OL' Dirty Tecmo

First off, you son of a motherless goat... any matchup Regulator calls he has the advantage!! But seriously, if you have a one man defense and cannot tap as fast as your opponent it is beneficial to have a plan to bump drones for help, or be an olympic dive tackler. Regulator cycles and taps well enough to beat the Bears with T.B. I don't really think the average or even above-average tecmoer could consistently pull this one off. If the inferior tapper somehow ends up with the Bucs the game is over before it starts. This is why calling the matchups late in tournaments is such a huge advantage and why tapping is such a flawed element of the game. It's all about tapping that A**. Manyo nailed it. Scrambleez for the win! Even if Fulcher catches up with a pass he's "probably" going to just bat it down. Would be interesting how things would play out if he was 75INT.

eGGcellent memory. I completely forgot to mention about how important tapping is in this matchup. In the video AJ was crushing me and getting big gainers against all those pokey CIN drones. But I got a late fumble early in his possession to put it away.

I was recently watching my Midwest Tecmo games on the stream and was reading the comments from my CIN/T.B matchup call. The comments were consistent with what I hear a lot from folks. Even veteran players. Here's my breakdown on why I love it. I baited my man @manyo360 in the round of 32 in Madison some years back. Manyo, is this in the black book now? Tampa Bay's weaknesses are: OL, DL, LB and that's it. Throw in an All-Tecmo defender with a top 5 DB unit combined with a 31ms QB and a 94HP RB/TE. There's good value to eek out here in the right hands. Cincinnati's weaknesses are: DL, LB, and WR. In this matchup Cincy's impotent DL cancels out T.B's shitty OL (which is the fear, usually. no one wants Vinny running for his life with that low PS). Yeah, Francis has 69HP but coincidentally T.Bs best lineman is at OL4 sporting a healthy 50HP to keep Francis in check under average conditions. I call this the Paul Han(d)s Gruber effect. The shitty WR's of Cincy against a top DB squad in Tampa Bay make throwing into coverage very dangerous. Get up early with T.B in this matchup and it's very hard for the Bungles to come clawing back. If your opponent does not take the bait and picks T.B you still have the "better" team in the Bengals. Brooks, Boomer and Fo-Rock can always get it done in the right hands. Also, at a quick glance these teams are similar with mobile QBs and single stud DBs. So as far as playbooks go.... choose wisely. Watch it at 7:54 - I'm the Bengals. AJ didn't take the bait. I go on to win this tournament.

Idk but now I want to make a ROM with the top offenses combined with the worst defenses and vice versa. So Pitt would possibly remain unchanged lol.

I like Indy. Since the NE offense is so slow they won't break a huge play on Indy, and you can MAN 11 different guys for optimal position lol. Perhaps, it also comes down to how comfortable someone is MANning Lippett at DB2.

Far too kind, sir! Thank you. You were certainly missed. Once I recover from the emotional roller coaster I'll have to pay my respects to all those I owe thanks. Still doesn't feel real.

One of the best times for sure! Live tourneys always seem to reinvigorate the Tecmo passion. You guys are the best, seriously. Thanks Kevin for the time money and work that went in!

I'm paid! I've got some revenge games to get in! Ryan, Ninja, MV, even you Kevin... Russ Grimm *never forget*

Awesome!!

Seriously. Top notch shit @davefmurray. For awhile I forgot I was watching my idiot friends and felt like I was watching ESPN 9: The Nueve It was sooooo well done from start to finish. Too many people to thank!!!

So awesome seeing you guys on ESPN!!! Here's to TecmoXIII !!! Cheers! Good luck today.

My depression is settling in... I'm borderline sick over not being there. Safe travels and good luck to everyone except @ImFlo, you don't need it.

I wish they were. They should be. We cripple defense too much. And Noonan specifically asked about live play.

Good point I was thinking hstl rules where shotgun plays are open game. Madison would probably disqualify both plays.

I would base that off the formation the offense comes out in. Not in hash placement since that rarely impacts playcalls. Or at least, hard to tell if it does.

Noonan didn't know this was here. I'd say the first one is legal and the second is illegal.

Holy fuck you know if you say a trolls name three times......

Oh my God yes!! Yes!! Dripping sarcasm all.

Compliments of the Randi School of Tecmo. Pretty sure this would cost about 25 hours, $250, and your sanity. Get it here for free!! Tecmo Probability.txt

Holy shit he almost had a good point there with playing with 10 players and completely fucked it up.

Well poop. I uprepped TBK bc I assumed Alex was trolling. If not, Alex, please PM me and I'll do a walk through with you. GL

No basically you have to let them make a football move. So either bump, grapple, or go around the OL.

Got another one. Fire up a season with Green Bay and use Bob Nelson and grapple with the OL against run plays. Works well against runs designed to go up the middle leaving Nelson behind the lead blocker for the tackle. Human opponents will bounce outside but you can contain.

Green is in position to stop the run3 sweep. However, it should be used situationally as it's an all in type of play. I'll use it when I need a surprise stop on 3rd or 4th down. But you can easily get drone bumped and give up a huge gain. Other than that a fast DL is great for using in pass coverage as long as the opposing QB and WR combo isn't killer.

That's probably just the colts logic.