Thank you Oh. So. Very. Much for this pro-tip. ❤️

To whomever schooled me just recently on the coaching adjustment Strip Ball set to Aggressive, I cannot begin to thank you enough. I've had both Derrick Thomas and Aaron Donald get strip sacks in a small handful of House Rules games already this evening. Terminator even made his a scoop and score. 🏆

I had shied away from using this in the past because I wasn't convinced it was worth all the facemask penalties, but holy hell I'm having an absolute blast bullying kids in House Rules. Almost feels bad, liek I'm cheating against the Friday evening casual player who just got the game for Christmas. Can't stop, won't stop. Guess I might end up with that Tee Higgins after all, heh.

Thank you, I love you. I'm sorry I make so many dumb comments on this great forum that I cannot recall the specific 🧵 where we discussed this. I wish I could thank you personally. Much obliged. 🤓

I saw that post too. I dont remember to change it enough though. No strips yet. Gotta get it in my routine.

I got Higgins today, he's solid

SportsPerson94 said:

I got Higgins today, he's solid

Grats on that, six more wins for me. I blew i couple that should have been gummies, playing hyper aggressive is opposite of how I typically approach the game, but I'm doing it all. Go for two every single time. It's actually been kind of fun tonight, although weak competition.

colbyzg said:

I saw that post too. I dont remember to change it enough though. No strips yet. Gotta get it in my routine.

Just had my second scoop and score of the evening. That's three strip fumbles in a night. I've barely had one all year, maybe none. This is nuts, perhaps lower difficulty for House Rules? Or just extremely weak competition, I dunno. Something is up, this is way too consistent. It's not even me furiously mashing R1 too user strip, just the bot controlled pass rushers getting it done.

For the record, my D-line is; Derrick Thomas, Aaron Donald & Lawrence Taylor. With Jalen Carter as DT2 for Nickel & Dime. Why has this been so good all of a sudden? I'm but doing anything special.

Where is this option at and do you have to change it in every game or can you have it set beforehand for all games?

chrsprfft said:

Where is this option at and do you have to change it in every game or can you have it set beforehand for all games?

This is a really nagging issue, unfortunately it needs to be set each and every game. I'm able to access it by pressing the R3 (click right analogue stick in) to access these coaching adjustments.

There is some inherent risk changing many of these, aggressive strip ball can often result in facemask penalties. However I just got my 4th strip sack of the evening, this time in H2H Seasons, first three were House Rules. Zero penalties... yet. Feels liek a pretty amazing trade off over a short period of time. I'm going to keep using it for a bit.

Will give it a try definitely seems like it's working for you.

I'll check tht out later thx bro

peatrick said:

To whomever schooled me just recently on the coaching adjustment Strip Ball set to Aggressive, I cannot begin to thank you enough. I've had both Derrick Thomas and Aaron Donald get strip sacks in a small handful of House Rules games already this evening. Terminator even made his a scoop and score. 🏆

I had shied away from using this in the past because I wasn't convinced it was worth all the facemask penalties, but holy hell I'm having an absolute blast bullying kids in House Rules. Almost feels bad, liek I'm cheating against the Friday evening casual player who just got the game for Christmas. Can't stop, won't stop. Guess I might end up with that Tee Higgins after all, heh.

Thank you, I love you. I'm sorry I make so many dumb comments on this great forum that I cannot recall the specific 🧵 where we discussed this. I wish I could thank you personally. Much obliged. 🤓

I said this in the comm clips megathread the other day. I also get a lot more fumble sacks with strip ball aggresive on, without even switching on to the rusher. It also has worked on several kickoff returns for me aswell.

I always put tackling to aggressive, haven't tried strip ball on aggro in a while since get a lot of facemask penalties, will have to try it on aggro again and see

Saph said:

I said this in the comm clips megathread the other day. I also get a lot more fumble sacks with strip ball aggresive on, without even switching on to the rusher. It also has worked on several kickoff returns for me aswell.

I could not believe that I got four strip sacks, two for scoop and scores... with only a single facemask penalty in a full evening of playing.

I ended up losing a heartbreaker in my Divisional playoffs, so I still went to bed sad, but gosh that was fun. For whatever reason I decided to go hyper aggressive in House Rules and it was working quite well. Then carried it over to H2H Seasons. 

I still think LT is better pure pass rusher than DT, more productive overall, but all three of my big boys were doing work. Wish I had caught your advice sooner. Bravo, sir.

Great thread, will try it out.  Thank you!

Seems like a lot of "meh" around the new Derrick Thomas card, should I steer clear for now?  It seemed like a no brainer, but more and more I'm learning some cards don't play up to their numbers, and other cards far exceed them.  Trying to work smarter!

Are yall not getting a lot of facemask penalties?