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Hot take: You shouldn't have to throw a special pass to get it to an open receiver 🤯 Edit: If All-Pro Football 2K8 has better passing mechanics than any modern Madden game then we as consumers have a right to complain.
@@MauriceRay-lx5fvno the physics of the game should allow for you to throw a pass over the defenders head like real football or at the very least like 2k5…in madden you can’t “drop a ball in the bucket” on ANY kind of pass and that shouldn’t take a special button if your QB is elite 🤷🏾♂️
That first streak pass, idk how many times I've thrown that exact pass and the defender 9/10 times will still play the ball and 1/10 times my defender will play the ball lmfao
@diorcxmp4030 as the other guy said, it doesn't matter lol. I always lead pass and sometime highpoint, but then they just get hit and drop it regardless. This games Defense is broken as hell lol. When 99% of the gameplay is pre-determined animations not much you can do
Same man. I'm sitting there questioning myself like "was that a bad throw? Am I fucking slow?" as I replay it in my head. Apparently, I just need to try more buttons
@ES7m.D ain't that the truth. Sat there trying to play smart at first in this Genki house rules event taking 10-30 yards a turn and marching down the field but that don't matter. All it takes is one play in this especially bad defensive madden for my defenders to go from all pro to mf whose legs don't work and that's an L
I hate madden with a gut and I hate to say it but You honestly just got to get better cause it’s not that hard. You can also adjust the setting to make it easier to make these throws. It’s a simulation game it’s supposed to be hard to make these throws because not a single NFL QB can make them consecutively. You can also turn this setting off if it’s too hard for you.
I may sound old but I remember in madden games when all you needed to do was press the button of the open receiver and the pass was completed. Crazy simple mind blowing concept. Maybe madden should try it .
Before this mechanic existed in Madden all of these balls would've just been picks. The game never automatically led a reciever away from the defense like you do with free form now.
This same thing happening to me is why i damn near wont even play it anymore. Cant throw to a wide open receiver bc the defender jumps out of nowhere and picks the shit off.
this lmao, absolute dogsht game design with no sense of realism and i jus came back after not playing since 19. amazing how its the same shit game every year😭
I've tried holding L2 and never see that yellow arrow for free from throws. Can you not lead them without it? Also I'm on PS4 if that makes a difference
@@Gloo-packk nah. It doesn't matter ehat type of throw it is. I know the freeform works, but it's not my thing. I've been doing it this way since QB vision
Bro you don’t know how much this helped me. I joined a league and haven’t played in years, I was throwing multiple interceptions a game and was getting blown out. Last game lost by field goal, on interception. Thank you!!!
These tips for sure helped me tho. Got this game like 3 months ago and my record is 120 wins and 47 losses. Tips definitely helped me & knowing how to save / replace plays in the formations. This madden is good once u have must know tips and plays 💯
One of my biggest issues with this game is that 70% of the time the ball leaves my qbs hand, my receivers immediately start playing defense against the dbs😭 So glad I came across this because I’ve been trying to learn how to do this for AGES but nobody caters to people who don’t know what they’re doing when creating these tutorials. Thank you i
Quick question. Does free forming a ball help with throwing the ball deeper? I feel like free forming the ball forward helps. I always used free form as a way to keep the ball under the safety, outside/inside in man coverage. But only recently did i start using free form to throw the ball further. I never once thought this was a thing.
Madden has had problems with ball trajectory for so many years. The depth of the pass is always too way to low allowing defenders to jump these absurd passing lanes. It’s gotten a little better as of late but I don’t understand why you have to extra lead with passes that are suppose to have perfect accuracy. Honestly with pass lead and high/low throws I’m not entirely sure if free form passing is even needed outside of some pinpoint throws. Linebackers and Safeties should have to gain a certain yardage of depth in their zones to pick of passing lanes unless their jumping rating and awareness is high.
Damn I finally found what I been looking for …played the top 15 player and he pick me off 5 times bc I’m terrible at free form I really hate the passing mechanics but I have to learn thanks my guy
That first pass getting picked off by pro defenders unless three things happen u get lucky u have set feet lead and can throw it 5 yards in front or u high pass it but sometimes that high pass won’t help
It’s actually horrible how scripted the passing is when you don’t use L2, it makes you use it, and sometimes you can simply think someone is just too open to need to use L2 or you just simply forget and boom a game changing pick, and we all know how hard it is to play defense on this game, so to just give away free turnovers because of a game mechanic hurts!
What i think would be great is a football game that takes you through highschool to nfl. In highschool it should be like this. You cant hit those right unless you free form. By the time you get through high school and in college you can 50/50 make those so still might need free form for those. In nfl free form becomes only necessary under duress or if the defender is right on him in step. This would be awesome and show the progression that occures again this should be better or worse based on your accuracy in games from high school to nfl. So if your accuracy hasnt improved much then you will have to free form more in nfl than someone who did well and improved. This would give a unique experience on qbs and making the league.
“It creates a skill gap” the skill gap should be me finding the open receiver before getting sacked. Kinda like real life. Or at the very least make the “touch pass” or quickly tapping the icon have the QB drop the ball in the bucket. You see that way more often in the NFL than the ball being thrown the way they do on Madden
24 is different from 23. These examples of passes would be complete on 23 without free-form. I think 24 is “less forgiving” of bad passes. I’ve seen times my qb (and opps’) will throw the ball directly to the defense that is nowhere near him, the receiver, or the target area.
Yup exactly. Some kid in his parents basement that has a brother played on jv is now a madden god because his only skill in life is staring at a screen clicking 100 buttons in a minute. The controls and all the icons cluttering the screen make me just want to turn the ps5 off
Audible bruh. Go into a play and audible into one that u know / or can easily draw up. Better increase chance on getting it when u audible. Systems doesn’t adapt off the playbook first play.
Great tip but this is one of my biggest grips on Madden. A 72 ovr DB on their team can somehow always undercut a route and jump it for a clean pick, BUT meanwhile the DBs on my team? If they react to a ball it's to swat it down directly in the ground. Meanwhile the CPU is Asante Samuel and every mis throw is a diving spinning INT? stupid.
Free-Form should only be needed for those tough throws like the back shoulder throws, fades, etc. Shouldn’t need to use it when my receiver has his man beat on a slant.
That's what happens to me when I try to throw deep.. still new to playing madden 24.. on ps5.. my WR looks open.. I throw but ends up getting picked.. on ps4 madden 23.. it always went perfect n never got picked.. lol
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He’s right: the amount of mother fucking ints I throw to open receivers is mindboggling
All you do is hold the left stick where you want to throw, it's very easy
@@Dnizzle227no.. the free form passing has changed my life
It creates a skill gap
That’s y I stopped playing
@@user-mg6mp7em1pwhat does? Using pass and accuracy??
Hot take: You shouldn't have to throw a special pass to get it to an open receiver 🤯
Edit: If All-Pro Football 2K8 has better passing mechanics than any modern Madden game then we as consumers have a right to complain.
exactly the goal of every pass is to find the receiver and not being undercut.. just make every pass free form?
This isn’t Tecmo Bowl. Yes you should have to use a special button
if you seen some of the throws this year you’ll see the point of this video
@@MauriceRay-lx5fvno the physics of the game should allow for you to throw a pass over the defenders head like real football or at the very least like 2k5…in madden you can’t “drop a ball in the bucket” on ANY kind of pass and that shouldn’t take a special button if your QB is elite 🤷🏾♂️
@@LngLivMamba17thats the problem tho every Qb isn’t elite so u might have to make adjustments like pressing a special button
That first streak pass, idk how many times I've thrown that exact pass and the defender 9/10 times will still play the ball and 1/10 times my defender will play the ball lmfao
try high ball and pass lead
@@diorcxmp4030doesn’t matter, it’s madden. The defender won’t hesitate to jump 20 feet in the air for a ball
@diorcxmp4030 as the other guy said, it doesn't matter lol. I always lead pass and sometime highpoint, but then they just get hit and drop it regardless. This games Defense is broken as hell lol. When 99% of the gameplay is pre-determined animations not much you can do
@@Roguewrrior56you could easily just lob or touch pass it instead a bullet pass in that situation is never the move
@jordobangs6930 well no, but you wouldn't lob it with a defender over top either. Pick your poison
Bro the whole time I thought I was throwing bad passes against computers !
same, i’m like surely i’m not this dog shit lmao
Same man. I'm sitting there questioning myself like "was that a bad throw? Am I fucking slow?" as I replay it in my head. Apparently, I just need to try more buttons
@@GamerOfLegends163apparently we old school we have to change with the times 😅
@ES7m.D ain't that the truth. Sat there trying to play smart at first in this Genki house rules event taking 10-30 yards a turn and marching down the field but that don't matter. All it takes is one play in this especially bad defensive madden for my defenders to go from all pro to mf whose legs don't work and that's an L
Nahhhh it ain't you😭😭 I've ruined a controller over Madden's God-tier DBs. Don't get me started on DTs running down my 95 Speed 95 Acceleration RB😭
Pro tip: madden sucks and the ball trajectory shouldn’t be this terrible
It’s literally fucking awful
I always get my touch passes across the middle picked off by linebackers standing 8 yards in front of my receiver. It literally makes no fucking sense
@@sprawlz6466 stop playing the game my dude, it’s the only thing that makes sense
@@LuckyPWAthe best remedy to this bullshit I legit can’t make throws w pat mahomes this whole touch pass bs they try to introduce doesn’t work
I hate madden with a gut and I hate to say it but You honestly just got to get better cause it’s not that hard. You can also adjust the setting to make it easier to make these throws.
It’s a simulation game it’s supposed to be hard to make these throws because not a single NFL QB can make them consecutively. You can also turn this setting off if it’s too hard for you.
I may sound old but I remember in madden games when all you needed to do was press the button of the open receiver and the pass was completed. Crazy simple mind blowing concept. Maybe madden should try it .
Before this mechanic existed in Madden all of these balls would've just been picks. The game never automatically led a reciever away from the defense like you do with free form now.
@@shiny460You must be young, we’re talking about back when Peyton Hillis was the cover athlete
Sorry this isnt 2004 anymore lmao
@@sivik3762mouthy lil toddler huh?
@@Youre_wasting_your_timethe ‘eSports’ generation lmao.
This same thing happening to me is why i damn near wont even play it anymore. Cant throw to a wide open receiver bc the defender jumps out of nowhere and picks the shit off.
Exactly. Dude.
Ea frustrating ass hell I wish that nfl license expired
Madden DBs still have the Silver Surfer Xfactor i see.
Bro the whole defense has like a sixth sense for knowing where the ball is, they can put their hand up to deflect it without ever looking at it
meanwhile your own receivers are fking blind
this lmao, absolute dogsht game design with no sense of realism and i jus came back after not playing since 19. amazing how its the same shit game every year😭
See in the older maddens L1 and L2 was for high and low passes
Still are
The fact a wr can literally be open an gets intercepted on madden like that is so unrealistic
i mean sometimes my db will just stand still and watch as the wr runs right by him so i think it balances out
@@xvstreamerbtwvx5387That sounds like trash why play?
bro its a game if you have a problem with how its played then cry about it and quit the game
I keep forgetting to hold L2 when I free form and threw 5 picks in a game 😂
💀💀💀🤣💀
I've tried holding L2 and never see that yellow arrow for free from throws. Can you not lead them without it? Also I'm on PS4 if that makes a difference
yeah you can’t free form on ps4
@@drfunkenstein9050that’s your difference fam you’re on the ps4 version idk why they made em different
I play on xbox 1 and I pressed lt1 and it threw a low pass
Those interceptions hurt just watching 😂 Shits happened to me quite a few times. Gonna keep this in mind for next time 👍
I never use the freeform reticle. I definitely pass lead away from defenders, and try to throw with the correct strength
Exactly. Tf he talkin about lol
U prob most likely do that in short throws lol
@@Gloo-packk nah. It doesn't matter ehat type of throw it is. I know the freeform works, but it's not my thing. I've been doing it this way since QB vision
Man this works way better then high throwing every play 😂
I play on classic settings and you hold LB or LT while throwing for a high or low pass. And you can do a bullet, touch, lob with high, low, or normal
Bro you don’t know how much this helped me. I joined a league and haven’t played in years, I was throwing multiple interceptions a game and was getting blown out. Last game lost by field goal, on interception. Thank you!!!
These tips for sure helped me tho. Got this game like 3 months ago and my record is 120 wins and 47 losses. Tips definitely helped me & knowing how to save / replace plays in the formations. This madden is good once u have must know tips and plays 💯
Pretty mid record tbh
@@liamdesmond9985 Okay and ?
@liamdesmond9985 it's like a 72% win rate. Little higher than mid
@@GamerOfLegends163 wanted to bait him into a 1v1. Mine’s 151-39
That’s a good record bro I’m still convinced everyone has winning records on this madden it’s not hard to have a decent record
So frustrating when your mate keeps getting ints and then tries to give back advice that doesn’t work
One of my biggest issues with this game is that 70% of the time the ball leaves my qbs hand, my receivers immediately start playing defense against the dbs😭 So glad I came across this because I’ve been trying to learn how to do this for AGES but nobody caters to people who don’t know what they’re doing when creating these tutorials. Thank you i
For me, it’s a default motive when I throw a deep ball if my WR beat its defender
Counter idea take it out completely lol
Bro I’ve been struggle with this for months thank you sm dude
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Quick question. Does free forming a ball help with throwing the ball deeper? I feel like free forming the ball forward helps. I always used free form as a way to keep the ball under the safety, outside/inside in man coverage. But only recently did i start using free form to throw the ball further. I never once thought this was a thing.
Thanks
Free form is game changing. Well made vid!
Madden has had problems with ball trajectory for so many years. The depth of the pass is always too way to low allowing defenders to jump these absurd passing lanes. It’s gotten a little better as of late but I don’t understand why you have to extra lead with passes that are suppose to have perfect accuracy. Honestly with pass lead and high/low throws I’m not entirely sure if free form passing is even needed outside of some pinpoint throws. Linebackers and Safeties should have to gain a certain yardage of depth in their zones to pick of passing lanes unless their jumping rating and awareness is high.
Yo tysm I struggled so much today passing when I thought they were open
You’ve elevated my madden skills so much.
You help me a lot now I feel comfortable throwing Seams in the middle of safeties and lbs I. cover3 and the between corners and safeties in cover 2
Thank you.
Damn I finally found what I been looking for …played the top 15 player and he pick me off 5 times bc I’m terrible at free form I really hate the passing mechanics but I have to learn thanks my guy
That first pass getting picked off by pro defenders unless three things happen u get lucky u have set feet lead and can throw it 5 yards in front or u high pass it but sometimes that high pass won’t help
This helped a lot thank you!!
Good looking I needed this
I learned this at the beginning of 24 and it wins me soooooo many games
Bro you just saved my life lol I be like it’s no way I’m this bad they wide open
It’s actually horrible how scripted the passing is when you don’t use L2, it makes you use it, and sometimes you can simply think someone is just too open to need to use L2 or you just simply forget and boom a game changing pick, and we all know how hard it is to play defense on this game, so to just give away free turnovers because of a game mechanic hurts!
Ngl. I have been struggling with this my entire life.
Nice vid
This HAS to be on rookie, the ball always gets swatted away when I pass
Nah you’re either not good or you’re not using it right or at all.
Cross routes are easy if he’s beat the defender left or right throw it further left or right the receiver will cut across to make the play
This is my first madden that I really spent a lot of time in and I don’t know how yall did it without pass lead
You are a god send for this
No lie I always wondered why the passed never got lead , like in the old ncaa games thank you
Good ol madden programming logic
I was playing last night and I came to the conclusion that passing this year is actually exhausting.
Good shit bro I was wondering
thanks
Damn. Last time I played madden tapping the button was like a “lob” pass & holding it down was a “bullet” Boy did things change
can’t wait for the college football tips
Been doing this since madden 21 works good
What i think would be great is a football game that takes you through highschool to nfl. In highschool it should be like this. You cant hit those right unless you free form. By the time you get through high school and in college you can 50/50 make those so still might need free form for those. In nfl free form becomes only necessary under duress or if the defender is right on him in step. This would be awesome and show the progression that occures again this should be better or worse based on your accuracy in games from high school to nfl. So if your accuracy hasnt improved much then you will have to free form more in nfl than someone who did well and improved. This would give a unique experience on qbs and making the league.
Yes and it also makes it easier to vs npc’s because they got mo idea what they are doing
Wooooooooow in my haha Davis voice I stop playin just because I was throwing too many interceptions
Oh my god he actually uses the pocket!
You know madden some bs when throwing a real pass is easier than pressing all kinds of buttons lmao
How to play Madden: take disc and throw directly into trash
I never knew this
It’s frustrating playing with bad QBs. Try throwing a Freeform pass with Zach Wilson. Shit doesn’t work lol.
Here i was thinking L2 meant throwing low
Hell i didnt know thay shit. Gonna try that out tmrw
Thanks 🙏
Touch passes and lobs work
You shouldn’t have to access your settings and throw special passes to complete a wide open go route. Good advice in the vid though
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Sometimes when I free form my pass says “touch pass” even if I try to bullet and it gets me intercepted if it’s not a bullet
This is goated
Thanks bro, i just threw 7 picks and lost lol thanks for the tip tho
high ball: Left top bumper
Not the same thing
They don't tell you this, shouldn't even be necessary cause now what's the point of pass leading?
Man I found this out the hard way I’m still throwing like Jameis Winston regardless 😢
Please come back 2k!
“It creates a skill gap” the skill gap should be me finding the open receiver before getting sacked. Kinda like real life. Or at the very least make the “touch pass” or quickly tapping the icon have the QB drop the ball in the bucket. You see that way more often in the NFL than the ball being thrown the way they do on Madden
herb best arm in the game
Someone’s aware
I like the madden 23 throwing better and the high passes
Hopefully I make playoffs
Why not just high pass it? If ur receiver is on a drag then i can see why u should free form but anything else why not just high pass it?
I’ve tried to do this and sum times it makes my Qb fake toss it and then he turns into a runner and a loss of 10-20 yarsd😭😭💀
Having a good quarterback helps, let alone pressing L1 on PlayStation
24 is different from 23. These examples of passes would be complete on 23 without free-form. I think 24 is “less forgiving” of bad passes. I’ve seen times my qb (and opps’) will throw the ball directly to the defense that is nowhere near him, the receiver, or the target area.
Learn this from civil a year ago
I’ve thrown that streak 100 times. Pass lead up high ball loft. Comes 3 yards short and gets picked 99/100 times.
Gotta free form it, don't high ball it
PLOT TWIST: MADDEN MAKES YOU DO A LOW THROW SOME GAMES AND YOU THROW MORE (has happened to me so many times i stopped free forming)
This game is too damn complicated. Hopped on a local game against my friend and I already knew the controls were on some nerd bs. Miss my ncaa 09
It really isn’t tho
just get good?
Weak 😂😂😂
Its not complicated at all. A few hours and youll have whatever it u think is hard about it down
Yup exactly. Some kid in his parents basement that has a brother played on jv is now a madden god because his only skill in life is staring at a screen clicking 100 buttons in a minute. The controls and all the icons cluttering the screen make me just want to turn the ps5 off
The best way to not throw a pick in Madden is to not play terrible games like Madden
Next year your going to have to give a blood sacrifice to challenge a play😅😅
I appreciate this but for some reason I can't complete the deep ball against the cpu on all madden
Audible bruh. Go into a play and audible into one that u know / or can easily draw up. Better increase chance on getting it when u audible. Systems doesn’t adapt off the playbook first play.
Because you’re on all madden and the difficulty says “Nearly Impossible” so stop playing on all madden. Play on pro or all pro
I do this on classic…if the lag wasn’t messing me up I would be dot them up more
Your trash bro stop it @KayoMonei954
On My calculations
Ngl almost all madden players don’t know this, I learned this three years ago and it made me a way better QB
Fun fact press lb and the button and it throws a high pass which essentially does the same thing
It is absolutely not the same thing...I strongly recommend you practice your free form passing!
He isn’t saying throwing high, he is saying throwing to lead the receiver
Great tip but this is one of my biggest grips on Madden. A 72 ovr DB on their team can somehow always undercut a route and jump it for a clean pick, BUT meanwhile the DBs on my team? If they react to a ball it's to swat it down directly in the ground. Meanwhile the CPU is Asante Samuel and every mis throw is a diving spinning INT? stupid.
Glookin🔥
Free-Form should only be needed for those tough throws like the back shoulder throws, fades, etc. Shouldn’t need to use it when my receiver has his man beat on a slant.
It works good on slants to especially on those tight low throws
Does this work the same on M23??
Hack: just turn that shit off and use traditional
That's what happens to me when I try to throw deep.. still new to playing madden 24.. on ps5.. my WR looks open.. I throw but ends up getting picked.. on ps4 madden 23.. it always went perfect n never got picked.. lol
No wonder why i quit so much 😂