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I just had a guy matriculate down the field with nonstop RPO's my defenders refused to cover no matter what I told them.

When I tried to manually defend, he audibled and went with a different cheese play.

Why do I do this to myself. On the field, I could cover this with my barely-sub-6.00 40-time SPD. As a coach, I could tell a superior athlete to stop this. In Madden, my defenders go on strike.

I also wondered a bit whether DDA was a factor, as the dude had a significantly weaker team overall. But he was one-dimensional cheese out of the gate, and I just couldn't stop it.

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phatalerror said:

I just had a guy matriculate down the field with nonstop RPO's my defenders refused to cover no matter what I told them.

When I tried to manually defend, he audibled and went with a different cheese play.

Why do I do this to myself. On the field, I could cover this with my barely-sub-6.00 40-time SPD. As a coach, I could tell a superior athlete to stop this. In Madden, my defenders go on strike.

I also wondered a bit whether DDA was a factor, as the dude had a significantly weaker team overall. But he was one-dimensional cheese out of the gate, and I just couldn't stop it.

Yeah, ive noticed a huge uptick in rpos,double pass, constant play flipping and cheese motions etc in recent day or two. Lol i almost forgot about alot of that stuff, have seen less of it recently until now.

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SquishySoldier21 said:

Yeah, ive noticed a huge uptick in rpos,double pass, constant play flipping and cheese motions etc in recent day or two. Lol i almost forgot about alot of that stuff, have seen less of it recently until now.

Nothing but that nonsense. And it wasn't even 9:00 p.m. yet. Just non-football stuff that I struggled to defend because my players won't act according to my adjustments.

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Noticed this too. Had a guy spam MTN RPO Zone alert and MTN cross post and chewed clocked all game. My DBs never reacted to anything.

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joemainey said:

Noticed this too. Had a guy spam MTN RPO Zone alert and MTN cross post and chewed clocked all game. My DBs never reacted to anything.

Did you try man or try guarding it yourself? I understand the pain i try to guard it myself and my guy will glitch tf out and miss the interception Or when I call man somehow the wr will Block the guy in front of him and block the db on the rpo route but as far as I know that only way to stop it. Even o yd hard flats won’t stop it’s insane.

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I just quit those games. I know that rewards bad behavior but I can't deal with the frustration.

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phatalerror said:

I just had a guy matriculate down the field with nonstop RPO's my defenders refused to cover no matter what I told them.

When I tried to manually defend, he audibled and went with a different cheese play.

Why do I do this to myself. On the field, I could cover this with my barely-sub-6.00 40-time SPD. As a coach, I could tell a superior athlete to stop this. In Madden, my defenders go on strike.

I also wondered a bit whether DDA was a factor, as the dude had a significantly weaker team overall. But he was one-dimensional cheese out of the gate, and I just couldn't stop it.

I'm still not convinced DDA is a thing, despite what the community insists. Sure, it's a ridiculously inconsistent, buggy ass mess of a game, but that's not really dynamic anything -- that's just poor spaghetti code that is leftover from the PS3 generation, which we're still counting on to this very day.

Bunch of kids just got consoles and MUT for Christmas, so the cheese will be coming for us all. I regret dragging my feet with this Ranked play, but having a difficult time trying to motivate this cycle. I'm mostly content with 97 SPD George Kittle and 96 SPD Vernon Davis on my Niners theme team, but guess it'd be nice for an NBA sized monster, especially one that gets decent abilities.

What formation are you using to try and defend the RPOs? I'm finding that no matter what i do, both 3-4 and 4-3 really struggle with their Hard Flats defending much of anything. In these instances, i almost always revert to Dollar (well, Dime 1-4 i guess it's called this year, because EA logic) and play something liek shaded down Cover 4 Drop, to get those Hard Flats out there. Even then, it's at best a 50-50 chance. Defense is extremely difficult this year.