 YouTube, what's up man today? I'm here to talk about something. That's that's pretty you know passionate for me It's about Madden and we've talked about on Twitter mostly with my man Then who I think is one of the best mad minds in the whole world Obviously understands football obviously understands Madden very much so so obviously I'll always have a conversation with him And we'll never disregard anything he says Now mostly the topic is about dollar and dime and different defenses with a lot of DB being able to stop the run and One thing that I I've always ran a lot of DB's ever since I've been the most successful in Madden men's 16 I ran quarters three deep against everything then matter if it was goal line Then matter if it was ace then matter was five wide. No, I didn't care I could have called my defensive play before the snap And I was very good at stopping the run mostly because What happens is in quarters through deep when you show blitz the three linemen's had a bare front Which means they cover up the guards and the center and the DB's in a slot will cover up the tackles So essentially all five linemen are accounted for by defenders Although they're not the biggest defenders They are defenders and they still need to be accounted for because they still can make the tackle and they still can make a play on The run obviously they're not going to shed like a D linemen, but they still need to be blocked So that's why I quarters three deep was so effective at stopping the run Because they covered up all the linemen allowed my linebacker or a safety if I needed to use her safety Which I did against certain runs It allowed two people kind of free to go ahead and get in the back feeling at the running back most importantly It's inside zone back in man 16 Fast forwarded man 17. They removed quarters three deep I could no longer show blitz and pinch that line so I could no longer stop the run out of course through deep It wasn't you could not run it anymore Trust me I tried to because I feel like man 16 was my best man and had my best defensive man 16 So along comes man 17 and dollar Dollar was extremely good because it was very good past defense with the cross many it was very versatile You can send six or seven instantly or you could drop them all back and be crazy cross man covered So it was very good defense and that's something I've always excelled at was a very good defense Coverage wise You know and to be able to so once you know you can cover people and you can cover the pass And you won't get passed on easily the next goal was to stop the run Now pretty much my goal the whole year even a man 16 was how can I stop different runs out of different formations? And it wasn't always necessarily I just come on dollar and everyone is boxed everyone is covered in everything So I think a lot of conversation is discrediting how much time and effort and you know How much I know the game in order to stop certain runs, you know, obviously, you know base I remember basing man 17. That was the only run in Bunch was base So I knew I had to play on the certain on the linebacker on the side of the running back Get my timing right loop around the center and hit that hole before the guard can come over a scrape and block me That was something that also inside zone I know if I pinched or if I shifted my line one way I could shoot in the backfield and you had to identify which formation had which run Which playbook had which run in that formation? It was all different It was something that I think is discredited how much time and effort and how good defensively I was in both man 16 and man 17 Dollar was so good against the run in man 17 That actually man 17 really wasn't a running game. I don't think the run was very good at all Another reason why there was no juke and there was no truck and there was no spin move So it was pretty much get the yards over there Most you had was the tackle battle stiff arm. That was pretty much the biggest thing you could do with the running back So that made the run game a little weak Even though if you've got ten yards, you weren't getting that much more Whereas man 18 and even this man in between the trucking and the spinning and juke's, you know A ten yard run could turn into a touchdown So after man 17 they implemented this pancake rule which I have I have outspokenly told you I despise this rule because I feel like it was targeted at those of us that ran down and was successful against Against it that you could no longer to come out and against that against run formations. Now it makes sense But I feel like it was the easy way out. It was the cheap You know, this is we know we can't fix the game. So let's just make it so everybody falls on the ground Which to me I'm the biggest Eagles fan in the world of any you guys know me I have never seen Fletcher Cox thrown on his back by anybody So all you guys to say real football roof and that's that's mostly the complaint that I get from you guys There's real football, you know, they couldn't stop, you know power-o with dollar They couldn't stop, you know ace with dollar with real football Fletcher Cox never gets thrown on the ground What type of personnel is behind Fletcher Cox does not determine how well he black sheds or how long how well he takes on a guard I think that's just Terrible for the game and everything about it. It's just I thoroughly believe and agree with all you guys that DB should not block shit and I don't think they do I don't know what you got games You guys are playing where DB's are block shedding I think a lot of times the game does get stupid and allows them to get unblocked rather than them black shedding I think that's where the disconnect is I don't think the corners play to run good at all, especially these safeties now that we put in The box at linebacker, they do not play to run. They do not shed. They do not fight However, sometimes when your base align when you're in cover two the corners might shoot in Stop or run and that's just I mean, I guess it's just all linemen or sometimes the game is bad for that You know, and that's just how mad it is. I mean sometimes it's gonna be bad And sometimes you're gonna get the right blocks I personally feel as a man that's run coverage defense or not necessarily coverage defense But a defense with the majority of DB's on the field for the last four years This is by far the worst dollar or big time has ever been against the run It is I'm had have not had any success Consistently stopping the run and I've also never you know have been pounded have lost games Because I have safeties a linebacker and they can't get off blocks now Obviously we can post post pictures and videos of one play that boom Let's go ahead and show this play where I try to run dive against equal dollar and it doesn't work No, I could happen for anything, you know, sometimes you can pass against goal on and it doesn't work Or you got a linebacker covering a wide receiver. Sometimes it happens You know, there's nothing really consistent and what's the most Inconsistent thing to me personally is the pancake the whole system of the pancake I think that's terrible and I want to show you guys an example of Why I think it's terrible and this was when I played Joel in the Madden challenge last year at the live event This was single elimination tournament. This was the first drive of my game. I'm gonna show you guys what happened and why This this whole system of me of the pancake just makes no sense to me mostly because it doesn't work There's no there's no rules to it There's no way to tell if I'm gonna get pancakes if I'm gonna pound pound the ground whatever it may be There's no there's nothing that helped me know when I'm gonna get pancakes for the most part Here we go. I have a second 14. This is my first drive of the game the first drive of the game I'm able to hit Jarvis Landry here get a first and go on a 10 Obviously, we know first and go on the 10 is very hard to score if you watch any of my videos It's probably the worst situation you have first and go on the 10 But I remember specifically this draft this team. I had I had great offensive linemen. I Had Chris Thompson running back. It wasn't a power back was definitely somebody that could juke and jive and Find a way to get an end zone like that and here you go He's in dollar I run stretch his DBS do not shed He does a great job of taking the hole I was gonna go and making me spin back in trying to avoid him now me personally I know huddle that way he keeps his person on the field because I want dollar on the field I want to get pancakes. I don't know how I'm going to it looks like I should he's basalined Nobody sheds this guy comes off the edge because of the baseline tackles me gonna know huddle again I said, you know, I didn't get pancakes two players in a row. Let me try a different run I'm in the Green Bay playbook. So I audible up to gun ace. We're gonna try it inside zone once again He's basalined. There's nobody in the box and the outside corner is the one that's gonna make the tackle on me And now nobody's shetted. No nobody fought. I didn't even think it was good run defense I don't know why I didn't get the pancakes or why, you know, yeah, exactly. Why didn't get the pancakes I don't know I've showed this to Clint I couldn't tell you how many times because this aggravated the life out of me I wouldn't know how to live. I didn't think I was gonna get in the end zone And that allowed me to take three on my first drive. I wound up losing that game I think by three. So if I were to touch down there, obviously would have changed the game Mentally as opposed to having three points. Now, I Like I said, I've been a man that hates the run. I've run dollar I've run sets with bunch of DB's and I think personally to me. I think the run game is I Run the ball and I can think about The game I've had the most success running the ball and that was the game against Hollywood when I played to get Manbo and I ran the ball a lot, especially my first drive and Mostly I ran the ball because one I wanted to get easy yards where I didn't have to think I didn't have to protect I didn't have to make a read. I didn't have to put the right routes on the field I didn't have to play chess. I just pressed a and hope I got yards That's pretty much what I think the run game is this pretty much Let me make hopefully I can get yards. I can score points without having to think So that's why I hate the run game so much and if I could run it I would there's nothing against running it for me. But for me, it's not it's not fun to play against It's not what I enjoy about the game. I understand it's a huge part of the game So I'll never be one that wants it out of the game or wants it toned down on where it is is where it is. I Think the run game this year is good. I don't think the moves are overpowered and like I said before I think that Dollars the worst has been against the run in the last four years. I think it's almost It's very hard to stop consistently stop the run when I play defense now. It's pretty much just I Hope I blow up the run one time or I shoot the gap the right way and this person no learn wants to run the ball So this is this is what I want to say about about dollars. So you guys a little bit Now this is against ace and this is dollar. It's not base aligned So what what we're gonna have here is it's a bare front. So you have these three guys Head up on I'm not really head up but close enough on the guard and Center's head up, but actually these guys are over here in the b-gap which kind of helps because they will get double-teamed But your tight ends have to block these corners. I mean, they're not linebackers I just don't understand what the difference between this and the three four defenses other than in fact I have corners out here that should get manhandled by the tight ends and they will these guys will not Blockshed and make plays now if I base line You know and have these guys out here Then maybe they won't get blocked to the tight end might go up to the linebacker as you saw What happened to me in a game versus Joel and then this corner can come off the edge and make the play in the backfield But now they put it. So if you see, oh If you see when they snap the ball, hopefully we get double teams on the ends. That's what I want I want double teams on the ends and we'll be able to actually see we didn't get pancake there I don't know if it's because I'm basing lines I don't know why because if I'm not basing line like this, I will get pancake. I really just don't understand The whole premise around the pancake thing, you know, so now we there we get pancake But before when I base a line to move the corners out and there was less people in the box I didn't get pancakes. So I don't understand the whole How it works. So that's why I don't I hate that whole system and Personally, I have not been in dollar against two tight ends in the last two years because I don't want to have to deal with this system of You know knowing when I'm gonna get pancake than when I'm not gonna get pancakes So that's just I just want to know why you guys think this is so much different if I come out and something like this This is so much different than three four The only difference is these guys are corners that should not block shit. You are right Gronkowski and Dwayne Allen should mall these guys for the same time. I mean these are still Ziggy onside This is still canard. This is still Gerard Davis. This is still a Reeves maven I don't know who these guys are, but they're still live. They're still fat guys These five guys are still front seven guys that still need to be accounted for So if you take the time you take the tight ends out the way boom Black they're blocking the corners They're still five against six and I can find a way as a man player and knows where to move these people to make So I get a double team on somebody that allows me a gap to shoot to be able to stop the run and that's pretty much what I had to do So we get no double team. He's just thrown on the ground. Why because I have corners at the linebacker essentially but I mean pretty much I say all this to say that I I Am very strongly Against both the pancake maker and the whole whole thought that dollars should not stop the run The main thing I agree with is that corners should get pancakes, you know If you have a safety at linebacker, I don't think they should block shit and to me They do not block shit as a person has ran dollar or three to five with safety's for two months They do not block shit. They don't fight I don't know what you guys are playing and what you're watching to where corners fight and beat line than that badly, but That's just my experience with it and Person I think the pancake thing has to get out of the game I think it's just bad if I personally find a way to contain the run and know what run you're running and contain it Then I should be able to do that I shouldn't be punished by the game for having a different person No, it should be my choice to go ahead and put 60 bees on the field Especially if I get to a third and six or a third and eight, you know I shouldn't get pancakes on on passing downs You might choose to run and that's okay, but I shouldn't get pancake on the passing down So this is a big deal with the man community. I know for a lot of you guys it's frustrating Like it was for me in a joke game when you decide to pound the ball and you can't move dollar off the field I know it's frustrating, but you know, I just I just I'm against the run being that effective And I feel like if I find the way to stop that stop the run out of dollar. I should I should have good defense I think that's a part of having good defense I don't think dollar just gets rolled out there and it stops to run automatically I don't think it's ever been like that even a man's 17 when it was the most dominant defense in the game In my opinion before nickel blitz But I never think it stopped it by itself was all with the user and also with the game Situations and how they decide to play their defense But that's just my opinion on the run verse dollar and safety is a linebacker and whatever you may have I know it is raining here. Hopefully you guys don't hear all that rain, but my window is open It is raining pretty good right now, but That's just my opinion Please tell me in the comment section what you guys think should dollar be able to stop the run What is your opinion on it? How do you feel the game has changed when running is dollar in the last four years because most of us are all Man players and we've all played the last four years We all understand how the game works and it's just something that I'm very passionate about because if it was up to me I would remove running out of the game. However, I have Been successful in the past in certain games running the ball against dollar and against other things But I don't like it and I wish dollars stopped every run But it doesn't they're forcing me to be another defense is and I accept that and I'm doing that willingly And I still get ran on I still get pounded if you don't shoot the gap on the inside zone nowadays It's getting 30 yards and that's how it's been this year I don't think dollars are dominant run defense at all this year So I said hit the like hit the sub button comment below. Tell me what you think about these Defensive back heavy defensive stopping the run