Built in the Trenches

[MrNFL_FanIQ]

Quote: Originally Posted by killxswitch

Yeah I have Rivers locked up for another 4 years and will be resigning Willis next year. They're amazing. Though I wish there was a way I could change Rivers to a SS, which does a lot in my defense. He's a 96 POT there and would be cheaper to resign.

Rivers as a CPU on the Patriots on mine had the most insane numbers I've ever seen. 99 speed, 99 tackle, 99 man/zone coverage, 99 hit power. Just absolutely INSANE.

BTW, Patrick Willis is also FTW.

[TheDMG]

Quote: Originally Posted by cloudedskate

How much of your cap is devoted to your line? It sounds like you have more than a few top 10 picks in there.

Actually just did a check to see what percentage of my cap each position group was taking up. My OL, including backups, cost 33.9 million, which was 25.69% of the cap that year and my highest percentage for a position group. That number will be going up too as I want to keep Peter Boma and he's coming into a free agent year, so that's probably another 6 or 7 million right there. And that line features two top ten picks, Lankford and Jackson.

The D-line, inlcuding backups, was costing me 27.08 million, or 20.53% of my cap. So, yeah, my two lines were costing almost half my cap, but I feel it's money well worth it as they're both dominant. And actually, that's not too awful when you think of it as the 9 positions on the line are 40% of the team and they're taking up 45% of the cap costs. And now that I've thrown English out on his ***, I can afford to keep these groups together a little longer. Not bad for the Detroit Lions.

[killxswitch]

Haynesworth's health is starting to fail so I was able to acquire Haloti Ngata. The trades you're able to do in this game are stupid sometimes.

I was once able to sign, trade, and re-sign Kelly Greg as a free agent, twice. I got a 4th and 5th pick out of it. His legs were totally busted, too.

[Demonolith]

ha, yeah the trades are so broken. You can get Patrick Willis and Ed Reed (assuming the Ravens have enough cap room to trade him) for next to nothing.

[killxswitch]

Quote: Originally Posted by Demonolith

ha, yeah the trades are so broken. You can get Patrick Willis and Ed Reed (assuming the Ravens have enough cap room to trade him) for next to nothing.

I tried to get Reed early on but couldn't, I traded for Antoine Bethea instead and he has done pretty well.

My lowest-rated front 7 player is now 89 and my lowest-rated defensive starter is an 85. Ridiculous. I played the Seahawks last night and at halftime they had -2 passing and -4 rushing. They picked off my QB 5 times though and returned 2 for TDs so it was still close.

[Demonolith]

Quote: Originally Posted by killxswitch

I tried to get Reed early on but couldn't, I traded for Antoine Bethea instead and he has done pretty well. My lowest-rated front 7 player is now 89 and my lowest-rated defensive starter is an 85. Ridiculous. I played the Seahawks last night and at halftime they had -2 passing and -4 rushing. They picked off my QB 5 times though and returned 2 for TDs so it was still close.

Yeah you got to watch the Ravens. If they franchise tag Suggs, they won't have enough cap room to be able to trade Reed away. But if you get lucky and they don't tag Suggs, you can get Reed for dirt cheap

[edward_1385]

Yeah teams trading habits sometimes make no sense, especialy when they are willing to give up franchise type players for almost nothing, then they go out a draft bust as replacements...

[kcarr]

I had one where the first year I drafted dre moore, tony bake, calais campbell, and athya rubin. It was the english path and I picked up patrick lopez the next draft. The year after that I picked up a run stuffing DE who I often moved inside as a situational pass rushing tackle and another balanced end. I was rotating linemen every play using all 7 of them in pretty much every possible spot. I am pretty sure rubin was the only one that never played DE and the rest saw time at every single spot on the line at one point or another.