Deep Ball Basics: How Do You Beat Them Deep

The deep ball is the sexiest play in football, as well as madden or ncaa. In this post I am going to break down the 3 concepts to execute the deep ball....Lets get started


1. Have better players than them


2. Have better strategy than them


3. Have better stick than them


Have better players
Basically that means to have a pure match up advantage without doing anything else
EX: Calvin Johnson vs so and so. And Calvin Johnson is in his normal #1 WR spot.

You are not doing anything special at all, you just have a beast and you are making use of him.

Have better strategy
This is when you strategically plan your advantage. Let me throw down a few examples that you can understand

- You put your stud WR in the slot for the match up advantage

- You have been facing lots of cover 2 and cover 3 so you run a streak-fade (or slant out) combo. Or you run a post-corner (fork) combo. Or you run a post-wheel combo.

This way you dont need to have a player or match up advantage (but it really helps to). You rely more on your brain to get the desired result.

Have better stick
Pretty simple, you just own them in user control. You make them feel helpless up against your mastery of the game controls....lol maybe im going a little overboard but forreal man, you got to be nice on the sticks


Now that I have that out of the way I will rank them all by ease and effectivness

ease
-better player
-better strategy
-better stick

effectivness
- better strategy
- better stick
- better player

The way I ranked ease was in how soon you can implement them from day 1 with the game. Stick is something gained over time with the particular game. If someone says they really got stick from day 1, they are lying.

The way I ranked effectiveness was in how effective it is in the long run. Better players is the way to go early on but it soon (with in 2 months or so) is countered pretty easily. Strategy and stick are things that never are not effective (yes its a double negative, sue me lol)

So thats it, the 3 concepts of executing the deep ball. All 3 individually have their strengths but once combined they are even stronger.