is it best to user a lurk artist or let the CPU roam?

Martyr1968 said:

Ok so without lurk artist, I wouldn't user any LB at all. User a safety. But as a stand alone player, if you are using your LBs in zone coverage I'd go Foyesade. If you go predominantly man, I'd go Devin...

It also depends on your scheme. Are you 3-4? nickel (3-3-5?2-4? etc)? 6-2? 4-6? What I mean is, does your scheme requires you to have LBs on the field ? or can you sub in Safeties

I don't run man.. The amount of people running crossing routes shies me away from it.. I'm a 3-4 scheme, but it's only ran about 10% of the time cause i'll match personnel groupings and a lot of people don't run 21 or 12 personnel sets... I had Pola as my sublb but switched to FO yesterday

WendyPefferkorn said:

I don't run man.. The amount of people running crossing routes shies me away from it.. I'm a 3-4 scheme, but it's only ran about 10% of the time cause i'll match personnel groupings and a lot of people don't run 21 or 12 personnel sets... I had Pola as my sublb but switched to FO yesterday

I used to do that (match personnel) but I only recommend doing that if it is clearly a run heavy set or a pass heavy set. If you run match coverage it will play the crossing routes and also pick up man coverage. It will stay in the zone and follow the receiver that comes into the zone and then switch to man ; it's why match is so popular these days because EA kinda fixed it.

But if you run zone out of a 3-4 base, you need to get yourself fast zone LBs and the problem with that is in a 3-4 the OLBs are generally pass rushers. You'd want a guy like Dave Robinson at LOLB for example.

Martyr1968 said:

I used to do that (match personnel) but I only recommend doing that if it is clearly a run heavy set or a pass heavy set. If you run match coverage it will play the crossing routes and also pick up man coverage. It will stay in the zone and follow the receiver that comes into the zone and then switch to man ; it's why match is so popular these days because EA kinda fixed it.

But if you run zone out of a 3-4 base, you need to get yourself fast zone LBs and the problem with that is in a 3-4 the OLBs are generally pass rushers. You'd want a guy like Dave Robinson at LOLB for example.

Matching personnel's has done fine for me.. I also play the down and distance and where the ball is when I select my defensive sets.. I'll run 3-4 inside the 10 no matter what

Old gen doesn't have the match option that new gen does... I have Te'o as the other MLB and he has been awesome as the 2nd MLB that I sub in the 3-3 Cub set at OLB... I also use Pratt as my ROLB and sub him in as well in 3-3 Cub. I'm a heavy heavy rush 3 and drop 8... My whole defense is bend and don't break. Don't give up the big play and make the offense execute..

RyyoLurkedEm said:

just sold him for 660k. he’s gonna drop, plus idk maybe linebackers are better for stopping the run, but you kinda have to use him bc of his zone like you said. so his run stuffing ability is almost negated when usering, i’ll grab a 90 zone LB whenever they’re affordable

I think Oluokun or whatever is a better option, White is fast, but basically have to user him with that zone and I prefer Willis or Derwin for user right now.

WendyPefferkorn said:

Matching personnel's has done fine for me.. I also play the down and distance and where the ball is when I select my defensive sets.. I'll run 3-4 inside the 10 no matter what

Old gen doesn't have the match option that new gen does... I have Te'o as the other MLB and he has been awesome as the 2nd MLB that I sub in the 3-3 Cub set at OLB... I also use Pratt as my ROLB and sub him in as well in 3-3 Cub. I'm a heavy heavy rush 3 and drop 8... My whole defense is bend and don't break. Don't give up the big play and make the offense execute..

Sounds like to have it all figured out bro. Good luck!

Martyr1968 said:

Sounds like to have it all figured out bro. Good luck!

Haha oh no... Its just worked fairly well up to this point. Always have to adapt to new things that continuously hurt you schematically

StoicTrader said:

I think it depends, there's no simple answer to this, in general though I usually let the AI run with the defenders I beef up and user Pola-Mao / Berry depending on formations, what I think the user will do based off their tendencies

for example, I have AKA Ed Reed with his upgraded universal coverage x-factor, and let the AI roam with him but move him around, I think it's probably better to user a player that you don't have beefed up and let handicapped AI roam with the beef

Off topic but why 2ap universal coverage over 1 ap shutdown?

MajorMelon said:

Off topic but why 2ap universal coverage over 1 ap shutdown?

that's a good point, universal sounded better to me, but I think after looking more it's probably better to use the shutdown upgrade since it's 1 less AP and probably not a big difference between the two performance wise, which means I can put lurk artist on Ray Lewis now, good thinking

StoicTrader said:

that's a good point, universal sounded better to me, but I think after looking more it's probably better to use the shutdown upgrade since it's 1 less AP and probably not a big difference between the two performance wise, which means I can put lurk artist on Ray Lewis now, good thinking

Gotcha, thought you might be partial enough towards Universal Coverage to warrant spending the extra AP, anecdotally I do think it's better than shutdown so I was curious.

MajorMelon said:

Gotcha, thought you might be partial enough towards Universal Coverage to warrant spending the extra AP, anecdotally I do think it's better than shutdown so I was curious.

now wondering how you came to that conclusion ?

StoicTrader said:

now wondering how you came to that conclusion ?

Feels like shutdown is more man coverage centric, UC seems like it lends itself better to zone but my ball Hawk Ed Reed has been doing great with just the shutdown X factor so I'll probably just stick with it

getting luke tomorrow and he’ll be my CPU LB. should be great!

MajorMelon said:

Feels like shutdown is more man coverage centric, UC seems like it lends itself better to zone but my ball Hawk Ed Reed has been doing great with just the shutdown X factor so I'll probably just stick with it

same AI Ed had an insane pic last night for me (deep zone half) bro came from opposite side and pic'd off a post...

also been using lurk artist on Ray Lewis and he had a really impressive pic where he leaped up like what Pola Mau does without it...