This is the most grossly misutilized receiving SA in the game.
I see this far too often on players that have no business investing into this SA. Let's go over some basics about when/why you should pick Catch in Stride.
- Catch in Stride is designed to help you with mobility after a catch. It's purely for YAC situations. It won't help you catch passes. It won't help you get open. It's 100% useless if you're player is always covered, and getting immediately tackled after the catch. This means you need to have a "get open" build on your pass catcher. A guy that can get to spots on the field where he catches a pass, and the defender isn't in position to immediately bring him down. Do not invest into Catch in Stride until you've invested into a bunch of sprinting, route technique, route elusiveness, quickness, balance, and conditioning... skills like that. If you're going to end up with less than 80 sprinting, just don't even bother. You don't have a chance of ever making this SA work for you in a way that will be even remotely effective. You're too slow, you won't be getting open field opportunities to exploit CiS often enough.
- Because you need to "get open" to get use from Catch in Stride, this means it's a second or third SA option right of the bat. Do not take CiS as your first SA. It's highly unlikely you'll be able to invest in enough balance early in the build to warrant it. It's even less likely you can reliably get open looks to exploit it until you're closer to end build. Head Fake is automatically more valuable as a primary SA choice before you bother with Catch in Stride. Head Fake will help you get open for catches where you're not immediately getting tackled. Therefore, you need this SA first to help you take advantage of Catch in Stride. *unless you're only going to be used for screen passes. In that case, you're better off with First Step before you go get Catch in Stride*
- If you've got 60+ points into Catch in Traffic, you're probably looking at the wrong SA. You want YAC Attack. You've clearly invested in making contested catches. Which means you don't have points invested into "get open" skills like you should. So you need an SA that'll help you break those contested catches into YAC opportunities. That's not CiS. It's YAC Attack.
I see this far too often on players that have no business investing into this SA. Let's go over some basics about when/why you should pick Catch in Stride.
- Catch in Stride is designed to help you with mobility after a catch. It's purely for YAC situations. It won't help you catch passes. It won't help you get open. It's 100% useless if you're player is always covered, and getting immediately tackled after the catch. This means you need to have a "get open" build on your pass catcher. A guy that can get to spots on the field where he catches a pass, and the defender isn't in position to immediately bring him down. Do not invest into Catch in Stride until you've invested into a bunch of sprinting, route technique, route elusiveness, quickness, balance, and conditioning... skills like that. If you're going to end up with less than 80 sprinting, just don't even bother. You don't have a chance of ever making this SA work for you in a way that will be even remotely effective. You're too slow, you won't be getting open field opportunities to exploit CiS often enough.
- Because you need to "get open" to get use from Catch in Stride, this means it's a second or third SA option right of the bat. Do not take CiS as your first SA. It's highly unlikely you'll be able to invest in enough balance early in the build to warrant it. It's even less likely you can reliably get open looks to exploit it until you're closer to end build. Head Fake is automatically more valuable as a primary SA choice before you bother with Catch in Stride. Head Fake will help you get open for catches where you're not immediately getting tackled. Therefore, you need this SA first to help you take advantage of Catch in Stride. *unless you're only going to be used for screen passes. In that case, you're better off with First Step before you go get Catch in Stride*
- If you've got 60+ points into Catch in Traffic, you're probably looking at the wrong SA. You want YAC Attack. You've clearly invested in making contested catches. Which means you don't have points invested into "get open" skills like you should. So you need an SA that'll help you break those contested catches into YAC opportunities. That's not CiS. It's YAC Attack.
Edited by Galithor on May 6, 2015 08:42:28
Edited by Galithor on May 6, 2015 08:41:33
Guess I have just no clue about passing
