Who else builds defense before offense?

I always have success with a better defense than I do offense at the start of every season

Yup. I rather my defense be good because no matter how good my WR is i still gotta make the right read. I’m NMS this year so my version of that is upgrading Ray Lewis before the rest of my season pass players lol.

I just play and go from there and found myself winning with a pass heavy offense and avoiding zone coverage on defense, so I've started building around that. One of the first places I look is in the trenches on both sides of the ball, then CB/WR, mainly speed since coverage stats are a luxury. I'm NMS so I am pretty selective about what I'm doing.

Defence is absolutely worthless right now. Speed kills and also pass rush mathers a bit imo.

markie20 said:

Defence is absolutely worthless right now. Speed kills and also pass rush mathers a bit imo.

Use match, mix in cover 2 man and cover 1 on occasion. Don't go cover 0 too often unless they really struggle vs it and even then be careful. I don't blitz a lot because I can guess pass if I want to bring pressure on the QB when I know they're passing and we need all the coverage we can get. Don't use zone until it gets fixed and even then I think hybrid coverage is better. Just my take and I'm not very good or anything but it seems to me the popular cover 3 sky/Tampa 2 etc type plays are absolutely suicide right now.

I haven't had a team worthy of H2H yet, but my defense is coming along. My offense is basically CMC @ 84 OVR, and after that, it's my defense getting the love. Haven't done anything with the Auction House yet, but I'm near that point.

I generally agree, but at this point, I think you can literally have the best card at every position on defense, and it won’t matter much. Douglas gets burned just as much as my 82 overall cb’s.

markie20 said:

Defence is absolutely worthless right now. Speed kills and also pass rush mathers a bit imo.

Hahaha I haven’t lost a game in over 20 matches. Defense is KEY. How many frustrations they see having the same play. MATCH coverage is when u see those sticks as as my guy. And if you don’t use your backup safeties as sublb and run nickel or dime then you have instantly lost.

Those sticky DBs*

antitwisted said:

Use match, mix in cover 2 man and cover 1 on occasion. Don't go cover 0 too often unless they really struggle vs it and even then be careful. I don't blitz a lot because I can guess pass if I want to bring pressure on the QB when I know they're passing and we need all the coverage we can get. Don't use zone until it gets fixed and even then I think hybrid coverage is better. Just my take and I'm not very good or anything but it seems to me the popular cover 3 sky/Tampa 2 etc type plays are absolutely suicide right now.

What’s broken with zone?

xXcGilmer18Xx said:

I generally agree, but at this point, I think you can literally have the best card at every position on defense, and it won’t matter much. Douglas gets burned just as much as my 82 overall cb’s.

I’m already so sick of getting dotted by Danny Dimes in solo battles.

antitwisted said:

Use match, mix in cover 2 man and cover 1 on occasion. Don't go cover 0 too often unless they really struggle vs it and even then be careful. I don't blitz a lot because I can guess pass if I want to bring pressure on the QB when I know they're passing and we need all the coverage we can get. Don't use zone until it gets fixed and even then I think hybrid coverage is better. Just my take and I'm not very good or anything but it seems to me the popular cover 3 sky/Tampa 2 etc type plays are absolutely suicide right now.

How do you use match? the option isn't there for me anymore.

KenFJohnathy said:

How do you use match? the option isn't there for me anymore.

Select a play with match such as cover 3 seam or cover 3 match. Cover 4 palms, cover 4 quarters etc. do not shade underneath or above. Keep the seams exactly stock or it will become zone and your guys will probably play like they're wasted.