In this year's game, you can actually get some pressure from the defensive ends by manually pass rushing them. This will help force your opponent into throw quicker than he wants to. We won't tell you this works every time, with every defensive end in the game, because it won't. In order for this to work, the DE must have speed. We recommend a rating of 84 or higher.

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The defense comes out in the 4-3 Normal Cover 3. We flipped the play at the play call screen because it overloads the left side of the offensive line. The strong defensive tackle, weak defensive tackle, and right end all line up on the left.

The first thing we want to do is crash the defensive line to the middle. Notice we are in control of the RE.

Once the ball is snapped, we let the RE rush inside.

About a split second later (count one in your head), we want to take control of him...

...and rush him outside. While we are doing this, we are pressing the speed burst button. Notice how the LT is blocking inside.

This allows us to blow around the LT with the RE.

We then go straight after the QB. Once we get around the LT, we can release the RE and let the CPU take control of him and go after the QB. Or we can stay in control of him and go after the QB ourselves.

Quick Tip: To prevent your opponent from rolling his QB away from the pressure, consider hot routing the LE in QB Contain. That way if he tries to roll out to the right side, the LE will be in position to make a sack.

In the screen shot, we sack the QB.

This is something you will want to play with. Against the CPU controlled QB, he more than likely will still get the pass off. However the CPU controlled QB may throw a few more interceptions. Against a human, you should be able rack up a few more sacks. Like we said, we can't promise it will work every time, but it will give you a pass rush from the defensive line in this year's game.