Being honest with you, you’re not going to shut people down completely tackling because its too easy to shake defenders, but with these methods you’re going to make it way harder for your opponent to break your tackle, and if they don’t know how to do anything of that, you have a huge advantage.
HOW’S YOUR TACKLING?
One thing you’re doing wrong with your tackling is you have to stop relying on the dive and I’m more so talking about the hit stick. Because one their able to change direction too quickly so just assuming their going to continue to run in one path is a fool’s errand and secondly that makes number one even better is we have relied on the game to suction us into the ball carrier to hit stick for so long, its tough to gauge when we are actually within hit stick distance without it and we end up whiffing early and often.
PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES SO YOU CAN ANTICIPATE
PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES SO YOU CAN ANTICIPATEBut what you more so want to do, is start putting yourself in the shoes of whoever has the ball. Seeing the field from their vision, you start to see what they see, and the potential moves they might make depending on what your defender or defenders are doing. This could prime you to see oh the left inside is kind of open, I would juke here, wait he might juke there and helps keep you honest and not fly down the field trying to hit stick air.
PLAY CLEAN UP
PLAY CLEAN UPAnother way your making tackling even harder on yourself is taking your computer teammate out of position by switch on. Sometimes they got a guy lined up and the best thing you can do is play clean up right now to him anticipating the juke or spin move back to the inside. Kind of similar to when a quarterback throws an interception and now he just wants to hold up long enough for his teammates to come and save him. You want your computer defender to force him back inside for you to pop him or slow him down enough for him to help clean up
CLICK ON AND FREEZE DEFENDER
Another way, that you have to time before they attempt the move is to click on and freeze defender to play the cutback. This can get you looking silly if your opponent doesn’t juke you, but can have them run right into you, if timed right
ATTACK INSIDE SHOULDER
Now, when you are one-on-one with a ball carrier, you want to create a target for you to aim for, and for this, it’s the inside shoulder closest to you; having this point to aim at helps you not over-pursue and notice when you are about to and adjust quickly. The moment you pass his inside shoulder is when they can spin or juke right back inside of you. You want it so, he has 1 way to go, if you do it right, if he attempts to cut back inside he will run right into you. Do not go AT the ball. Instead, take away the options he can go on your way to the ball carrier
Breakdown Tackle/Conservative Tackle
When you get close to the ball carrier where its time to put them down, your going to want to hold X or A on your controller to perform a breakdown tackle to increase your chance of getting them on the ground.
When To Hit Stick
Now I’m not saying to never attempt the hit stick, but it’s so hard to get the ball carrier to land right in your pocket, you’re going to have to pick your spots where you even try for the hit stick. Which are situations where you catch your opponent after they make a move or a cut inside and then you can beat them to the punch before they can react to you barreling down on them. Odds of you going full speed and they are going full speed and you land a perfect hit stick is very low, so again your going to have to look for chances where they serve themselves up to you and they cant react in time.
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