Madden NFL 18

Madden NFL 18

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Triple Crown

Triple Crown

Record a sack, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery with the same player on a single play.

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How to unlock the Triple Crown achievement in Madden NFL 18 - Definitive Guide

Very doable, but a serious PITA.

This works best with 2 controllers. As noted by GWebb77 in the comments this works better in Arcade mode.

First, go into Settings => Player Skill => Fumbles => 0 (NOT 100). You want the second ("human") controller to drop the ball.

The main controller selects something to pull the defense back. I used Dime => Prevent.
The second controller uses Special Teams => Fake Punt W Release
Your main controller should select a defensive back (not a lineman, they don't like to do this) and move them right next to the punter.

When your 2nd controller snaps it, they're going to hold on to the ball. Take your main controller and go after the QB. You're going to find that the player is strangely not interested in sacking the QB, so hold him to it, and MASH cn_RB. (GWebb77 noted in the comments that cn_RSu works better. I used cn_RB.) With luck, two things will happen:

1) Your defenders will STAY AWAY, or at least as far as possible.
2) Your player will strip the ball. This almost always happens. The annoying thing is that either one of your teammates or an offensive lineman gets there first. There really is luck involved here.

If this doesn't work, don't fret! You can do it again! Forever, if need be (and it will likely feel like it). Since you were offside, the offense will be able to accept or decline the penalty. ACCEPT it, and you can immediately try again.

Once again, ACCEPT THE PENALTY, so you can try it again. The line of scrimmage will end up moving all the way down the field toward the end zone, but will stop. That means you have endless tries until you either get the achievement, or break your controller. Hopefully it's the first one.

Here's a video of me on my successful Sack, FF/FR.



Hope this helps!

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This worked perfectly! Just a few tries with another person. Thanks!
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By theEchness on 26 Aug 2018 23:18
Btw it’s quarter => prevent not dime ;)
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By fighterx93chipp on 10 Sep 2018 04:33
In the early MUT solo challenges you play teams with OVR 40-50 rating. You should be able to naturally get this there. But if not then this solution is the way to go
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By GWebb77 on 20 Aug 2017 23:32
Trying this right now. Man the QB just shakes my corner off like nothing. I once got up two more times and got shrugged off two more times lol.
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By LORDOFDOOKIE69 on 23 Aug 2017 05:05
Are the sliders for your QB (it's a player QB) turned up?
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By Sashamorning on 23 Aug 2017 05:06
Player fumble on 0. When I do manage to hit him its a 50/50 if its going to be a fumble. Maybe I need to put the tackle slider to 100?
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By LORDOFDOOKIE69 on 23 Aug 2017 05:16
You could try that. I think mine was already on 100.
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By Sashamorning on 23 Aug 2017 05:28
If you play on arcade mode and use cn_RSu to tackle, you hit like a truck and can usually jar the ball loose
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By GWebb77 on 23 Aug 2017 17:51
Ill try that. I think I have it on simulation mode so that could be part of the problem.
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By LORDOFDOOKIE69 on 23 Aug 2017 18:34
Oh yeah, I had mine on Arcade, too.

GWebb, I added your comment in the solution. toast
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By Sashamorning on 23 Aug 2017 18:48
tried this all morning long till I tried this and got it in my 2nd try. same plays but set your db assignment to blitz and move him about 5 yards right in front of the qb and let the db do his thing
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By truraider81 on 25 Aug 2017 17:52
Try backing up the second player controller into the backfield for extra space. I chased him down and used the hit stick and knocked the ball loose and nobody else was around. Then decline penalty, should pop.
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By Tandar1 on 28 Aug 2017 18:56
Just got this in the most bizarre way possible: player A sacked the QB and forced a fumble, player B picked it up and ran, got tackled and fumbled it and then player A picked it back up
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By Aj6627 on 30 Aug 2017 02:22
laugh toast
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By Sashamorning on 30 Aug 2017 07:21
My player won't go offsides, he runs into invisible wall and I can't find an option to turn it off , only the slider for them calling the penalty.
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By l Smough l on 03 Sep 2017 17:16
Ah stupid lineman won't go offsides but other players will .
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By l Smough l on 03 Sep 2017 17:20
smile
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By Sashamorning on 03 Sep 2017 18:38
Can u decrease a players stats csjse everytime i used up on right stick it is a clean sack and he doesnt fumble it. Or does dofficulty do anything
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By King Nufftings on 21 Nov 2017 02:26
Try RB? Also set the losing fumble slider to 0.
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By Sashamorning on 21 Nov 2017 21:43
Took about 10 plays but worked great. Thanks.
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By GTWa Ice on 28 Nov 2017 17:40
Thank you
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By OMG IT5 EJ on 30 Dec 2017 19:51
God this is annoying. Almost had it and my asshole player kicked the ball away
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By DURDENS WRATH on 03 Feb 2018 20:53
This is stupid. The guy rarely fumbles, but when he does, it's never near my guy. I have probably ran 50 plays, and he has only fumbled it 3 times with the offensive guy getting it immediately.
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By Dragonborn Gear on 06 Feb 2018 04:38
I figured out the easiest way for me. I made sure to back up as far as I could with the quarterback before one of the other guys broke free and made sure only one of them made it to the quarter back by taking the extra guy and moving him away and then diving into the QB with the lone guy to force a fumble with a sack. Then I keep moving my other guys away hoping that none of the offensive guys get back in time before my original sacking player recovers the football.
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By Dragonborn Gear on 06 Feb 2018 04:54
Thanks! worked in just few triesclap
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By EscapeTheRoach on 07 Mar 2018 17:08
Seemed to work much better for me (more fumbles) if I kept the quarterback/punter on the run as he got hit. Just do an individual assignment with the CB to blitz and then he’ll do the work for you. Set the CB up about 5-10 yards away. Offside of course.
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By Saluki 00 on 26 Jul 2018 17:56
I had to use the Right Stick Method because the RB strip kept having me fall down and others kept grabbing the fumble. Thanks for guide.
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By BegFourMercy on 05 Jan 2020 04:58
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The absolute EASIEST way to get this achievement is in MUT. After you get your team set up, start the first set of MUT challenges, which I believe at Starting the Journey. All of the challenges are on Rookie difficulty. Choose either defensive end, get into the backfield, and drop a hit stick on the QB. You may not get it right away, but I have repeatedly done this in those challenges.
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I agree with this. The QBs in these challenges are pretty loose with the ball. Just a matter of time it seems before you get this.
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By DadIsAZombie on 05 Sep 2017 00:31
Achievement never popped for me. Wasted an hour and a half trying this method
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By Clutch Rino on 21 Jun 2019 10:33
This worked great for me. Thanks!
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By HolyRip on 10 Apr 2021 04:07
Yeah, the QBs must've greased up their hands or something with the way they can't hold onto the ball. I was doing the Longshot MUT Challenges when I got Kirk Cousins with the hit stock with Karl Klug and kind of rolled onto the ball.
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By Apostle92627 on 31 Jan 2018 06:27
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Obtaining this trophy vs. the computer on any rookie difficulty, in arcade mode is not as difficult as it was last year. You may even unlock this trophy while grinding Full Set But the same problem persists from last year. It is not hard to sack the QB or force a fumble. It is hard to have that same player who sacked the QB then get up and recover the fumble with 21 other players all trying to do the same thing. I refined the strategy I developed last year for unlocking this trophy.

Use my rosters (or any rosters really, if playing on arcade mode). Play as the Raiders vs. any team you like. The Raiders defense is full of 99s but that may be a moot point on arcade mode. You could go into settings and adjust the player skill so they have 0 pass blocking and 0 fumbling but again, use arcade mode and make sure you turn off the play clock.

From here on defense play Man Up 3 Deep from the Quarters formation. On offense choose he punt formation and pick the fake punt pass play. On defense audible the 3 down lineman into deep zones (select the linemen, press on each lineman). After the snap, move the punter out of the pocket and away from his blockers. Control any player on defense and attack the punter. You can increase the chance for forcing fumbles by pressing just before making the tackle. On rookie and arcade mode the punter will fumble 95% of the time. You just have to be quick to recover the ball to unlock this trophy. See here for a video Guide:

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Easiest with 2 controllers. Edit one team so their speed is all 0. Decrease the slider settings to Fumbles:0 and then play a quick game. Snap the ball to a QB in Shotgun formation and then try to strip tackle him. You can also edit your offensive line players to 0 speed except one and max out his stats so your teammates don't pick up the fumble you cause.

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