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Armchair qb3: Doc Holliday vs GRUNT

Posted on March 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM.

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GAME NOTES

OFFENSE

Passing game

Steve Young is very effective and makes tons of plays with both his feet and arm. Opponents may need a spy a defender Joe to keep him from turning up field and extending drives. The Gold quarterback seems to make bronze receivers play more like silvers.

He will use multiple receivers’ formations and will line up his silver tight end in various places from a slot to the outside wide receiver in a trip set.

The mobility of Steve is a beast during the play action roll out. This play really extends the play and destroys zone integrity. He completed all his pa roll outs and he went 12 for 13 in the game. Joe ran a pa roll out and called a blitz with Eric turner. Turner came free but at the last moment reacted to the pa and Steve was free to extend the roll out completed the pass. I would use more zone blitz concepts to try to keep Joe in the pocket.

To be successful you must stop Steve mobility. Use various stunts and blitzes to keep him inside the pocket and hope for the best. I gave up a big play because my inside generic linebacker couldn’t fill the deep 1/3 of the field. Steve exploited this very poor play call. Try extending the drives as much as possible.

Running game

Natron Means is a good quick, power back. He ran off tackle with success. He gave him enough carries to keep my defense honest and also to build up the work horse attributes and became more successful in the 2nd half. I should have kept better contain to prevent those off tackle runs. I move my de just outside the tackle so my de plays contain much better.

DEFENSE

He likes to slant his de towards your guard and get amazing amount of pressure with his front 4. I should have slanted my offensive line and ran the ball more…duh with OJ. He seems to be a cover 2 guy and he sometimes manually blitzes with gold lb between the center guard and drop his de into coverage.

Special Teams

Barney is his returner for punt and kick returners

OUTCOME

The better team won 13-26. Good luck with the rest of the season. Doc is a great sim player that will keep you on your toes.
Peace.

Comments

# 1 CreatineKasey @ Mar 12

Good breakdown. I like the gameplay strategy. It's good to see Doc having a nice season. I remember season 1 was pretty rough.

# 2 Pappy Knuckles @ Mar 12

I like how you gave us the NFL Matchup breakdown of Doc lol. I've played enough scrimmages against him to know that he's tough as hell with Joe. Hopefully I can do enough to win when I play him.

# 3 DocHolliday @ Mar 13

Its Steve Young boys not Joe!

Now Young is really pissed.

A few things:

I never manually blitz any linebackers, I know some people consider it cheese so I actually just dont do it. Sometimes on a blitz were the DE drops into coverage I will use him and control the dropback.

And I dont belive I ever split B. Jones outwide?? Well, I guess in one of my 3 wide stes were they are all on one side i do.

Anyway that was a fun game, look forward to the rematch grunt.

# 4 grunt @ Mar 13

I made the corrections regardinging young. I sorry about the mistake anout the manual blitz and I don't have any problems with manual blitz. You played a great sim game.

# 5 DocHolliday @ Mar 13

Yeah I dont think its is cheeze to manually blitz either but I almost always use a coverage guy and drop back.

You were an excellent opponent and I reall look forward to playing you again.

Im just glad I built up a quick two score lead so you didnt abuse me with OJ, you can tell you have skill on the sticks.