Be Honest, where did you get your scheme

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Back after 4 months off so just building my team and will make my own scheme as always as it’s my favourite part of playing madden. Historically I’ve run a gun split slot scheme as I love split back formations, but they have removed some of the plays I like this year so thinking of running a 2x2 spread scheme this year.

Tempted to run Jimmy Graham and Taysom Hill in the slot WR positions with Jameis and Olave outside.

Defense I’ve always run a 3-4 odd scheme. Time will tell if that works this year!

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Yes but why isn’t coach’s suggestion an option tho

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1234321 said:

I personally created my own offensive and defensive schemes but I feel like I’m in the minority. I’m guessing most people got theirs from YouTube videos but interested to see everyone’s responses.

I made my own defensive scheme out of Big Nickle, or now known as 4-2-5 in Madden 20, and have ran it every year since making adjustments as the years have gone on. For offense I've always ran my own thing and just found what works. I run a bunch of different formations and create concepts that I think will get open

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One thing I can say is YouTube definitely is a big reason madden has gone down hill. All these so called “PROs “ and YouTubers only look for flaws in the coding. Sharing it with the masses rather then people having to figure it out on there own, or never finding it at all. This is the reason most games we all play the same few plays and have a harder time than need be to stop it. I understand there is always a way to stop something.

But I don’t know I feel it should take 20 adjustments if some one runs the same plays over and over the players should react especially if they have high play rec stats.

other than that rant I run my own scheme out of the run and shoot playbook not many use. I do decent but definitely know of better plays and playbooks that would get me more wins but don’t find it fun playing to win by using the flawed gaming code knowing it a patch or next madden it won’t work because it should of never of

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YouTube for offense. I then change a couple things on a few plays that I like. On defense I run Cover 3 Marble or Cover 2 Invert and hope for pressure or a mistake. I honestly suck so maybe I should come up with my own like so many others came up with Bunch X Nasty by themselves

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The homie Zan

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Buccs4047 said:

75% got it from youtube, 0% are going to admit it. 100% will say its their own scheme.

Yup but honestly I got mine from my friend , we run levels out of Trey y flex and 4-2-5 cover 3

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My offense is 100% my own. I got my defense mainly from a twitch player but I used my own twist on it and I’ve had a lot of success. My 6-1 defense is top tier.

Also anyone getting YouTube or twitch advise is smart. Call it cheese and scum or whatever you want. We’re playing a video game to be competitive and win games. This isn’t real life.

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carolinaeasy said:

I work with kids, a lot of teens. I have Madden tourneys for them at times. I usually don’t jump in but this one kid was mouthy as all get out and dominating the kids. When he won it all we had a special game. I cooked him 42-6. He couldn’t quit without looking weak. It was priceless.

Haha...this is awesome. School of hard knocks lesson that day.

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I'm kinda just complete random on what I do. My opponent can't figure me out if I have no clue what I'm doing lol.

(In all reality I just don't care enough to spend hours labbing a scheme or watching YouTube schemes, I play for fun and don't care enough to do all that).

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carolinaeasy said:

I find this question rather funny. I coached at the high school level and was both a coordinator and head coach. I had a ton of success. I didn’t create my own offense. I went to successful programs and learned it, I bought the Delaware wing t book and studied it. I spent quality time with Norv Turner. Long story short I took things I learned from others and used them. Now, due to a career shift I don’t coach football anymore and Madden helps fill that void (poorly at most times, but alas). I know what I like to run, but I also confer and find information on YouTube. That doesn’t make me any less of a man, or someone without honor. I’d put my football bonfides up against anyone’s short of Berkhart. I prefer to play football, but when my opponent starts the cheese fondue I know how to match it and embarrass them. Madden isn’t football it’s a facsimile of the game. Sometimes you need an answer that the YouTube guys already have readily available.

Coach McKie is that you?

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SiberianKiss said:

Coach McKie is that you?

Nah, I do not have my own YouTube channel. Lol

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carolinaeasy said:

Nah, I do not have my own YouTube channel. Lol

lol fair. Just sounded very similar!

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It's really wild how so many people come up with the exact same scheme on their own😂

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I find it hard to believe that anyone can come up with their own good scheme in this game given that there is little to no real world logic that underpins the gameplay and animations. You have to be a full time student of EA glitches to understand how anything works.

I am NMS and have about the best team you can reasonably have without spending, and yet I am consistently dumbfounded and frustrated by how incompetent and unreliable my players are. Any scheme I may come up with relies on my AI guys being minimally competent at doing their assignments, and yet DBs with 99 zone coverage and 98+ speed cannot play bare basic minimum competent zone defense. So even if I want to come up with a zone defense scheme, I can't do anything that works unless i can divine how EA will glitch out the mechanics.

Call man coverage with press and inside shade to defend a drag route? Nope! Because halfway through the coverage the DB will break off and rush the QB for no reason, leaving the WR uncovered. If I know my opponent is going to run a short outside slant with his WR1 at the goal line, I should be able to stop it with press coverage and outside leverage with a top tier CB. NOPE! Not in this game. The WR will get to the corner of the end zone wide open while my CB does lord knows what.

Call contain against QB I know will roll outside? Nah, my edge rushers just won't do it.

On outside run plays, my OL guys with run protector ability will consistently block absolutely nobody and allow defenders who are stacked in the middle of the box to race through the line and catch my 98 OVR RB from behind for a loss. How can I scheme runs with no reliable blocking from the best OL guys in the game?

Somehow, an opponents safety lined up in the middle of the field 10 yards off the line can run 20 yards and shut down a 0 yard flat route before my faster TE can even get to his spot.

The only "scheme" that matters is being great at usering and switch sticking, because this is EA, where it's totally reasonable for a LB lined up over center to stop the middle run while also being able to miraculously sprint back into coverage and intercept an outside go route against a 99 speed WR.

The game mechanics are just brain dead.

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