WFColonel has posted an interesting Madden Tips called “Is it better to have your best cornerback playing your nickelback position?” In the article he talked about putting the teams top cornerback in at the nickelback position to cover the slot. Honestly, he may be on the something as a lot players like to throw to the slot, so why put your top cornerback at the nickelback position.
Attributes or ratings are the statistics that measure the skills of a player. Attributes are usually measured on a scale from 0 to 100. The following attributes are present from Madden NFL 15 onward. By Depth Chart gives the user the ability to set specific cornerbacks to a specific receiver. For example, if a user wants their highest-rated cornerback to matchup vs. The second highest overall-rated receiver, they can simply go to the team depth chart and place their highest rated cornerback into the CB2 slot. AI Usage and Game Styles.
The following is excerpt from the Madden Tips posted called “Is it better to have your best cornerback playing your nickelback position?”
“Before I get started I mean this mostly as it regards to playing man coverage)
I raise the question is it better to have your best cornerback playing your nickelback position?
Now I raise this question because at this very second I am contemplating if I need to make the change in my madden defense and do it. I have honestly been racking my brain for the last week or so thinking about this.
I know for a fact that a lot of NFL teams in nickel situations will move their best Cornerback into the nickel .
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Now what I have done here is just presented all the reasons why I think that everybody should at least contemplate making that move.”
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- Madden 19 saw 10 corners get a 90+ OVR on launch, and while the position group is extremely talented, if this change in rating style is to mean anything that number needs to be reduced.
- Madden 20 proves to be quite the year for the Kelce family: older sibling Travis topped the tight-end charts, and here’s little bro Jason sitting equal-second in the interior lineman countdown.
The NFL has turned into the ultimate passing league and one way that some of the top offenses in the league manipulate coverage and matchups is by attacking via the slot receiver.
Guys like Tyreek Hill, Adam Thielen, Keenan Allen, Julian Edelman, Cooper Kupp, and Larry Fitzgerald make a living at dominating mismatches in the slot against outmatched cornerbacks and safeties alike.
The remedy for the top NFL defenses lies with the slot or nickel cornerback, a guy capable of translating that outside cornerback production inside where there’s less room to utilize and less margin for error.
Doug Farrar and Touchdown Wire recently ranked the top-11 slot cornerbacks in the NFL and new Eagles defender, Nickell Robey-Coleman landed high on the list at No. 6.
Though he’s primarily known as the instigator on one of the most infamous non-calls in recent NFL history, Robey-Coleman has been one of the league’s better slot defenders for a while now — he’s one of just three-slot defenders (along with Chris Harris Jr. and Mackensie Alexander) to make this list in both 2019 and 2020. Last season, Robey-Coleman allowed 32 catches on 52 targets for 272 yards, 144 yards after the catch, one touchdown, and an opponent passer rating of 80.1.
Last season with the LA Rams, Robey-Coleman only allowed a passer rating of 80.1 — good for 13th among all CBs– and was sixth in yards per slot coverage snap (0.63), according to Pro Football Focus.
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The move greatly improves the Eagles secondary tremendously and he should combine with Darius Slay to help the Birds have one of the secondary’s in the NFL.