Corner routes

[killacam96]

Played online and everytime i stopped the guy he would go to his 'go-to' play with was 4 wr set and the two inside wr's would run corner routes. any idea how to stop this play? obviously some sort of zone

[Groove74]

What seems to work for me is to Spotlight his go to guy then I adjust for protect sticks and defense adjust Over the top. with this I tend more often then not to drop a big hit before he gets a first down and sometimes my CPU teammate jumps the route.

I play as a D-lineman so if you control the LB may be a different approach!

[burnum]

Cover 4 should work against the deep corner route without exposing your deep middle. I'd only use it in long yardage situations (like 3rd & 20) because you're exposed in the short/intermediate area.

[ggsimmonds]

Maybe formation sub your top corners to play inside when you think it is coming.

Try cover 2 man and shade outside. This depends on personnel though. Probably only works if you have good corners.

What routes are the outside WRs running? If it is hitch routes then he is running smash. That is designed to beat 2 deep coverages.

You could try cover 4. Hot route the flats to curl zones. Same with cover 3. But then the underneath hitch will be open. But if it is 3rd and long that is acceptable.

[killacam96]

the outside wr's are runnin out routes. its shotgun tight

[ggsimmonds]

Quote: Originally Posted by killacam96

the outside wr's are runnin out routes. its shotgun tight

Bench is the play. Call cover 3/4 and this is the key -- base align. What he is doing is pulling your defense in and then attacking outside. With man align your defenders are not in a position to defend outside breaking routes.
Definitely don't want to go man on this play.

[bodymore]

They are overpowered. I posted this in one of the online threads.

The user I was playing was running out of ace and kept throwing the corner route to the tight end. As soon as he would come out of the break he would throw it and even if my man was in zone or man it didn't matter.

I tried man, cover 2, 3, and 4. Nine times out of ten it will be a completion.
I tried all of the shade assignments. I even hot routed my rush end in man and zone. The only thing that worked for me was covering it myself. Another person posted on youtube about this.

http://youtu.be/5GeQwV13v5s

[ggsimmonds]

Quote: Originally Posted by bodymore

They are overpowered. I posted this in one of the online threads. The user I was playing was running out of ace and kept throwing the corner route to the tight end. As soon as he would come out of the break he would throw it and even if my man was in zone or man it didn't matter. I tried man, cover 2, 3, and 4. Nine times out of ten it will be a completion. I tried all of the shade assignments. I even hot routed my rush end in man and zone. The only thing that worked for me was covering it myself. Another person posted on youtube about this. http://youtu.be/5GeQwV13v5s

Jimmy Graham in real life is overpowered. You notice that each time he hit the corner route the defense was in cover 1? Watch the play at 2:00.graham ran the corner but the zone took it away.

The corner route is a difficult route to cover in real life. If you try to defend the corner route 1v1 against a guy like Jimmy Graham you will lose.= that matchup.

Show me a video of Revis getting beat by a poor WR and then I may agree that it is overpowered