 to viewership. What's up? This is the needed podcast episode five and today what we want to do. We actually got a great subject to talk about. I'm going to have great subjects to talk about pretty much from here on out in the season and that's what we saw over the weekend and what we saw what we didn't see and that was a the Houston Texans club series event which Joe Rice Young Wesley won. It was tight. He had one great game. You know, but I thought he played very well. I thought I mean he executed pretty well. CJ played good defense in a championship game, but congratulations to Joe because I know he puts a lot of time in the game and I know he's one of the best young players that really needs a little more spotlight and a little more attention, you know, going forward other than that's just us Maddenheads, you know, because obviously we know Joe Rice probably for the last, you know, two years or so, but he needs to get a little more attention, a little more publicity in the mainstream Madden world. Hopefully I can do that and hopefully he can continue to keep playing well and continue to keep winning because he definitely put on a show that definitely had me watching the game. I watched these games probably four times each. Once again, I just got a shout out Compton 187 because he does a simple job, but a job that, you know, is needed in the community and we really appreciate him recording and uploading all these videos onto YouTube. I wish once again, I wish this is something EA would do if they had a MCS page or competitive Madden YouTube page somewhere where people would access these games and be able to watch them fairly easily. Although, you know what? At this point, you know, let's just let Compton do his thing because Compton is holding it down and he deserves a bit of change, you guess, for putting up these games and giving us something to watch. I'm really a nerd that sometimes I'll go back and watch games from two years ago, where I watched games from last year to Ultimate League. It's always a reference to see kind of how some people play with some people don't like and what they do like. And like I said, I appreciate Compton doing the easy job of recording these games, reposting them, doesn't edit them or anything, you know, something easy that EA could do, but God bless Compton. So I was able to watch these games over and over and over. And I mean, there's just a bunch of different things that I could talk about. I mean, last week, we talked about the little or not last week, two weeks ago, we talked about the Little Burke and T. Davis game probably for over an hour. So that's pretty wild. So that lets you know how long I can talk about one specific game. And I mean, I have two games to talk about. I mean, the first game. Shout out to my man, Bob. We all love you, Bob. You're the man. But I mean, Troy Apke does not play for your team. He's not a receiver on your offense. It seemed like you were looking for Troy Apke just to, you know, just to give him the ball like you wanted to give Troy Apke some love. And God damn you gave him some love. And you the guy, Bob, I mean, everybody has a game like that. I've been flooded on the last stage. I've been got my teeth kicked in. It happens to everybody. And you know, sometimes you just talking about Liza's had a bad day. Things really start snowballing. One of the biggest things that a biggest skill that a man player has is to prevent the snowball. How do you prevent the snowball? Because it will start happening to everybody. It could happen that the snowball starts small, you know, and then every once in a while it, it get going and it happens really fast, man. And that's something I'm gonna go over with Cassanta's game against Joe Rice is that he did not prevent the snowball, you know, and it's little things, even when you get flooded, because I was talking to Cassanta in my chat maybe two days ago about the game and he was talking like the game was close. That game wasn't close at all. I mean, Joe Rice pretty much did whatever the hell he wanted and went up and down the field. And that's pretty much the first game I want to get to. And it's kind of just what you can do better, you know, and that's what you got is even when you get flooded, even when you get blown out, you always gotta think about what I can do better because that's all you can do. You never lose, you just learn and you have to take the learn, you have to take the good stuff from the bed. Now, obviously, Bob, I mean, Bob, God bless your heart, man. You went out like a champ. You were doing that thing around and God bless you. So I'm not, it's nothing really to watch in that game, unless you want to see Troy Apke the back of his jersey. But I want to get into the Cassanta game because I got notes for every game and I really sat down. Like I said, I watched these games probably four times each. And it kind of reminds me of what I hate when I stream or when I watch games is that you guys have all the answers. It's easy as hell to sit here and watch these games and nitpick every little thing and just really, oh, this guy was open, you should have did this, you should have done that because that's what you guys do. That's what you guys do in the YouTube comments is what you do in the Twitch chat. You tell me how to play. And honestly, I'm going to tell these guys how to play because, you know, I have enough pedigree in this world to, you know, you guys can respect what I say. And I saw some things that I just wore atrocious from Cassanta and some bad things from CJ as well. Joe Rice, I mean, honestly, he didn't do anything stupid. He always played like this and this goes into knowing your opponent, man. Joe will, he will chew the clock like Wesley always want the game as short as possible. Like he always will, if he up seven with the ball, if it's tie game, he's chewing the clock. And that's something in playing the leaderboard is that you kind of know that, you know, as soon as Wesley get like a little advantage on you, like a little like one possession or, you know, the time running out in the first half, he's going to use the clock. And that didn't change, that didn't change the club series, man. It's something. And I mentioned this watching 49er play yesterday is that you have to keep that same mentality pretty much in all your games. You know, if your goal is to win the MCA, your goal is to win the ultimate league or the Texans club series or this club, you know, you can't be playing Bazooka Joe from down the street and be labbing and throwing the ball up and being an asshole. You know, you, especially when you're in a tournament, when you're in group play, when you're in single elimination, even if you're blowing somebody out, man, you have to have that same mentality. And Wesley would have that mentality if he was playing a leaderboard game in the first week of the season, when qualifying don't end for another two months, he's going to shoot a clock and get out of the game with a W. And that's pretty much the mentality he always has. And that's pretty much how he played. And the first game I want to go into, if you can bring this up for me, what was, yeah, here we go. This is just Cassanta, who is Gany, I think, I don't know how I don't know what, I don't know what these names are, what they mean. Pretty much some things that I mean, first of all, we're going to get into this game a little bit. Shout out to Cole and Indy Kalu, former Eagle Great doing the broadcast. I thought, you know, obviously I think Cole is tremendous at the play by play, you know, so they did a good job. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you guys tune into all these games, man. And obviously Wesley, since I want to say, let me pause, since the first day of Mad 19 has been running 3-3-5, I'd flipped. It's something that I think Kiv flipped it. I mean, obviously it won the first belt last year. I want to say, knew what frustrates me about it. I think it won every belt of it and goals. Some version of the Crossfire was won every single MCS tournament of it and goals who ran through 3-5 normal. So three out of the four were won by some version of Crossfire. And for some reason, EA just said, you know what, let's just ignore that. We don't need to see what's wrong with that defense. See if it's easy to pick up, see if it works, see if it doesn't work. We're just going to ignore that and allow these same defense to work the next year. But anyway, you got to be prepared for 3-3-5, I'd flipped. But another thing I'll let you know that Cassanta, man, he's not ready to play. And the first thing I wish I could, yep, right here. He lets the boo boo scum kick fall into the ground. That shows, man, he's not even close. Like he just allows it. And he has a fat guy there picking the ball up. So one, that just shows, man, you really not ready. Because later we're going to see CJ, we're going to see Joe Rice have somebody there, whether it be Gurley, whether it be, you know, a fast running back, somebody to catch the ball or even a slow guy, they're positioning them the right way to catch the ball. I mean, just little stuff like that. So now he's at the 12 yard line, rather than a 25, 30, 35 if he catches the ball the right way. But anyway, that's like super extra, that's super like, super duper, I mean, that's really being prepared, something like that. I mean, special teams, although we ignore it, and obviously there's no, there's no special teams e-book or anything. There's definitely YouTube for it. But that's something, I mean, you definitely the best players in the world are definitely prepared for that scum kick down the sideline. It's something to the point where it's like, do you really want to keep running this same scum kick? Because if you, obviously that's your full back over there. So if I have Gurley there, so if you click on them, move them over there, he catches the ball with a full head of steam, you could wind up at the 40. So the question is, do you still want to keep rolling out that same scum kick if people prepare for it? Because something was not prepared for it. He just out there willy-dilly, that's my live event, blah, blah, blah, boom, now he's starting at the 12 yard line. So, but that's okay. I mean, the 12 yard line isn't the two yard line. It's far away, but but nevertheless, he's still starting here. Now, 3-3-5, I have Flip. He's going to run the ball first play, which I do at pretty much every live event because, you know, the nuts are small a little bit in the beginning of a game. I mean, you got all these lights on you, you're sitting here, but you're going to run the ball first down. And that's perfectly fine. I mean, everybody does that. Please let me get some yards. That's how it goes. Now, we're pretty much, where did I see he had? Oh, nah. So after the first of all, because I have to say, I remember he said in the chat of a day, if a couple things went differently, the game would have been closer. And a couple, and I'm assuming a couple of things mean by the way he scores is he throws his crossing route. Where is it at? 332. All right. This is probably this play. Yep, it is this play. Now, this is something that I do that I don't know if any, this is why I said he had bad pocket presence because the 335 odd scares the hell out of you. It does. It always looks like it's going to scream at you. It always looks like it's going to come and get you. Now here, now, obviously he chose to try to get rid of the ball before the Blitz got to him. But if he takes a small baby step to the left, if he sits in that pocket and just slides to the left and up a little bit, something that I would do. Now, I will honestly tell you that pocket presence is something that I feel like I'm the best in the world at pocket presence, being in a pocket. And it's something where the game will take your game to the next level. Now, obviously, we all know this play, whatever play he's running, this little crossing route is going to be open. He has the drag. He has somebody's going to be open. It's just a matter of if he's going to get screamed at or not. And as often as a player, you know that somebody's going to be open. Now, if he just steps a little bit, see the running back coming over, you see Lawrence Taylor is coming free and you see everybody sees that. But if he just steps a little bit to the left here, man, is he going to have a big play. But instead, he just drifts straight back. He doesn't move at all. A little bit to the left. He even has a running lane. He can hit the drag, but he's leaving the crossing route open. The crossing route could be a touchdown, really. But he doesn't slide. He tries to get rid of the ball. Almost got lurked for the crib, honestly. But that's like super petty. It's super picky. Because it's something that the best player, only the elite of the elite, is making that move to go ahead and slide to the left a little bit and let the running back pick up 35 odd. Because obviously, if you've played competitive man at all in the beginning of the year, you've played against this defense an immense amount. You should be, no one's comfortable playing against it, but you should be accustomed to having to move in the pocket just a little bit. And this is, I believe this is the test. See, this time, and this is where I think he has Jonathan Jones and Dion Sanders, and he scores a touchdown on that play, which I mean, it sucks that defensively that Herman Moore ran through two people. But he ran through two people that simply can't tackle. I mean, as if you Joe Rice, you're like, man, that sucks. But I mean, you got to one, you have Jonathan Jones, who's just awful, like just a silver player, I think. And then you have Dion, who obviously can't tackle. So that's pretty much how it goes. Now, now we're going to see Cassanta. I think he throws his own little scum kick out here. And we'll see what, what Joe Rice does against it. Because honestly, I did not take down those exactly what he does. But see, he has girly moves him back. So he catches it kind of on the run. He got a band animation and boom, now we're up here at the 32 yard line. So right there, the difference between Cassanta and Joe Rice is 20 yards right off of special teams, right off being prepared. He clicked on girly, moved them back called a running starter ball. He didn't catch the ball to where he didn't move girly to where he caught it when we went out of bounds. He moved them all the way to the left. So he ran underneath it, caught it, kept running. So right there, right from special teams, that's a 20 yards difference. That shows you somebody that's prepared to play that's playing against people that continually scum kick him that has girly in the position to catch the ball right there. It's just just somebody more prepared to play the game than Cassanta. And it obviously is something that the commentators will never talk about and most people will never see that. But just right there, 20 yard difference from the beginning, boom, one person is more prepared. They have more reps in, they're ready to play. What was that? Here we go with that. They're going to show the other play again. Now the one thing I loved about Joe Rice is that he used these route combination, these route comes. Now what he got, what he does here is he has moss on the outside right. Let me get to the beginning of the play. He has moss as the solo receiver. He has Beckham on the outside and Tim Brown in the middle. All these guys have some route cam. I'm not going to break down exactly what route cam they have because I mean it is what you guys can try to figure out if you want. But as you can see, hopefully he shows a play out again. But what he has here is he has Odell Beckham on a sharp corner route. Now they nerfed bunch this year to where corner strike doesn't work because the corner route sucks. The C route sucks. But what he does is he uses these route cams, route cams like Odell Beckham right here to run a sharp corner route. So now he's doing a quick flood on the bunch side, something that's been removed from the game. But because of these route cams, Joe Rice has used them to bring it back. So he has, he has a sharp corner route, but you see Cassanta lurks underneath actually takes this play away the first time. It was good defense because he lurked the flat route and he played a cloud flat that covered a deep corner route and the crossing route was bad too. So he played good defense on that down. But so he used Beckham on the left. Beckham on the left and he used Moss on the right. I don't remember exactly what chemistry these guys are. You guys can try to figure it out if you want. But the main thing he used was the corner route to Beckham on the bunch side to get a quick flood over there. And he used this deep crossing route to Moss pretty much the whole tournament. This deep crossing route to Moss was pretty much his bread and butter and what he also used here as I talked about this a lot two weeks ago with T Davis was the mesh post with a hitch. Hopefully my man Wesley watched that video two weeks ago incorporated this into his game and it's pretty much creating the same thing, creating the mesh post concept, but in the New England Patriots scheme. So by doing this, he has mesh posts and he has buck sale. He has base. He has all the things in New England playbook, but he also has the same mesh post concept. So not only does he have Beckham running a corner route, he has Beckham running a post route now and he'll hitch Tim Brown and he'll do the little running back wheel to girly here and a little out route to the solo receiver. So he has pretty much anybody throw to he chose the door to the flat right there with Shannon Sharpe and pick up a couple yards. It really just, it just was a great way to, because when you're picking your bunch, you either pick West Coast or you pick New England. You either pick Pat sale or you pick mesh post. And by using the route chems, what Joe Rice did, as you see right here, this is it. What Joe Rice did, he was able to, and we see a drop right there. He was able to incorporate mesh post along with Pat sale. You know, it's just a great job of using what they put in the game. And they probably had this in the game for, but a couple of weeks now, I want to say three weeks or a month. And he really used it and really came down to being able to find out what chems work the best and which way he was able to use them properly. You see moss, Pat sale just getting over. That wasn't a deep crossing route that in fact was Pat sale. And you see he pretty much primarily kept a bunch to this left side so he can go ahead and keep moss on the right, the deep route runner, and then the elite one, ones on the left. But boom, boom, boom, bang. So here, actually, this play is one where he hits moss on this crossing route. And it's something that's a little bit deeper pause, a little bit deeper than the Pat sale. So you see the flood on the left side, he has the flat route, but we'll hit the deep crosser real quick right over the top, Randy Moss gets him inside there, boom, then he uses Todd Gurley, who I think is the best running back in the game. Go ahead and get him a touchdown. So now he ties the game up 7-7. We all been in save 7-7 games. It's no big deal. Now, Cassanta is going to get the ball back. Once again, he's at the 20th. Did he do anything differently? I think he was actually able to pause the game and put Barry Sanders at running back. So right there, boom. So he did a little bit better. He got, he still got out of bounds, but he caught it 22 yard lines, not bad. So he definitely learned Ricky might be better than Gurley, but I'm taking Gurley because I don't, I'm not level 60 on mud. I will never be a level 60 in mud. Shout out to y'all that are level 60 in mud. It will never be me. I don't know how to get level 60. I feel like I'll play the game enough to get level 60, but I'm not level 60. So I will never have a full Ricky. Maybe like towards Easter, I might have a full Ricky by then there's going to be like another level of Ricky and we'll go to level 80. Then I'll be stuck at level 60, then a level 80. Then I'll just never be a mudmaster. I've conceded the mudmaster to you guys, man. Salute the mudmasters. But so on and so forth. It's time to get the ball back. Now, where's my mark where he's going to just have another shitty pocket press? So on and so forth. He runs a little quarterback sneak in the middle. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Now I think he gets super screamed at one of these possessions. Another insides zone. That's what you gotta do, man. You gotta hope to bust it. You don't want to continue to pass against this. It's not a big deal. But this is kind of where I feel like feel like the nerves really got to him. Like, because you'll notice a couple, I'll notice a couple things that he did that obviously I wasn't a big fan of. And this one, I think he gets screamed at. I think he could have had better pocket on this play. But it was kind of, it wasn't as bad as the first one he slide to the left. He went right to JJ Watt, right to him or Bolson, whoever that is. You have to see this as a man player. Like, obviously, like sometimes this shit happens and it's like, bro, like your, your, your SOL if this sometimes this happens. But to me, I'm at least attempting to slide to the left. Like, and if he gets me, gets me. That's just how the game goes. That's just how, I mean, you get screwed. And this is why you went through five odd to get these fluky screams. But both of these guys are trying to block this guy. And we just drift back into the right. You didn't get these guys a chance. Now, obviously it's a stupid ass play. It shouldn't, he shouldn't get screamed at at this level. I mean, I don't know where the name of the detection was on this. But right there, see, when I catch the ball and I drop back, I'm like, Oh shit, somebody's coming right through my right B gap. I have to go to the left. You can't go straight backwards. You just, you simply cannot go straight back, give them no chance. Boom. And we're sacked. Now the, the, now the drive's over. Now your drive is cooked because you're, what are you at? You're at third and 22. I'm just saying, I'm not, that play wasn't as bad as the first one. That play, it was damn near unavoidable. But you could have made an attempt. That's my only point. Could have made an attempt and I will show you what happens the next play. He does a good job here on third and 21. And this is why I tell people all the time, meant that when you get to third and 21, you get to, you know, second and 21, you're not going to get 21 yards on one play. Nobody has a 21 yard play. And it could sound to also look like he has some type of outcome. He does this, but you can try to get, try to get some yards back. And that's what he does here, which is very good. Get half of the yards back, good tackle. And he no huddles. Now the no huddle, the no huddle drives me crazy because if you don't know how to a whole game, why do people know huddle on third down? I don't understand. It's not like he's going to change his defense. Now what he does here, he's in such a hurry that he does, he keeps the delay route on Leonard Fortnett. Now what happened, because he does not max protect, he doesn't want to do another hot route. And I say this about the no huddle is that it rushes you. Not only does it rush your opponent, which is cool because I'm happy as hell that I got you on fourth and 13. And you're no huddling because to me defensive, I feel like you're no huddling, you're rushing your own mind. You don't have no huddle because you're panicking, gets you not thinking straight. And it really gets you rushing like you're, it's an emergency. Obviously it's an emergency. It is a rough spot. He fourth and 13 is rough. I mean, it's the game of his life right now, you know, but when you no huddle, you just speed up your thoughts. And what he does is he forgets to go ahead and he blocks Barry Sanders. So that's his, I don't know if he has conductor or not, I don't know, but he has all these wild routes. So he obviously blocked Barry Sanders. He puts Herman Moore on this other route. He puts Moss on this other route, but he does all this and he forgets to block for net. He leaves for net on the delay route. Now the delay route, the delay route sucks delay. If we remember back in Madden, actually this is just Pat's sale. Boom. There it is. It's just Pat's sale. So he blocked Barry Sanders because he didn't max protect unless max protect keeps the delay route. I don't really know. I don't really had a many delay route plays where I, but this is my point. So he blocked Barry Sanders. He hitches back home. He puts more on this. So obviously it's not a quick snap because he had to, unless he max protect, it keeps the delay route hitch and then cross some routes. And first of all, there's no fade. There's no streak to run all these damn zones off. And honestly, at this point, you'd rather have more just on a streak and then deal with the playmaker to Beckham. But my point is that he leaves for net on his delay route. This delay route is not going to help you do shit unless he completely, you want for net blocking. And what happens is for net leaves. Now I don't know if he come because what happens is he gets screamed off this right edge because, you know, Joe Rice, like any smart player, fourth and 13, you're getting it. I'm sending the crib. So he sent, he sends all his people and this guy comes off the edge and where's our guy for net and because I had to throw it out of bounds and that people laugh. Oh, it's just second nature when you're going to scream that little ball, the ball away. I'm not mad at that. But I don't know. I don't know the science. I'm not the super lab rat. I don't know what for net would have did if he was just straight blocked instead of a delay route, but him running out into a flat damn starting helping us get this damn starting helping us get fourth and 13. So that's pretty much what I think. Like when you know, huddle, you just forget about things. You're not, you're not, you're not thinking that you're all time high level because you're rushing. You put you add a sense of urgency that's already there. So the sense of urgency you have been fourth and 13. Now you multiply that by no huddling and making this a big deal. So obviously he got stopped right there. So the Max protect, does it turn the delay route into a blocking route? I would assume that it does. I'm not sure, but if not, he did three hot routes there with no streak and no none. And it's just a lot of people do that. And I'm prepared when I play, I always prepare for a third down stop for people to know huddles a fourth down. And it's getting, and I don't understand it. I don't understand why you, why the need to know huddle when you haven't no huddled the whole game right there. But so on and so forth. Like I said, the delay route, maybe would have came over and blocked that guy and gave him a little more time. But I think him no huddling right there was just, just made him think too fast. And he forgot to do that fourth down, turns the ball over to Joe Rice, who pretty much goes down the field, does whatever he wants, blah, blah, blah. He goes, he goes down here and score. I'm not going to break down any more of his plays because God bless. I mean, he might have to continue to play. I'm not going to put all his scheme out there. Although he did hit that cross and route to Moss a lot. There you'll see Moss. If Moss isn't on your team, you're already asleep because you need somebody to do stuff like that. Shout out to Niner. So 14 nothing where we're at right here. 11 minutes. Oh, we already went over to hurry up 1244. Another bad pocket. I thought, obviously, I'm very particular in my pot and again, a no streak on the field. He gets kind of a glitch. And this is why I say Max Protecting is, I swear to God, Max Protecting is the worst thing you can do in this game. I don't know why we don't have a fade somewhere. I don't know. But this is just why contains are fucking dumb because they both went with him. Now, obviously, when this happens, you really can't avoid this, but your damn shark can get sacked up here at the 15 yard line instead of the five yard line. You know, like, because second and 22 and second and 14 are a little bit different, but that's just unfortunate type of shit. And honestly, I feel like you always need to fade on field. So second 22 happens. I forget exactly. I don't know if he does a pick, but he does not score drops that right there. Punch the ball. He actually get he actually has a shitty punt. But I want to show this because I just want to laugh. I'm gonna laugh at how bad this game is because I do watch this because a punt right here is a big deal because he doesn't catch it. And Deion Sanders who Deion Sanders probably ball skills wise and coordination wise is probably one of the best athletes in the history of athletics. And he just, I mean, this can someone explain he like gets shot while he's running and he can't keep going. He just falls on the ground. Like, like, come on, man. And honestly, that is huge because no matter where you want to feel if Deion Sanders has the ball in his hand, it has potential to go to the crib, especially against his special team unit where obviously there's not 90 speed people and stuff like that. So the fact he didn't catch that on the sideline or he didn't pick it up in motion just cost Wesley. I mean, tons of yards, honestly. But the game is just bad for that. But it was so on and so forth. Anyway, it doesn't matter because Wesley goes right down whether that blah, blah, blah. And he starts chewing clock. Like I told you, he once he gets once he gets you on once he gets a little advantage, bang, I'm up, I'm up seven. I get the ball to half and and and I got the ball in field or range pretty much. He's going to shoot clock. He's going to take the game. He's going to shorten the game. He's going to make you panic. And this all goes back to that sense of urgency, no huddling on third down. Now the chewing clock, the situation in the game makes Cassanta just more and more and more sense of urgency, really rushed things, really, you know, not think that straight. And I'm going to go ahead and show you guys something I thought he did. That was probably the worst thing he did all day. But it was so on and so forth. I believe Joe Rice scores fairly easily. Although he were those with ball back to Moss, wait for it. Now there is where I call my timeout right there. If I'm if I'm Cassanta, I call timeout right there because the clock is running. Who knows what you already know Joe Rice going to take this thing down under five seconds. I call my timeout because he can't really get another first down without scoring a touchdown. And if he's going to milk the whole clock, I'm still going to get 30 seconds in the ball with no timeouts. So what I do right there is I call timeout. He waits and lets him run another 30 seconds, which is OK because some people, I mean, this is either, I mean, this is picky kind of, but I would have called timeout right away because who knows what happens. He could score in the next play. I want as many as much time left. Now I'm down. If I'm Cassanta, I'm down. I'm down seven. I'm pretty much down 10. And I'm kicking the ball off. I need this game to be as long as possible. So as long as I can keep as much time on that clock as I can, that's what I want to try to do. Blah, blah, blah. Eventually he scores a touchdown. So 21 to 21 to seven. Angel Rice gets the ball a half. Cassanta needs points here. Obviously he needs points. He needs a touchdown would be great to keep it a one-scored game, but he needs a field goal. And I'm going to tell you guys why he needs a field goal. So importantly, he needs any type of points really changes his game, really, really, really changes everything that happens pretty much going forward in the second half of the game. Here he goes with the motion block. See a lot of people do this and he catches them sleeping with the Barry Sanders. Good job diving and tackling with Brian Dawson because that looked like a touchdown all the way. So now you got your field goal. Chat, YouTube, everything. You have your field goal. It is 21 to 10 at halftime. If nothing else good happens for you, you cannot not get this field goal. Now obviously you're getting your shit is looking bad for you and your mind you're saying shit is looking bad for me, but your goal in a game when you're losing is just stay alive and not getting this field goal is killing yourself really. And so, so what happened then he goes and he gets out of bounds. He has one time out. The clock is running. He obviously you guys and this is why some people give up on the whole running back at tight end thing in New England playbook because you have to come out in this formation that for some reason, none of you guys have dots out of you trips has enough dots to where you can come and run up play and try to get something and if you don't get it, boom, then you can call your time out so on so forth. But with 26 seconds, listen, so you're so accustomed to coming out and as you trips all the boy until trips tight end. So I can get Barry Sanders it at tight end. This is a point in the game. If you're not going to call your time out, you're going to continue to let the clock run that you have to go ahead and just come out and try to even if you don't have Barry Sanders at tight end, you have to run a play. You have to get as many plays in as possible down here. And if you're going to take the time to audible from you trips to the trips tight end, that's going to take eight, 10 seconds off the clock. You know, so here we go 25, 24, 23, 22, I'm still going to come out in the same thing. I'm going to audible 20 seconds, 19, 18. So now we're getting down to where we only have one play 14, it just just runs anything because he realized he ran out of time. Shucks it right at his user. So that could have been picked right here. So now you have 10 seconds, 10 seconds one time out from the 15 yard line. Now you're mind you you obviously you want you want to get back in the game with a touchdown you want to you really do. Like you really want to get back in the game with a touchdown, but you need you in the back of your mind you have to know I need this field goal. And I'm going to show you the most atrocious play I've ever like honestly, I don't have enough of it. Everybody's saying we all had the same play for this. Put Randy Moss or Herman Moore or somebody in just the road a bitch high and hope they catch it. But I'm going to show you the most atrocious play I have ever seen called at a live event because you need the field goal here at worst case scenario is 12 to 10. This is the worst play I have ever seen ever seen at a live event. I will tell you this right now. I just want to see the play art. So you have a drag. You're not going to do the drag. It's not because what the fuck is the point of doing the drag? So you have this crossing route to Herman Moore and you have this up this is this shit route that's out and up and they're running to the same exact spot. So if I'm Joe Rice, you know what? Oh, all I got to fucking do is cover the middle of the field. Oh wow. You made my life easy. If I'm on defense, I'm worried about a wheel route. I'm worried about a fade high ball to the outside. I'm worried that your motion in a fade to go to the outside right. I'm just I'm worried about a bunch of stuff. But instead, this is the play that gets called both of these people in the same the same spot. This literally he covered both people. He didn't need any other defenders on the field. He could have had one man on defense and covered that shit play and appointed a game where you needed any type of points. Because and I'll tell you, obviously, it would have sucked to settle in for three there. It always sucks, settle in for three, but you have to settle for three. You have to and kicking the ball off and throwing that play right there, right? You like you might as well get up out of the seat and walk off the stage for putting that dog shit play on the field. And so on and so bang. Now the game's cooked because one, you haven't played an ounce of defense and two, now you're down two scores. Obviously, you would have still been down two scores with the 21 to 10. But what happens is because Joe Rice is up 14 points instead of being up. Oh, we're going to show this again. Jesus. So now Joe Rice gets the ball the second half. And because it's 21 to seven, you know what Joe Rice says? You know what? All I got to do is go down here and get a field goal and the game is over. That's all that's all I got to do. I got done here. Get a field goal and the game is over. So that's what he does. And in Joe Rice's fashion, he's going to chew the clock. Bum, bum, bum. Todd Gurley chewing the clock. He's in field goal range. And you know, if I'm Joe Rice and this is how I said, this game is over. This game is stick a fork in it. This game is cut. But if it was 21 to 10, because Santa would still have a little bit of life because the field goal would only bring it back to a two score game. Now field goals want to end the game. Joe Rice is over here chilling. Like, yeah, I'm gonna get my foot. He might, and honestly, if I'm running every play, and I think he actually does just run base, take another 30 seconds off the clock, just run base. And that's pretty much by not getting your field goal. It allowed Joe Rice to play this goddamn comfortable that he ran base on third and two. How comfortable is that? We all want to be this comfortable in a man game to be able now I'm up 17 points. If Cosanto was shitty when he was only down seven or he was down 14, he's damn sure going to be shitty when he's down 17 points. And so on and so forth, bang. I don't even know if there's anything else I really want to show you guys in this in this game, just that terrible play, pretty much that terrible play to end the half. Now, obviously, I thought his pocket present could have been better, but that's really nitpicking because it's something I'm very good at and it's not necessarily something I expect everybody else to be good at. But that playable before half was absolutely devastating in his chances to win this game, especially when you're playing up against somebody that's better than you. You have to know, damn, this person is better than me. And that's okay. Because you know, there's people that are really, really good at Madden, and you have to play accordingly. Or this person's a really good offensive player. I have to play accordingly. I have to shorten the game. I have to stay alive. And by not getting that field goal, he didn't stay alive because you got to assume more often than not, when you're playing somebody that's good, you're going to give up a field goal on their offensive drive pretty much every time. You're going to give up a field goal. I'm not the still curtain. Nobody's the still curtain right now. And if you have to go in thinking you're going to have a field goal, so that's why he should have definitely got away with that three before half. That ended the game, in my opinion, seriously. I mean, the game wasn't the game wasn't there. I mean, the game, this game should have been close. A lot of problem I had, I see what a lot of people were running this tripside. And obviously it's a great offense. Probably, honestly, I would say it's probably the best offense in Madden for anybody to run. There's no, there's nothing short, dude. Everything is I want to throw this crossing route. And I tell you guys on all the defensive ebooks, defensive guides, I put out everybody just wants to throw this crossing route. And that that definitely ended the game. And this is something I fumbled. That's why I lost. That's some shit days today to tell you. You ever you ever not see the game? You ever see not see the game and ask your homie like what happened? Oh, fumbled, man, they got me. I was going to score. It would have changed the whole game if I get a score right there. That's the shit they talk about right there. Man, I got strip fumbled. I got screamed at. That is what they talk about. So when your homie tells you they fumbled, this is this is what happened right here. Boom. But anyway, seriously, Cassanta really just he lost the game, but it was definitely some things he could have did better. And that before the play, before the half play was just that was bad. But so Wesley, we're going to win this game. I talked about his route comment, his route comes that he used. Yeah, that's all I want to talk about in that game. I'm not going to talk any more about Joe Rice's offense because you I don't want to give you guys any more help, but you can watch these games. And this is what those guys would be crazy though with people like once your game is on film, shout out the Compton one a seven again. Once your game is on film, anybody that's going to use that to beat you already has, you know, they're already going to break all the stuff down that I already did that I mean, I I have his the plays that he ran in my mind to AT, you know, and I think anybody that's that's on my level man will already have that from watching this game. So I could talk about it, but I'm not going to help anybody else that has to play him. So this game is cooked. This game's over. So like I said, we're not going to talk about Bob. We're going to go ahead and talk about CJ versus Joe Rice. This was a great one. Honestly, this is what do we watch the Arizona Club series and we watched them. That's all we watched. So this was probably the best game so far. I think this game has a lot we can take to two good players that really put on a good show for us really. And we can start by the kid. Once again, Joe Rice wins the kickoff. And what and what do we have here? CJ. Let's do it again. What CJ do on the first kick clicks on his full back moves him back, catches the ball in stride. Instead of being on a 12-yard line, he's on the 31-yard line. Boom. 19-yard difference from Cassanta. So, so on and so forth. So this was a good game. CJ played Bob, who we talked about Bob. Rest in peace to Bob. I mean, my guy, brother, great Fortnite player, good man player, had a bad game. I'm not going to show it anymore. But that's the first thing on my notes. The first thing on my notes is CJ was prepared to catch the kickoff. You know, and that shows you, okay, he's ready to play. You know, he's got a lot of reps in. He knows what the... And another advantage that we... CJ has here that not a lot of people talk about. But CJ played first. CJ played his game first. CJ won his game. CJ won his game fairly easily. CJ has been relaxed for an hour and a half now. And what was CJ doing the whole hour and a half? He was sitting there and watching Joe Rice play. He watched Joe Rice. He watched every little route combination he made. He's prepared for this deep crossing around the malls. He's prepared for a corner route. He's prepared for this post and this wheel route to Tim Brown. He's prepared for everything that he just watched, an hour and a half. So the best place to be, and as a man player, is to win the first game easily and have an hour to go ahead and watch your opponent play the whole game. And that's what he did. He sat and watched. So he was definitely prepared for the scum kick. And it's definitely something that you got to utilize your time there. You got to utilize every bit of information they give you. You know, if there's information out there for you guys to use, you should use it. And that's something CJ did. I hope he did well. You know, I'm looking to tell you that it worked out all the way for him. But I believe on his first drive, let me see. Definitely some wild plays that CJ draws up, though, especially for short yardage. Because he'll go down here and he'll get a fourth down. I believe he gets an early fourth down. This play, keep showing me this play. What? I think he does something even worse. Oh, yeah. Once he took the bus, what? What e-book is this in? A fade, a fade, a zig, a drag, a wheel. Like third and three. Middle of the field. He's not in the red zone. He's not, he's all, whatever you want. As soon as he put back him on a fade, like, and this is the one thing that's crazy to me. Now, obviously, sometimes the lone receiver, Beckham, like, they'll put a cloud out here and they won't leave a deep blue. But that's something you kind of gauge throughout the game. This is the first 42 seconds into the game. You don't know what the hell he's, what his tendencies are on defense, especially against Bunch. You just saw him play against Cassanta's shitty offense, and he didn't have to play Bunch defense like that. So for me, it's like, what is, like, what are your options here? Obviously, you have a zig. If you're not blocking anybody, first of all, you're not, you're sliding left. God bless your heart because sliding left is probably the last thing I would want to do against 35 odd because you want this right guard to stay where the hell he's at. Maybe sliding left is the glitch. I want to see if they might, I need help. But this is my point. You're not blocking anybody. So you have to prepare to super get screamed at. So my point is here, there's a three rec somewhere. There's a yellow zone somewhere. Your only quick read, you have a, you have a, this is wild to me. You have a drag and you have a zig. They're both going to be in the same area for long. If you're getting screamed at, you're not going to be able to door to anybody because he's going to be lurking in the middle here somewhere. This will route the hard flat. Take that away. If he has the blues, you're just out of luck. Now let's see. Oh, he ID the mic on the left side. Okay. He might be, Oh, he motioned out the drag, lurks underneath and he gets screamed at and he, there's just nowhere to throw the ball. Like, like what, that play was horrific. Honestly, that play so bad. You know, bro, I don't know what defense this gets open on. Seriously, like what, what defense would this play work on? Cause there's nothing in the intermediate area. There's just two streaks and a bunch of short shit and he gets screamed at. But anyway, so anyway, he gets to the fourth down. He gets the fourth down. This was a nice little dot on the fourth down. He ran a trips tight end. I think they just showed it. He already got it. Just like that. He do over the middle. Boom. All right. Fourth down. Once again, this was just aggressive. This is probably what I would do if I was lurking, just go take that drag away and he threw over the top. Nice read. Nice first down. But then he goes ahead and he gets sacked. I believe where you lose yards second and 14 down underneath the Franco hair. Something that he used Franco Harris at tight end was really good because he can spin. He can truck. He can make plays. Definitely a weapon at the tight end position that he didn't have to all the board to get to. Probably a lot of cap. Here we go with the verticals. The verticals, we got it. We got those verticals in the trash against 35 odd. I felt like verticals was good against DB fire. And I feel like now if you run this verticals, the only thing that can be open is really the wheel route. And if Joe Rice puts a cloud out there, covers the wheel route and he high balls, which was the right read. The only thing he had to go to drops it. Now he has a four from three. This is a tough call. I'm not going to argue one way or the other where to go for this way to kick. I'm cool with kicking it. I probably would kick it. It's a big game. You want to get some points on the board. No matter what the lead is, you feel good with the lead. There's nothing wrong with having a lead in a game of Madden. That's simple and plain. So I mean, that's not questionable. I'm definitely cool with kicking that field goal. And here we go. Joe Rice goes down same offense. He's been running pretty much all day, but he throws in and I believe this might be the play where he throws a book. Maybe not. No, because he was using more. He picked them with more those in a flat. Get over here. Shannon Sharp. That's another weapon. You see him getting nine yards on a flat route, man. You got to have the more weapons you have on the field, the better off you can be. But anyway, so he gets the lead and he gets a pick right here. I believe this is the play where he gets a pick. He tries to go to Moss. They're all kind of in the same area. People said that the dollar dead, man. I really don't think dollars dead. I just think, um, whoa, right there. Who's that? Ed Reid? Geez, he played that. That's the difference between mesh post and that little route that he runs or whatever. I think that might have been deep crosser, not quite as quick as mesh post. You can't really go out that fast. And 32, I believe this is, and he goes in a nickel over G scheme. This is where he picks them off. Boom. So CJ got his three point lead and he got a pick. You're playing a guy that you just watch for an hour and not get stopped. You know, he didn't get stopped in the last game you watched. So this is what you have to, what you have to go in the game. You call the pick on him. This guy Joe Rice just fried the last guy he played. His offense looks really good. So you have to say, I'm playing an offensive player. He's going to continue to score. I need to put up as much, many points as possible here in the first half. So CJ goes back down the field. Pretty, oh no, this is the pick. Boom. So CJ goes right back down the field. So here we go. We're in a little ace post. He's chewing the clock. He's using the time. He knows he has an advantage on Joe Rice. He knows if he scores a nice read. Throw it underneath. Take your flat. Good read. Boom. He knows if he scores a touchdown here. He's got Wesley's back up against the wall and he's sitting in great position. And that's exactly what I would be thinking too. I'm me on this drive, man. I would be so concerned with getting a touchdown. I would, I know it would change the game. He's using the Leonard Fournette. That's why you brought Leonard Fournette to the party. That's why, I mean, you continue to give him the ball. This is the exact position where you would like to give him the ball. So he goes a little bunch, flipped here. Boom. What else are we doing? Blah, blah, blah. It gets inside the five. And that's four net. For me, we're taking this under 30. I'm running again a guaranteed run to take this to the second quarter. I don't want Joe Rice offense on the field. I don't want to see the bunch. I don't want to see anything like that. I just want to go ahead and keep pounding the ball. Let's see what happened. Did he take it to the two? Oh, he did. He took it to the second quarter. Exactly what I would have, but now this is the, this is, this is the biggest play in the series is right here. And I say this a lot. You win inside the 10 on first and second and down. If you get a third and goal on the six, third and going to seven, third and going to eight. That's what I call third and field goal because you're going to kick it. So this play from the six yard line, you'd like to get half of this. You'd like to get positive yards so you can get to a point where you quite possibly could run it in again. Cause you, the hardest thing to do in the red zone is score in a must pass down. It's already hard enough to score in the red zone when your opponent doesn't know if you're running or passing. But if you get to the point inside the 10 where they know you have to pass, God bless. I mean, like I said, we talked about that because I think we pretty much just door to ball high last year, we at least had the low ball dots all over the field to door those. But when your opponent knows you have to pass and you're inside the 10 yard line, it's tough as hell. And so that's why I say inside the 10 is one on first and second down. Obviously first down, he lost the yard. Second down, he's going to go ahead and run. And what happens? It gets blown up. Boom. So now you're, you're a field goal. Third and goal from the nine is field goal territory. And when he started his drive, he said, a touchdown puts me up to scores. I need a touchdown. I need a touchdown. I need a touchdown. But just because you need a touchdown doesn't mean you have to force anything. And obviously 10, nothing is great. It's way better than three nothing, but six, nothing is better than three nothing. Six, nothing is a big deal. And what happens is here, he just, he just throws a bad pass and he throws a pick. And it's, it's something that obviously he two o'clocked again. He's really shortening the game. Now to me, if you're going to shorten the game and that's, that's fine. That's great. If you're going to shorten the game, you don't throw a pick down here. You don't throw late off your back foot back across the body. You don't throw a pick here, especially when you have, when you do have Beckham coming back across the middle around the end for a high ball for a touchdown. Now, if you run this play, why is Beckham not the person you're doing the ball to? Obviously you want to hit this C route. Joe Rice knows this. He runs New England Bunch. He's been around for three, four years. He knows you want to hit this C route. He takes his user all the way out to play, but instead of hitting Beckham, which honestly, if you call pass sale right now, if you call this play, that is honestly, you want to throw this C route over here to, I don't know who this is, Tyree Kill, whoever it may be. You want to hit him, but at the same time, Beckham is your, Beckham is your bailout. Honestly, Beckham is your bailout. And when you don't hit Beckham, you decided to throw this guy who honestly isn't going to, isn't going to, even if he catches it, he's not going to get this first down anyway. He's going to kick a field goal anyway, and he gets picked off. Luckily it wasn't a pick six, because that would have been devastating. But obviously it's a throw he wants back. It's a play he wants back. It's a play right there that could have decided the Texans club champion, but now he's got to fight. You know, he's not done. He's still up three, nothing. He still has to fight. And what happens here is Joe Rice dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. He goes down, I believe he's two for five with a touchdown. They're showing the pick again. Unless I, yep. Okay. So Joe Rice has the ball. Joe Rice is going to dot, dot, dot. And he gets, he actually, he gets inside the, inside field goal range. And what CJ did that, because Santa didn't do, every time Joe Rice was in this little set that he runs, he blitzed the shit out of him. And it really caused, caused him getting sacked. See now if I'm CJ, I call timeout right there. Boom. But that's neither here nor there. Anyway, he gets him to 38 and he screams at him again on his own or something. So he forces Joe Rice into a field goal. Boom. That's okay. Now we're back. Now, obviously he would love to have his three. He just gave back on the other end, but it's three to three. Huge play. So this kickoff. Now, obviously, I don't know how he kicks this ball. No, he does scum kick it. No, he doesn't. Now, hold on now. Now I don't know if he forgot. Now this is goes, goes all the way back to Cassanta being bad because I want to say because Joe, because CJ caught the first kick with so much momentum with Franco Harris. And because Joe Rice not stupid, Wesley knows, damn, I can't give him the ball in a 40 yard line, you know, because one dot he's back in field goal range. He decides to kick it deep because CJ is prepared for the scum kick because CJ has a great player catching, catching the scum kick because of the time and the situation. He decides to kick deep so he doesn't give him great field position because CJ is prepared for the scum kick. He has the right person on the field. So Joe Rice says, you know what? I'm going to kick it deep to prevent him from having great field position. And what happens? Boom. Dionne Sanders take it, take it to the Baja. Well, not really because number 31, for some reason, sucks. And Todd Gurley is, no, if you don't have Todd Gurley on your team, you get Todd Gurley on your team and CJ is happy. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Okay. So now this is another thing. Obviously, I'm happy as shit. I just got a free field goal. Like I'm like, like doing that little laugh CJ just did. That's what I'm doing. I'm doing the same thing, you know, because I got a free field goal. Anybody wants free points. So free field goals are great. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Where am I? Oh, yeah, we're back. Okay. Now, the first play out here, he runs. Now you have 35 seconds and no timeouts. Tough spot to score regardless, even with timeouts, even if it's a tough spot to score because you're so close to the end zone, but you run the first play. So this is going to take half of your time away because you decided to run the first play. Now running the first play, it was 35 seconds. Now we're already down to 25 seconds. Now we're at 20 seconds. You know, now it's pretty much you're kicking a field goal no matter what because you chose, now you're doing 15 hot routes. Yeah, now this is your last play because you chose to run and the clock was running. You have nowhere to go. Scramble outside with me, nab. Just get rid of the ball. So that goes down to do I really want, I mean, is the run the best call? 35 seconds left, no timeouts. The run calling a run right there, pretty much just ensure the fact you're going to get a field goal. And that's cool. I'm not super against that because it is hard to score down there. You don't want to force anything. You want to get away with your, with your field goal that, that God gave you or the fact you were prepared for special teams gave you and it just shows a lot man. Every little part matters. Dion Sanders just gave him three points. So now it's six to three. Obviously nine to three would have been a much better situation for CJ, but he still has the lead. We talked about it. He still has the lead. He's still, regardless of what happens, he's still in control, not in control, but he still has the upper hand and you'll always take the end of game of Madden. Todd Gurley, Todd Gurley, Todd Gurley, best running back at NFL right now. I think he's the best running back in Madden for those us peasants that can't get my level 60 for Ricky Williams. But uh, okay. So boom, 63, second half is going to start. Second half starts with a bang because the first play out of the second half, Joe Rice goes back to this deep crosser here. It's a Randy Moss. Come on. Let's go. Let's get, he goes to the crossing route over here to Randy Moss hits that and user gets juked out and Randy Moss is just must be on everybody's seam. Takes it to the crib. Huge play. Now we didn't get our three earlier. So now we're down four points. Great play for Wesley who, I mean, I don't think he played, he'd do that one pick, but he was in a battle and to get a big play like that is very relaxing. CJ was playing good defense, making them work and to get a one play touchdown just is a big deal. Obviously anybody wants a one play touchdown and he got it right there. So CJ is going to get the ball back. CJ is going to go down the field and there's a couple plays that I really just hate. CJ, boom. He's, he's doing good when he looks for, when he puts intermediate routes on the field, he's doing fine. It's when he tries to get too cute. Second and two here, this is, this is probably one of the biggest things in the game, biggest drives in the game. Goes high ball to Moss, can't be mad at that. That's why you have Randy Moss on the field. That's why you pay him his 54, 60, 70 cap, whatever you pay him. That's why you have him in the field. So, and here we go with this. Oh man, just show me this play art please, bro. Jesus himself isn't making this read. Who is making this read? What is there to read? Like, what? I mean, sometimes when people make plays, man, you have to understand space and like what their play art possibly could be. Like, me, this play would be Jesus Christ. Like, like, bro, like I, it's like, one, and I talk about this on offense a lot, man, I don't want to throw anywhere near the user. And what this screams to me is you're throwing somewhere near the user. When someone's playing zone, obviously 3 through 5, we all pretty much play zone. Let's just remove the fact that we play zone. What I like to do is have a flat route on both sides. Because when you have a flat route on both sides, it takes the flat zones all the way out the picture. Now you open up the kuchi, which is the middle of the field. This route combination obviously is a flat route on the right, which is going to be kind of where he throws the ball because he opens up the kuchi on the right side, but he has nothing open up the kuchi on the left side. Plus, you also have to make people put flat routes on the field. You have to make them put hard flats. And when I call a play, third and two at the 13 yard line, I'm assuming you're going to have hard flats on the field. Everything's going to be shaded down. So right off the bat, for net is not an option, especially not in this formation. Because I know I respect my opponent enough to assume they're going to play hard flats. I assume they're going to take away Leonard for net. So where, like, I just don't understand where else you're throwing the ball. I mean, you have 60. Obviously you want to throw the ball underneath, but because he's going to be shaded underneath, there's going to be yellow zones up your asshole when you call this play because it's third and two. And he's going to have Apke right here in the middle of field lurking. Now, obviously, you'd be better off running inside zone in this situation. And what happens is, I don't know if he makes another hard route. Oh, he changed this in route to a drag. Okay, so now we have an in route, a drag, a slant. Lord Jesus. I just like, oh, he motions this slant over so the slant's going to flip. Okay, so this is the play we're going to run. And it works out. Now, like I said, flat, flat route is gone. This guy's gone. You're going to come down to throwing at Apke. He covers this slant. Now both of these guys are open. Now, for some reason, this is just a shitty throw. This obviously it kind of worked. I'm as much shit as I talked. It kind of worked. And he got a shitty throw as shitty catch. I don't know why he got such a shitty throw on the bad pass. So it kind of worked. But he could have hit the other one behind him and walked into the end zone. So it kind of worked. But now we have a fourth and two. Now we have a four point game. You have eight minutes and 34 seconds left in the game. You're going to get the ball back probably at least twice. You're going to get the ball back. I believe you only get the ball back once though, because like we talked about Wesley, he's going to use the clock. Any great player is going to use the clock. He has girly. He's going to pound the ball a little bit. He's going to use the clock to his advantage, especially if he gets the ball back up four points or even up one point. But if you're going to go for this, boy, you better have a good play. You better have the dot of a lifetime if you're going to go for this, honestly. And everybody hates kicking field goals. And I believe it's CJ had that field goal back from the first half. If it's 10 to nine right here, he might kick and go 12 to 10 plenty of time left back in this ball game. And what you guys were doing, what I would do is it's up for debate. Once again, there's another fourth down. I'm not mad at it. He kicked the field goal earlier on fourth and three from way deeper when it would have been way easier to get the first down. But fourth and two and he decides to go for it. Now, this is why I say if you're going to go for this, man, you better have the dot, not a dot, the dot, not two slant, not three drags and a table route that can't be, we need something a little bit better. And we're going to go back to this is the play that he do the interception on in the first half. So I don't really, I think he does something bad here. And when he got just got rid of his C route, we have a, now we have a flat that's spreading out this side. This is going to take this flat zone all the way to the sideline. We have no flat over here though. What I like if I'm putting a slant for net on a swing or even golden tape, I mean, you want to keep this post golden tape, shout out to one of the best wires in NFL golden tape to fill up the Eagles. Shout out. I want honestly chat. I want to say that this golden tape is actually a 10 cap power up. I want to say that I want to say that his players retired and his golden tape is a power up because nobody has golden tape. There is no golden tape card that's worthy of being on the field, but I know he has a 10 cap power up. And also let me tell you something. I used to be a 10 cap power up guy because they're 10 cap, but there's like 86 speed Y receivers that are 10 cap that you need to have on your team. We're going to rewind to being prepared as much credit as I've given CJ for being prepared. You cannot have a power up Y receiver as your backup Y receiver. He's like, what, 70 speed? You can get you a nice 85, 84, 86 speed 10 cat Y receiver, use mud head, do your research, get you a nice Y receiver that can come in for the backup situations and really get down. Yeah. That's why I use Whitney. So anyway, so I will tell you this. If I come to the line of screeners, it's seven seconds to climb. I'm hot route when I'm freestyling. Boom. I'm the quarterback. Look out to my right and I have my power up Y receiver on pretty much. I don't want to say my money route, but an important route to my play. This is my power up Y receiver. I'm taking my delay game. I'm taking my three. I'm staying alive because we all, obviously being down in Madden sucks, but the best, the best point to be down is a one point deficit because no matter what happens, unless they decide to go for two, you're always going to be down one score. Even if you give up a touchdown. So if I see, if I see this Tate guy out here, I'm probably taking my delay game because obviously he sees golden Tate. And what makes me realize that he sees golden Tate is that he took the time. If you see this, he really took the time to go through his plays to really look at his depth chart. I didn't see it, but I just saw after that third down debacle, you see right here, he's really, he sees, he's doing that to try to give energy back to his players. You scroll through your plays really like, I need to give energy back to my players. So he sees this 10 cap and that's all he's thinking. Do I kick right here? No, he, you know, he put the big boy pants on. I'm going to go ahead and go for this, but he has it. And now the clock's running, dude. And so when the clock's running on you and he runs a slant, a hitch, it just covers the hitch. There's really nowhere to go. And this is where I talk about having a flat route to spread this guy out. Pause. You come out here, let's go back to the play art. Now Joe Rice is going to have one of these guys in a flat route because there's nobody over here. That's why I say some people shouldn't freestyle because this post, honestly, like I said, he would have been better off putting Golden Tate on a smoke screen because it would have opened up a bigger hole, bigger hole over here for him to hit this slant than this post right here. This post brings the zones back into the middle and it kind of causes him to get boxed. But obviously he wants to throw this hitch. And when I call a play, what I do is I say, what happens if they cover where I want to throw the ball? So I would have said, what happens if Joe Rice covers this hitch? I'm going to throw this slant. How's the best way for me to get this slant open? Because as much as we want to say we read the whole field, I don't read the whole field. I don't want to have to look at four wire receivers. I kind of want to go back and have two options, like a what if option, like what if he covers this? What if this happens? What if Boise Blot against a standard? Now this is 335 odd. This is just a standard covered three. No, it's not standard. But my point is it's just covered three. So you're going to have a cloud, you're going to have a zone in the middle. You're going to have a deep zone. So it's going to be tough to hit Golden Tate over the top, even though he had it earlier in the game. And because this is Golden Tate, another reason, because this is Power Golden Tate, you're not throwing him this goddamn ball. You're not. Not for your Houston club series live. So you're either throwing this hitch right over here to Moss or you're throwing a slant to Beckham because you're not throwing a wide side flat route for two yards on fourth and two. So pretty much when you come to the line you have two options. And he didn't give Beckham the best chance to get open by not having a flat route over there. Because when you see when the play really develops, you see this guy right here. If there was a swing route or if Golden Tate power up was on an out route, it would have took this flat zone further out. So he could have hit this slant in here. But what happens is you see this post will bring this guy back to the middle of the field. And you see yellow zone. I mean, it's just, just the defense really bagged the play that he put on. You see how close this flat zone is to the middle of the field. This post brought him right back into covering here. So if he put him on an out route, this flat zone would have been all the way by the sideline. And he could have hit this slant over here by the S would have been a tough catch, but he definitely gave himself no opportunity to hit anything over here. Although he almost do it over his head. God bless. But the deep zone came and got it. So he turned the ball over here. Bang. So now you're down four. Going on here Joe Rice. Obviously Joe, honestly, as good as Joe Rice played the last game, he kind of got bagged. And one thing that this what you call a defense game. And then just a misstep right there by CJ, giving up a big play, but he eventually gets Joe Rice to a fourth down. And one thing that a C Joe Rice is using that clock, man, he's going to use the clock. I forget when he gets them to the fourth down here, the fourth and four. Is this it? No. It is fourth and four. Now this is Wesley gonna be mad at me, but he's the first person I've seen to do this run the vertical scheme. But instead of this crossing route, he puts this guy on the hitch. So now he has the same two quick options, but then he also has the hitch. He goes underneath the girly and now he gets him to now that's actually, I believe in the last drive. So eventually he holds him to three though. That's what happens. And Wesley uses all the clock like he should because once again, we're in a position where Wesley gets a touchdown here. The game is over. So he and it's been like that. Wesley got held to three a couple times on his drive. Let me see if we get some, he's in his under center thing. He's just, because he knows if I can score a touchdown, especially if I can score a touchdown and take some time off the clock, then the game is going to be over. So he already has 11 carries with girly third and three. I believe he goes in one of his little cute dots. Vic actually picks it up. So things are working out perfectly for him, although he's in the toughest spot in the game to score chewing the clock. He's really taking the whole game with him. And I believe what happens is I'm not gonna, he gets to say, he's screen, the one thing CJ did is he brought the crib at that under center stuff. Like he didn't have time to really make any reads because the one thing I did notice about Joe, he likes to send out five when he's under center when he does pass. So he really got screamed that held him to three right here and boom. There we go with a, he drops right there. So he kicks his field goal, who goes up seven. Now we talked about all the field goals that CJ left on the board. He left six points on the board already, six easily six points. So he could easily have 12 points, but that's neither here nor there. As a man player, you got a ball in your hand. Let's go get our, let's go get our score. Let's go get our touchdown to tie this game up. And once again, we see the scum kick because he didn't want to get a ball to Dion Sanders again. This time, Frank O'Hare, what, look at, look at that. Frank O'Hare's spin move, bang, we're at the 50 yard line. That's absurd. So it is my point. If you're going into the competitive man, a lot of you guys are playing club series right now, you need an effective player at the full back position. Be prepared for these scum kicks because if you can do that, get the ball to 50 yard line, it is absolutely devastating to your opponent. So boom. So eventually he does a dot here. Boom. Big dot. He's in field goal range. Now this is, this is something that now if I'm CJ, I'm thinking, damn, I can, I got to tie this game up, but I can't let him back on the field because, and I just talked about this in the last game with Cassanta that when you're playing somebody, you're pretty much going to guarantee you're giving up a field goal. You got to respect your opponent to enough to where I'm going to give up a field goal, especially if I leave him enough time. He already has three timeouts. I want to get into all those timeouts. I want to get inside the 10 and I want to score. So to me and probably every man player in the world, this is definitely going to the two-minute warning. This is the first thing I noticed watching this game live is this is going to two-minute warning nine every time for me. Now what happens is he actually comes out here and runs a play, quick snaps, but he scores a touchdown. So it's hard to look back and say that this was a bad decision because he does score a touchdown. He does tie the game up, the game is tied, but for me, I'm definitely taking it to the point where when I come out, I'm pretty much guaranteed going to run two to take 30 seconds off the clock and that's definitely going to go ahead and, but he ties the game up. So you can't argue with a touchdown. It's hard to argue with a touchdown. I'm definitely wish he would have had one of those threes from earlier now. So he got to get one stop. There we see Joe Rice prepare for the scum kick, takes out a 37. So now you got like, you're looking at from the 37, you're looking at the 30, 40 yards, the game is over. Kiv, exactly. That's, you got to at least, even if it's the not, not the last drive, you at least got, got to get to one minute. You got to get into those timeouts, man, as you're going to put more pressure on yourself because you're going to get to a point where you have to, you only have one play to score. You only, I mean, and so on and so forth, but you have to really use the time there. And what happens, this is actually, I mean, he plays good defense, gets a sack from sealer, third and 14. Is this the, the one thing about the route Kims, the best way to combat the block shed defense that I've seen from watching a lot of people play in the last couple of weeks is the play action is one reasons that trips tight and so good because their best plays are play action. So the best way, as you can see here, he, but he runs play action and these guys get mauled because we see so many people in the black shed defense with their defensive ends or the defensive ends are bad, but they're still getting a lot of pressure. And because they're, because they're bad, if you run the play action, they don't get those animations and they get mauled. So, but the problem with bunches, I mean, Joe Rice wants to run a bunch, all the great offensive players want to run a bunch, but the play action, they got rid of PA posters so bad that it's hard to run a bunch play action. But with the route Kims, now boom, he's running play action and he has the, he has Pat sale pretty much out of play action. So you see how much time he has, look at these guys just getting their ass beat, third and 14. Once again, CJ has the slowest Troy Apke I've ever seen. Those are a must stays in balance, huge deal staying in bounds right there. I want to give him the credit and say that he did that on purpose. But if he goes out of bounds and gives CJ a chance to get the ball back, but because he stayed in bounds, it looked like he did on purpose, come back and stay in bounds right there. That's where if you're CJ, you want your defender to be smarter to lift him and move him out of bounds. But because he stayed in bounds, me personally, I'm calling timeout right there because I mean, I'm right now, I lost pretty much is what I'm saying. I lost the game. Let me call my timeout. I need to find a way to get the ball back. He doesn't call timeout less the clock run and Joe does the right thing. He eventually gives the girl he gets the first down. We all know we all know that icing the kicker is super broken. This is another thing I feel about icing the kicker. Okay, if I come out and kick you call timeout now I don't come out feel while I run a spike. Boom. You should still be iced. It's not like the kid. So pretty much you call ice on the kicker, right? To make the kicker think about the field even more, right? Put more pressure on them. So in real life, if I'm the kicker, you ice me and my offense decides to go run a little spike and then then send it. And I'm still thinking about the field, right? So essentially you're making it worse. You're compounding the problem by running extra plays, you know, after they already iced me. So I think if you ice the field ball kicker once, it doesn't matter what the offense does, your field ball kicker should still be iced. If that's going to be in the future of the game, it needs to be fixed because it's just too easy to avoid. And you can't avoid it in real life. You know, the kicker's iced regardless in real life. So I mean, if you want to keep this iced the kicker theme and then it needs to be fixed to where if you're kicking a field ball, it needs to be iced in this situation like this, no matter what, you know. And let's honestly, I would probably use my field balls because I know that the, you know, the dynamic and man is broken, I would use my timeouts to get the ball back. But if it was, if I didn't, if I knew it worked, I might save a timeout just to hope he misses the field ball. But did he draw a spike? The spikes are wild, aren't they? Takes it all the way to one. I would have called my timeout and had a minute left after he says the game's over. Did he come out and spike? Spike does like bounce off people's face and stuff. Yeah. So honestly, but this is just, I think it's bad that this doesn't work. So I would do this too. You know, you're going to use all the plays. I want a flukey spike to bounce up and you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I would just take a knee right here. But after all that, after all that, somehow this kicker's not, he's, he doesn't care anymore. Number two, he doesn't care. Yeah, I'm like, so what? So congratulations to Wesley, man. I thought he really played well. I mean, obviously there's some things he'd like to do better and he's got plenty of time now, man. I know he's relaxed, probably been thinking about this Houston club series for a long time and to get that weight off his chest, finally winning us, finally doing a lot of what he set off to do the first step of pretty much what he set off to do this year. And the biggest thing I have with it, I mean, when we talk about this and I tweeted about it maybe a couple of days ago, it's just a lack of the promotion for his accomplishment. I mean, we're talking about, I mean, Joe Rice, obviously one of more talented players. I talked about him being in the podcast, man. He's one of the more talented younger players that obviously we know and this is our little tight man community, but the rest of the man world needs to know about man. And I thought EA really did a shitty job of promoting this event. It really, they didn't, they didn't use the man Twitter at all. They didn't use the mud Twitter at all. The Texans had one tweet, like come watch it. And he really didn't get the same attention that other people get. And that's something that I know, like I said, this was something that he set out to do. It's a goal that's on his chalkboard at home next to his Xbox. And it's something that he accomplished. And I wish they did a better job of promoting him and really giving him the acknowledgement that he deserves for winning a club series. Now I see other people, now the NFL teams are all different. Some of them really promoted, some of them really shot out their players and really big up the man competitors that really accomplished this. And for him not to really get that really disappointed me is like, how are we setting out to continue to grow to MCS and to continue to grow man as a Esport without the proper promotion of our players, of our stars and turning somebody like Wesley, who was one of the best man players in the world into a star or into somebody somebody that people follow or people pay attention to, or people acknowledge as one of the best man players in the world. And that's something I wish they did a better job of. And honestly, if it continues like this, we're going to have to take the reins of that as because it's probably about almost 10 man players right now that have a bigger following than the man league ops Twitter. So I think that there really needs to be some type of promotion of these players that really accomplish great things and players that really put their time and effort into this game of Madden. And I really wish it was a bigger deal for the rest of the world. I mean, if we're ever going to grow to something that this man wants to be, we really need their help and promoting us, you know, because that's what they can do for us. They can get all the eyes on, you know, the Wesley's, the kids, the ghost, the jokes, all these guys that are great Madden players need more promotion, you know, and like I said, if it doesn't continue, if it continues the way it is, we're going to have to really do our best to promote. So make sure you follow Wesley. I don't know what let me see. I know I had tweeted about this earlier about Wesley. Yeah, I don't want to see what my timeline looks like. It's bad because it just was something that definitely promote Madden better. Please follow Wesley G at Wesley G the Texans club series champion with a Falcons, a Falcons background, but says Texans clubs champion. I mean, we might have to do something about that Wesley. But yeah, definitely follow at Wesley G, man. He definitely deserves it. Put a lot of time and effort into this game. One of the better players in the world is going to continue to show that it's going to be great seeing him compete against the other AFC people, AFC South to start. So he's definitely going to get going forward in that. All right, that's just to promote. I wish it was better, man. It's been pretty shitty for the last two years now. And what's the last time I want to get to it? Let's get to the NFL. I mean, I know I spent a lot of time talking about talking about those two games. They were interesting to me. And like I said, I can really talk about the way people play and it was some bad things I saw on some good things I saw. But week nine happened, the Eagles did not play. They did not lose this week. They are four and four. And honestly, the way the division is rounding up, the Eagles will win the division fairly easily. Because let me see here, I mean, the Redskins came out here and laid down to the Falcons. The Falcons beat the breaks off of the Redskins. I mean, a lot of people thought the Redskins and I thought the Redskins were doing pretty well. Week five, week seven, week eight, week nine. Yeah, so the Redskins got clapped by the Falcons, actually allowed Julio Jones to score a touchdown. Julio Jones first touchdown in like five calendar years. But so the Redskins are, I believe five and three now. The Eagles are four and four. The other game in the division is the Cowboys. The Cowboys got smoked last night by the Titans. So the Cowboys are three and five. They're cooked. Actually played the Eagles this week. It is Dallas week. So hopefully we smack on the Cowboys. I believe it's a Sunday night game. But and that's how I went. The Panthers are strong. I believe the Panthers are six and two after the Eagles let them off the hook, man. The Panthers doing really good. They beat the Buccaneers. I think the Chargers, the Chargers, I believe have a good record too. The Chargers are rolling. The Chargers are always a team that starts slow, but then really pick it up at the season started this year. The slow start wasn't six games. It wasn't eight games. They weren't three and five. They were, I think, only one and two. So the slow start was earlier. So right now it's looking like the Chargers. Chargers are looking at probably the main wildcard spot because they do have the Chiefs in their division. But I would say the Chargers were in the top teams at ANC, behind the Chiefs and the Patriots. I mean, and the Texans are definitely another team cooking with gas. I mean, you have the Chiefs, Texans, Chargers, Patriots, the Steelers won again. It will be interesting to see what happens with LeVion Bell. If he comes back as far as I'm concerned, LeVion Bell, you can stay where you're at. If I'm a Steelers fan, if I'm on the Steelers team, the way James Conner, James Conner is not LeVion Bell, but he's doing good enough. Running back is not that big a deal. They're not losing games. They're not a weaker team because they don't have LeVion Bell. And if you don't feel the need to come to the game, you don't feel the need to come and play with your teammates or play for our team, as far as I'm concerned, you can stay wherever you are. And that's just how I am. That's how I would be as an Eagles if I was a Steelers fan, if I was in a Steelers organization, because they're playing fine without them. The Ravens looked like a team that was going to be tough this year. And I feel like they lost three games in a row. So they're definitely gasping for air. So it's looking like the Steelers are going to win that division, although the Bengals still have a decent record. I believe that the Bengals player they were on by this week. Looks like they were on by with the Eagles. But yeah, the Bengals are bad. The Steelers and Bengals, they're going to be duking it off for that. But the Chiefs, the Chargers, Texans, Patriots, that's pretty much what the AOC is looking like. NFC, we're going to talk about this game, the Saints and the Rams, probably the two best teams, obviously the two best teams in NFC. I want to say maybe the two best teams in the NFL, the Saints and the Rams, excellent game, probably the game of the week to watch, really entertaining. And then we saw our Patriots and the Packers, two of the top five quarterbacks all the time played. The Patriots are rolling, they're always going to be there between the coach and the quarterback, even without Grunk. But the Rams and the Saints, man, this is the game I want to focus on them on, what would a man player do? And it's just a small tidbit, nothing crazy elaborate. It just goes down kind of how we talked about possessions with between CJ and Joe Rice and possessions. And man's a game of possessions because it's so much shorter. You want to maximize your possessions, each possession you have, you want to use it to the best of your ability because in a man game, you might get four possessions, you might get five. And in an NFL game, you might get 10 possessions, you know, but it all comes down to the same thing, the same premise, essentially, it's just that much bigger of a sample size. I said, man, you might have four or five possessions in real football, you'll have 10 possessions. So what I want to show you guys here is this is week nine, this is the Saints and the Rams. And what happens here is that one, both of these teams are offensive powerhouses pretty much between Gurley running for the Rams and between my man, Alvin Camara, Drew Brees, who for some reason we talk about Rodgers and Brady Drew Brees has to be in the top five conversation of all time at the quarterback position. And they were going back and forth. I mean, each offense went right down the field pretty much. And these teams, well, look, the Rams are eight and old, the Saints are six and one. And what happens here is this is the third drive of the game for the Saints. You know, when we got the Rams here, boom, the Rams are supposed to have a great defense because they paid a lot of money for all their players and they do have a good defense. But in the Orleans is really hard to play against the New Orleans. So this is the third drive of the game for the Saints, the fifth drive overall of the game. And this is the first play and Melvin and uh, what's his name? Mark Engren, Fumbles, Aaron Donald picks it up, boom. So you get the flukey turnover. Now I'm mad. If you're playing the Saints or the Rams, that's the equivalent of playing the Skimbo, the Kiv, the Goals, the great offensive player because they, both of these offenses went right down the field. So if you're playing these guys, you have to assume that man, they're going to keep scoring, you know, but right there by me getting the turnover, I just got a possession. I just gained a possession on them. So boom, what happens is Engren, Fumbles, the Rams get the ball. So the Rams get the ball in field range already and they're going to line up for a field goal, but instead of taking the field goal, they're going to go ahead and run a fake. Boom. Johnny Hecker, who I met at the Pro Bowl signed my Pro Bowl football. Johnny Hecker, best punter in the history of punters because I met him. But anyway, he runs here. Now I will tell you this. I felt the Rams got cheated on this call. I thought he had the first down. I thought he definitely had the first down. You know what I mean? I thought he reached over the line, thought he reached the ball before he went down. Boom. But they challenged it, did not get overturned. I thought he was past the line. I don't know about you guys, but I thought he was past the line for sure. But what this goes back to is that they risked by calling this fake field goal and giving the punter the ball to run to run. Sean McVay risked losing that possession advantage. When he got the fumble, he risked losing the possession. And as a man player, I'll tell you this right now is that if I got that possession, if we're going back and forth like the Saints and the Rams were and all of a sudden you fumble and I have the ball back, I'm going to go ahead and take my field goal and get my possession and gain my lead, gain, kind of flip into possession battle that football and Madden is, especially when you have two high powered offenses, man. It's definitely with something that I would have kicked the field goal just because you got to make them pay for turning the ball over and taking your field goal there is some way to make them pay for turning the ball over. And because they didn't get it, whether you agree with the challenge or not, agree with the spot or not, they did not get it. So they turned the ball right back over to the Saints and you're right where you at before he fumbled. You didn't make them pay at all for turning the ball over. And as far as I'm concerned, I definitely would have made them pay and took my field goal there, but that's just cool because then you'll fast forward all the way down here or we'll watch it add one or the other and make sure you guys check out the new Casper Wave mattress. But being so my point is that they came back to want those three points in the end. That's pretty much what I, I say all that to say they wish they had those three points. As you see, they're kicking them three points here. They wish they had those three points when it was 35 to 35, you know, because what happens is the Saints go down here and kick a field goal. Boy, oh boy, those three points would look really damn good on the Rams board right now. But you know, that's why they're in the NFL and I'm sitting here behind the desk at the needed podcast. This was episode five. We talked about the Houston club series. I believe this week, check me if I'm wrong. I believe this week, the Steelers club series is going live. But regardless, I'm going to have more stuff to talk about next week. We're definitely going to talk about all the online elimination. I saw amazing games last night. I saw 49er literally throw the ball up in traffic the entire game. It was an amazing watch. So we're definitely going to talk about a bunch of things next week between online elimination and another club series. I'm definitely excited to talk about that. So if you're playing in live events, make sure you play well because I will air you out all the shitty stuff you do. I see it all. 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