Strategy Items - What are you running?

doncoyleone said:

On offense, I'm running the On The Run (+2 TUP/RUN) to make Bo hit the TUP threshold and I'm running Hybrid (+2 Man, +1  Zone, +1 Tackle) on D so my DBs and Safeties get a boost.

What are you guys running now? Most of the newer cards are making these items much less relevant with all the stats nearly maxed out.

What's the best orange ability card to take with the S5 option coming next week?

I'm most interested in offensive recommendations as I'll probably switch it up if I get a new QB with ROH.

Open to any and all thoughts. Have a good one.

My gosh, you have impeccable taste, sir.  Someone posted the available options from the S5 set pack, which should be available fairly soon... so not sure how to answer that portion of your questions/comment, however i'm running the exact same Strategy items as you, on both offense and defense.

I honestly don't know that the coverage boosts on defense do all that much, but it pleases my OCD to see 99s across both Man and Zone coverage on the majority of my DBs.  Feels most efficient, to grant that slight boost to as many players as possible (both Corners & Safeties), my logic and thought process was nearly identical to your own.

I started hearing about a "new" meta, where folks are using some type of ETE or anything that includes the "Under Pressure" component on their pass rushers, to hopefully try to force all the Bo QBs to miss more passes.  I haven't noticed it as an issue, at least not since adding the Strategy item to ensure we're above the magic 90 minimum threshold for many abilities, including or especially this.  However, i'm running out of steam, barely able to dive into much online H2H lately.  The constant toxic behavior and non-stop RPO cheese is beyond tired at this point.  I keep holding out hope that a Theme Team Remix promo will be looming on the horizon, i'm dying to convert from my 70/70 hybrid Superbowl theme team to the full 50/50 49ers squad i've been working on essentially the entire Madden calendar year.  Tried to fully commit to it just last week, even went so far as to run S4 Joe Montana as QB1, so i could test out that Traditional 1 release, but the squad is still feeling far too gimped, even compared with my SB team from ~2 months ago.

But yeah, at this point in the year, stats matter less than ever -- abilities have always been everything, but soon we'll all be maxed at 99 and wonder why our guys don't play much different than the 89s from November or December.  People sure love those magic golden 99s in the corner of their cards, but boy does that luster and shine fade rather quickly.