in this video we got the best defense in Madden 25 for y'all no fly zone and it's also pretty good at stopping the run but we also have another formation if they are in run heavy formations on offense we're going to jump into it the dime 32 first let's go ahead and tell yall what which Playbook we're in we're in the 34 Playbook it has all the things we need it has the dime 32 which we're going to be running primarily if you go to Nickel they got the double mug they got the 3 three stack they have the 24 now this is where it also gets important because we do want the three uh the 3 four odd cuz this formation right here specifically has the cover four drop so we want to make sure we have that that's going to be for the running situations where they're in the single back Heavies the eye formations all that good stuff that's what the 34 OD is for any shotgun formations dime 32 Sam um and we're going to be rocking the cover for drop now let's jump into the important parts which is going to be the coaching adjustments everything how you see all how I have mine is what you're going to want to copy regardless if you're running the dime 32 or the the 34 odd so turn this off base alignment go ahead and put option defense on conservative and this is where it gets important so the way we used to run this in Madden 24 it would be flipped the flats would be 30 the curl Flats would be five but shout out to my subscriber in the comments when he had told me that he's been trying this out with it like this but he's been having issues and I think I know what his issues are which we'll talk to we we'll talk about when we get into the field but this is good this is what you're going to want to do right here now these can move around a little bit like you could put these at 25 you could put these at 10 but for the most part I like 5 and 30 but like I said if you want to close the gap you can do 10 and 25 but I for sure I would put my flats at five because flats are just everybody attacks the flats it it matter 25 everybody attacks the flat so I'll do something like this hooks you can mess around with these as well put them at 10 put them at five if you want to be a little bit more safe put them at 10 we'll leave them at 10 for now um let's talk about Personnel now this is where it gets important these two Guys these are going to be my fastest available guys um they don't have it right um I don't know it's glitched when you're in practice and it's sometimes like this in a game but the names you're seeing like Carter are supposed to be right here and then this is actually supposed to be another guy um but they're the fastest available DBS because they have a lot of ground to clear so I want to make sure that they're going to be able to get to their spots so we're putting the fastest two guys at our slot position now as you can see I got s Gardner right you see again it's glitch it's supposed to say SCE Gardner and then also another uh 93p speed cornerback that's playing right here or actually no that is no this is a safety I think this is actually David it's real confusing because the names are wrong but this is a 93 speed safety this is St Gardner 93 speed uh my two slots are also 93 speed and my Corners I think are like 9190 um and then I got some pretty decent sub linebackers as well with some decent speed um but that's the most important thing the two slots your fastest guys available because they got a lot of ground to clear um so from here let's jump into the practice mode show you when to run a hybrid show you when to do different things um could be a long video but we're going to try to grind through it um so let's go to jump to the practice field and show you more or less what you need to do when you run this hybrid all right let's go ahead and talk about what the cover four hybrid is and then when to run it when not to run it now I specifically picked this formation first because we're going to run the hybrid on both sides of the ball so basically the when you run the hybrid is if there no wide receiver outside the numbers you're going to put your cornerback on a hard flat so it's going to look like this I'm going to put both of them on hard Flats because there's nobody outside the numbers again that's why we started with this defense um so basically your hard flats are going to take away Zig routes five and outs drag routes things like that your curl Flats going to take away Corner routes Crossing routes things like that deep zones post routes um streaks down the middle now the only real routes that can beat this defense um obviously somebody can combo up and find loopholes between the safeties and the crow hooks I mean or the the hook curls I mean it's possible like you could beat any Zone covers I mean we drop plays all the time how to beat this how to beat that so this is just put to put your players in the best position possible the only real route that can beat this completely would be some type of wheel route uh where your wide receiver runs to the sideline and then up the field but it's going to take a long time to develop and we do have 30 yard curl Flats so they will stick with them for for a while and hopefully cuz you know you got to say hopefully cuz it takes a while to get to this damn quarterback in this game um but hopefully you get to the quarterback by that time the the wide receiver run to the sideline then down the field you should at least be getting some pressure by that time um and then like I said you can go ahead and or I don't know if I said it but don't press never press that's what messes up your zones but you can show blitz so go ahead and show Blitz and there will be times my other hook curl the green Zone I will put them on a quarterback spot especially if I'm going against a running quarterback and it also plays the middle of the field really well so we're going to go against some random plays out of this formation and then we'll jump into some other formations to show you when to not run the the U hard flat with your quarterback um maybe you're going to run it on one side um so we'll get more into that but let's just run it against this formation a few times just to show you now again there's going to be Loop hose this is to put your players in the best position and using this defense I've been using a lot more stick switch I've been getting it down and it's been helping a thousand times uh more than it's actually been messing me up and that is something that I'm going to actually drop a video about to tell y'all how to use that switch stick so like right here I used it in a perfect area to knock like that is one of that's like a little wheel route right there so let's go ahead and talk about that right there so everything is bagged up basically I mean there's really like look let's look at this defense and how everything drops back look at my my flats they're playing their Flats like they're supposed to look at my my Crow hooks they're playing 30 yards like they're supposed to you can see I can make that he can make that play that's why we put our fastest guys in that position he can make that corner rout I could click on and make that play now I was worried about this other guy over here I didn't know if he was going to stick with them all the way so I stick switched with up you can see I followed the streak enough to where my deep blue is able to pick up number 83 in the middle right there and that's when I decided to stick switch and then I pick up that route right there everything is bagged up this is what I mean by it's going to put all put your players in the right position and all you got to do is a quick stick switch and you could possibly get an interception all right so real quick I want to show you how fast you can do these adjustments so right off rip I already got my two hard Flats done that's it it takes like2 seconds get used to your individual adjustments and then go ahead and show Blitz and then sometimes I do like to put my quarterback spot out there again if it's a running quarterback if not I wouldn't stress it unless they start running the ball on you then 100% put that quarterback spot um but we are going to exaggerate now another thing if they give you time to bring your safeties down which you'll see in the gameplay a lot bring your safeties down not this far but about where the the sub linebackers are you can bring sauce pile right here if they give you that time 100% bring them safeties down I want to try to come out in that safety Blitz first but only one safety drops you can still do it to you will still benefit you because one safety is still coming down um but if they do give you the time 100% do that too but let's go let them run a play Let's see what happens um we just got to pick up whatever we can in the middle of the field field stick switch whenever we need to right there you see me stick switch to the I didn't even need to I think I should have stick switch to the left side I think that was that really deep Corner route let's go ahead and take a look at this now this route might be a route that could possibly beat this defense I think it's that real deep Corner yeah I mean we do got speed if he throws this and we click on we could possibly make that play but this is something we need to learn to stick switch if I would have stick switch to anybody to the left side over there on the top I could easily play that but look at the flat the flat bagged up the this route right here is like a like a small wheel rode again bagged up I didn't mean to stick switch to the safety it would have been smarter to stick switch to the other safety again if you can master that stick switch with this defense it's basically game over for the passing game um for your your opponent all right now we're going to talk about one of the most popular formations is gun Bunch now we're going to be able to do the hybrid on one side of the ball because there's nobody outside the numbers on the right side so on the right side we're going to put our quarterback on a hard flat now there's different things we could do on the left side we can Crossman let me show you what that looks like so this is a real popular thing so this is like a triple hybrid setup then also go ahead and show Blitz um and then Play Over the Top now I'm not too worried about you know my my DB a little bit off of the wide receiver one because I know that's one of my fastest DBS on my team so I know he's going to be able to keep up with that wide receiver um so this is one setup that you can do and you can get aggressive with this safety over here you can bring this safety about in the middle of the field you can use her this safety and then I would also I mean I would try to bring this safety down if you can't don't worry about it too much but this is something like this is how I would set it up if they get me all the time I needed to to set it up but at the end of the day I'm going to play my my hook curl again you don't have to bring those safeties down that's just something that I would do if they give you time now if they got some badass wide receivers they can Tor you with man coverage I mean it's man coverage the way they could beat man coverage this can still get beat but it will throw them off because of what we got going on on the right side of the field but I I'm going to I'm going to show you this and then I'm going to show you something else you can do if you're not okay with this cross man so let's go ahead and let them run the play it's going to be my job to watch the middle of the field right here oh that's a good Zig route oh but we're right there for that I love it I love that let's go and look at the replay and see what's going on with the defense so you can get a better understanding with the Crossman and the hybrid on the right side so they did get me with the zig route that was my user mistake right there like I went in I thought it was going to be a drag I bid on it too much luckily we still have a curl flat over there that's going to pick it up you know they might get tackled as they catch it might drop the ball but look at the Crossman over here this is another thing I want to talk about if the um the running back blocks our quarterback turns into a zone so you can see he's kind of helping out over there nowhere to throw with the Crossman over there it's one of the best things you can do but it can be a little iffy if you're uncomfortable we're going to show you something else you can do but look everything else look at the flat taking away our 30 yard flat kind of settling down just waiting on something and then again they did get me with that Zig route it I just been on it way too much but then they try to throw it across and we got our Crow hook right there I'm telling youall I'm going to keep repeating it this is one of the best defenses that's going to put your players in the right position all right so I'm going to show you something else you can do if you're not comfortable cross Manning you are still going to man up the cornerback with the wide receiver and on the right side we still are going to put our uh cover four hybrid set so we're going to put our flat out there now we can get a little aggressive with our curl flat though I'm going to play the middle of the field Play Over the Top so your quarterback doesn't get beat over the top that's about the only route that they can beat you with um obviously there is routes that can beat man coverage but to be safe just Play Over the Top um my responsibility is the running back if he goes on a flat if the tight end goes on a drag if not I'm free to play the middle of the field um if you're not comfortable playing him just by all means let him do his thing um but that's the point because we have our Crow Flats at 30 he won't play the running back that well so that's something that you would have to actually do yourself so if he does go on a flat we're there to pick it up just follow him around everything is bagged up nowhere to go running with the quarterback will be an issue again if that is something that consistently happens then we will put our quarterback spy out there but let's go ahead and see what happened right here and just look again I'm going to keep stressing it this defense will put your players in the right position and a little bit of stick work um stick switch work will just make it that much better but look how everything is bagged up we got our um man coverage didn't do too great but because we have zones in the middle they can't throw that drag route or that end route um we got everything picked up we did a good job with the user picking up the running back and I seen the guy coming across the middle that would have been my respons responsibility and I would have let go of the running back and picked up that Crosser we got our flat on the right side right there we got our curl flat picking up over there this is just bagging up everything again can be beat you can find the loopholes but at the end of the day it's one of the best defenses to put your players in the right position all right now we're going to go ahead and show you what to do if you see a spread or an empty formation basically they're going to have two wide receivers outside the numbers so you see on the left side we got a wide receiver out the number on the right side wide receiver out the number so you're not going to really be able to run the hybrid because they can run streaks and kind of beat you over the top now you can run a cover two double Mabel and that'll kind of take that away but let's say you're not comfortable running that because you're not good at covering the middle of the field okay so we're going to stay in our cover four so now that we know they picked uh a spread defense or a spread offense or a empty set change your hard flash to 10 because we're going to play underneath so we're going to change our purples to BL to Blues because they just play their zones that much better now if you're going against a spread or an empty you're going to have time to bring your safeties down bring them down if they give you the time to do it now this is the most important part right here everybody has Tendencies to throw to a specific side if they have a right-handed quarterback they're most likely going to favor the right side or the side that has more wide receivers so what you're going to do is you're going to play the hook curl on that side and this is where you have to get friendly with stick switch because they're going to try to hit you with a high low read on one of the sides of the ball which is most likely going to be the side that they like to throw to so I'm going to play the hook curl and what I don't know what they're running right here it's going to be a bunch of random plays that they're running out of this formation but I would do is I'm going to exaggerate it I don't know if I'm going to need to do it right here but I'll stick switch and I'll play this side and look they threw it to that side now mind you we're going against the computer they're going to do different things he's going to throw the first available person um but what I'm trying to get you the hang of is stick switching to the dominant side so again start off by using the side that has the more wide receivers you're going to play whatever you can if you see like they're going to throw a corner rout or a flat I stick switch now look I'm able to pick things up and that's just crazy right there that's just great like that's something you have no control over but you see me stick switching shut things down on that side and it's very simple you're going to flick your right stick to the right it's always going to send you to that guy on the flat so do what you got to do lock up what you can in the middle of the field if you see something about to get open you feel a cornerback coming uh a corner route coming go ahead and switch right here we got a corner route or an out route we're there to play it that is a perfect example we just baited the the the computer right there um very hard to do so get friend with the stick switch and what we're doing against this spread you're going to do against the empty basically put the running back on the line with the two wide receivers on the right you're going to have three wide receivers that's going to be the dominant side we're going to do the same thing we're going to take away the middle stick switch if we need to now obviously the user can favor the left side so if you see that he's favoring the left we're going to do the same thing hook we're going to we're going to uh play the hook on the left and we're going to stick switch to the left if that's the case but usually it's going to be the side with more wide receivers not saying that they can't throw to to the other you know that's just usually how it goes so that's what you're going to do against spread or empty formations all right now we're going to go ahead and talk about our run heavy guys they love single back they love eye formation most of those formations that are really good with run plays are some type of tight formations like this where there's no wide receivers outside the numbers now if there is same concept leave the deep blue if there's not if they're inside the numbers put your hard Flats so right here this is going to be a double hard flat I could use her a safety here but if you're not good at usering the safety ball means use a vert hook and you can adjust the defense however you want with the dline don't press the DBS leave the DBS where they're at but you can move the dline around however you want you can spread them you can whatever you think is going to help you to stop the run by all means do it you can show Blitz if you want to but do not press um but everything's bagged up it this is against eye formation single backs like this defense is locked down it it works better than when they're in shotgun and you're in the dime or the dollar set um cover for hybrid um again you can show Blitz if you want to and this is where you can start getting creative you can actually Blitz everybody and if they run a play action or even if they're running the ball so you can do something like this um and just you know throw them off completely shut down a run completely regardless if that was a run or a pass we're probably getting into the quarterback and right now the 34 is actually one of the meta defenses so mixing this in with it however you like to run a three four you know just mixing this hybrid whenever you need to um let's say that this was like a single back heavy to one Side by all means shift everybody over match them don't don't let them outplay you um simple football if they're running stretches spread your dline out spread your linebackers out play the middle of the field do what you got to do you know make adjustments you got to make adjustments that was 100% my fault that I should have played that and if you're worried about things like that happening getting bir over the top stop playing the safety that's just me I I wasn't really focused on it um wasn't expecting a streak right there but again like you can bring them down um and then just play a vert hook you can do something like this you can even do this where you shift your linebackers over put that one in the middle and then spread the D line out this is actually a mean look right here um and you can use her the middle of the field if it's a run play they only got about two yards right there they can have that all day again this is if they're running heavy running single back eye formation you still got the hybrid if they're in shotgun we we showed you what to do with spread or empty um go to work with this cover four drop man use the hybrid learn the man up learn to which this is going to improve your defense a lot