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As we all know in the NFL and college football, success on offense comes from the O-Line. Those 5 big guys can create massive holes for running backs (Jets/Vikings) and keep a QB upright to deliver passes downfield (Colts/Cowboys). The same is true on GLB.

Do you think that offensive lineman are under valued by GM's, OC's etc on GLB?

O-linemen, especially run blockers, are probably the quickest and easiest players to build in the entire game, you'd think they wouldn't be that hard to find. Start with tons of Strength and a lot of Blocking, then get good Agility, some Vision and Confidence, and a bunch of Get Low.

Unfortunately good linemen aren't as common as they should be. I had to start my own team and build them myself after spending my first 6 seasons sorting through the trash heap that is the market place.

Yes, offensive line-men are WAY far undervalued in GLB.

I have seen no team have much success in the playoffs in GLB without a solid o-line.
RBs are way bottlenecked without proven blockers but QBs seem to have it worse without a proven o-line.

I am planning to build a few myself for the future, as rsb mentioned in his post, stud or even decent offense-linemen are extremely hard to come by in both the forums and the marketplace.

I think people forget that the O-Line is also a unit, not an individual player. I created the whole O-Line for my team, and they gave up 3 sacks last season (the other 9 were given up by back-ups, particularly the OT's). By no means are the builds outstanding, but having the players compliment each other and work as a unit has got the team to the playoffs the past few seasons.

This is why the passing game is "broken", because you actually need a decent O-Line to not give up 12 sacks a game!

How can you plan/work toward a line that works together? I am the agent for 5 o linemen and have 5 other's that are of 5 different agents, all have solid str 85+ and 40's in speed an ag...and all over 60 in blkg...What's next?

Originally posted by slowhand
How can you plan/work toward a line that works together? I am the agent for 5 o linemen and have 5 other's that are of 5 different agents, all have solid str 85+ and 40's in speed an ag...and all over 60 in blkg...What's next?

Well what I mean by having a line that compliments each other is that they are similarly built. For example in my case they are all pass blockers. Whereas I could have 5 road graders etc.

Well firstly I got all my guys to have 80+ natural strength (capped it at 77 early and have since left it to natural gains). I then did exactly the same with blocking before I capped agility to 73 (77 for OT's). I then capped Vision to 49 and I am currently capping Confidence to 60. During this time I intense trained Speed & Stamina.

This is by no means the perfect way to do it, but that is what I did.