Soooo.... really don't understand the Slinger 1 hype

Figured it was finally time for a QB upgrade. I limited myself to only ltd QBs since they don't depreciate in value as much as normal cards.

Found Joe Flacco on the auction house for about 405k and heard everything about how great Slinger 1 is, so I decided to try him out. Tried him with two different ability combinations: HRM, PLE, and Fearless, and then my usual favorite combo GS, PLE, and Fearless. He kinda sucked with both combos. The GS helped a bit with the deep release, and I had no problem with the speed at which he got the ball out, the problem was his accuracy. All the same throws that Randall Cunningham would have easily made he missed, he underthrew to the point that I had to agg catch everything. Keep in mind, this was in solo challenges, so a card of that high overall should have absolutely torched the defense. If it had not been for Julian Edelman and Travis Kelce, he would have been picked off a few times by CPU too. 

Sold him, reluctantly decided that I would have to spend some more coins, and picked up 97 Jalen Hurts. Did the same combo: GS, PLE, and Fearless. He played great, in the exact same solo challenges that Flacco stunk up. I genuinely don't understand why Slinger 1 is rated higher than Generic 3. Maybe something about my playstyle? Although I don't roll out unless absolutely necessary. I'm a pocket passer, which meant Slinger 1 should have been good on my team.

if flacco struggled in solos then it's user error or u lying. like come on bro, solos are almost in rookie mode

TheMomentPassed said:

if flacco struggled in solos then it's user error or u lying. like come on bro, solos are almost in rookie mode

Seriously, I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. He couldn't do anything. Granted, it was the new GG solos where the CPU has maxed out speed, but he was underthrowing it way too much

TheMomentPassed said:

if flacco struggled in solos then it's user error or u lying. like come on bro, solos are almost in rookie mode

I'm actually fairly good at the game, so there's no reason the quality of my play would have affected Flacco. He just couldn't make the throws

QB283 said:

Figured it was finally time for a QB upgrade. I limited myself to only ltd QBs since they don't depreciate in value as much as normal cards.

Found Joe Flacco on the auction house for about 405k and heard everything about how great Slinger 1 is, so I decided to try him out. Tried him with two different ability combinations: HRM, PLE, and Fearless, and then my usual favorite combo GS, PLE, and Fearless. He kinda sucked with both combos. The GS helped a bit with the deep release, and I had no problem with the speed at which he got the ball out, the problem was his accuracy. All the same throws that Randall Cunningham would have easily made he missed, he underthrew to the point that I had to agg catch everything. Keep in mind, this was in solo challenges, so a card of that high overall should have absolutely torched the defense. If it had not been for Julian Edelman and Travis Kelce, he would have been picked off a few times by CPU too. 

Sold him, reluctantly decided that I would have to spend some more coins, and picked up 97 Jalen Hurts. Did the same combo: GS, PLE, and Fearless. He played great, in the exact same solo challenges that Flacco stunk up. I genuinely don't understand why Slinger 1 is rated higher than Generic 3. Maybe something about my playstyle? Although I don't roll out unless absolutely necessary. I'm a pocket passer, which meant Slinger 1 should have been good on my team.

I actually use hurts but I will say elways release was way faster but not enough to need slinger 1. Play people online and you will understand the speed and wind up alot better when you have people flying off the edges at you lol.

droblunts313 said:

I actually use hurts but I will say elways release was way faster but not enough to need slinger 1. Play people online and you will understand the speed and wind up alot better when you have people flying off the edges at you lol.

I play online all the time, I just think Generic 3 with Gunslinger works better for me for some reason. Noticed the same thing last year when I tried to switch to Steve McNair for the Slinger 1. Like I said, had no problem with the speed (other than the deep windup) but his constant underthrow bothered me

The slinger1 uses a lower trajectory , that can lead to interceptions.  If you're passing over someone you may need to lob it.

brakologos said:

The slinger1 uses a lower trajectory , that can lead to interceptions.  If you're passing over someone you may need to lob it.

Interesting. So this is why I don't play well with Slinger 1.

I tried Brunell when he was the top QB in the game and he wasn’t for me. Hurts and Mahomes with GS have been my favorite two QB’s. Tribute Brady with GS was good too but for me he didn’t play as well as the other two.

slinger 3 is the best all around in the game.

SlowAndSteady said:

I tried Brunell when he was the top QB in the game and he wasn’t for me. Hurts and Mahomes with GS have been my favorite two QB’s. Tribute Brady with GS was good too but for me he didn’t play as well as the other two.

Dont laugh but grab Cutler and slap sfl and gs on him and his release is as good as any  slinger 1 qb in the game and he makes all the throws effortlessly,high point,low,lob bullet,deep ball etc.Nothing to lose for trying him out.His trad 6 release is legend.

Hollywoodb said:

Dont laugh but grab Cutler and slap sfl and gs on him and his release is as good as any  slinger 1 qb in the game and he makes all the throws effortlessly,high point,low,lob bullet,deep ball etc.Nothing to lose for trying him out.His trad 6 release is legend.

I don’t doubt this at all. I always believe there’s plenty of budget cards that get the job done. I have Mahomes and I’m happy with my team and AP situation at the moment though.

I normally don’t adhere to what the community says you need especially with my QB. I rarely run more than 3AP on my QB.

Last year I even used Night Train QB for a very long time and I had plenty of coins to buy any QB I wanted. He just felt right for my play style and I don‘t require much abilities to make things work.