Playaction.......

Can you get a playaction pass often if your opponent is nano blitzing the whole game? Just wanting to know before I come up with my scheme?

it's pretty hard to do. usually, there will be immediate pressure and the playaction only gets you sacked right away. i've got it to work before though. if you have a quick QB, running away quickly might do it. not very dependable though.

i always get nailed in the backfield when i use PA against a nano

So does that make it alot harder to scheme against a guy that only nanos? If you can't use PA's.

it doesn't make it that much harder. slide protection can stop a lot of nanos. screens, quick passes, and runs also exploit nanos.

I never really run PA. But sometimes when i run a nano and the other player does PA my blitzers gets picked up by the RB or Fb, depending on what formation they have, and sometimes he doesnt get picked up. So like said above it isnt very dependable.

Do most of the good players nano the whole game, or after you beat it do they drop back into coverage? Because a lot of the schemes im considering have PA's and I want to know that I will have plenty of chances to use them.

yea, acutally my scheme uses the PA and an offtackle play from undercenter. i noticed that i get more yards vs. nanos and overloads, especially Bnr nanos.

I have noticed that sometimes when I run PA against a nano, the blitzing LB will fall for the fake and try and tackle the RB. I just want to make sure that against good players I would have time to implement the PA

actually i think the opposite. unless he's manually blitzing the free blitzer or the guy has 90+ awr and play recog, he tends to try to tackle the runner. now on some PAs the nanos gets to ur qb because of the gap he's attacking matches up with where ur QB ends up after the PA but it really depends. most of the time the nanos end up smacking my RB in the backfield after the fake.

nice now I'm trying to run a scheme with the Far formation from the WC pb. Anyone have any good tips? Or a link to some tips on the board? I mainly run quick toss, HB Dive, Sweep, and PA Waggle. Are those the right plays to be running?

Pa waggle kills nanos unless the person doing the nano user blitzs the Lb , also the off tackle Pa work, I know cause when I play other good players this is their counter also tosses sometimes

When i run a nano and i see PA i switch to the blitzer as soon as i see PA and go afer the QB. If you let the AI try to take over the PA on a nano he will go right after the RB all day unless u run alot of PA then he will catch on. But thats rare.

My first play call every game is a PA to reggie wayne or dallas clark for 20 yards at least. My opponents never expect that, they expect a run or something short

arny6902 wrote:

Do most of the good players nano the whole game, or after you beat it do they drop back into coverage? Because a lot of the schemes im considering have PA's and I want to know that I will have plenty of chances to use them.

from what i see, most high skill players run there nanos all game and run there 1 play on offense all game too, regardless even when you stop it

What I notice when I nano is that the first time my lb see the PA he does do after the RB. but after that he doesn't bite anymore. He picks up on it and goes after QB. I've also seen plenty of playaction plays work on nanos. I think they only ones that don't are the extended handoff plays like toss play fakes where the QB ACTUALLY has to run to the RB TO get the fake off. Those always get me sacked.

I am not seeing a much NANOS as I used to and I am undercenter quite a bit. You can exploit the NANO kings from under with tosses and quick throws. Nanos believe it or not hurt me more when I am in the gun. I have been sacked far more while being in the gun than undercenter vs nanos. You cant beat the downhill running approach that you get from being undercenter. As far as the PA is concerned I think you can throw in some PA

PA slows down the nano's. When my guys come shooting through the line they will look at the running back for 2 seconds, then realize the qb has the ball. If you make a quick read you should be good.