Madden 22: The most rules and tips that players easily ignore

Twenty-five game-changing madden tips that you need to know about. We're gonna go over some simple stuff that you may have never heard about before. Up to some advanced stuff that will help you win more games, and hey, if you like the content, make sure to subscribe and turn the bell icon on for more tips.

Tips 1

Just like this number one, when you're in practice mode, you need to move the ball around for different reasons. Now, most people press the start button and go to the re-spot ball option, but there's a much quicker way that you can do this.

If you take your left joystick and click it in as if it was a button, press the left trigger or the L. Two-button at the same time. You click both of those simultaneously, and then you can move the ball freely without having to pause the game.

Tips 2

Now to go along with this, when you want to pick a new play in practice mode to mess around with, most people will press start, and they'll go to choose a new space. Now again, there's a much quicker way to do this. That will save you a ton of time practicing new plays when you're in the lab.

So instead of doing that, you can just hit the select button, and it'll take you right back to the play call screen without having to start the game. You can also use this in-game when calling time out. Instead of pausing the game to call a time-out, you can just hit the select button, and it will do the same thing.

Tips 3

Tip 3 is how to stop drag routes and flat routes. People complain about this all the time, especially when they're in a zone defense.

You'll notice zone defenders tend to drop too far back, and it lets you hit the drags underneath and get a bunch of yards after the catch. Well, if you want to stop this, you want to shade your defense underneath. When you're in the zone, you can press wire triangle and then select down on the right stick that's gonna tell your zone defenders to play more shallow and underneath.

Now watch when we try to run the same play and hit the drag route, Look how the defenders are right there to wrap them up, knock the ball loose, or even maybe get an interception. Now you're gonna give up some of the deep stuff on the field when you shade underneath. But this is what you want to go to. If someone is trying to spam underneath routes, shade down, and you will take them away every time.

Tips 4

Tips four, now on the flip side, sometimes you want to shade over the top to stop from getting beat on streets, especially if you're running like a man blitz or something like this. Notice that a good receiver will get off the press and then look what happens. He gets a huge play, maybe even a touchdown. So in these situations where you want to make sure not to give up the deep past you, press wire triangle.

This time, you're going to select up on the right stick and watch how the cornerback bales immediately. He doesn't try to press. Instead, he gets back with the receiver, and now he can get an interception and defend the deep pass quickly. Before we finish with the rest of this list, I want to let you know that I officially launched my Patreon page.

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Tips 5

If you want to help support the Channel link is below in the pin comment number five, the effectiveness of the QB sneak and the goal line formation. You can find the QB sneak and every playbook.

This is going to be crucial on anything that's third and one second and 1/4 inches. You're gonna probably get a yard and a half because the QB sneak is very powerful this year unless your opponent knows the specific exact way to stop it.

Tips 6

This will guarantee you the yard that you need in short situations number six how to slide and give yourself up with your players. First, with the QB, you want to tap the extra square button to slide and go down when you're on the run.

You want to make sure you have at least five yards between you and the nearest defender because if you try to slide too late, you could get sucked into a tackle like you're gonna see right here, and that could lead to a fumble. Now, if you have a receiver or running back and want to do the same thing, it's the same way you tap extra square before you get near the defender. This will help avoid fumbles, especially late in games.

Tips 7

If you don't want to hit, stick, go down number seven. The effectiveness of halfback out routes. This is one of the best routes in the game this year. To put your hat back on an out route, you hit the wire triangle button, select his icon, and then you use the left joystick. You can put them on out to the left or to the right, whichever side you want him to go to.

This is one of the most potent routes in the game this year. It does an excellent job at absolutely destroying man defense, and it usually finds an opening against the most zone defense. And this is one of those routes that, you know, even human opponents have a tough time defending. You see, look at the separation we got right there against the man defense. Now we're gonna show his defense.

Usually, you can get underneath the zone and then catch and run just like that. It is one of the most annoying routes in the game this year. So on any given play, utilize this to pick up easy, easy yards in the passing game and frustrate your opponent.

Tips 8

Tips eight, the most effective running the game, the stretch run, you can find these in your playbook by going to concept and going to outside zone That is where you'll find all of your stretches runs And this is just always one of the best runs in mad. It has a lot of home run potential to the outside. It usually has excellent blocking.

It's one of the more challenging runs to set up a defense to stop, especially if you have an excellent running back and an excellent offensive line. This run can be a nightmare. You can cut it up the middle. You can break it to the outside. You just have to follow your blocking and trust it, and if you do, you will have big runs all day long, and you will be frustrating your opponent pretty much for the entire game.

Tips 9

Tip 9 was the best pass playing the game. The gun bunch offset double post. You can find this in the colts playbook, and it's amazing what you want to do is take your slot receiver, put him on drag, and that's it. So definitely make sure you're taking advantage of this run in Madden 22. 

You do that by pressing wire triangle selecting his icon, and then pressing down on the right stick, and you've got a ton of good pass options.

You can hit that exact drag route right there, and it's usually going to do an excellent job against man or zone. 

On the other side, crossing over the middle, you have the running back, which is very effective versus man and location for a big game. If he's open, you can quickly pass your tight end and use him as a flat route to get up the field. And then, of course, last but not least, you're gonna have this post route that's gonna cook most defenses as well.

Tips 10

You are flipping your play right before you hike the ball. We're going to use the same space. We were using it to show this. Now what you want to do is press the X. Or the square button, and then you press the right trigger or the R. Two-button, which will flip your play.

And the thing about this that's so good is how quickly they flip, and this makes it extremely hard on the defense because if the defense is set up to defend your play, the way it's lined up, you can wait until they set up and then at the last second you flip your freedom right as you're ready to hike, you want to hurry to upconvert the play, they're going to flip and under you know three seconds pretty much and then you can hurry up snap the ball. It allows you to take advantage of the defense because they will not be able to reset up their adjustments that quickly.

Tips 11

The best ball carrier moving the game. The precision spin the way you do this is you hold the beer circle button down, and you also hold up on the left joystick simultaneously. This precision spin will almost guarantee that you make the first defender miss in the open field, and that will turn your play into a much bigger space allowing you to get extra yards.

Tips 12

The easiest beginner blitz in the game. You want to go to nickel average double-A gap or nickel 245 double a hole. They're the same formation, and one of them is in every playbook, and you want to select the plate mid blitz. Now, why? This is good because many people don't like to block extra people. So if they send everybody out on routes, you have six rushers versus their five blockers. Basic math says you have a guy off the edge free, and you get to the QB super fast off the edge, and it doesn't give them time to pass.

Now you want to make sure that you're using the guy that's found courage on the running back. It's usually gonna be one of the safeties if the running back goes out. You want to run with them. But if they block the running around, it will slow up the blitz.

Tips 13

Here's a trick to make your pass rush better notice. Right here, we're just rushing for people, and look how much time the offense has to pass. Step up into the pocket.

Well, if you pass committed makes your pass rush better to do this, you press the R. B. R. R. One button, and then you press up on the right stick. There are no block sheds happening. Now past commit usually is used to tell your defense to focus on the past and not be fooled by play action.

But what this also does is, as you can see, it allows your rushers to shed blocks a lot easier. I don't know why this is the case, but you'll notice that you get quicker block sheds every time.

Tips 14

How to make long field goals, and I'll notice right here was lined up for a 57-yard field goal and see the little circle at the end of the kick arc, notice how it's under the crossbar.

Even if we kick with full power and perfect accuracy, we're gonna come up a few yards short because we did not adjust the kick meter.

Now, if you press the right joystick and you hold it down, notice how that little circle jumps up when we hold it down and if we let it go regular, the process is under the crossbar, you want to hold this down, and then you'll notice you kick more of a line drive kick and now notice how you can easily make that 57-yard field goal and the ball travels much further.

Tips 15

Don't use turbo when running the ball unless you're in the open field right here. We're not hitting turbo, we're just holding down the joystick, and we're maneuvering. It allows you to operate better, turn quicker, make adjustments, and it also helps against the defense, blocks shedding when you hold turbo right away. 

The security tends to block the shed quicker. Right here is when we would hold turbo once we've made our cut, and we have a ton of green grass in front of us and no nearby defenders that only hit turbo and try to pull away. This is especially important when you're doing things like halfback dives right here; you want to be able to maneuver through the tight lanes.

You don't want the defense block shedding. Only hold turbo when you're in the wide-open field.

Tips 16

You want to go for the swat instead of the interception when you're one on one with a tall receiver.

Because this year, when you go for interceptions a lot of times, your cornerback will not animate. He'll stand there, and it'll allow the receiver to aggressive catch on you for a big game. So instead, you go for the swat by holding the square or the X button. When the ball gets near the receiver, you're defending its lower risk, and it will allow you to live to see another down and not give up a significant gain.

Tips 17

I'm gonna show you another good running back hot route that is super dominant, and it's the option right now. To put your running back on an option route, you press the wire triangle button, select his icon, and then press the left trigger of the L. Two-button.

The option route gives you the best of both worlds. Suppose it is a zone defense. Typically he will curl and spot-up underneath, and you can throw it for a 5 to 7 yard gain. But if it's a man's defense, he will break towards the sideline on a deep-out route, and he will always cook his defender and get a significant gain.

Tips 18

The best thing to do against a scrambling quarterback is. First, you want to take a defender, put him in a spy by pressing the A button and then go left on the right joystick.

Now, when the QB breaks the pocket and starts to scramble, you want to click your right joystick. If it was a button, and you'll see, it'll send the spy rushing at the QB, stop him in his tracks, and will not allow him any yards.

Tips 19

It is gonna be a tip that helps you scramble with the QB. Now, this is against people that like to use contains. What you want to do is you want to first block your tight end by pressing the wire triangle button, selecting his icon, and then pressing the right trigger or the R. T. Button.

Then you want to use the double team mechanic on the outside pass rusher. So you do this by pressing the L. B. Or L. You press one button down on the right joystick, and then you move this little D. To icon with your left joystick.

You put it on the outside rusher, he will get double-teamed, and then you can roll out and break the pocket. Even if they put this guy in a container, this will double team to contain and allow you to break out. So if you don't use the previous tip, you won't be able to stop scrambling QB.

Tips 20

If you're on the old consoles at the beginning of your play call screen, there's a coach suggestion tab. This is a crucial coaching adjustment you need to make now on the new consoles. To pull up the coaching adjustments, you click the right joystick as a button.

Now the coach suggestion we're talking about here is the auto flip defensive play call many times. This is off. You want to make sure this is on so that your defense is always correctly aligning with the offense because if it's off, you might have your nickel back opposite side, the slot receiver, and that's no good for you.

Tips 21

You are using the ball carrier coaching adjustment on conservative. This is a big pro tip. With the ball carrier adjustment, you can leave it on balance, conservative, or put it on aggressive. Now, on bold, you will break more tackles, but you have a higher chance of fumbling.

But the tip here is you want to use this on conservative because this pretty much makes it impossible for you to fumble. One of the most significant ways to turn the ball over is that you can't use ball carrier moves, but you can't feel, especially if you're late in games. So you eliminate one of the most significant risks in the game.

Tips 22

We're going back to the coaching adjustments on the defensive side of the ball, so I can show you how to stop the deep annoying routes you want to go to your zone, drop flats, put them on 25. Then you want to select a Tampa two-defense.

This is good for long-yardage situations, especially where people are trying to spam. Those deep corner routes are deep crossing routes that are almost impossible to defend. Notice how our deep zone is because we set him 25 yards back.

He gets back there with the deep corner route and swats it. Same thing for deep crossing routes. You all know how hard these are to defend. Not if you put your zone drops back on your flats to 25 calls a Tampa.

Tips 23

No-huddle's effectiveness is excellent this year because it doesn't tire out your offense. So when you have a successful play, you can immediately hold the wire triangle button right after you get tackled and look how quickly you line up and snap the ball.

It makes it hard for your opponent to make adjustments on defense. But also, the fatigue of the offense isn't that bad with no-huddle this year, So it's something that you can take advantage of and make it tough on the defense.

Tips 24

It is an important setting that you must have. So to get to your settings, you can go all the way over to this gear icon here on your main menu. 

You want to pull this up. You want to select game options. You want to make sure you scroll down, and you want your heat seeker to assist toggled to on.

You also want your defensive ball Hawk toggled on as well. The defensive seat heater assist will help you make a lot more tackles in the open field. It's a cheat code, and the ball Hawk will help interceptions.

Tips 25

How to get the updated version of your team's playbook when you're at the team selection screen, and you hit the X button, you can scroll down to something that says advanced settings, and then you have an NFL live Playbook option. If you toggle this, you will get the updated version of your playbook with more plays, edited formations, and everything like that.

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