit more dollar, but I ran three, four. And a lot of times what I would do, obviously I blitzed the hell out of people. So this has a lot of people max protecting, blocking the whole team, even to the point where they would block, you know, 10, what, nine people or eight people. They'd block eight people, have a quarterback two routes on the field. And sometimes I would then drop all my linebackers in zones and the man'd up. And I felt like the linebackers could cover nothing when they were in zones. I feel like, I feel like when you shade down, the linebackers do absolutely nothing. That's the one thing, but like, let's say, like people are 11, how you can just dot the seams and stuff like that this year. Now the ability to do that has kind of made their, like there's so many more offices you can run now, honestly, cause I feel like if they made it to where those linebackers are playing things that they were at 19, we'd be back to seeing three off, three different offices on the field every time we play a game. Like those, the linebackers not being that great has opened up so much. And it's kind of, the zones are inconsistent. Like sometimes I'll put a mid read on a post and it'll match. Sometimes it won't. The zones are inconsistent. I'd say that, but I am kind of a fan of being able to throw it right over a linebacker. Cause I mean, that's what these ball trajectories are for. That's why they added that now. I guess so. I mean, I'm not, listen, I do think the yellow zones are, I haven't had the yellow zone make a play for me pretty much all year. I haven't had cloud zones make plays for me all year. The blues, I want to say they suck, but I don't think they're as bad as yellow zones or cloud zones really. The yellows are really bad. I'm little Johnny in this case. I like them being bad, but they're really bad. You like snap, don't have a seam over on a streak and throw it, see, I mean, I think that as far as seams it should be, that should be just a shade down or shade up thing, I think if you shade up you should run with the seam. Well, I mean, if someone comes out, someone comes out and cover three and I snap a four verse quick as hell. I mean, I would assume my wide receiver be able to get, my slot wide receiver should be able to get behind that linebacker and just, I should be able to rocket that in there every time, because unless it's a user, I should be able to every time. I don't care if you shade up or down, my receiver needs to be behind that linebacker every time. I mean, that's the open part in the seam. I mean, you don't want that pass to be thrown, man it up, man, it's so good this year. Man, some stuff up. I mean, I agree. I mean, the seams have always been pretty much the hole in cover three, so honestly, but yeah, the fact, deep blues I feel are very passive. Deep blues, they play back, they don't play aggressive and then on top, to add the deep blues being passive and add the yellow zones not being good, that leaves your slot, or yeah, your slot seam that much more open. So it's definitely tough. You know, I mean, sometimes, and honestly, I wish I had more, go to slot a little bit sooner. Honestly, I wish I had, add that to my game, but just gotta get used to the way the zones are and used to the way the user are. We've been playing the game for four years now where the user just makes wild plays and to play for one week and just get used to the fact that the user's not gonna make a play is a pretty big adjustment that I'm not gonna get at yet. I'm still afraid of the user over the middle of the field. Man, what was Mad 19, no, Mad 19, all right. Mad 19 zones, well, the zones were good, but just the fact that I can click on any linebackers jumping 20 feet in the air, kind of like there's so much stuff you can't run. Like in Mad 19, I can't snap through with four birds against the cover three because they're clicking on and the linebacker's more athletic than my wide receiver, unless I'm high-balling and cheating you. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I wanna say Mad 19 was perfect. I really don't remember. I feel like every game is different, just gotta get used to, yeah, see, I don't think offense is that easy. I think that people would not complain about the zones this year if you could click on and jump like you could last year. They wouldn't be complaining about the zones. Yeah, that goes into, I feel like the zones have the same lack of ballhawk as the user does. I feel like you can't click on, you can't click on and jump with the zones. Like you just can't jump with your user. I feel like it's the same type of thing that the zones aren't jumping and making plays. And the last is a quarter of a cloud flat will jump every once in a while, but linebackers damn sure ain't jumping anywhere. I mean, I don't know if it's good, I don't know if it's bad. Yeah, I mean, I see J Bird in the chat saying offense is the easiest it's ever been. And I agree. And I kind of, I mean, I like it that way. There's more offenses you can run now. The game is more creative on offense now since the zones kind of suck. And not everyone's just in bunching trips that end anymore. Yeah, I mean, this is how, this is how I always thought about Madden. And Jet was one of the first people that told me this. He said, something has to be hard to do. Offense or defense has to be hard because that will make a good player that much better. If it's hard to play defense, the good player will be able to play defense. If it's hard to play offense, the good offense player will be able to play offense. No matter what it was, you need one to be hard. And right now I'm feeling like neither are really that hard. And that brings me to the fourth point I want to talk about. Neither are really that hard, mostly because these X factors. And I feel like as we play this game in a week, I would feel, I want to say 75 to 80% of the game is about these X factors and using these X factors. I think that is pretty much how the game is being played now. And I think it does make defense easy because of the way the Black Sheds are with these X factors. It makes offense easy because you can just press A and run people over. And that's pretty much how I feel about both. The X factors is kind of making this game easy for people. How do you feel about the X factors and what they brought to the game in the first week? Well, the first thing I'll say, I think that defense is really hard when you don't have X factors in your delignment. Like I was struggling stopping kids until I got Von Miller. Like I couldn't get any pressure until I got Von Miller. Like I get Von Miller, I can run three, three, five again. I can run dollar. Like before that, I couldn't. And then offensively, offensively I feel like the only X factors that work so far are the running back ones. I mean, I don't, of course the wide receiver ones are actually good too. Well, the abilities are good. The X factors don't really work. Like the double me and rack them up. Like I haven't seen any of those things work in my favor ever. Well, they're tough to get because you have to equip like the homer stuff and the inside stuff to make sure you can actually, actually these X factors be something that's achievable because I know for the rack them up was five 20 yard catches, man. If you're catching five 20 yard catches, you deserve to get something. And the defense deserves to get punished that they're giving up that much. But yeah, like I said, with the X factors I do feel, and Wesley said exactly what I said in chat is that, you know, past rushers make, I mean, defense easy. You know, and for me that's pretty much been the toughest thing to play against. And I've seen Clef, I watched Clef, I watched Henry play and I played and I feel like it is the best defense to just put three X factor D linemen and just rush three people. And without the mobility of the quarterback is not that mobile. So you don't need to spy all the time. And the three, one of those D linemen is gonna fight. And the biggest thing for me with the D linemen is they beat a double team so easily. You know, and I think a double team, a lot of times I'll look, I'll snap the ball and say, ooh, a double team, that's good. And you have these guys with these X factors beating double teams like two, like the two people, I have two elites. It's not like I have two goals or two power up 10 caps. I have two elite linemen getting beat by, and I'll leave obviously a better player. I'll have two 85 linemen getting beat by a 90. It just happens too fast. And it gets to a point where three people, even when you block the running back, essentially you have three double teams. And one of those guys is winning, honestly. One thing I will say about the X factors, when I look at the who in the community is complaining about defensive X factors and stuff like that, it's the players who are offensive players, which is weird, like Joe Rice, like I consider him an offensive player. The offensive side of the ball has so many abilities and X factors, it's not even fun. Right, great. The slot machine, slot route specialist, and plus now I can have route technician to make my routes even crispier, like Marcus Allen can juke and spin. Terry Cohen's out here jukeing my whole team. They have arm bar. The offense has a lot. Defense really doesn't have a lot. Like I'm not out here putting secure tackler on my Shazier. Like no one's using those things. And I will tell you, if you guys watch today, I did put secure pass black around my right tackle. Now it costs one of my offensive, one of my offensive abilities, one of my three offensive abilities. But he actually was a dog. My right tackle was a dog. So I feel like if you do have that counter, if you do have secure pass blocker, I think that will definitely, oh you're right about that, that'd be tough. No, but I do feel like if the secure pass blocker stops these edge threats, or stops these X factor delimiting, at least takes them to normal people. Or takes them, yeah, to normal delimiting. I think that'll be a good thing because then you can balance it out. Yeah, it sucks to have to waste some of your offensive abilities on offensive linemen. But if it's gonna stop defense, if I got secure pass blockers and you have two defensive linemen that are X factors, and I stopped that, I feel like that'd be really good. One thing I'll say, a tip is, and if you are gonna do the secure pass blocker thing, just do it on both sides. I had a kid have secure pass blocker around his right tackle, stop my Vomiller. All I did was put Vomiller on the other side. It's literally all I did. And now he's back to business. So. At the end we'll run, Shudder. Yeah, Wesley, first of all, I feel like all passers and runners, we all have the same opinion is that it'd be really good if there was something to stop the run. The run being easy makes the game, it makes everybody wanna play the game. It makes everybody able to play the game. It makes everybody able to compete because the game is short, they can run the ball. But at the same time, that's where it goes to, well, the good players will find run defense. You know, the good players have a skill gap. Me, myself, on Mutt, I'm not worried about the run. I played probably five games of regs and it was against my friend who passes all the time. So I'm not even gonna comment on what regs. But if you wanna see regs, this week we'll definitely be streaming a lot of players' lounge matches. We'll be playing a lot more regs. So as far as regs is concerned, I feel like, I feel like I can't really comment. From what I watched, I've watched every game. I've watched Beast Mode, Win the Muddhead. I've watched all these Muddhead competitions. There's another one tomorrow night, I believe. So for me, I feel like I think the run is too easy. And on top of that with the X-Factor doing work for people, I think it really makes it too easy, essentially. But when the run is good, I honestly, when the run is good, I feel like man is bad. That's just how I feel. But you guys know how I feel about the run. I hate this shit. It's just like, why run when you can pass? That's pretty much how I feel about men. Why take three, four yards and cloud of dust when you can take 10 to 20 every play? That's pretty much how I feel. I'm okay with how the run game is, except for the arm bar. I thought the arm bar could be an X-Factor. Like you need to have five yards, five rushes of 10 plus yards, and then you can have the stiff arm thing. That's how I feel. But other than that, I think the run is pretty okay. A lot of people, I'm not gonna lie, some people who complain about the run being too good are coming out in dollar, trying to stop eye form. Like you're not even trying to stop the run. That's why you're getting ran on, some of them. But overall, the run blocking is pretty good. Nothing I have too much trouble with, but the arm bar definitely needs to be fixed. I think, I mean, and this is crazy what I say, but when we first heard about the X-Factors, everybody was like, oh, this is gonna be bad. That was pretty much the vibe that everybody got right away from the X-Factor. Like, oh, as soon as we want them to remove abilities, we want to remove Playmaker, we want to remove the Yu-Gi-Oh shit, they add X-Factors to make it that much more. And as far as I'm seeing, that's pretty much how it is. Like this is, the X-Factors are the Yu-Gi-Oh mutt, it's just on steroids pretty much. And at this point in the game, I would say, did the game be better without them? You know, there's some that are obviously cool. Obviously people want the hot rod abilities, some of Brady's stuff is cool. But honestly, if you took the abilities out of the game, would it be a better game? That's why I'm feeling about it right now. If you took out X-Factors, it'd be a better game right now. Maybe not more fun for little Johnny, maybe not more exciting, maybe not more marketable. Maybe they can't market as well because they don't have these new factors. As we heard Rex say on his podcast is that they want to add something new to the game that they can market every year. But honestly, at this point, I'm feeling it would be better without the X-Factors. What they won't get rid of, but they definitely got to find a balanced form. And that's pretty much how I feel about it right now. I think the X-Factors are good for EA. I mean, the game might be better. Yeah, the game would be better without the X-Factors and kind of the X-Factor things could be the player traits, honestly. Some people are good edge wrestlers. They have pass, rush, move, swim moves. Those could be kind of the X-Factors, honestly, if you take them out. Cause there's some players that you know are gonna shit cause they have the traits for it and some you know they just won't. Like Von Miller is gonna play different than Deon Jordan on the end. Like regardless of if he has the X-Factor or not. I don't think it's always been like that. I always think a Von Miller stuff was better than a shitter. Really, but for me, I mean, Jesus. To me a lot is more hands on how good the secure pass blocker is. Cause for me, if that stops the X-Factor, be linemen, that's a big deal. You know, I think that'll dumb that down. The arm bar is pretty crazy. The juke stuff is pretty wild too. But it is pretty wild just as a base ability. You know, and one thing that Skimbo had mentioned too was that we should be able to have abilities. Your abilities shouldn't be all three. Like you can't have all three down linemen. You gotta have one on each level of defense. Like your linebacker, your D-Line, and then your secondary if you want it. And often as you can have it, maybe on a Y-Receiver or a quarterback and a running back. That's it. Not three Y-Receivers or three down linemen or three DBs. Maybe kind of balance where you put the X-Factors. Yeah, that would balance it. That would be a little bit more balanced. I like that idea. So because right now, like I said, the three D-Linemen with the X-Factors is pretty wild. I don't really know what action that is. It's give and take though, because let's say that I'm pinning against you and you have three down linemen that are all X-Factored up, but then I have three O-Linemen that are all X-Factored up. I mean, that should neutralize it. I mean, I personally, offense is so much better if you have a route specialist, dude. Like it takes your offense to the absolute next level. Like the gap between running an offense with them without one is ridiculously huge. Like ridiculously huge because like you were saying earlier, every stock route in the game, every stock hot route in the game is bagged by a man, every single one of them. So I mean, if you wanna put three secure pass blockers on the line and then just getting clamped by a man, I mean, go ahead. If that works for you, I mean, at least you won't be getting shredded. If you can find a way to not get shredded. I mean, it makes your offense better. I'm all for it. Yeah, I honestly would feel to the point where the way my right tackle was playing today, and I knew I was playing against somebody that was a three-man rush thing. It depends on different people played differently, but I knew if I was playing against a three-down rush guy, maybe I would rock two secure tacklers and one hot route guy. I think that would be tough. I think that's very possible that people do it. I mean, I think that's a possibility. It's something that the skimbo has been used as a secure pass blocker since they put him in the game. So I think it's probably something that he might try. And honestly, my right tackle was holding down. And I think if you do, and honestly, to me, if you do waste an ability on an offensive lineman, it should be a pretty goddamn serious ability. It shouldn't be work sometime, work all the time. If I have secure pass blocker on my tackle and he's a dog, whoever the end is, I don't care if the end is Jesus himself. If I sacrifice my offense that much to have an ability on an offensive lineman, that end shouldn't get home pretty much the whole time. I mean, it should almost be like contained to the point where that secure pass blocker is popping. You know, and that's how I feel about an offensive lineman having the ability. And that's how, I mean, but like I said, when working for me, it's gotta find a way to balance it. But people aren't gonna put secure pass blocker. They want their offense to look too cute with all the route runners. They're not gonna do it. They're not even listening to it. They're not gonna do it. I mean, like I said, I think it's possible to put one on both tackles and one round specialist. I think that's gonna be good. And then finally, I'll tell you this, finally that's an opportunity for us to say that offensive lineman is gonna matter. Offensive lineman is gonna cost cap. It's something that hasn't happened in the last four years. You know what I'm saying? Then the last four years, imagine it. And now if the offensive lineman is gonna cost, you know, 50 cap for each tackle, that's gonna be a big deal if it works. And it should, if it works that well, it'd be tough. You know, but if I knew, if I knew somebody has secure pass blockers, maybe I wouldn't try. I wouldn't probably run a different defense. You know, that's what I'm talking about. So it's like, I've played, I've played so many games. In fact, I've played over 300 games. And I can honestly say, me personally, other than arm bar, there's not anything in the game that doesn't have a counter to it. Like everything has a counter to it. It just depends on your play style. That's my personal opinion. I mean, the alligator arm thing sucks. There's no counter to that. But other than that, like the abilities and stuff, there's a counter to usually every ability and everything going on with the game. And people complain about stopping the run. Well, how about you come out a dollar or come out a quarter and come to something heavier? Yeah, I don't think the, I don't think the run, as far as Mutt, last time I can't speak on Wraiths, this week we'll play a lot more Wraiths. But as far as Mutt, I'm really not, I'm really not concerned with the run defense really. I'm really not. And as far as like the juke and the jiving of the, like you said, the running bag, like that goes back to the fumbles. You know, and that's where it's like, you can't be too mad about the fumbles. And that's pretty much going to be your counter for jukein' and doing the spin moves and evasive and everything with Marcus Allen. Mark, Marcus Allen has made me look stupid trying to hit stick him all over the field, making me look dumb. But when I finally catch him, he pops, he coughs it up. If I finally catch him, he coughs it up. And that's how it should be. What, so short? I mean, that. Cause he's ridiculous. Marcus Allen, he's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah, Marcus Allen looks like he's playing a different game than everybody else. He's playing Madden 19. It's literally Madden 19, Marcus Allen versus Madden 20, everything else. I mean, there goes to the point where little Johnny bought his cards, little Johnny Payday bought his bundle, and he has Marcus Allen. Now he has Marcus Allen with a little X on his feet that lights up. So it was worth it for him. I'm glad the dollar is not getting pancakes. That's, that's special for me. And really, honestly, for me, it's like this. It's like dollar, and I'll tell you what, it's essentially the same thing as 34. It's three down linemen, it's two linebackers. And instead of your two outside linebackers, you just have two DBs. Yeah, obviously they shouldn't, they shouldn't, they don't block shit. I don't think they block shit at all. But what happens a lot of times is the offensive line are too fat and slow that these DBs will just slither around and get through the defensive linemen. So that's pretty much how dollar becomes good run defense. But I don't think it's good run defense. I don't, not yet. I mean, it could get a lot better as the year was on and people get better at running dollar. But right now, I don't think it's that amazing as far as run defense goes. I like, I like to know pancake. I haven't seen a single pancake animation now, and I like it. I honestly like it. Yeah, that's all. I don't think the run is terrible, is that obnoxious. It's not that annoying, except for armbar, honestly. Everything else I can deal with, just armbars, just a little, armbars a little much. Some of these videos I see look like Marshall Lynch, Prime Marshall Lynch, and it's crazy. Mm-hmm. It's crazy. Yeah, for sure. Now, I was gonna tell you. Now, the people said, so apparently you're the new problem since you're number one in the world. Is that, is that how you feelin'? Like you have surpassed problem? Nah man, nah, nah, nah, nah, yeah, that's the old goat. That's the dude I watched playing Madden growing up. It was, when I was growing up, the only maddened people I knew was Problem, and then Coltrane, Scott Cole. Scott Cole, Jesus. Yeah, those are the only people, I remember seeing Problem for my first time on like NFL Network, or something like that. Nah, Problem will always be my goat. Oh my God, Jesus. I can't let that old head go, and he's always gonna be my goat. Jesus, that's not what we're talking about. This supposed to be year to year. You supposed to be better than everybody. It is my year, for sure. It is my year, and that's why people say I take Mutt a little bit too serious. It's not that I take Mutt serious, it's the fact that I hear little snarky, passive-aggressive comments some people make under their breath or little types and shit. Like, I don't forget none of it. I don't forget none of it. So who do you think says the slick shit the most? Oh, I'm about to lose the Taylor gang? Like, that's not gonna flow. That's not gonna flow. They know who they are. Do you ring that time who they are? Oh, I'll name drop. I'm a different breed. I'll name drop. So who do you think says the most snarky shit that disrespects you the most? Like, it's the passive-aggressive shit. You know what I'm saying? The passive-aggressive shit. I mean, let me get my envelope. Let me write these names down. Oh, you have an envelope? Oh, you say, are you like Aria from Game of Thrones? You just keep saying the name to your head before you go to bed? Every day. Yeah, so you just say the names like, the Croft, Joe Rice. Like, Croft is cool because he's a nice guy. Croft is genuinely a nice guy. Man, fuck him, ain't no nice guys, man. You think they say nothing about you? Now, the rest of those TNC dudes, oh boy. Number one on the list is J-Wall. Oh, I will never let J-Wall be me. Not this year. J-Wall is not on the list. I think I'm a foreign one against J-Wall this year. It's looking real nice. So you are the father of Jake. I'm J-Wall's dad. I'm J-Wall's dad. Who else? Oh, Shikobi. Yeah, Shikobi will never beat me this year. I'm one of Logan's. He won't sniff me. Like, listen, I mean, if you're captain of Shikobi, you got, it's not your year if you bring up Shikobi. It can't be your year and bring up Shikobi. That can't work. I don't forget any names. And then, who's number three? I'm not going to, that might be a short, oh, Salty. Salty, oh my god. Can't let a 15-year-old get under my skin, honestly. I gotta be better than that. Yeah, Salty and Shikobi. Who's next? And this list is a bunch of trolls. Jack Oregon, yeah, that's one. There we go. Oh my god, like, you're beating like, you're at the bottom of Mary's scum, man. I just make sure I flood these kids every time I see them honest. That's the plan. And I think those are my four biggest haters right there. Those are my four, no, those are just the haters. You feel me? Okay, the haters, okay. You better hope I don't sniff a belt. They'll be getting the shout out for show. Oh my god. You would also, so this is a belt you're going to say again, okay? Yeah, EA is going to cut my interview short. I'm going to start going crazy. Okay, okay, so there you go. Now I tell you what, what about you don't get much interview. They give you a good 10 seconds. That's about it. Yeah, that's all I need. Trust me. That's a good question, as my man, JPS is. Who is the best player you've played this year? Ooh, crazy part is, I'm a, this is guy, and I don't know if anyone knows him in the community, but I don't know who this dude is, but this Bob Lazer dude does not misread. I don't know who this dude is, but he does not misread. Oh my god. Probably the best player. Let me tell you something. Hey, Bob Lazer as hell. Let me tell you something. One, you never give credit to creep names. Anybody can do that as childish. So you never give them any credit. Between Bob Lazer and Hustle Pilsen, they somebody. They somebody, they somebody that we know. You don't give them any credit because it's easy to be on a creep names as poppin' people. That's childish. And those type of people will never, will never get credit from me, you know what I'm saying? So don't suck their dick on this podcast. That's not what's going to happen. Well, it's hard to say. I mean, the best offense that I've played, the cluster is the hardest shit to stop ever. And then the best defense, I give that to, came back in problem. I think they're tired for the best defense that I've played. For what I do, they bag that shit. Problem? You get bagged by problems? Preschool defense. That man, that man coverage sometimes bags me. But other than that, nobody else is really tough. No, nobody else is really tough, honestly. It's just mutt, right? It's just mutt, right, Chad? That's what you all tell me. It's just mutt Taylor games, just mutt. Trust me, tell me, I won't tell you this right now. When I was poppin', and man's 16, that's the same shit they said about me. That's the same shit they said about me. I would fuck them all up on mutt. And they was like, oh, it's just mutt. It's just mutt. Swear to God, that's the same. Joke was the main one. They was too good, they couldn't let nobody else in the man, community man's 16. Oh, who this guy fucking people up? Oh, yeah, I'm saying, oh, it's only mutt. Oh, he got the boss. He got boss, that's Brian. That's the only reason he score. That type of shit, yep, they was the same. But the crazy part is, when you beat them and you cap, it's just mutt. But if you can't beat them, it's a problem. They bring it up that you can't beat them. Which one is it? And honestly, listen, and that's how people, that's how the man community is really. It's tough to really admit that somebody else is good. But ultimately, it's not, it's really not. And people say that, and I get this a lot, when I do the podcast, when YouTube, when they ask me stuff like that, they'll say the man community is, they don't let nobody in. They're rude to new people and stuff like that order. They're very clickish, which is very true. Yeah, it's true. I took my lumps, I was the butt of all the jokes. I mean, you still are the butt of all the jokes. Like you haven't graduated from being the butt of the jokes. Especially my, now listen, you might be like the knee of all the jokes, cause Boogs will always be the butt of every man community joke that I tell. I would say Boogs is always the ass of the jokes. Yeah, you might be like dying. You see what I've been doing with Boogs. You see what I've been doing with Boogs. He used to show the ass of the jokes now. Boogs is all the ass. But it is true that a lot of people say that about the man community is very clickish. And that's true, but I feel like if you really want it, I mean, it's going, you just got to push through to the point where people start looking at you and say, all right, he's doing okay. Like he's actually putting work into be a part of the community. You know what I'm saying? That's pretty much how I feel about like at first, yeah, they're not going to want to hear nobody. You know what I'm saying? And I see Clef in the chat like, like man, what was it? Man 17 or man 18 at the end of it. Clef was popping everybody. Everybody's a man. Clef just in jungle. Clef is the ass for real. I'm telling you, they, and this is, and honestly, as much as we talk about the man community, this kind of relates to everything is where when you start doing good at something, people that are already established at that, they don't want to see you succeed. So they're going to try to, they're going to try to like bring you down as much as possible because they don't want, they don't want any competition. You trying to, you trying to eat they flew. Exactly. They don't want anybody else to try to creep up and, and, and you know, being that spotlight and you talk about eating food. What I learned from man is that if you put a word, it's enough food for everybody. You know what I'm saying? And, and, and people didn't be open to that. And well, you know, so that's how it goes. When you first start like in Fitzman's, if people think about token, yeah, people that run the ball. Yes, you guys are losers. Like you guys don't get out of the house. Like that's pretty much how I feel about people that run the ball. Really, that's pretty much how I feel. Y'all don't need a house. Y'all don't, y'all don't do shit. Y'all don't, y'all don't live adventurous lives. You know, y'all don't really have that many friends. Y'all just run, you know what I'm saying? And that's so corny. It's so goddamn boring that you spend this much time on Madden and choose to run the ball. Like how boring is that? Like you never, like, I love getting on these brands, but you go to the line of scrimmage. Like I go to the line of scrimmage. I gotta think, is he gonna blitz? Is he gonna be covered too? Is he gonna be covered three? Who's he gonna man up? If he blitzes off the right, where will his lirt go? Where his lirt go that way? Is he gonna play hardflex? Gonna play cloudflex? Is he gonna cross man this guy? Is he gonna, you know, is he gonna just rely on his ex-factors to get to me? Is he gonna play cover four show? Cover three show? Is he gonna deep quarter that outside guy? Is he gonna deep half that guy? Do I gotta step up in the pocket? Which way do I have to drift with the quarterback? When can I throw the ball? I have to worry about that. All these assholes worry about is pressing A. And they think they're fucking good. That's the worst part. And they think they're fucking good. And they press it. Is my left tackle gonna seal it? Yes. That's it. Is my left tackle gonna seal it? God damn bombs, man. God, that's pretty much all it is. That's it. And honestly, that's how you wanna play. But to me, the chess match of passing the ball is what is so much fun about the game. Like that's all, it's not about that is wrong. Maybe y'all have fun pressing A and running the ball. But for me, the fun in man comes when you're pat. That's 1000% what's fun about the game. Finding out how to beat a blitz, finding out how to beat a coverage, finding out how to predict that coverage and calling the right player at the right time. That's what's fun for me. And to me, that's pretty much why I don't like running the ball. That's all. But at the same time, when I went my belt, I did run the ball. Shout out to the sub, man. We're closing it on 900 subs. For me, when I did run the ball, I did run the ball. Because at the end of the day, and I'll tell you this 1000 times, when I ran the ball, I remember I played in Hollywood who was like the best player at the time, right? And I was getting to the line of scrimmage and I was like, when I pressed A to run the ball, I said, Lord, please, let me get five yards. And when I say, Lord, please, it pretty much, to me, it's like, man, I just hope I get five yards. I hope I get four yards. God, and I remember I played True Boy Rest in Peace too. I played him and he had jet. He had jet, what you gonna call it? He blew jet out, right? And jet was like, man, his pressure is something serious. So when I played True Boy, I was me versus True Boy by one, I made it to the next though, pretty much how it was. The first play of the game, the first play on my offense, I was scared as shit to pass. I didn't wanna pass. I was like, yo, I just wanna run. And the Lord blessed me. The Lord came down and said, W, today is your day. We're going to bless you with the inside zone to the crib. First play. And I said, Lord, thank you. I didn't earn that. You know, it could have easily been a gain of two, but the Lord blessed me with a run to the crib. And I prayed for that and I got that run. And that's pretty much what runners do when they snap the ball and call A, you know? They get blessed. Pretty much how it goes. And now, Taylor Gang, J-Wall is in the chat. You know what I'm saying? And J-Wall, while you were going, my man Taylor said he is your father, you know what I'm saying? There's nothing J-Wall can say to me. Every time J-Wall talking about it, he don't need to worry about nothing else, honestly. So I heard J-Wall is Taylor Gang. Y'all are the biggest rivals right now on the Xbox Leaderboards. It's not a rivalry of one team, man. I'ma keep it above. Mm. I'ma keep it above. Mm. See, I like how y'all rivals now. Me, myself, I only have like four rivals in man that I actually wanna beat. And those are people that have done better than me, man. Like Skimbo, I wanna beat. Like, one, I have a winning record versus him, but you know, I find that as a rival. Hot shot my guy with the sub, man. Hot shot been doing around these 2K players on the man's streets. For me, it's like problem, even though I be kicking the shit out of a problem. But he's like, he's on my echelon of player. Like Skimbo, Drenny, even though Drenny and Kid be kicking the shit out of me. I feel like those are like the guys I strive to have rivalries with. And for me, I'm glad that you and J-Wall are like the same level of player right now that y'all on that tier. Like, y'all like tier four, you know what I'm saying? Not tier one, not tier three, but y'all like tier four and it's a nice rivalry. I like that, you know what I'm saying? And Taylor Gang, I will tell you this. When they start talking about, let's bet, let's play. That's when you know you're under the Skimbo. Yeah, I know. I already know. You see I'm not responding. I already know. He's typing the chat in the word. He know what to do. Tell him. Tell him you will leave the board. Okay, my thing is here it is. I can kick somebody's teeth in and then they'll get mad. After I can't be like, oh, let's play for this, we'll play for that. If you can't beat me for free, what in the hell makes you think you about to beat me for some money? You ain't that different. You ain't different with a bread on the line. And for me, honestly, I will tell you, and this is different from me. And now you said a different money, play for money. When I match up with somebody- Some people are different. When I match up, when I do, I wanna win the game. I might try and shit. I might do some crazy shit, but I would probably do that for money as well. Not crazy, but it's just to me, I would, I play the same way, honestly. Some people need extra incentive to try the video game. I'm trying to beat everyone's goal. I'm trying to beat everybody's goal in. I don't care if it's for a penny free, I'm trying to beat everyone's goal. Honestly. Hey, not trying doesn't make you cool kids. You can always try. Not trying does not make you cool. This is true. I mean, there's nothing wrong with not trying. You know what I'm saying? No, why is, I feel like every game you're getting, there's nothing wrong with taking the same. Now I play around a lot. Like I really do our lab a lot in games. I mess around, but when I play, somebody I know is good. Like when I know, cause you know when somebody's good. So when I play somebody, I don't really like lab as much. I do take them room seriously. I mean, I don't understand why you wouldn't try. You know, that's just, I'm in certain people. If you're not trying, man, why are you doing? Yeah, I don't know. But I mean, so Taylor gang is, he is the JCC's, he's the janitor of the JCC. He has the keys to the JCC. He's only allowing certain people in. That's pretty much how it goes. You know what I'm saying? No, Taylor, Taylor don't like Papa. He don't like playing against Papa. He likes playing against these little kids. When he see Papa, when he see the grizzly bear on the other side, cause here's the thing, I'm gonna give you a little word of advice. Dub yells at you guys about running the ball to make sure you pass so he could scream at you with his down. That's how he's honestly tricking you. That's how he blew me out. He was in dollar the whole game. I didn't run a single inside. We cry. You know, I got blown out. Let's play your game. Because you're not a loser. Do you want to be a loser or do you want to be a winner? Now listen, you can win running the ball. Like you can win running the ball. That's cool. But what did you really do? Like seriously, what did you really accomplish? When I asked you, you didn't beat me mentally. You didn't outsmart me. You didn't outthink me. You just pressed A in the game, blessed you. You didn't really win. And that's how I feel about runners. They don't really win. When they win, they just got lucky. That's how I feel. You know what I'm saying? And as much as, and I don't even want to give Drinny like this. I don't even want to call Drinny a runner, but he is a runner. But because he's the only person that they cling to that has added any success just running the ball. But I feel like Drinny just, I feel like he's different than just a runner. I feel like he, I don't know. Maybe, may chat, tell me my mom. You know what I'm saying? That's just, I feel like Drinny is a little bit different than just a totter, really. Yeah, I feel like he can't be a totter. Yeah. Yeah, but Drinny more like a problem. Like. Drinny got some dots though. Drinny has a couple of dots though. None of these toters don't have no dots. None of these toters have dots. If you had dots, you wouldn't toad. Why don't, like seriously, you toad because that's how you can compete. Hey boys, if you don't got no dots, man, let's go grab a e-book. That's it. If you had dots, you would pass. See, hey, look at me though. I'm number one on the leaderboard because I, one, I have no life, but two, I'm using a your old e-book and it's working. Your old e-book is working. Hey, awesome. Because, no, that's the point. See, y'all never understand my philosophy when you guys watch me play Madden. Listen, yeah, I could run. Yeah, somebody could be dropping 11 people in covers. Yes, a bazooka can call fucking dive and get 10 yards. Hip hip hooray. That's not my goal. To be the best passer you can be in Madden. You have to be able to pass when they know you're gonna pass, when they're defending your pass, and actually when they know what play you're gonna run. That is when you become a good passer. Anybody can pass, run, run, run, pass. But if you can pass when your opponent knows exactly what you wanna do, they know exactly you're gonna pass, they know who you're going to, they know what, if you still can pass, that is when you become elite, passing the ball, period. And that's why what I strive to get to every time I play a game of Madden, I strive to get to that point. Cause yeah, once I get to that point, of course I can always go back and run the ball. Yeah, I can always go back and press inside zone. Of course. But can I get to that point, that elite point passing by running the ball at a time? No, I don't think it's possible. You know, so that's pretty much how I get it. You know what I'm saying? J-Wall really sick about this Taylor Gang stuff. Hey, J-Wall called me a total eight. Check those leaderboards. I'm gonna see J-Wall's passes as per game. I see, just let me on. I gotta see. I just tell him catch me on the leaderboards, you know what I'm saying? That's pretty much what you gotta tell him, that's all. Everybody one gamble, all these mad people one gamble. I might have to, J-Wall might have to pop up on the stream but we might have to discuss this rivalry that y'all got. Cause y'all might be the biggest rivalry in man 20 so far. You know what I'm saying? Might be. I have a 30 resting yards again, that's not toting. That's three, that's three carries a gang. All right, first of all, I will tell you what, I probably run the least. I don't know. I don't think there's a man that can tell me. I don't think there's a man that can tell me he run less than I run. I don't think there's one. You only have his 10 resting yards a game, yeah, and J-Wall is at 11. Oh, I'm only at 10 rushing yards a game? And he's at 11? Yup, champion, champion. Right here boys. Nobody runs less than me, nobody. And my 10 yards are probably straight from the quarterback too. While I run, man, y'all wanna watch runners? My man's doing the glitchy stuff where I can't look at the leaderboards. Yeah, I just got in. Yeah, but ultimately, man, that's pretty much how I feel. The game is cool. So J-Wall and Taylor Gang not gonna play, you know what I'm saying? And first of all, J-Wall is the most boring Mike game ever, you know what I'm saying? That's how I feel. Why run when you can pass? Like, why? Man, I just don't understand. You know, there's a lot of y'all in here that aren't like established man players. Like if you're a J-Bird or you're Fitz, like y'all can't, y'all, the ship has sailed on y'all passing the ball. Like y'all can't do it. Y'all don't know how to put, y'all just, y'all can't pass. So y'all keep running. But if you're a new man player, you're just coming up again, you wanna get better? Pass, man. Pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. J-Wall, if you don't get the hell out of here. See how I won't play J-Wall, man? It'll make some. I'll tell you what's up again. He's grinding man and he got good at it too. Much like J-Bird, much like Fitz. That's why y'all are homies. Y'all grind man and y'all have good at it too. I just tease y'all cause y'all runners. That's all. Y'all suck. There's indeed, look, lucky Lars, that's a misconception offensively. You can be physical on offense and not run the ball. The physical, you're really on defense though. That's pretty much where it goes. You know what I'm saying? Once a man, once you start hitting on defense, that's what it's all about, really. J-Wall can join the chat. Like y'all keep telling me, like I can't like call him. Like all you gotta do is like, there is no skill gap in running the ball. Jesus Christ. Will happen, will happen this court. Is there anybody on, if we talk about evasive, is there anybody on raise that have evasive? I think Tariq Cohen has it. Tariq Cohen, like really, okay. Yeah, there's not a lot of really shifty, shifty, shifty running backs in the NFL. Show him of course you have it, shit. And Miles Sanders will have it. This up coming halfway through the year, they will update Miles Sanders. Fantasy man, you guys drafting your team, get Miles Sanders, he's gonna be a goon this year. I honestly feel like maybe, call me crazy here, chat. Maybe five defensive X-Factors and only three on offense. Make the defense better. Give somebody's linebacker, somebody's DB, secure tackler, give them enforcer, whatever it may be. And maybe we can get somebody in the secondary, what do y'all think about that? Maybe more on defense to make defense a little more powerful than offense. Is that crazy or would that be a little better? What do you think, Taliq? I mean, they would just fumble even more and complain and cry even more. No. Okay. I just get sick of hearing people complain about, I mean, just get out of bounds, fall to the ground. I hate hearing people complain. I don't really complain about anything in this game. I just deal with it. Just deal with it. You're gonna have to play it anyway. Play it every day, just deal with it. Get better. Mm. So you got a good attitude. So that's why you want to succeed. If y'all have a good attitude, you're gonna be able to succeed, Taliq. Like, I don't got time to cry over how the game is. The game is broken. I'm just gonna be good at the broken game. And when they fix it, I'm gonna be good again. And when they cross the time break for some fumbles and it pretty much goes to the point that I just think hitch-ticking is too easy. And I feel like the Hitch-Tick animation in general should be reserved, excuse me, this. Hitch-Tick animations in general should be reserved for people with like 85 plus hip power and 80 tackling. You have to have good range to be able to get some of these ridiculous Hitch-Ticks. Anthony Brown, it's about even Apke, even more of these guys, OB that don't have crazy hip power, shouldn't be getting these type of animations. And I think that would help the game so much to where, I mean, back, even in Man 17, man, I remember I had Sean Till, I had Harrison Smith, I had these goons because they put shoulders into people. They did just really Hitch-Tick people. And I feel like now it's way too many people that can hitch-tick. And I feel like if it was reserved, let's just say, let's put number 85, let's just say 80 plus hip power. I think that'd be a decent number. And of course, when you move up to the 90s, that's when you get, it should almost be like, hear me on this check, remember how spin move last year was 82 spin, you could get that animation. Maybe Hitch-Ticks should be, the Hitch-Tick animations should be based on hip power. Okay, yeah, you can get a Hitch-Tick at 80 hip power, but the Hitch-Ticks you get at 90 hip power, those are the ones where the running backs flying across the screen, or just the heads whipping back and the balls coming out, and when their legs are breaking and stuff like that. So the higher your hip power get, the more Hitch-Tick animations you can unlock, the more abilities you have to Hitch-Tick. So that's pretty much how I think maybe it can help a little bit. Who's here? Well, what's up, Woo? This is a surprise, a surprise to have you. Nice to hear from you. Nice to talk to you. How was your Tuesday going? Looking for blood. Looking for blood. So now I'm gonna ask you these questions of Woo as we bring you on here, Woo. One, how do you feel about the fumbles? Too many. Too many? Okay. Now when you play, Woo, when you play the game, do you play on conservative? Do you play on balanced? How do you play? On balanced. Okay. You play on conservative, just running the Hitch-Ticks. Yeah, you're right. You pretty much do still get Hitch-Tick. So you play on balanced. Do you have like, do you have Marcus Allen? Do you do any of the evasive or armbar or anything? No, it's girly. Bunch, girly. Girly, bunch of dots, okay. And real quick, real quick, Woo complains about fumbles. He runs stick and throws the Titan flat every play. He gets his stick 30 times a game. I mean, at that point, yeah, that's something that I found and then found the way to get Marcus Allen in that spot. So I could have somebody with a little bit more carry in that situation. That's how much you like. And I feel like the Titans are so bad and mutt now that they just do get blasted. Even Kittle only has like, what, 81 speed or something? Like he's not fast and like, this is gonna get his stick to death. So I feel like if I'm running bunch or if I run classes, which is pretty much similar thing where you're gonna throw in the flats and take your flats, right? I feel like you kind of have to play on balanced or on conservative because you are, if you do throw in the flats that much, you are gonna get his stick upwards of 10 to 20 times a game. Like, man, if you want the ball to never pop out, run out of balance. You're right there at the sideline, run out of balance. The fumbles will be fine if it was actual defense in the game. Like if you fumble and then you can't stop nobody, you're just dead. Yeah. I mean, okay, well, now I go back. Let's talk about how you feel about the ballhawk and the user. I like it. I think it's pretty good. I like the user actually. You can actually throw it in the purpose of having it still. I mean, yeah, but I think once we learn like the angles you can go for picks, the angles you got to swat and the different depth you have to be able to get picks, I think it's gonna change how we feel about it. You actually have a better user. I like it. I think it makes the user better. Yeah, I do think you do have to have a little bit better user, a little bit better stick. And the last thing, I mean, how do you feel about the X-Factor? How do you feel about the D-Line? How do you feel about the running back X-Factors? I don't know, solid cap is good, but they need to turn the block sheds up, I think. The block sheds up? Like make them shed faster? Make them block shed better and mutt. Hold it, you mean mutt like the one where, no, you trippin'. I mean, yeah. You're a block shed, you're a defense in the game. You're a run of the past. What do you mean there's no defense? You have to send seven or, like. Now, I used to believe that will, and then when I did, I put stars on my defensive line and rushed three and I was cool. I don't shed, you might, you know, know something I don't. You got the stars on your feet? Yeah, I got Calil Mac, I got straight hand. So you can do it. I can't help you too much, but Calil Mac ain't it. I'ma just leave it there. Calil Mac ain't it. You know what I'm sayin'? But no, I feel like the sheds are good in dollar. You build three superstars in the line, because you know I'm a heavy seven, seven, seven, eight type of person. But once I saw, I can't lie, I saw Clef and I saw Henry play like three games where they both were just rushing three. Well, Clef makes up a little bit more. But Henry just rushed three and Clef is somebody that I see someone have great pocket presence and he really gonna do shit. And it's not that people weren't open, he just couldn't get the ball off. I was like, all right, this is my defense. I've seen enough. So put three stars on your D-line move. Y'all get Von Miller, get you Aaron Donald right there in the nose tackle and get you Reggie White or straight hand. See now, I'll tell you this chat. Colomack isn't it, because he's not a 90 overall. Because he's not 90 overall, he doesn't get three abilities. So he can't get that edge threat or that power specialist. Once you get the edge threat or the power specialist move, it will change your life. So that's why Colomack isn't it. That's only for you guys, man. That's only knowledge that you get here at the needed podcast. So make sure you guys take good advantage of that. I'm saying make sure Colomack ain't it. Once he get a new card, new upgrades he gonna be. Once he gets to a 90 overall, he can get that edge specialist. Boom, he'll be a goon. Now on to the Gussin' Glory, Woo. What's your record for his Taylor game this year? I ain't played him, he's been hot. He's been hot? Oh, no, I'm kidding. Ain't nobody in the community has ever known me to hide. Oh, you're here right now? Is that what's going down, Woo? I mean, Taylor game might duck, so I really can't, I mean, you know. I ain't never duck, come on. Also, you wanna boot up? No, let's get it. Also, can we get a stream of this Taylor game? Yeah, let's get it. Give me 20 minutes. Right now? I can't get 15? What you mean 15? What you got, take a shit or something, you good? All right, all right, come on, come on, come on, come on. Come on, I'll boot it up. Okay. I'll boot it up, I'll boot it up. Oh, Woo, you gambling, Woo, you betting? Heck no. Oh, you ain't betting? All right, say no more. Y'all playing Mutt, Straight Mutt? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, okay. Yeah, see y'all get caught up. See, check, I need to get right here, check. I need to get right here, check. Is that it's not about what you play for. Listen, you could, I'd rather lose 500 to somebody else than lose a free game to Seawoo. I'll tell you that, like, y'all, I don't know how y'all don't understand that. Like playing Seawoo isn't about what you're playing for, it's the fact you're playing Seawoo. You know what I'm saying? And that's a big deal, you know what I'm saying? Well, you want to boot up the mixer, I'll put the link in the chat and we'll go there, what's up? Whatever, don't matter. Boot up the mixer, man. We all get woo shit popping. I didn't tell you, both of y'all boot up. All right, for sure. Both of y'all boot up so we can have the dual angles. I'm not going to put this on the podcast, YouTube, if you watch this podcast on YouTube, I'm not going to put the game. We are already up here at, we are at over an hour on this podcast. So I'm not going to add this, it's going to be exciting to watch these two play. But one, what's your mixer woo? Seawoo 92 with two O's? Seawoo 92 with two O's. Make sure you check mixer.com slash Seawoo 92 with two O's. I will put that in the description. So if you're looking for Seawoo on mixer, hopefully he keeps grinding that, man. Twitch holding them back, but he's on mixer, that link will be below. And TeleGang, what's the twitch? Is it just TeleGang? Telling, telling, tell it with an extra G. With an extra G. Yeah, I'm just going to stand up to me after the last time I played you. So there you go. Both TeleGang links for his Twitch and Seawoo's mixer will be in this description below. So make sure you check it out. So y'all don't want to miss this game. Y'all don't want to miss them when they go live. This was the needed podcast. This was episode 41. We talked about the games one week. Next week, what's going on between now and next week? I believe the end of the mud head that six people competing for 10K, which clef is going to win, that's going to happen. Some more mud head events we can talk about. Some more arm bars. Hopefully a patch. Maybe, maybe not. I think the first one doesn't happen until 30 days. So definitely watch this. So if you're on YouTube, hit this like button and comment if you're on SoundCloud, do the same, man. You guys can check me out live, twitch.tv slash dub dot every Tuesday. That's when the podcast goes down.