I’ve discovered I am not very good at Madden 21. I am usually good at Madden, but my kids are getting older and better and the game is developing more and more of a community to teach them through video about how to play the game better and how to beat players that rely on the classic strategies I rely on. Beyond this, I haven’t adjusted to the way the AI adjusted to run plays and now I cannot run.
I’ve been reading articles (yeah, I’m still pre-video where possible) that cover the ins and outs of modifying protections in the pass and run game. I use those line shifts for the pass, but this year they may work for the run as will ID’ng the Mike to bring extra help against particularly rough LBs.
What triggered this? I am in the latest season of our league and I cannot run the ball. I have 3 Rbs of 91+ rating (We can talk about my management problems in another blog) and I think 9 rbs overall, each with a slew of talents and two of the 9 are superstar x-factor backs who should be world beaters. They cannot move the ball at ALL against a human opponent and any one of them are hard pressed to break 100 yards in a game vs. an All Pro CPU without using broken cheater plays.
I just moved to a different playbook–a modded version of the Saints book–in order to bring new plays, but I need to up my own skills in order to solve this problem. I have the all star line. I have the 90+ FB and I don’t have a whole lot of success. There is work to be done.