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Posted on July 28, 2009 at 01:03 PM.

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Madden Strategy : Sgibs7 Money Screen

If your not scoring those clutch fourth quarter touchdowns, then here is a play that can help you get those clutch wins you never seem to be able to pull out.
Pass Balanced

Trips Twin Te-WR Screen

Setup one

Slide protect left ( Left Trigger +left on the D pad)
Streak inside slot WR ( A + WR icon + Up on the D pad)
Smart route corner route (or leave as is)

The beauty of this screen is the corner route already assigned to our inside slot WR. This is a deadly route to RC. The streak route will also cause a nice flood to the left side of the field to open up the corner. Most screen routes downfall come from loss of protection from the offensive line. With the pulling linemen in most screens the line will be down to a three linemen protection scheme. Not with this play though! This unique formation causes a trips formation on the left side of the field and also gives up a twin te setup on the right. By keeping the te's to stay and block we now still have 5 players on the offensive line that can pick up the pressure. Not to mention we have a screen route that will beat any zone/man. You may be wondering why this screen beats man. The answer is simple. ANY screen can beat man, its all in how you set it up. In a later write up we will go into a more in depth discussion.

Now your first read is going to be the screen of course. First you are going to run straight back between 5-10 yards. If the screen is there dump it off and run behind the blockers for an easy 10+ yard gain. If they manually defend this look for the corner route and RC this route all day. Our last read is going to be the streak. Lots of times guys will try and defend this by bringing there safety up into the box and manually stop the screen. Look for the streak WR to gain inside position on the deep secondary.

Setup two

Slide protect left ( Left Trigger +left on the D pad)
Place both te's on drag routes. (A + TE's icon + down on the right stick)
Smart route corner route (or leave as is)

This setup is more of all out commitment to the screen. By placing the TE's on drag routes we now lose or solid protection from the first setup. In return we are going to pick up two extra blockers for this screen route. That means we will have two pulling linemen, two TE's, and a inside WR blocking up field for our screen route. We still of course have the corner route. If we think we can hit the defense on the corner we need to make sure they are not bringing lots of pressure. If the pressure is intense dump off to our screen and look up field for a big gain that lots of times results in 6.

I will be breaking down more plays from this unique formation in upcoming articles. This formation is one of the best in all of madden 09. Most have not defended against it this formation rendering it almost unstoppable.

See you in the lab - Sgibs7 & ZFarls