It is more than worth your time to taylor your game plan using rules. For example, you should always call pass defense when facing a 4 or 5 WR set since there are no running plays out of those formations (you'd be surprised at how often that is not the case). Why would you not always call pass defense when defending a 3rd or 4th and long? (Even if you're behind in the score.) More importantly, why wouldn't you always play nickel (or dime) irrespective of the offensive formation in those situations, e.g., against a double TE set?
Although it took quite some time to to so, my entire defensive game plan is predicated on rules. Now that it is set up, I tweek it from time to time depending on what scouting tells me about my next opponent. Wholesale revisions are unnecessary. Then again, I play in only one league.
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