They are visual learners who can really think the game. They come to high school with a better understanding of terminology, passing concepts and defensive schemes. But a wave of technology, the annual release of Madden included, has improved the football intelligence among the sport’s young players. “When you run concepts with your team, and then in Madden you see the same concepts but you see different tweaks and stuff, I think it really helps you understand the point of the play and the goal of it.”įootball is changing, and some critics point to decreased physicality and less practice time as reasons for the game going soft. “I’ve had coaches say, ‘Go play Madden, go try things on there,’ ” Lenhart said. And as he became a quarterback at DeMatha High in Hyattsville, Md., his understanding of Madden - and, at the same time, football - became a lot more nuanced. There were defensive zone schemes that seemed to cover the whole field. There were routes that always earned a first down.
He started by mastering the basic controls: “B” for a spin move, “Y” to jump, right trigger for “Turbo.” It was all instinctual, and winning came easy.īut as he learned more about football, and as each version of Madden became more realistic, Lenhart started to incorporate strategy into his gameplay. Madden, EA Sports’ hallmark NFL video game, is the first game Lenhart remembers playing. When Ty Lenhart first picked up an Xbox controller, no older than seven, he was more focused on mashing buttons than what was really happening on the screen.
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