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There's other videos out there for you to watch This is simply about getting all you guys better at the game This is whether you're an eight-year-old that just picked the game up or you're 88 years old And you've been playing since mad 92 whatever it may be man all these little tips and tricks can help you guys man and So whatever you need help with put that below in the comments section 300 likes We'll drop a new one comment section below you guys know you can watch me live twitch.tv Slash dub that play Madden every day Also, man follow all the socials Twitter Instagram my tiktok is booming all the highlights up there everything all those links are below But today I'm gonna help you guys with this cover to sound simple Probably the most basic defense in real life or you know in Madden All you guys probably have run it definitely played against it. You know the weaknesses, you know the strengths man for me It's probably my favorite defense to run and this is not You know this is not pertaining to any specific formation Just a specific coverage and what I do with cover to what a lot of these pros do with cover to and how to make it a lot more versatile Then just a basic cover to you know how to how to manipulate every zone in your field How to use every single player on your field and you know the cover to is not not just about you know Guarding the stock routes that that it guards, you know, you can do a lot of things in this game You have a lot of defensive changes you can do That's what that's why when when that's why as pro players we get so upset when people say it's the same play over and over When it's not and I'll show you guys so many different things you can do And previous play a lot of you guys play mutt head-to-head, you know and previous play is a part of that the best thing about Previous play and it's something that you guys have to start to use as you know Obviously at at first look as a defensive player You hate it because now the offensive player knows what defense you're in right away, right? But you can manipulate it so much your cover to can do so many different things and still show up on previous play Are as cover to you know, so it's just it's just it's almost previous play is almost an illusion You can trick your opponent and you got to see previous play as a strength as your weapon as a defensive player And I'll show you guys all the different things we do with cover to a lot of you guys have been saying big big nickel That's what we will work big nickel will will work that Play out of that for this this video man, but I'm gonna show you I have the San Diego Super Chargers Playing against the Kansas City Chiefs. Obviously we're playing against Patrick from the Homes Now I will tell you The one thing about over G and this is want to be a huge tip for all you guys out there pause That uh, run this this defense, you know, the one thing about this the individual adjustments are a little backwards It's hard to put your corners and quarters or everything like that because they're they got the goofy adjustments Now, I don't know how you guys I'll show you guys right now. Let's just come out and cover to we'll play against gun bunch We'll play against doubles Always like just to play against in four verticals or anything, right? So this is just covered to now in big nickel. I this guy on the outside. I can't put him or something weird The just see see how I put Jenkins my safety I try to put him in a third over the middle and he goes to a third all the way to the left These are what I call it a goofy adjustments like they're just not normal out of every set You see and sometimes you guys will have problems with this and and doing the individual adjustments And you'd never want this like this is not the cover to we're talking about right now I know I talked about adjustments, but that's not the cover to we're talking about now I'm not used to these adjustments some players I know are used to these adjustments and they can use them but for me I'm not so I'll show you guys how to fix that so that never happens You know what we want to do here is we go to big nickel and use the packages The right stick will change the packages, you know switch your dns linebacker swap switch the corners Whatever may be all you got do is put it on the first one slot corner back And then you'll get the regular adjustments and what I'll do then is I'll sub out Their one job put let's put Desmond King in the slot. I don't want I want real life I don't really know who was on this team, but I want to put their one back as safety I don't really don't know these guys that well. We have Michael Davis out there Casey Hayward Who's a great corner 91 overall? Yeah, so now we have the regular adjustments, so we'll do it back to the same thing That's Justin big nickel some other formations like that too. I'm really not sure but this is covered too, right? One thing about cover two the safeties they're really not going to do anything for you The biggest adjustment I can tell you guys as they snap the ball here I'm on my dn gotta find somebody And there's a little weakness but in this game the way they react man You can give up the flats all day But the one thing you guys I I would Tell you guys the first step you guys can make for being a better man player running cover two is move these these guys down Especially let's do this because it's rare that the football is ever in the middle of the field, right? So we'll go back big nickel cover two Oh, no, what do I want to respot the ball is what I want to do But I can't do that yet Respot the ball put it on a hash that way you get a better idea of Kind of What you're going to see in the game you're never really going to see The ball in the middle of the field because a lot of things I do defensively have to do with you know Where the weakness is where the big side of the field is so here we go on big side I mean wide side double offset back to the same play But that's what I mean the first the first advice I give you is move these safeties down a little bit Now Phillips because he's on the short side. We can get a little more aggressive with that guy Derwin James still has to cover that sideline So I want to move him down as much You know, but move them down because that the one the one thing I notice from watching pros and watching You know anybody play move the safeties down It's as often as a player it changes so much when you move these safeties here because if you keep these You know Derwin James back here you can snap throw the ball to Tyree killing possession catch right in front of his face The entire game You know make him get up get him up there in the box You see he has his own doubt as most of your safety is probably doing mud He'll be able to get back there and stop you know a deep fade or something like that So definitely move these guys up. That's some that's the first word of advice So now we look at cover two. We have a mid read And we two have two vert hooks vert hooks honestly for a passer. I hate them. I hate them in the middle of the field Sometimes they bait me. Sometimes they'll jump up underneath. Sometimes they'll drop back They really guard a lot of different things. Uh, so my advice most of the time I like to keep two of those on the field Most defenses I do like to use are the mid read now the mid read has a lot of responsibility as I talked about these vert hooks They're short zones. They're going to jump up and get short things, you know So for me as you're on the mid read you have to worry about any seams or any pulse or anything like that Uh, but that that's pretty much what I like I mean you have two clouds for silent two vert hooks and that's how it goes But I will tell you this is one of the biggest tips. I can give you got another one That I do pretty much every time I run covered two I why shade down shade underneath what that's going to do It's going to turn my heart my cloud flats into hard flats, right? Not only is it going to do that, but it's going to make my vert hooks that much more aggressive The vert hooks are going to shoot down guard hitches You see so many people throw hitches in front of your zones. It won't happen like right now The guard hitches the guard drags if kelsey's on the drag Davis will come down here and guard him all the way to the numbers So you pretty much cannot throw drags on his defense. You can't throw hitches Nothing underneath, but I don't really want my heart flats because then the deeps that you know, the the streets will run by him So what I do is I then individually change the heart flats and the cloud flats So now I have these vert hooks really getting aggressive at close to the line of scrimmage guarding everything short But my cloud flats are still playing pretty, you know passively and allowing things going in the flat underneath So I have the entire deep deep middle of the field. I want to say deep middle. I'll say, you know The middle of the field where pretty much where his zone is is what I got to guard my vert hooks will do a great job Bumping underneath and really garden drags and everything like that and my clouds will drop back So this is not a basic cover two Your opponent will think it's basic cover two and I'm telling you it will confuse it confuses me And it still has to this day because these vert hooks play so aggressively You just think that the flat zones are going to play that aggressively, but they don't they'll drop back and be passive So you'll have some aggressive zones out here and some passive and will confuse a lot of people So that's pretty much the first the first thing I would do running cover two move these safeties in the box Get a little more aggressive with them shade down Then recloud the outside guys boom none And we'll see what what uh patrick mohms wants to go to here You can just see you can just see that if obviously the flats are open for a little gain right there But we want to be able to make that tackle I just want to show you guys these vert hooks on this play It's like they don't even back up They're underneath They take you can just see where the cloud flats they back up a little bit the vert hooks go nowhere They are underneath. They are at the line of scrimmage Anything a drag anything like that they will be able to cover as you see they're on the running back right here Kind of on the flat route he goes in with this but he can throw the flat route. Boom. They pick up what four yards That's what a great animation to the tight end. So that's the basic way. I like to run cover two Love that just for putting it out there for for uh, that's a every down type of defense now I will tell you this is pretty much Let me see this is what a lot of people do have been doing for Since man 18. I talked about it in the last video what deep blue zones can do Uh And that's in kind of changing your cover two Now right now we have cover two, but I have this mid read So I have to run down the middle of field if tyrie kill is on a streak right now I have to run with him and I don't want to run with this linebacker tranquil Tranquility that he's a passive guy. He doesn't want to run down the field I don't want to run with tyrie kill. I want to be up here So if I want to play a little bit safer, this is a basic defense that I love to run now Uh, why is that a short side? I really don't uh, it makes a difference, but it's not crazy right now What I like to do is This is my extra corner here. I will put him in a flat zone. Now. This is a purple I know but what I'll do is I'll take one of the safeties put him in a deep third Now I got to put this corner and put him in a quarter because I don't want him to press I don't want him to be in a third So essentially this is cover two, but we just change it to like a cover three You know a cover three cloud we have cover two on the left side We don't have to worry about tyrie kill because phillips will run back there and pick him up We have our flat zone over here now. Obviously. I'm missing a vert hook. So I have more responsibility on tranquil But it gives me a lot more safety over the top I don't have to worry about tyrie kill running down the middle because I have phillips I would still I mean tyrie killing phillips is a bad matchup But we don't have that many bad matchups and mutt like this But I would still probably put this guy here The one thing about it is you could do this, you know, but then it makes it kind of obvious That you're doing that setup So you kind of want to just keep these guys Looking like a cover two shell and there you go. So you have your flat zones covered. You still have your vert hook And you still have your your flat zone over here Now I wish I could put him in a cloud flat and you can do that by shading down the shading up Puts him in a cloud, but now this vert hook won't play as aggressive He'll drop back because my entire defense is shaded There it is. Those are the basic things I like to do it cover two Makes it a lot harder to pass on and uh makes Makes your defense a lot more versatile Now this guy's want to go back to the huddle every play and he's going to say damn that guy's just running cover two I got to go to my cover two dot and what's the cover two dot? Throw it deep down the field But when he snaps the ball and sees your safety he's moving to a cover three He's going to do a lot of picks take a lot of sacks And there's a bunch of different things you can do to try to confuse your opponent So those are just the basics of cover two Uh and the things that I do out of every defense whether it's one four six, uh three four odd Um, whatever nickel normal big nickel like that dollar Whatever defense you guys are comfortable running you can implement those same principles into your cover two out of your set Like I said, this was befriending the bot hope I got all you guys to get better at the game and make your cover two that much more high power This video gets up to 300 likes and you guys comment below what you want me to talk about what you want What you guys need help with bang. I'll drop another video. Hope you'll hopefully tomorrow