Cheesing the CPU

Does anyone know a good defense that will absolutely destroy the CPU?? I'm trying to bulk up my team a bit by playing the Visa BYOT CPU Draft event and all I'm doing on O is running the Y Off Trips Nasty RPO and that's working really well, but I can't find a single defense to stop the damn CPU! Everything I try they destroy it. Does anyone know a D that just stops everything the CPU tries to run?

Edit: Thank you all I am undefeated and it is way easier than it has ever been before

Mid blitz. Just don’t leave the safety that is manned up to RB where he is, do something so he isn’t cross manned from across the field. Either bring him down and cover the RB, or man up someone on the line to RB and user the safety deeper.

Mid blitz on 1st and 2nd down. If you can get them in 3rd and long, then a Cover 3 zone of some kind. But from I've seen, there's nothing that will stop the CPU cold.

camjooce said:

Mid blitz. Just don’t leave the safety that is manned up to RB where he is, do something so he isn’t cross manned from across the field. Either bring him down and cover the RB, or man up someone on the line to RB and user the safety deeper.

so should I press and shade inside/outside too or just leave it how it is?? also 2-4 or 3-3??

midblitz, show blitz, pass commit

This is going to sound insane but you can literally call any coach suggestion zone play, make sure your user is on the d line, I usually do dt, and don't play at all 

You'll get stops or ints like crazy because the CPU is coded to avoid your user at all costs but will throw to your CPU defenders no problem. 

I just call the coach suggestion zone defense play and let the CPU do it's thing so I can do other stuff while playing like watch something.

Shmevon said:

Does anyone know a good defense that will absolutely destroy the CPU?? I'm trying to bulk up my team a bit by playing the Visa BYOT CPU Draft event and all I'm doing on O is running the Y Off Trips Nasty RPO and that's working really well, but I can't find a single defense to stop the damn CPU! Everything I try they destroy it. Does anyone know a D that just stops everything the CPU tries to run?

Edit: Thank you all I am undefeated and it is way easier than it has ever been before

mid blitz when theyre in the gun and bring the safety responsible for the HB down to that cheesy hover position... that'll confuse the F outta their line and usually get one of your guys through. when they're under center, i ran cover 2 man and usered an end sometimes to drop back as an additional sub lb which will sometimes throw their logic off. key to all this was having baked on abilities in those later tiers... sonny, gold rim haynesworth and clowney were intregal to getting thru it all unscathed. easy with that, but time-consuming as F and i'm glad it's over.

Shmevon said:

so should I press and shade inside/outside too or just leave it how it is?? also 2-4 or 3-3??

Sometimes I pass commit. Sometimes I put a couple zones out from the line to only rush 4, either the sub lbs or the ends. And yeah you can call a cover 2 or 3 out of it too but I don’t see a reason to do it tbh. Out of the CPU games I have played I haven’t been scored on, but I assume they can. Sometimes one of your players get burned or fail at making a tackle. That’s why I usually man up someone from the line to RB and use the safety in the middle to make sure they can’t get an easy score. Even if they get a first down they typically fail the next series. It’s usually a sack, throw away, interception, or a knockout.

Out of 3-3.

Play the clock game. cpu should have opening drive and then never see the ball again for the whole game. Get the stop, kick 3 at the end of the half, then run second half out.

Moderator Sevein131 said:

This is going to sound insane but you can literally call any coach suggestion zone play, make sure your user is on the d line, I usually do dt, and don't play at all 

You'll get stops or ints like crazy because the CPU is coded to avoid your user at all costs but will throw to your CPU defenders no problem. 

I just call the coach suggestion zone defense play and let the CPU do it's thing so I can do other stuff while playing like watch something.

If this actually works, I cannot thank you enough. This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for.

Shmevon said:

If this actually works, I cannot thank you enough. This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for.

It's what I do. I have yet to give up a single TD lol

Moderator Sevein131 said:

It's what I do. I have yet to give up a single TD lol

wow 😳

Cpu can't stop qb runs too

Also, can run goaline man and as soon as the ball is snapped run one of the ends or even a fast DT torward their TE or fastest receiver. It works really well lol