I find myself playing man most of the time....and trying to get a very fast pass rush to keep me from getting burned for big plays. I have the pass rush coming from all sorts of outside positions to keep folks from running outside on me too. I do my best to keep one or two players back as a safety net....to react if things go badly at first and a receiver/runner does break free! All this requires an absolutely solid run stuffing middle though....I typically count on 3 linemen to plug the middle with one or two linebackers in support. The rest of the linebackers are loopers and speed rushers....I will also gamble and blitz a safety or corner at times...I try to take an angle there that puts me between the QB and receiver. I hate to say it.....but putting lots of your defenders on the line (unlike a typical NFL set) seems to work best in electric football....However, to do that you have to have some very good "athletes"...you know, great tweaked bases! My next big projects are to generate a pass rusher for the middle....probably on a boat style base....and to create bump and run corners.
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