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I like zone awareness for certain positions, man for others, and sometimes even a mix for certain linebackers. I could be wrong about this but depending on the plays even if you run man defense some positions play art looks like they are in zone. I have no clue about zone defense because Ive never tried to run one. Its working for me so I just assumed I was right although I remember reading some stuff from some of the testing done a while back that awareness was over rated so maybe I just think its working for me?

Originally posted by Corndog
But ignoring one of them gives up half the plays.

This. Flexibility is a boon.

Originally posted by atlbruce
50 Awareness gives up a lot of plays.

High speed can make up for lower awareness.

I really would like to try and do a defense on here that is both. It drives me nuts gameplanning on here when I see a zone concept that looks like it would work well against something but I can't really do it with man based builds.

Yeah, having a defense that could play both man and zone would be interesting, and it's doable I think.

I've found trying to get LBs and DBs to do both just means they'll do neither well.

Originally posted by Raid
Yeah, having a defense that could play both man and zone would be interesting, and it's doable I think.


we did it a while ago, not bad but the reality of football hits you. top teams are top teams because they’re the best at what they do. majority of the stars we had on that team were on defense. Unless you have 5-8 star LB/DB defenders to build very strictly then it’s not much worth leaning into

I'd think the key would be to lean everyone, corners would only need to be proficient at zone so you can focus them more at man to man, and LBs would only need to be proficient at man to man so they can focus on snaking balls on zone, have SS lean man as well to help cover TE maybe?

Given that we're around 7 hours from Day 1 of S46, it looks like the Changelog is going to be silent, yet again.

oh damn good point atl I been so busy messin with stuff I forgot about anything new lol

Looks like there will be new stuff per the calendar update.

woohoo new stuff!

woah lol.. just played a scrimmage after the changelog. Snap reaction makes a huge difference now. I've never seen so many pancakes and reverse pancakes.

one guy got 72 reverse pancakes... in one game.

Spectacular. Let's make a game breaking change without testing it.

Originally posted by Bizzarro24
one guy got 72 reverse pancakes... in one game.

A guy had 116 in one of your scrims. No way they are not going to adjust this unless they want this to be a major skill. Seems gamebreaking as it is.