Warrior General Games

Originally posted by bhall43
Tough to say. I felt like Fritz just broke more tackles. Then again the nerf to power backs this season could have an influence on balance too.

Yeah, theoretically helps breaking tackle for this reason:

The HB stays on his feet longer, tackles don't break his balance so much, so the defender tackling grip its tested more, takes longer to put him down, so the HB have a higher window to break the tackle. At the same time since he stays up longer, he is more susceptible to energy/morale loss, strips and tackles.

Thats what i think, it makes sense but doesn't mean that GLB is like this.

Originally posted by bhall43
I dunno. We made the investment on Fritz in footwork to 40 for the 2 counters to work correctly and I believe it was the worst decision ever to take away from his extra balance for it. His up the middle running did not get better at all.

45 is when you start to see some of the bigger benefits, and 35 seems to help enough with pitches to keep you from falling on your face.

35 should be enough to make those counters work too, but I've never seen it not improve inside running with investment so that's weird.

I spent a long time looking at footwork, built a 55 footwork 35 quickness elusive back just to see ho he'd fair and learned a lot more about what footwork does - was impressed enough to take Hype up to 65 in it and Hype was very good at interior runnning for being a guy with 60 power (65 his second season)

I've not built a lot of powerbacks, but I do know that if you are using power running the interior bonuses are going to be diminished from the lack of movement freedom, your back uses the footwork to position himself better in holes to break arm and dive tackles from the defensive line and maintains his speed much better - but that's my take from seeing it on north/south, combo, and slippery... I didn't use power often because of Hype's mobility.

I would say adding elusive running 40+ would do more to help him run inside than anything else. Especially if that comes with maxing carry awareness and adding Juke.