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[BeefMaster]

It's interesting that "always pick run" is a legitimate Tecmo Bowl strategy, especially since I am a believer in "always pick pass" in TSB (with a few exceptions, like the offset-I toss sweep to the bottom or the single-back toss sweep to the top, both of which I find basically impossible to stop if they're not picked).

[TbT]

It's not an absolute strategy, but as I mentioned in certain situations such as 3rd and 10+ yards to go against many of the playbooks calling run is a sound strategy.  Late in the game trying to protect a TD lead with maybe 30 seconds to go and 80 yards of field to work with, I'm calling a lot of run against those teams that have 2 run plays....but you also need to sneak in a couple pass play calls or else you will get picked apart in the final seconds.   

Those trains of thought are perhaps what Nommmaaaa was remembering from back in the day, but I've never gone out and said calling run on defense 100% will lead to victory.  That won't help you vs MIA, SF, MIN, WSH

Obviously against Indy or Chicago, we call maybe 60-70% of run on defense, because Payton and Dickerson are that good...also helps that those offenses have very conservative passing plays, and you want to force them into facing multiple 3rd downs

Cleveland is a team where calling run doesn't really invoke good pass coverage help from the computer against their pass plays....so our calls vs the Browns can really be a mixed bag of pass and run if we don't have a dominant defender to make those diving tackles against Mack.

I was recently in the Lincoln TSB tourney, and while TB and TSB share some of the same philosophical ideas, the games are so different in how you excel at both.   

[BeefMaster]

It's been quite a while since I've played original Tecmo Bowl for comparison.  In TSB, my basic strategy is to pick pass plays, letting the computer handle pass coverage.  It seems like picking the pass play with the most available receivers results in the most complete coverage, so I usually pick the non-play-action pass that fits that bill (I don't choose play-action, because I prefer to play for the sack in those cases).  Other than the two running plays I mentioned earlier, there aren't many (any?) running plays that can't be reliably held to moderate gains most of the time, particularly if you know the formations well enough to be able to narrow it down to one or two possibilities once they come to the line.

[TβG]

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