Is "Hail Mary" the best tactical move in american football?

Question

I am from Scotland over here we don't see very much American football but I bought Madden 07 for the Xbox 360. I find that the "hail mary" option is the best way to get touch downs.

I play as the Miami Dolphins, just because I like the green away kit. (just incase you wondered what team I was)

Anyways is "Hail mary" the best way to get touch downs?

Also what are the best defensive options?

Answer 1

no. video games arent as accurate as real life. if you did hail mary every time, you'd get picked off almost every time.

Answer 2

Computer game football and real football are two different things. Computer game football has to keep buyers/players interested, and the best way to do that is make big plays, like the Hail Mary, far more likely to be successful than they are in real life.

The Hail Mary Mary may be the best tactical move in Madden 07 (I don't really know), but it is among the most worthless plays in the playbook in real football. I would estimate that such plays result in a pass completion at most 10% of the time (with a touchdown less than 2%) in real football, with up to 50% of Hail Mary passes being intercepted. That leaves 40% that are simple incompletions. Hail Mary's are usually only called at the end of a half or the game. The rest of the time they are too risky. Normal interception percentages are well below 5%, and who would willingly call numerous plays where the risk of interception is as high as 50%?

The best defensive approach, and I assume you mean to defending the Hail Mary, is a deep zone for both safeties, so the far side safety can slide over and assist with the incoming Hail Mary pass. In a half-end or game-end situation, there may be 3 or four safeties back there, plus the 2 cornerbacks. Such a defense is highly suspect during the rest of the game because it is susceptible to underneath passes (short passes thrown in front of the deep coverage), or running plays such as lead-block isolation plays or draws, because the linebackers capable of defeating the iso-blocks and stuffing such runs have been substituted out in favor of the deep-pass defending safeties.

Answer 3

Haha yeah, the hail mary only really works consistently in video games.

For defense, there are a variety of defensive schemes that work very well. Some teams, like the Colts, last year's Super Bowl Champions, use a base Cover 2 defense, which depends a lot on good zone coverage and effective play by safeties, but many other great defenses in the league right now rely on a base 3-4 (meaning 3 defensive linemen and 4 linebackers).

Answer 4

Unfortunately no it is not the best way to get touchdowns. While the Hail Mary play does send all of your WR's deep on streaks, it also sends all the defenders deep too, creating a big crowd, meaning a higher percentage of it being batted down or intercepted. The only sure fire way to ensure Touchdowns is to play to a style of offense matching your strengths and interest. Either passing, running or a mixture, taking advantage of the defenses mismatches, blown coverages, etc..

Defensively it depends on what the situation is and what type of opponent your facing. If you are facing someone who like to throw, Cover 2, Cover 3, and press (bump and run) blitzing from Dime and Quarter defenses work well. If facing a running opponent, Goal Line, 46 and 3-4 blitz plays work well. Mix and match them with the appropriate situations and opponents to get the best out of a defense.

Answer 5

You wont always score like that. To get technical, yes, it is the best chance of you getting a touchdown, but not on every play and its risky. A certain play against a certain defense could get you in the end zone every play. For instance, a running play, could go touch, if everyone blocks right. It all depends on the defense and the coverage. Same goes with the defense. But my favorite plays are:

Offense- anything in shotgun 4 or 5 WR sets
creates many mismatches, LB's will have to guard WR's, unless they play a dime or quarter D, then i go to the running back.

Defense- Im a student of the 4-3 cover 2. Basic, simple, a few holes, but works.

Answer 6

In theory yes, in video games, yes. In actual situations the Hail Mary is actually very impractical. To just throw it up, and hope that your guy comes down with it, is very useless on a regular basis. In fact the name "hail mary" itself shows how impractical it is. Basically it means "I am going to throw this ball down the field and start to pray, because my team catching it is the only way we will win this game!"

The Hail Mary is typically used as a last resort, or end of half/game play. While deep passes are part of any teams playbook, the hail mary is one that is saved for desperate situations.

As for Madden, I ussually pick Cover 2 defenses, they give you man coverage plus the deep backups of your safeties. Many teams in real American football are using this style of defense as well.

Answer 7

N o hail mary in real life gets interceptions alot. And defence depends on the team ur using and I knowe nothing about miami im a vikings fan

Answer 8

No, it's not. There are questions of arm strength and long distance accuracy, so it's generally limited to the end of each half. Even then, the defense will line it's Safeties 20 yards off the line of scrimage, which makes it much harder for the QB to get the ball to the WR.

Answer 9

It depends. If late in the game, yes.But if anytime i would use
medium passes, pitchouts, draws, short passes, outside runs. on defense good plays are Renegade, Cover 2, Cover 3, and Engage 8.

Answer 10

If you have a good reciever in the game, like one of the top guys if you have a play where you send your number 1 receiver stright out if you wait like two seconds just tap "x" real fast it lobs the ball up and if you take control of your WR and jump up and get it its very good move