 This game I played Decroft. Decroft is the Madden Bowl runner-up, one of the best young players in the world. And one thing about him, man, he's improved every single year. I remember doing a YouTube video like Madden 18 or 17 and it turned out it was him I was playing. At the time I didn't know him from a can of paint and he was kind of weak back then. But every year he's gotten better and better and to now he's one of the best players in the world. And before I go into this game, man, make sure you guys check these games live on Twitch. That's where it goes down. The link is below. All the links are here. All the links are there. If you're following me on social media, man, we have some Madden 21 copies to give out. So make sure you stay up to date with that, both on my Instagram and my Twitter. But the one philosophy I have, because you got to know players, man, knowing your personnel, knowing your player, know who you're playing against. One of my biggest strengths is that the more I play somebody, the more I adapt to what they want to do. Now, D-Cruft's biggest strength is his pocket presence. He hugs the pocket. He stands, steps up in it. And when you step up in the pocket, there's so many benefits. One, if you get sacked, you're only losing, you know, one or two yards. You know, if some of you guys might get sacked and lose 12 yards, you lose 12 yards on a play, your drive is pretty much cooked. So the one thing that's good about stepping up, man, even if play goes bad, you know, you're probably right back where you started and you only pretty much lose it down, maybe a couple yards. Two, it slows the passports down. If they got to go all the way around the tackles to get to the quarterback, it just makes it harder for them to get there. That's the benefit of stepping up, anybody, really. And then also it makes your quarterback an option to run. You know, people don't realize that you obviously get across the line. You can run or pass. It puts a lot of stress on the defense. And the last thing that's understated is it makes the throw a shorter distance. If you step up in the pocket, it makes the throw a shorter distance. Like obviously you're right at the line. So if you're going 20 yards down the field, it's really 20 yards. Whereas if you're 10 yards back, now it's a 30 yard throw. So if the ball is in the air longer, it's going to give the defense more time to react, more time for the user to get there, more times for the zone to break on the ball. Just a lot of bad things can happen if the ball is in the air for longer. So that's why stepping up in the pocket is such a strength and is the cross biggest strength. Right. So what do you do about that? How can you stop somebody that has really good pocket? What is the, you know, pretty much how do you combat that? And for me, it's spying him. You know, it's not even about him scrambling. It's almost like a delayed blitz where normally they want to step up and be comfortable. Cause once you clear that mess of the tackles, you got a lot of comfortable space right there. So for me, if you keep that spy, even if he had Dan Marino and wasn't able to scramble that spy kind of like a delayed blitz where it opens up. He steps up and not as spies right on him where he doesn't have that option to run. Or, you know, he only has another split second to pass the ball. I think spying him is one of the best things you can do when somebody's killing you, stepping up in the pocket, put that spy out there and send it when he steps up in the pocket. Really put that pressure on your opponent. Make him feel uncomfortable. That is the key to defense. So let's see how I did this in this game. All right. So we'll see how it works. I'm telling you, this is probably even if you look back at the Madden Bowl Championship that D'Croft lost to Joke, you'll notice Joke spied him every single play. And D'Croft actually beat Clef in that final four. And it's one thing I wish Clef would have did to make sure that he could step up. As you see here, him stepping up, hitting that dot over the middle. I rushed four people. When in actuality, I should have just rushed three with a spy. And honestly, sometimes three with a spy is better than four. So you see the next play, once again, I had that spy. He hits a little good dot. The one thing about all these TNC guys is that they're really good at throwing the ball underneath. They're really good at taking what's there. As you see a little drag right here, they're good at spacing out your zone. They're really good against zone. That's the one thing you can always say about them. Steps up again, but that spy is there. I had that spy kind of a delay pressure right here. Third and seventh, he hits the flat. Can't get a hit on the tight end because he already had a ball, possession catch. But we definitely send that spy. You see him right there. He's not going to have all day. He's not going to be comfortable. And that's pretty much what we like as we get this big sack right there. Once again, the spy third and 10, huge play right there. And we actually get a huge pick right here. Terrell Edmonds on that running back wheel, huge user lurk. Simmons is the best user. I would be honest, Terrell Edmonds is probably number two. So if you don't have Terrell Edmonds, I promise you guys should get him out there in your lineup. He's probably a lot cheaper as we throw a pick through the body of work done right there. That's one of the reasons I went out and got Barry Sanders just getting boxed right there. Don't like to see that. So definitely just do a pick through somebody's body. Once again, we send that spy. I'm telling you, if you guys pay attention to how he steps up and there's always somebody there, it's kind of to greet him at the top of the pocket. That's what's key. Can I get my pick back through somebody's body? That would be nice. Thank you. Once again, I'm only rushing to here and, you know, just spying him to go. Go ahead. A lot of people in coverage on a seven yard line, just put a lot of bodies in the end zone. Make sure nobody can find a hole in the zone. Everybody's kind of manned up. Just a great job with coverage. And I send right there, actually breaks the tackle. Once again, I send another person, go get the quarterback and we get the sack. And we hold the Madden Bull runner up to a three points on the first drive or second drive, actually. But we all get some points really. I mean, honestly, people say defense is hard. I feel like I've been struggling on offense a little bit more than defense. I feel like I've been playing good defense. It's not necessarily a play as we go for this C route. Knock the way through that a little bit late. That plays want to come back to be one of my money makers throughout this game. As you see him just sticking to that cover one robber man cover one robber cover one robber. Probably the most popular defense here early in the game. But we hit that in route right there to Mr. Tirey kill. And just got to find somewhere to go with the ball on this cover one on this man coverage as we find Mr. Drew Bennett up top corner route. We're closing in on field low range dump the ball off. We actually get hit by the detackle right there. The three man rush is just really effective this year. Dump the ball off the Tirey kill there. When there are man covers, man, you got to utilize all five of your receivers. That's pretty much one of the biggest keys to this as we go for a double move there. Don't ask me. I thought double move would work and do it late and do it in a lot of traffic. But don't I mean, but we get it right back. Simmons lurk second lurk of the game against the croft just like that. I told you throw Edmonds. We got one Simmons got another. So I do a bad pass. He gets lurk the next play got to take advantage underneath. We hit work done again. Like I said, you have to utilize all five of your receiver against this man coverage. Touchdown Tirey hill man. Tirey kill pretty much must have wide receiver. I'll be honest chemed up over that 90 deep route running. That's a threshold so he can go to the bar. Tirey kill is just these Tirey kill. He's the cheetah for a reason fastest player in the game. Mine is I believe up to 93 speed. So that's a huge plus as it hits this corner route. Now this play started that man. Be honest, he motions in a corner route to the tripside. Probably the only play that really hurt me as we get a huge pick from that spy stepping up and knocking the ball around making him uncomfortable. When he steps up in the pocket, that's pretty much the key to defense when you're defending someone that climbs the pocket as well as the cross does underneath. Again, my man work done. Just hold on to the ball. Pick up a couple yards for me third and 13. We're going to take off with my man Lamar go for the journal, but we get pop fourth and short right here. We're going to go for it. We're going to hit. No, we're not picked off. And that's going another apple by Lamar fight for me fight for me Lamar fight for me. That's rough. Um, I felt like he was open. I'm gonna be honest. I felt like that our route was open. Maybe I was late. The other thing that cost me doing a pick now. Now remember this. I passed lead up. It's kind of like when you pass lead up that brings the receiver further back or further towards the end zone further away from the quarterback gave that DB enough room to undercut it and pick it off. So I'm playing great defense, but I've turned the ball over twice already. So we got it tightened up and this one was before half. I don't even really count that one. You know, before half you're just throwing a ball around it to try to make plays, but we got that spy again and we hit the corner out right here. Gets in the field will range feeling rough about giving up that field well before half. So things got bad. We're seven three with the ball. Now all of a sudden it's 13 to seven. So like things can turn in a blink of an eye and football and that's exactly how it isn't mad in the same exact way. So we got to go get some points. We got to manufacture some points against this man coverage is kind of popping me right there. Work done making a play didn't get picked off to his body again. So we just got a boom right here. We hit the C route. Get up out of there. Oh, stop on a one time and take it to the Baha Big Ed McCaffrey. Getting up out of there. Hard to guard him man. Big play right there. If you want to find these man beaters man turf.com. That ebook is out right now. Man to man. I feel pretty comfortable against and that's big Ed McCaffrey making plays. You know the wide receiver that won me the Madden Bowl. He's a monster. Ed McCaffrey should be your team captain if he's not. But so now we got to leave. But we only got to leave by one point. So we got to we got to get some more turnovers. We got to make some plays as we see Adrian Wilson kill shot right there in the flats. Those a little wheel route to Eddie Jorah. I mean these little cute dots. One thing about these like this like it's just like poking you bro. He's poking. He's poking like it's kind of like a jab and boxing like you can't overreact to these little dots. You can't or you'll give up a big 20 30 yarder. You have to make you have to make somebody show you that they're patient enough to take these dots because if you overreact to these puppies flats again Adrian Wilson kill shot. If you overreact to these as he goes up top on Drey Bly. What are you thinking partner do that join up and picked off by Drey Bly. Who I'll be honest him and a Sunday Samuel they're the best corners in the game but they are unbelievable. The Sunday Samuel and Drey Bly. If you guys don't have them I would I would argue to get those guys but I mean we you know we're just you know we liked it. We like to give give other people were a donation team on offense or just a donation team. That's what we do. We make sure you know people stay alive give them hope because hope makes a better game when somebody has hope they just play better play tighter is a more entertaining game but there's that man Drey Bly and you guys know where he's going to the Bah ha Drey Bly. I'm telling you get up out of there and young man that is our fifth interception on the crop our fifth. I don't think there's so many people walking that have five interceptions on the crop but my team went crazy and we're going to go for two here because if I get to the games over is a two possession game but our read option gets bagged so we're up by 7 that's fine hold them out of the end zone. There's no big deal right this is what we do this is how we act. This is how we behave on the football field keep playing defense mainly is 13 points I got to stop that corner outplay that's what he goes through right now but we actually send an extra Russia Troy Vincent gets in there on the sack man the second and 12 he actually hits Eddie George on the running back streak anytime Eddie George catches the ball just looks ugly going for that corner outplay again I cover it and send that spy make him uncomfortable when he steps up we get a big sack right there once again he goes that corner outplay again we send that spy telling you it's a delayed blitz against people that climb the pocket add it to your defensive game throws the flat right here gets out of bounds but we have a fourth down come we get up off the field right here nothing cute nothing pretty we're playing safe goes up top and who's that man trade by get it up out of here trade by the best in the game trade by a sign they should be your two corners if you can afford them as we dot right here the big Eddie McCaffrey one field goal wins this game got to get in the field or range work done we're at the 34 that's 44 that's a 51 yard field goal Lamar Jackson come on man we can't lose yours there third and nine we're gonna go up top again and we got bagged again incomplete you know I mean I really want to catch that so we're gonna find them over here boom time in one time Tyree kill by high they drop a pic you got to go by I'll be honest man offense was pretty sloppy this game that double move play I'm taking that out of the repertoire that's not good if you see I do it twice this game both one was the interception the other one should have been an interception but at the end of the day or playing defense and you can never be mad at yourself if you're playing defense making your opponent work that's the key man so if you guys haven't been watching me watch this fight do work it's not about him scrambling it's about applying applying a little bit of delayed pressure to him that's the key is he's just gonna run the clock out for this game because there's nothing really else he can do and the one thing about man they only give you one time out this year which I love but the thing is you get any situations the game's over you can't really quit so man if you like this game plan please go ahead and hit the like button I said just add a little bit to your defensive game some people really like climbing that pocket and it can kill three man rush it can kill a blitz it can give them so much more time and make them a more effective player but if you put that spy kind of act as a delayed rush or make it uncomfortable they step the pocket it can really improve your defensive game