 YouTube let's talk about pocket presence. Now pocket presence is one of the biggest things that separates you from me It's one of the biggest things you need to improve on. I don't care who you are You can always get better at this It is it is a vital part of passing the ball and if you watch the best passers in the game You'll notice it when they really buy more time not scrambling not drifting backwards not rolling out But using their blockers and using their blockers ability in the pocket So let's take a look at this in practice morning I will give you the best drill if any of my old heads are in the comments below that remember the tennis ball drill from previous Madden's please comment Let me know you used to do that and help you get better moving in a small space not running not sprinting But just using that left stick to stay in a small space Make sure you stay out of trouble man If you guys want to watch me twitch.tv slash dub dot that link is below man If you guys are excited about befriending the box series coming back and things you guys need help with There was no question that's too dumb. There was nothing you need help with that's too small I promise anything you guys put below I want to get better passing. I want to get better on run defense Also, man, look at all the befriending the box videos if you haven't man A lot of these can help you a lot of these still apply to every Madden they really do But let's take a look in practice mode because this is the best and I will tell you guys the best Way to practice this that I found now. I have the chiefs here. I'm gonna pick. I'm going to pick bunch I'm gonna pick some type of bunch if they have bunch. I don't know what the chiefs have they don't We'll try a tray white flex. All right, you guys know I ran that a lot last year. We'll send out every receiver And we're playing against the Chargers the reason why I like playing against the Chargers They have Joey Bolsa and I want to try to find a three-man rush That's that's that's pretty geeked. You know, this is a geek three-man rush Now the biggest thing I want to tell you about pack practicing pocket presents the biggest way to make this super effective Is we're gonna go here. We're gonna drag this down and we're not gonna start at the 50 We're not gonna start at the 40 not at the 30 not at the 10. We're gonna put this ball on our own Two-yard line. That's that's why I like it my own two-yard line. Why do I do this? Why do I do this because I want to get you out of the habit of dropping back? Dropping back out of the tackle box is something that used to be really effective Used to be able to throw the same way whether you were 20 yards back or two yards back It has changed in previous years being able to use your pocket is way more effective It's gonna calm down those edge threats. It's gonna calm down those blitzes everything I mean being up in the pocket is always has way more positives and negatives man There's plays where you get sacked there's plays where your first and second reader not open or somebody sheds really quickly If you're dropping backwards now, you're on second and 18 or you're on third and 22 You know if you get sacked for one two yards, it's still manageable you get to third and 20 you can kiss the baby man It is over. It is cooked that is why stepping back in the pocket is bad And that is why I'm telling you guys put the ball on the two-yard line The best thing you can do the best way to practice this and this is it you're not gonna pass You're not going to block you're just gonna stay in the pocket How long can I survive and I will tell you this right now the pass rush on practice mode is absolutely insane If you can survive against the practice mode pass rush you can survive against any pass rush in the game Last thing let me not last thing but listen Recognize with defense your opponent's in man Is he a three-man rush type of person? Is it a four-man rush? Is it nickel normal with four rushes or is it a blitz heavy guy? You know, it just depends and that also changes where you put the double team Personally, I tend to double team every play now me myself I feel like why are we only limited to one double team a three-man rush? I should be double teaming two people now I'll show you guys how to do that earlier be friend in the box a series I have shown you yet, but you might have missed them. So let's tune you guys into this now This is a three-man rush now I know it's a three-man rush one because it looks like a three-man rush first of all second of all I would know that because that is what my opponent has been doing You know, there's nothing that's going to tell you exactly how many people are blitzing or what type of rush It is except for just repetition of plays and playing against your opponent one of the reason why we like passing every play So we get into that habit of recognizing our opponent's defense, you know It could hurt you it could help you some people like more reps some people like limited reps so they can surprise their opponent I like to know what you're comfortable with defensively and I'm going to just give this because three-man rush Is kind of the meta early in the year here and I'll show you guys man. I just try to stay alive now This is gonna be no I'm just gonna snap the ball and just try to stay alive here We see Bolsa Shag and we're gonna step up swerve around and eventually you're gonna just Bolsa's gonna get you He has that ability even though I have Mitchell Schwartz So what I would do what I like to do is double team if there's one edge threat like this I would double team him now that means we're gonna get a double on Bolsa Maybe Melvin Ingram on the left is single covered, but I also can ID him now This takes a lot of time in the line, but I think it's worth it and we'll see if we get two double teams We just get the solo guy. That's the first guy shed Now I can avoid that but you see we stopped Joey Bolsa, but I would double Joey Bolsa I would snap the ball try to stay alive as much as I can we see Bolsa shedding just stay alive That's all and I'm not dropping backwards if you drop backwards One you're gonna make it easy for easier for the tackle to go around You know it this is like as much as we'd say man is not sim this is real football You know Bolsa is gonna get that edge. I got stood up I got to go up in the pocket see gotta go up in the pocket make sure that detackle cannot Disengage and get me that easily don't read these doubles Bolsa's shedding again step up get sacked by Ingram, but you see I didn't lose that many yards. All right So this is something just you don't want to drop back That's why I'd have it so it's the back of the end zone if you have escape orders You can always just do that, you know, which is OP but So that's why I like to put the ball so close the last thing you can do now This is what I do when I'm practicing plays when I practice and route combos, whatever it may be. I go the same thing Same exact thing will and any play really we'll go back to trade why flex Send out everybody. Oh, let's do the play in the Super Bowl. What's the play in the Super Bowl jet wasp. Yeah Let's try that play All right, but the play doesn't matter and what I want to do is sub out the best pass rushers instead of Bolsa Let's go against Bilal instead of teller II will go against brought brought in instead of Ingram will go against Rochelle don't know who these guys are, but let's see what they have for the pass rush cover three sky press Once again, you see we already have way more time This guy's shedding to step up you already have a little bit more time and you start getting used to how these guys break the double teams how they You know the animations are a little bit better Or what the animations are like as we stay alive just a little bit longer But see what I mean about stepping up that the end had to come around the edge and then reach and get me not just Just get off the tackling get me just those extra steps If you watch me play if you watch any player play as we see our left tackle is going to eventually get beat here, right? If I had dropped back, he's tackling me right now. I'm getting under pressure I'm getting draw the sack anything like that, but these steps up in the pocket, right now He's five yards away from me instead of right next to me You know and he has to take a look another he gets caught up in more animations to get caught up in more blockers And hopefully if I was looking down feel I would have got rid of the ball by now But you just help your tackle out because your tackles even though we paid a lot of money for our tackles and we paid our abilities For our tackles. They're still not gonna help you all the time So if you step up and just you know use their shield and use their blocking to the best of your ability You'll be able to get rid of ball So listen try this out if you want to improve your pocket presence I promise you guys. This is the best drill you can do because EA has removed the drills I don't want to get into that or anything like it, but I'm telling you this will help you and you will see a vastly improve your madden game