Defensive Pass Rush, or Offensive blocking help

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In the few times I play online h2h, I am consistently getting pressured by the other team to the point that I can’t even run play action. I see the previous play called and it’s just a basic 4 man rush with 7 in coverage.

However, when I’m on defense, I can’t get my guys to generate any pressure on their own.

On defense, my line is three 99’s and a 98. My offensive line is mainly 97 or higher.

What am I missing here? Is this just people running adjustments at the line that are confusing my lineman?

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Virgil said:

In the few times I play online h2h, I am consistently getting pressured by the other team to the point that I can’t even run play action. I see the previous play called and it’s just a basic 4 man rush with 7 in coverage.

However, when I’m on defense, I can’t get my guys to generate any pressure on their own.

On defense, my line is three 99’s and a 98. My offensive line is mainly 97 or higher.

What am I missing here? Is this just people running adjustments at the line that are confusing my lineman?

Could be a combination of things. What abilities do you have on your D-Line? That’s pretty important. Abilities are often more important than ratings (depending on the disparity between ratings).

They could also be doing D-Line Adjustments, like you mentioned, to cause pressure. Have you tried Max Protect to see if it works?

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Virgil said:

In the few times I play online h2h, I am consistently getting pressured by the other team to the point that I can’t even run play action. I see the previous play called and it’s just a basic 4 man rush with 7 in coverage.

However, when I’m on defense, I can’t get my guys to generate any pressure on their own.

On defense, my line is three 99’s and a 98. My offensive line is mainly 97 or higher.

What am I missing here? Is this just people running adjustments at the line that are confusing my lineman?

For your O-Line I would simply just consider that maybe the other team is running stunts, which the best counter for this is really just moving the pocket to where the rushers won't be. But if your doing play action, a big counter I use for that is QB contain, which can SOMETIMES make my edge guy run straight at the QB and catch him in the animation which helps a lot.