 What's up boys now as you see I have the throne shirt on I know you guys all check out don't watch all his videos May is one of the best youtubers out But he's recently come up with this new offense. There's near flex close Near close flex whatever it is Um, and it's pretty much taken we can leave him up by storm earlier probably about two three weeks ago I put a video out on how I defend it and what I do against it in this video. I want to elaborate on that I want to just continue to talk about it because it's kind of frustrating when one offense is giving everybody trouble Or do you see the majority of people flocked that offense because they're trying to just do what everybody else does You know what I'm saying? So I want to break down how I defend this a little bit more and I ran into a weak-end league game against a guy That's on the leaderboards a lot on the fake mr. Golden sports He has the same gamer tag as mr. Golden sports, but one letter to change now He's running the near close flex And I'm just gonna elaborate with my defense what I do and the things I mix up and what I like about it Then I'm gonna show you the gameplay the bow I used it in the game of weekend league You know this game was earlier tonight. I decided let's make this video right now It's not gonna take me too long to just talk to you guys about how I defend that so if you're struggling with it You'll you'll love this video, and I hope you watch the video before It's all gonna help you become a better Defender against the near-fascals now before you get into it You have to realize why is it good cuz it can cut block blitz 8 blitz 7 it can cut block all that It's the easiest offense to roll out with it's the easiest offense to force cut blocks Take it to seal the edge and be able to roll out with your quarterback That is why it's effective. They can get out of there and throw the corner routes They always want to roll out to the wire receiver side It's a set with two our receivers close like the boom near close flex right there boom They want to roll out to the side and throw a corner route. That's madden 20 It's passing a man in 20 So what can we do to stop that and I want to show you guys but before you know hit that like button subscribe You like this type of video I'm gonna tell you right now the gameplay is not the greatest I pretty much stopped stopped recording my offenses that you're not gonna see too much of my offense Because if this is just about what how I use the defense and how it works Man I want to give you guys just more examples of this because I know this is one of the more popular Offenses you're gonna face, but let's take a look. Let's go to offense or practice mode here We go right here man Now I like to run this will buck three press now What I want is I want the purple zone linebacker, you know, so it's on the right right now I want that on the side of the wire receivers now most of the time they'll put that to the wide side So if it's a left I'll go ahead put it there and so on and so forth But for now we'll leave this will leave the stock the purple zone on the right side now also personnel while we get into this I want if you had a right now Keith Bullock Anthony Barr outside linebacker or Keith Bullock Dion Jones outside linebacker Because they're gonna be in zone or it contains so password stats do not matter at all You want good zone? You want high awareness guys and play to run every once more but basically your best zone linebackers I believe this game I use I Think I use bar and Bullock. You can use bar and she's here. You can use Bullock and she's here She's here and Dion Jones. You guys know I love Dion Jones. Then I'll probably put Lawrence Taylor and who Jadavion Clowney a defensive end Along with Miles Garrett now the detackle is the biggest part of this scheme because what you want is you it's an under center scheme all under center You want to force a one-on-one with the center because the set if if the center gets a one-on-one with the detackle The detackle can beat him before the quarterback even stops his right back So you can get to the quarterback while he's biking up because he's that close to the center soon as he snaps the ball You can do right around the center and tackle him So having a detackle activated with past rush elite is the most important thing in this scheme So if you don't have that you're gonna be in trouble We have Kenny Clark. I don't believe what he has here, but we'll we'll buck three press This is what I run the whole game against this. All right now We'll come here near. Where is it near close flex? Here it is. I know I can't really emulate everything They do I'm just going to show you guys exactly what I do now. I pinch my line Right. I come up here Press and I always use with this this guy right here Now what I like to do is I we need to contain but if you contains Was it Zadaria Smith? He's just gonna get cut blocked I like to contain my middle linebacker boom right there because What's gonna happen on a slide and this contain is a little bit slower takes a little bit longer and comes at a different angle So it messes up their timing on when they want to roll out So this is pretty much the base setup now I like to shade down and shade up to get Zadaria Smith here in a cloud flat rather than the purple a Purple tends to float in the middle and then just get beat by a corner out instantly Now I know a cloud will get beat by a corner out But it will take a little bit longer and the longer you keep this quarterback in the pocket the more time we have For a boy Kenny Clark who just has inside stuff so he doesn't have past rush Well, I use miles Garrett the longer you keep the quarterback from rolling out the better chance miles Garrett has the getting to the quarterback So this is the base setup that I use, you know depending on the routes they run you can you can definitely Change your zones. Um It seems obvious to man up that corner on that guy It does he can't cover the corner route most people that run is now are having hot route master or they even have this tighten activated to where he can run any route so For me, I just like playing the cover three. It's safe and and as we talked about the detack will be important safeties with lurker and acrobat now acrobat's a bonus, but lurker Is a must Calvin Johnson Taylor Mays Sean Taylor. I'm tall people. I tell him and maybe but not the power model They're too short for me Sean Taylor Taylor Mays Calvin Johnson Brian Dawkins even six foot tall Ronnie lot them type of guys lurker because when they're on their center and They're they don't want to throw the ball anywhere near here You know and if someone's throwing the ball in between the tackles in the middle of the field at your user You're gonna get an interception eventually. They're gonna make the wrong read you're gonna jump the wrong pass It is going to happen So that's why I like lurker and we'll see in this game why I do also I said so the the middle linebacker being in the contain rather than an outside linebacker Just delays the timing on the rollout they may still roll out and that's when you start mixing up All right now. I'm gonna send the linebacker on a contain. Just mix it up But for the most part, this is my base set up right here Now obviously the tight end on the corner row could beat me But if I see him take steps up, I know he's going corner out or over the middle now If he's over the middle, he's gonna stay right here But and then I said if this starts killing you you can do something like this Boom to contains on the middle linebacker. You can do something like this Just just mix just mix it up But mostly you want these these cover threes and you want to contain on the two iris here side to be the Middle linebacker that is key and essentially you do this out of every play I like this cover three So let's get in this gameplay and show you guys exactly how it worked against an opponent as it doesn't work against the computer So like I said, this is the fake GS and I'm going for moss right away But we use it as a decoy throw it up underneath to Julio Jones big play right there now this guy we all know GS He's the man and his gamertag is FT. Oh Tactician, I believe this is FT zero tactician. So definitely a fake GS I don't know who would make a fake GS at a gamer tag But this guy and I've played this guy a lot. He seems to be trying to be a meta type of guy And I said this defense is not gonna just all of a sudden you're gonna lock up every every near close flex It's just not gonna work as I scored easy seven right off the bat right off the bat Here we see again that first play I sent everybody because he had moss I know he's gonna wait for the ball send everybody but there we see again that contain Why receiver side and I got Calvin Johnson over the middle of the field and we get a sack right there Who is it Ryan Shays here that other linebacker that we blitz same thing next play that contain the timings a little bit Different than the outside linebacker. So we get the sack from that middle linebacker contain I just want you guys to see this in action and see how it works So you can implement it to your game when you face these near close flex demons Offense this guy ran 1 4 6 and just ran covered to the whole game. I was pretty easy, you know, I just took what was there I don't believe I really get stopped. That was bad stick right there from mr. Walter Peyton But uh, yeah, I mean is this game this game as I get get up out of there with Vic read the blocks and take it But I said this game is mostly about The defense now once you're up 14 nothing to change the game But watch that contain on the right side gonna go down now. He starts hitting me with a little flat pass You notice this covered 3 my linebacker is not gonna get out there and cover that now as you're up 14 nothing You don't really got to worry about that man There's no point in stressing over this little I mean maybe maybe if he gets 15 yards But he's getting 4 and 5 yards don't overreact and give up a bigger play because of a flat pass Especially when right now I put a hard flat on my linebacker Anthony Bar. Let's see if he gets out there He does and I just didn't hold why there. I didn't expect him to door right at my face But this is a little route convo. He's mixing in so I'm gonna mix in a little bit of cover to you see me That was covered to I didn't change my play. I just switched all the zones, you know, I still run that cover 3 I still do but when I do the cover to I have deep responsibility So I cannot jump anything underneath. I had to wait for a streak. You see me I'm 15 yards back rather than when I do that cover 3 and have safety help over the top. I'm way more aggressive Boom there it is miles Garrett that time we sent everybody miles Garrett gets the one-on-one beats the center before the quarterback can drop back Here we're doing the same thing clout flat on the left He blows that flat, but it's second and 16 Patrick Peterson wraps him up He picks up a cool 5 yards hip hip hooray this time We send everybody she's here knocks down a pass get him to a fourth down He's actually on go for this this one. We actually just mix it up and drop every single person We only rush to so he only sends out three We have tons of coverage nowhere for him to go, but he's gonna fire this slot pass lot of medic playmaker They catch it every time Kenny really be mad about it. That's how the game is underneath Where did I tell you? Eventually if you force them in the pocket and you force them to the door ball over the middle field They'll eventually throw one right at you. That's pretty much how it works in this game Closing in the second half. I'm actually gonna wind up punting him the ball and he gets the ball back here I just skipped that whole thing just to show you guys the defense. That's that contain again Patrick Willis 98 speed getting the sack right there So let's watch and he'll flip it So I'm going to flip my setup with him flip and then just blitz that yellow zone So I had still had that cloud flat on my outside linebacker on the left exactly Boom cover everything. Where's he go to ball right at my face again, you know If they can't roll out, they can't pass. That's pretty much the key That's gonna lead to another field goal for my man Jan Yeah, one Jan Jan, whatever you guys call it. I call him Jan. That's it So 17 nothing a half time. I feel like this guy can't get a first down Now I'll be the first to tell you there's different levels to a near close But some people are really really tough with it Some people that you're gonna have to mix it up a lot more than I did this game once again contained There goes Miles Garrett that man And when I say mix it up, sometimes you got a blitz seven and eight right here We send seven at a ball sometimes you got to send three sometimes you have to switch up who your contain is As he does a little wheel route once he starts sending out when he starts sending out four and five You say, you know, it's time for me to send a little bit more as we get them to a fourth down here I'm gonna get crazy here. Sometimes you got to get crazy every once in a while for me now in my life It's probably, you know, maybe two or three plays a game We put everybody put a purple flat out there on left get the ball exactly where we want and Taylor mays couldn't make that tackle. I believe human joystick. I clicked off right there probably clicked off a little bit late and It caused between that and the human joystick it caused him to go right by him But we gave up our first six then the next drive. I don't even want to show it to you I'll show you the touchdown so we don't touch on back on defense It's the same thing the whole time, you know Every time he motions over he tries to throw a little short quick pass to the left Starting to notice that I'm starting to notice that he's doing that pick up on the motions What do they do when a motion this time is time to roll out? But I want to send that even though he has time to roll out Because I had that that clouds on there I can send it almost like a spy and then cover the corner out myself that time He didn't have a corner out this time again We're gonna send a lot more people and who's there? Mr. 98 speed Shazir doesn't get him, but there is Anthony by I'm gonna say so just Absolute nightmare for him his near flex or near close flex could not handle my defensive schemes for a man But I said I will be the first to tell you guys man. There's different levels man If you play the best players in this they're gonna give you more trouble. They're gonna score more points But as far as just a set defense that you can start with running man the way I run three four I think is the best way to defend this now I've always been as I catch another pick with Taylor maze and this one goes to the crib I'm actually gonna dance on him and actually wind up fumbling out the back of the end zone, but That's the video. That's the game. That's all I want to show you Just an action me kicking the shit out of somebody running near close flex and I pretty much do it all the time I don't think I've lost to somebody running in near close flex since it's been that popular I'll be the first to I haven't played anybody that great At it and and this defense seems to work very well And that's your first goal like you don't want to just say oh if I you know, I want to be able to stop Bunch, I want to be able to stop skimbo's bunch. No, you want to be able to stop What Timmy raincoat you want to stop his bunch from down the street, you know You want to stop the bum version of these offenses first and once you get comfortable with that Then you can improve to a point where you're stopping better players and the greatest players man That's what it does But it starts would be in Timmy raincoat from down the street That is the most important thing and this defense will help you guys out that much now if you like this video I know the gameplay wasn't great It wasn't an intense game, but I just really wanted to show you guys how this defense works and how you guys can use it So if you'd like this idea and you want more of this, please hit that like button