What is going on everybody? Second day of Madden 18 is under our belts and I just wanted to take some time to make a video to talk about what seems to be the new route running threshold this year in Madden 18 for your receivers to run those nicer crisper routes than what normal receivers would usually run. In years past, at least last year in Madden 17 and Madden 16 the year before for sure as well, the route running threshold for these routes was 96 and now this year it seems like they lowered it to 91 obviously they put a big emphasis on lowering the ratings across the board and making you know higher rate higher ratings a feel you know that much better but right here you see a manual sender is running this in route here against this off-man-demand coverage and you can see this is a manual sender's 92 route running versus Damarius Thomas who has I believe 88 or 89 so very minuscule difference it was the smallest difference I could find between two receivers on the same roster where one had these crisper routes and one didn't but you can clearly see the difference there between manual senders and Damarius Thomas senders already basically in his cut and running back up at full speed by the time Damarius is still in the middle of chopping his feet and you can see right there just how quickly you can get the ball out of your hands with a receiver who can run that in route as crisp as someone like a manual senders can right there on the other side you try to throw it to Marius Thomas yeah he caught it Damarius is still a great receiver but it was a much tougher catch a diving catch that corner is going to have a lot less separation he's going to be able to make up that ground a lot quicker than someone who is running those routes you know much crisper and much quicker and not really losing much acceleration right there you see the corner all over Damarius and ended up breaking it up so you can see the clear difference in in routes there's a few routes I want to talk about it's in routes mainly out routes post routes and deep crossing routes so right here I'm going to go ahead run it against a man-to-man press coverage this time and kind of show you how much of a difference I think it's even more of a you know difference maker against press coverage right there you see how wide open or a manual senders rather and gets open against that press coverage when running that in route whereas conversely on the other side you're going to see Damarius Thomas just not really get that separation his defender was draped all over him he still almost came down with that ball but like I said Damarius is a great receiver but you can just kind of see right here how much inside leverage a manual senders has compared to Damarius Thomas you can literally see Damarius Thomas's defender is directly beneath him where a manual senders is definitely was at least a step or two behind him and when running that in route right there you see actually through that a little late senders still ended up holding on to it ideally when you have these receivers who are running these super crisp routes you want to throw it right as they cut to take advantage of how quickly they're running these routes and like I said another way you can take advantage of this is with these deep crossing routes in this case I'm going to run verticals out of gun bunch and you're going to see it this was a popular play obviously last year verticals pretty much a popular play almost every year but you can see right here how quickly a manual senders gets across the field separates himself from that man-to-man coverage and is able to get open another thing or another reason rather why this is great I think is because of the fact that it gives you that option so much quicker against a pressure style of defense so many people online love sending pressure love sending heat when you have a receiver who's running these routes much quicker you don't have to wait in the pocket and kind of trying buy an extra you know half a second quarter of a second in the pocket to let you receiver kind of go through the motions and get across the field like right here with the Marius Thomas you're going to see just how slowly and how deliberately he kind of makes that cut yeah he still gets the separation right there against the man-to-man coverage he's still going to get a little bit of separation but it's just not as clean not as quick as you were seeing from a manual senders in the example before right here actually against the man-to-man coverage obviously Thomas is still a great receiver right there man-to-man does a better job and actually ends up hitting Thomas as soon as he caught the ball and Thomas held on but obviously a much tighter throw you feel a lot more comfortable throwing to the sanders in that case when he was running that route a lot quicker right here and another way you can take advantage of this is those backside deep post-route so you saw this a lot last year with Z spot out of gun bunch right here I'm in Y corner out of gun Y trips week and you see sanders are just running that route very crisply obviously last year with Z spot skimbo made that play famous basically by himself and he would always have a receiver you know with that high route running threshold above that threshold to get across the field you know that much quicker and to make his routes you know that much more crisp to get that separation against whether it was man-coverage or you know getting across the field on zone right here another example of the marius Thomas running this route you can kind of see how much slower it is I mean you can really feel it especially when you're in the pocket and you're trying to step up and buy some time to try and you know a manufacturer a little more time in the pocket right there pressure actually gets to me even if it was sanders that block shed was very quick he's still what I've got it but right there you see Thomas man-to-man and the man was draped all over him so you not only have to wait a little bit longer but you're not getting that same super consistent separation in the last case right here is going to be out route so gun tight great formation to be able to showcase this example you have sanders on one side Thomas on the other and you can see in these out routes I mean it's the same thing as the in route just in reverse a gun tight happens to be the perfect formation to kind of showcase this because you get one on each side you can really compare both of them perfectly side by side to each other and you can see Sanders already in his cut and already re-accelerated back up to full speed and Thomas is still chopping his feet in his cut you can see how much more you know outside positioning Sanders has on that outside flat defender and then Thomas did at the time of his break so right there still these out routes still going to be effective I'm not saying you know if you have a receiver under of the threshold that it's not going to be effective but obviously having a receiver above at 91 or above in terms of the route running rating is going to be beneficial in my opinion now in mud there's only two receivers I believe that have 91 or higher route running and that is the legend Chris Carter and Antonio Brown the base elite Jarvis Landry I believe has 90 route running but you're not going to be able to get him up to 91 not that I know of there may be a way so don't quote me on that but as far as I know there's not a way to get him up so your only option is going to be Chris Carter and Antonio Brown so I hope you guys enjoyed this video I definitely comment let me know what you guys thought and until next time guys take it easy