I give up as many points as I want to give up.
When the game is getting dull I go into all out blitz mode and see if they are good enough to pass it to the HB for a TD
My last game a guy did score 10 points on me when I was really playing D. Kinda shocked me even though I was up by 21
Also he took off over 12 Mins with the 2 drives so it just stopped me from hanging 50 on his ass and I only put up 35