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Quote: Originally Posted by kjell1979

The advantage the spread has in APF is it can take some of the defensive stars off the field. I remember the Packers doing this to the Ravens many years ago. The Ravens had so much talent in their base defense, so the Packers went with the spread and forced their stars off the field in exchange for inexperienced nickle and dime backs. Ray Lewis had to play coverage all day and Favre torched them. Same thing here. This is why you have to be careful who you pick on defense because if you lose a star linebacker or two because you're stuck in dime all game, the deck is stacked against you.

This is good stuff. This is also exactly why I only like 1 legend LB, and I make it count usually being a gold so I'm still powerful in my base formation. If I do select an OLB it is one with pass rush bonus that gets in a 3 point stance on passing formations. Legends are too valuable to have off the field. Having a single gold LB can make you viable against base offenses who run a balanced attack and you can still adjust and keep your big LB on the field when you get spread out and ideally not lose any strength.

I still feel the spread is NOT unstoppable. Even if your opponent knows how to perfectly read and break every zone you do, you can still manually control guys in the expected area and take away the expected counter, so the chess match continues.

You guys ever do man/zone combos? I do fun ones where 1 half of the field is in 2 hard and the other half is in 2 man. For quick passing offenses this can really mess him up and lead to those big sacks.

Another point: Ideally those DE's with ball strip would have significant importance because they would be a great source of turnovers along with those sacks. If anyone has tips on fumble produciton, I'd thank you for sharing. I've been trying to figure out forcing fumbles in this game since it was released.