Hi I´m new to football (watched 2 games over the last two years. It´s not easy to watch football if you live in Germany) and to Madden in perticular. I was always intrested in picking it up and gameflow convinced me to give this years version a try. So now I played three games on the "my skill" difficulty and I´ve found out I´m horrible at pass-defense. My "My skill" as it stands is 13 for rushing 12 for passing and rush defense and !2! for pass-defense. Any help would be appreciated. I dont want to win games 66-27 (like I did my last one Cardinals over Texans) and feel like I did not earn it.
 
Any help would be appreciated. And please do not use "football speech". As I said I´m new to the sport. I know what to be sacked and the pocket means and that´s it pretty much^^ For example whats "shotgun"?

@ InfamousBIG ^^ Thanks for the help.
 I should have mentioned that I use Gameflow for all my plays, because I do not feel comfortable at all choosing my own defense (or offense for that matter). 
Is that the first mistake I´ve made?
 
And I tried playing DT and letting the AI handle the WRs and that stuff. Didn´t work out to well. Ok I was playing aganist payton manning, but still everytime I got those colts to a third down they´d throw the ball for 15 yards and another first down^^