Man to Man Scheme tips

I have a 50/50 Steelers TT, which this year all Steelers defensive backs are getting man abilities. Zone is nice but none of my DBs get zone abilities. I usually get cooked when I run man defense and don’t know which man knock out abilities to prioritiz.

CBs: Joey Porter Jr, Marshawn Lattimore, Brian Branch, Mel Blount

Safties: Minkah Fitz, Troy P

LBs: Bo Jackson, Crowder, Reshad Jones (Sub LB)

Any tips on formations and man to man abilities I can implement to run a man to man scheme?

The best tip for running man this year is running zone LMAO

I know bruh 😂 but I don’t want to lose my Steelers theme team I’ve been building for the last mont. when my opponent figured out I’m running man they just run meta plays and cook my DBs. I’ve only had 1 interceptions with JPJ since he dropped lmao

SteelC9695 said:

I have a 50/50 Steelers TT, which this year all Steelers defensive backs are getting man abilities. Zone is nice but none of my DBs get zone abilities. I usually get cooked when I run man defense and don’t know which man knock out abilities to prioritiz.

CBs: Joey Porter Jr, Marshawn Lattimore, Brian Branch, Mel Blount

Safties: Minkah Fitz, Troy P

LBs: Bo Jackson, Crowder, Reshad Jones (Sub LB)

Any tips on formations and man to man abilities I can implement to run a man to man scheme?

How is Mel Blount playing for you?

I was thinking about picking him up since his price is becoming more reasonable now, but I am hesitant because his speed is 97 and receivers are 98 and 99.

I agree that stock man isn't very good is very good. If you're really committed to running it I would try and aim for players that get special versions of Universal coverage or reinforcement. That way you can save ap instead of having to stack multiple KOs on one player. Now I'm not sure what your current setup or how practical it is to achieve that with a steelers tt but it's something to consider. 

Another useful ability is inside shade/one step ahead especially on slot cbs it should your DBs stick with the wr on most routes. 

Personally, I think you need to be able to prevent the deep ball so you probably want a couple deep route KOs at least on outside CBs. But that may be redundant especially if you play a lot of cover 2 man with deep zone ko on your safeties. But a lot of the best man beating routes win in the short to medium route KO area so those are also very useful.

This is true of most defenses but especially with man, I think you need to have a good pass rush in order. So you may also need to spend some ap on xfactors or abilities like Double or nothing/defensive rally/edge threat

Wooooo said:

How is Mel Blount playing for you?

I was thinking about picking him up since his price is becoming more reasonable now, but I am hesitant because his speed is 97 and receivers are 98 and 99.

he plays really good in the slot. I put him there for additional run support because his tackle and hit power is 90+ I believe. 
 

if have the light it up token on him so he gets +1 speed and +2 from the Steelers theme team chem.

hes really good in run support

Breakluna said:

I agree that stock man isn't very good is very good. If you're really committed to running it I would try and aim for players that get special versions of Universal coverage or reinforcement. That way you can save ap instead of having to stack multiple KOs on one player. Now I'm not sure what your current setup or how practical it is to achieve that with a steelers tt but it's something to consider. 

Another useful ability is inside shade/one step ahead especially on slot cbs it should your DBs stick with the wr on most routes. 

Personally, I think you need to be able to prevent the deep ball so you probably want a couple deep route KOs at least on outside CBs. But that may be redundant especially if you play a lot of cover 2 man with deep zone ko on your safeties. But a lot of the best man beating routes win in the short to medium route KO area so those are also very useful.

This is true of most defenses but especially with man, I think you need to have a good pass rush in order. So you may also need to spend some ap on xfactors or abilities like Double or nothing/defensive rally/edge threat

I do run cover 2 man, Deep Out Ko on Minkah and Reinforcemen on Polamalu. 

Now that I think about it most man beating routes are medium (corner & post), so I think I’ll add medium route ko on CBs (slot forsure). 
 

I have Brian Burns and TJ watt as my rush ends, can put defensive rally on sap. 
 

hoping for a mean joe green this week with the UL release.

thanks

SteelC9695 said:

I have a 50/50 Steelers TT, which this year all Steelers defensive backs are getting man abilities. Zone is nice but none of my DBs get zone abilities. I usually get cooked when I run man defense and don’t know which man knock out abilities to prioritiz.

CBs: Joey Porter Jr, Marshawn Lattimore, Brian Branch, Mel Blount

Safties: Minkah Fitz, Troy P

LBs: Bo Jackson, Crowder, Reshad Jones (Sub LB)

Any tips on formations and man to man abilities I can implement to run a man to man scheme?

Brian Branch and Lattimore as your outside corners, both with Deep Zone KOs.  Maybe run some type of uhhh Spinner and put your outside corners into deep blue (outside thirds) and let everyone else play straight up man to man -- you can continue to adjust Spinner to Man up one (or both) Slot corners, as well.  I'm honestly not sure what to advise here.  I pulled liek just a couple 89+ Sugar Rush rerolls the other evening and lucked into JPJ, immediately quicksold him for coins, oof.  It's unfortunate, but man corners just are not consistent enough to run against a competent opponent, they'll cook us each and every time, although i have yet to try a full defense with pure Man abilities.

I'd try to work towards some type of hybrid scheme as i began attempting to detail above, but my concepts aren't fully fleshed out.  Hopefully someone in the community can help provide more guidance, i'll be curious what you come up with.  I want to commit to my full 50/50 49ers theme team, but still feeling far too gimped, so i'm running hybrid Superbowl... almost same squad i've had for ~2 months, with a few upgrades around the edges where I can fit them in.

Not that it will help anything as far as people burning your scheme if you run man instead of zone but cards with discounted or X Factors of One Step Ahead especially and Inside Shade are it I feel those are the man abilities that are playing best for me.