Madden NFL 17 Player Ratings - Top 5 Defensive Tackles

[SolidSquid]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mauer4MVP

Quick question on how Nose Tackles will be rated. For example, Linval Joseph may have been the best player on a pretty darn good Minnesota defense last year from the push, pressure, and gap coverage he gave. It obviously doesn't show up in the stats, but he had a fantastic year last year when he was healthy.

Don't the vikes run a 4-3 thus have no nose tackle?

[KANE699]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mauer4MVP

Quick question on how Nose Tackles will be rated. For example, Linval Joseph may have been the best player on a pretty darn good Minnesota defense last year from the push, pressure, and gap coverage he gave. It obviously doesn't show up in the stats, but he had a fantastic year last year when he was healthy.

Linval is 7th.

[jpdavis82]

Quote: Originally Posted by KANE699

Linval is 7th.

So McCoy and Linval were next two in line for the top 5. I'm good with that.


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[brandon27]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

So McCoy and Linval were next two in line for the top 5. I'm good with that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed here. Pretty solid ranking/order there.


Can't wait for the full ratings release, love to see how these "elite" guys compare to the second tier, and then depth guys/backups.

[Mauer4MVP]

Quote: Originally Posted by KANE699

Linval is 7th.

That's fantastic news!

[Mauer4MVP]

Quote: Originally Posted by SolidSquid

Don't the vikes run a 4-3 thus have no nose tackle?

Eh kind of. It depends on the base front and nevertheless, his role is the same as a nose tackles would be.

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by brandon27

Surprised to see the drop off from Donald, down to Suh at #3. Donald is great, no doubt. Just a bit surprised to see that drop off. I guess EA also bought into the hype that Suh had a "down year" last year. Or maybe it's just their way of "separation" between the top end and the other guys. I hate these 5 player teases! lol As someone else just said, I also would love to see a video of these guys in action. Not trailer type stuff, but actual gameplay. These are 5 guys capable of taking over a game from the inside of the DL. They should be able to do that in Madden, not get paddy caked out of the way by the OL. Really hope that translates this year as they've said it will. The screens... look awesome too. That's nothing new though for Madden.

Yep, if the top D tackles are getting stonewalled all the time, especially by mediocre G's and C's, like has been the case in so many Madden's, then the new defensive gap control system will be definitely be suspect.

They can't just be great when User controlled either. They need to be able to take over games when the CPU is controlling them and not just play like some random 68 OVR player.

[The JareBear]

Quote: Originally Posted by jfsolo

Yep, if the top D tackles are getting stonewalled all the time, especially by mediocre G's and C's, like has been the case in so many Madden's, then the new defensive gap control system will be definitely be suspect. They can't just be great when User controlled either. They need to be able to take over games when the CPU is controlling them and not just play like some random 68 OVR player.

Yes. So much yes.