The State of Defense in MUT26

So we all know it is bad. But how bad is it and how can that be "measured" ? 
Well, I just got matched up with some casual player (based on his team) who's best offensive players had 88, 86 and 84 Speed. 
So I thought lets just - for the heck of it - run man on defense all game long (all my DBs are 90+ speed) and see what happens. 
Ran Cover 0 and Cover 2 man from different formations, matching his personnel  and 'Im not exaggerating when I say EVERYBODY got open regularly. Woolen, Porter, Hairston, Bates (maxed out) all of them were absolutely getting cooked - especially by a 84 SPD Kyle Pitts. 

Not only couldn't my team cover anybody, the broken tackles he got, the way my players dumbed out (especially Sauce Garner sucked bad) was just as insane as the blocking he got in the run game with 85 bnd cards manhandling my line consistinge of Crosby, Garrett, Jones and Anderson. Even running a 5 man front with 4 DONs didn't change anything. 

I ended up winning the game by one score because I just sent the house at him while playing press the entire time until he threw 2 picks. 
I dont consider myself a great Madden player but I make Champ div. every season, been playing this game for like 10 years and consider myself decent enough to easily beat opponents like this with bad teams who can't make a read and seemingly call coach suggestion plays. 

I dont know how this has anything to do with skill anymore. At a minimum, the gap is not big enough.

I did something similar against a team with a 5ish speed gap on its DBs to my Raiders/Breakout/Crystals team. 

I kept running streaks against his man to see if anyone would blow past their coverage.  Nope. 

This is the equalizer function…the same thing that makes gold cards play like demons in hard solos. 

Eventually I just started handing off the ball and won comfortably, but he definitely got a play where Davante bounced off of double coverage with a catch and then trotted 20 yards downfield to the end zone. 

I keep thinking about something that was posted in the forum - if Little Timmy wants to score touchdowns, Little Timmy is gonna score touchdowns. Sums things up pretty well.

Kyleb63 said:

I did something similar against a team with a 5ish speed gap on its DBs to my Raiders/Breakout/Crystals team. 

I kept running streaks against his man to see if anyone would blow past their coverage.  Nope. 

This is the equalizer function…the same thing that makes gold cards play like demons in hard solos. 

Eventually I just started handing off the ball and won comfortably, but he definitely got a play where Davante bounced off of double coverage with a catch and then trotted 20 yards downfield to the end zone. 

I keep thinking about something that was posted in the forum - if Little Timmy wants to score touchdowns, Little Timmy is gonna score touchdowns. Sums things up pretty well.

Makes perfect sense they'd use the mechanics that make the Solos so hard despite the OVR desparity in H2H to make it more enjoyable for bad players/teams so they stay engaged instead of rage quitting and not coming back

PBateman said:

So we all know it is bad. But how bad is it and how can that be "measured" ? 
Well, I just got matched up with some casual player (based on his team) who's best offensive players had 88, 86 and 84 Speed. 
So I thought lets just - for the heck of it - run man on defense all game long (all my DBs are 90+ speed) and see what happens. 
Ran Cover 0 and Cover 2 man from different formations, matching his personnel  and 'Im not exaggerating when I say EVERYBODY got open regularly. Woolen, Porter, Hairston, Bates (maxed out) all of them were absolutely getting cooked - especially by a 84 SPD Kyle Pitts. 

Not only couldn't my team cover anybody, the broken tackles he got, the way my players dumbed out (especially Sauce Garner sucked bad) was just as insane as the blocking he got in the run game with 85 bnd cards manhandling my line consistinge of Crosby, Garrett, Jones and Anderson. Even running a 5 man front with 4 DONs didn't change anything. 

I ended up winning the game by one score because I just sent the house at him while playing press the entire time until he threw 2 picks. 
I dont consider myself a great Madden player but I make Champ div. every season, been playing this game for like 10 years and consider myself decent enough to easily beat opponents like this with bad teams who can't make a read and seemingly call coach suggestion plays. 

I dont know how this has anything to do with skill anymore. At a minimum, the gap is not big enough.

I would love to see this experiment where you’re the one using the 85 speed players against 90+ speed man coverage.

It's called DDA. 

That's why I laugh at any idiot who claims it isn't real when it obviously is.

Makes perfect sense they'd use the mechanics that make the Solos so hard despite the OVR desparity in H2H to make it more enjoyable for bad players/teams so they stay engaged instead of rage quitting and not coming back

You just described DDA. The player won't be motivated to eventually buy packs unless he feels like he can compete with the "best" players. If I'm barely losing to sweats with a worse team, imagine what I can do if I acquire the fresh new cards?

Did all that happen on all-madden?

Something I also noticed is how players who get through to the QB will not trigger a tackling or blocking animation right away, they just run into them and basically the QB only gets tackled, when the player models have run into eachother already, it just looks and feels weird. So many times you think you should have a sack, its an incomplete or even complete pass. Obviously that also plays heavily into field position and therefore the success rate of drives. 

None of this is surprising tho, they have continuously done the same thing on FIFA. Make the game as easy as possible, as arcade as possible so a broad spectrum of players will find success, stay in the game and therefore become or may at some point become microtransaction customers

PBateman said:

Something I also noticed is how players who get through to the QB will not trigger a tackling or blocking animation right away, they just run into them and basically the QB only gets tackled, when the player models have run into eachother already, it just looks and feels weird. So many times you think you should have a sack, its an incomplete or even complete pass. Obviously that also plays heavily into field position and therefore the success rate of drives. 

None of this is surprising tho, they have continuously done the same thing on FIFA. Make the game as easy as possible, as arcade as possible so a broad spectrum of players will find success, stay in the game and therefore become or may at some point become microtransaction customers

aye bruh i wasnt gonna say nothing cuz i feel i complain about alot on the game but this gets me so Hot when it happens lmaoooo. like they just wolverine dive at the quarterback and no animation trigger.

polarvib said:

aye bruh i wasnt gonna say nothing cuz i feel i complain about alot on the game but this gets me so Hot when it happens lmaoooo. like they just wolverine dive at the quarterback and no animation trigger.

We all see it bro. Its too obvious.

It's not you, it's called EA tilt it's been around for years.  It happens in NHL HUT as well.  The game essentially dumbs your overpowered team down and gives "tilt "to the player with a shitty team the advantage.  I promise I am not making it up; it's an EA thing not a madden specifically.