Over

Over is the defensive shift version of the 4-3 that slides the front strong, putting the nose tackle over the strong side guard and shading the tackles toward the tight end. Unlike 4-3 Under, which tilts the front weak and creates a wide 5 technique to the open side, Over stacks bodies at the point of attack on the strong side and leaves the weak side defensive end in a wider, more aggressive alignment. The play art tags (NT, RLE, RRE, RDT) tell you exactly where the beef sits, and that matters in Madden because the shifted front changes which gap your best pass rusher attacks on plays like Sam Edge 3, Free Fire, and Thunder Smoke.

Personnel is straight Base 4-3: four down linemen, three linebackers, two corners, two safeties. That gives you the flexibility to defend inside runs with numbers while still having three linebackers available for coverage drops, user control, or blitz manipulation. Against 11 personnel and single tight end sets, this is your bread and butter look because you are not forced into nickel and you keep a real run defense on the field for run-pass conflict situations like second and medium.

The coverage menu here is unusually deep for a base set. You get the full Cover 1 family (Hole Press, Sting WK, Robber Press, Contain), Cover 2 variants (Hard Flat, Man, Tampa 2), the Cover 3 shells (Cloud Press, Sky), quarters looks (Cover 4 Quarters, Press Quarters, Cover 4 Palms), and a Cover 6 for split field. That means you can run the same personnel and the same shifted front while rotating between man, single high, and two high shells with only pre-snap disguise changing. Blitz packages like Dbl Safety Blitz, Olb Fire Man, Free Fire 3, and Sam Edge 3 give you pressure options from the same look, which is how you keep an opponent from reading your intentions off the alignment.