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I want to talk about near close flex near flex close whatever this offense is called I've been told every time I play against it in a weekend league that it's taking Mutt by storm this is one of the best offenses in mutt right now that you guys run into every other day or Pretty much every other game and a lot of people have been telling me during my stream Which you guys can watch live twitch.tv slash dub that link is below you click it Also, follow me on the social medias for all updates when I'm streaming when the youtube content is dropped when the tiktok content is Drop all my links are below instagram Twitter tiktok everything make sure you guys follow see all the highlights see all the tips everything but today I want to talk about near flex close because um It's offense that you know, I never really lab for but uh, just the process of playing so many games I've found a great way to contain it and the way that I like to use to contain it And I'm gonna show you guys that just so you're not running into this because I know Playing Madden you guys that are still playing weekend league is still playing mutt this far really madden heads And you guys can appreciate some good defense and don't want to run into the same offense and getting beat by the same offense all the time now To understand to stop offense really is to understand it, you know You have to think what is this person trying to do? What is their goal? What are they setting out to do when they call play do they want to run the ball? Do they want to go deep do they want to get the ball into one of their playmakers hands? You have to think like the offensive player and Let's tell you most people can't pass, you know, I can barely pass anymore man And most people really can't pass so the notion that uh Or what makes passing good essentially is rolling out because once you roll out The defense all sudden is just terrible, you know, that's pretty much how it goes The defense just forgets about my receivers zones run all over the place zones just Pretty much stop playing if you understand like I know you guys have played it once people roll out roll out corners pretty much are the best You know passing concept in the game this year and that's what makes this near close flex near flex close Whatever is so good because it is the easiest formation to roll out with you know There's really not anything you can do to kind of stop them from rolling out because the running backs are so close to the line of Scrimmage there and they'll cut block you guys know the running back cut blocks I've talked about that in many videos and the running backs are so close That they'll cut quicker faster allow the roll out to be even easier So now it's under center. You can blitz the hell out of it one thing. I always liked that Happens all the time or it mattered in general. I I'm the type of person Most of the time get people to feel comfortable You know and use those blitzes when you when you need them not every down I feel like once you blitz every single down You kind of get people into that tempo that you're gonna blitz every now, you know And I think the reverse works better this year may be wrong because of how good blitz in seven and eight people is And I've run that a lot too early in the year with the three four-eyed pinch and everything But naturally in my 15 years of playing man I like to play a little more coverage a little more passive and then blitz when I get to big third down big Four thousand I'll show you guys how I do that against near close and let's go ahead and get into the game the gameplay And I'll tell you normally if you guys watch me play I like to use I'm with the Cleveland Browns right here. I like to use Edge blitz right I like to use this for run defense. So naturally I would come out in this You know what near close flex here it is right natural come out in this My run defense because the full back dive is a pain in the ass a little bit But the more I realize it the more I understand the full back dive is really not hurting you in this formation Doesn't hurt me. I don't know about you guys, but that's not the problem with this formation But the one thing about this defense, right? Is that like I said, he'll cut block that right outside linebacker normally I do this I contain against and it's great run defense probably the best run defense in the game for me That's also good pass defense now three three five wide is great Well, it's the best run defensive you guys are watching the man bowl. It is the best But this I feel like is better because it's good pass defense It's hard to pass against this from under center. That's why I like to run this against near-flex close now The problem with this that you'll run into one year in man coverage Most of the time they have the tight end on a route chem So you can't cover him in man. You can't cover the corner on man You can't cover the pulse routes. They put man. So essentially what I found myself doing when I run this is pretty much Doing this something along these lines. So it's just covered three You know because the man covers really isn't going to cover anybody and it's hard to press these dudes and everything So for that reason I've given up on edge blitz You know, I still run the same concept, but I run it out of this will buck will buck three press I still run this All right, just because I'm tired. I didn't want to waste time putting all those guys in zones every time Right. So we still do the same thing boom Now we're set up though, you know Right like that now we'll tell you the key to this what I have in mud is I have nitrene lane is safety four abilities he's a 99 overall with lurker and Universal coverage and I have Calvin Johnson golden ticket who is the one must have golden ticket with a gold with a lurker and Universal as well. So I switch off on who I use her on my safeties like that And obviously you want to put the other state in the blue So you pretty much have full reign now the third ability is key in defending this and that is Miles Garrett at the tackle whatever the tackle you guys like I think miles Garrett is a golden ticket because he has four abilities and he has 91 speed or something plays the tackle So I put him at the tackle. So because we're blitzing this many people, right? Normally because we're blitzing this many people I put miles Garrett here and he'll get a one-on-one and almost he'll shed the center and almost beat the free rushes to The quarterback and that's why I think these those three abilities are the ones you want to use on defense Now obviously we talked about how this would get cut black that he could roll out So what I do to stop getting cut blocked is this guy right here? He goes in his own boom Cloud flat or a purple whatever you may be I think the cloud flat runs out there faster People always ask me the difference and I tell them I don't know but a cloud flat will get out there He won't mess around he won't bump people will try to run as fast as much now He won't cover the corner out. He will cover the corner out if you keep the quarterback in the pocket That's the key. That's why I love getting my middle linebacker on a contain It's not going to work all the time because the game's brother the game's just broken. It's just not good I it's just you guys know it won't work all the time But it does a better job of containing the quarterback in the pocket Then if this outside linebacker was in a contain now what I also have been doing lately is putting this guy in a spy I Know it's a lot But once you get used to doing these adjustments, that's one of the reasons I get I started coming out in 34 the cover 3 rather than edge blitz because I didn't want to waste time Putting adjustments on my db's. I wanted to just go and that's what it's about now the other side The other side you can blitz add extra pressure. I Rarely see people rolling out to this side if it happens, you know, you can just do the same thing like this Makes it up. Sometimes I like I saw do that even even do something like this, you know Well, you're really rushing to contains a one-power specialist or one pass rush elite and a spy You know at this time of the year everybody your deans right here should be I think my deans are von Miller and Lawrence Taylor or von Miller and Colomac something like that. Whatever may be in your outside linebackers are you know clowny or Clowny and Lawrence Taylor clowny, Colomac of von Miller, those those are the four best like linebacker pass rushers I also use Isaiah Simmons because he's so fast now with that being said when I run this type of defense I have Dion Jones and Dion Jones has 95 zone or whatever I would put him it outside linebacker and then put clowny or Lawrence Taylor at middle linebacker since they're kind of past rushing and you want the better zone guys out here, but This is the basic setup that I like to use. I said he's getting too comfortable. I'll go back to this But the biggest thing is that this running back side this outside linebacker can't be any contained Or you'll get rolled out on every other play now He can still roll on this guy, but because he's this far back He'll take a wide angle on the contain and it'll take him a little bit longer If he wants to roll out and what happens when that if he sits in a pocket a little bit longer your pass rush elite Your your tat your the tackle will do a great job getting home. Now This is something I run. I would I'll tell you guys probably about 80 90% of the time against this defense Against this offense, I mean, but when I get to it when I get somebody to a fourth down or I get somebody to a you know to Fourth down third and eight something like that. You'll do something like this You know where we're now blitzing the corner because this is just compressed, you know now obviously What happens is if he knows you're gonna do this emotion out He'll he'll you know make you pay for putting the corner there But if you sit there in that cover three rush three and four or five people every time and all of a sudden You need to you know rarely send the dogs at him on a fourth down or something He's not gonna be ready for it, you know, and he'll get a cut block Maybe roll out, but there's so many people coming after him Even the computer I know I'll tell you this right now chat. Have you guys ever sacked the computer in practice mode? I don't know if I've ever done that before, you know, normally they get the ball off But just so many people and this I mean you hate to see this over here I don't even want to talk about Defenders have no footing in this game. That's a topic for another time Maybe a topic for the podcast on Tuesdays, but defenders literally have no footing like that That just pissed me off watching that but you see how many people were sending you got to make a split decision And since you've been sending, you know, four and five and giving him a little bit of time every play maybe He won't be ready for that and boom you get a sack when you need it on fourth down third down something like that But I'm gonna just go ahead give you guys some gameplay highlights. Just a three or four place I play somebody recently on week and week running this and I'll show you guys pretty much just how it works All right, so we'll play this game We're playing the dolphins you see here We got a nice little second and three actually has a lead on me But tries to get out to the left and that middle linebacker who I have Patrick Willis doesn't let him get outside That's the pointer middle out. You see it there again running back side Can't get out to the right can't get out to the left gets sacked right there by Patrick Willis again Who I still think is one of the best middle linebackers in the game Same thing can't roll out to the left. There's Miles Garrett. Just give him a little bit more time Let your pass rush a leak get home Same setup pretty much every play. Well, we got second and ten right here Same thing two purple zones both my middle linebackers are contained I have the whole middle of the field any post route any hitch once again He cannot get outside That's Dion Jones on the contain making the play here. We go third and sixteen Just an example of how I love to mix it up when I've been thinking I've been playing coverage all day I've been only rushing three and four third and sixteen fourth fourth quarter right here four minutes left I have the whole left side right here on the lurk Boom, but we send to everybody try he gets a cut block But just cannot get away from Lawrence Taylor has to draw ball away force a huge fourth down Well, just looking at those highlights man If you don't let him get out of pocket your pass rush elite is going to be dominant and the last thing I want to add to this that if you if you really find yourself Still can't keep them in a pocket because I'm not going to tell you this works all the time But for me and has been the best success I've had against this I'll take you look let's take a look at the film or take a look at the play or we'll go back on the field I mean, you know what I'm talking about But it's the user rush now you know which way he wants to roll out they want to roll out to the corner out and It's not going to be a good example because I'm just playing a computer right here But what I do when it's time for user rush right is that you blitz my user Essentially you will become the contain yourself you'd blitz your user and then rush over here And then once you get into the clear one-on-one. I just click off because I'll be honest listen I'm a professional man player. I don't have the user to tackle Lamar Jackson in the open field Also, it's not worth the risk to try to do it yourself. The computer does a great job if you click off They do so I mean as much as listen sometimes you got to tuck your pride between your legs and realize Let me let the computer do is I'll try to do this here But it's not going to work that well because Lamar is going to get rid of the ball But go over here up there. We see we get we get a sack right there But just click off put your put yourself in a Blitz angle so you can get the quarterback anything else if you put you if you leave yourself in a deep blue If you leave yourself in a spy if you leave yourself in a purple zone manned up You will once you click off your defender will run and do whatever assignment you had him in That's why if I'm thinking about user rushing if I'm thinking about being to contain myself Then I want to make sure that I keep myself in a blitz angle and click off and let the computer go get them So those are the things I do to control near flex close The key to stopping even with bunch or tight offset, whatever it be stop them to roll out Don't make it easy from the cut block you That's the key, you know It's not about covering the routes because you can't cover the routes if they get out of the pocket You have to accept that you can cover the routes if they're in the pocket one million percent of the time But if you step outside the pocket, that's when you can no longer cover the routes So the key when you're in past defense against this is to just don't let them get outside the pocket now Either you can do the setup I ran was works very very well for me As you see from the videos and you see from watching me play all the time live But if you're not if you're not having success with that get that user rush down and mix in that blitz everybody Keep them uncomfortable and I said about the run man I pretty much I haven't forced her on my safeties that I use her So just get up there just clog the middle you have miles here in the middle I feel like the run sucks out of that I honestly feel like and we watch man. I feel like the run sucks overall, you know, I don't think it's good I just think it's hard to score otherwise, you know, I think it's harder to score passing That's also people will run so it feels you know, it feels like it's really good But I don't think the run is that good So don't flame me for that I said follow the socials Follow the twitch so you guys can watch me implement this live and add this defense to your game And it'll help take you to the next level and win all those weekend league games against the near close flex virgins