How come when I go up against man coverage I'm locked, but when I run it i get burnt?

what adjustments are people using. I'm running the same DBs as other man players, and i get cooked so I always run zone instead. I'm running zigs and crossers and breaking routes but their DB's seem to just stick like glue

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Obviously for man coverage shading is important. In addition to shading the whole secondary, I believe you can also shade individuals. This is super helpful if you have an idea of what play your opponent is going to run and you're fast enough to make the adjustments. If your opponents are running pure man and locking you down, I suspect this is what's happening.

There's also good chance your opponents are running a hybrid scheme. They might play a man shell but then adjust some DBs to Zones to cover some routes that typically beat man.

I'm not good so take this with a grain of salt. This is just what I'm speculating from how I know the game works and what I've seen others say.

use rpo it’s like with the heavy blitzers they are wanting you to hold onto the ball

Formations make a big difference.   Bunch and tight formations can kill man easy since you can force defenders to run into each other and leave someone wide open.   You also should read which defender covers your receivers.   Having a fs have to cover a hb or cross formation to the te means you should be hitting those flats quick.

it's the same way for me.  so i run zone. ive tried everything to get separation but my WR's are getting dry humped up and down the field. it's ridiculous atleast for old gen

Breakluna said:

Obviously for man coverage shading is important. In addition to shading the whole secondary, I believe you can also shade individuals. This is super helpful if you have an idea of what play your opponent is going to run and you're fast enough to make the adjustments. If your opponents are running pure man and locking you down, I suspect this is what's happening.

There's also good chance your opponents are running a hybrid scheme. They might play a man shell but then adjust some DBs to Zones to cover some routes that typically beat man.

I'm not good so take this with a grain of salt. This is just what I'm speculating from how I know the game works and what I've seen others say.

This. From what I've seen, shading is the key to running man this year. Running man without shading your DBs in some way seems to be very ineffective this year.

Mereel13 said:

This. From what I've seen, shading is the key to running man this year. Running man without shading your DBs in some way seems to be very ineffective this year.

Yeah you pretty much have to shade no matter what otherwise more than likely your coverage getting cooked

like shade underneath? does stacking shading even do anything like underneath, outside for example

RyyoLurkedEm said:

like shade underneath? does stacking shading even do anything like underneath, outside for example

Yes. I believe you can stack shading like you described as long as the don't conflict. So inside and underneath would stack but inside and outside would not.