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My safety had 200+ tackles last year and I thought I was definitely on the right track. This year he's only got 20, mostly on special teams. Any thoughts on why? Am I neglecting one key area? What do I need to do in order to increase his tackles. This guy was all over the field last season, I'd like him to be the same next.


Player Attributes
Strength: 40.19
Blocking: 8
Speed: 86.81 (+18)
Tackling: 34.19
Agility: 34.58
Throwing: 8
Jumping: 15.92
Catching: 8
Stamina: 19.89
Carrying: 8
Vision: 35.17 (+1)
Kicking: 8
Confidence: 14.25
Punting: 8

Coverage Abilities
0
0
0
0
0
Hard Hitter Abilities
1
1
1
1
1
Additional Abilities

And please no stupid comments about "retire him, he sucks", etc. I check in every day or every other day, but I'm not a really serious player.

Because your safety was in the D-League last season and safeties rack up on tackles. This season, you are in a casual league with human players that build on attributes to avoid tackles

Ok, so that makes more sense. That said, is there anything else glaringly wrong that anyone sees here? How best can I improve from here.

Thanks for the response, Pack.

Speed, vision, agility are your 3 most important attributes in that order and should all be 80+ without equipment.

So should I cap in that order?

I made him a hard-hitting archetype and agility isn't one of the primary attributes. Should I ignore that and cap that anyways?

Finally, how do I go about capping? Do I place all SPs and training into one attribute until it is 80+, then move onto the next? Or do I place all SPs into the major attributes and use training to build up lesser attributes like strength and tackling?

Agility then vision.

Both should be higher, that is part of the problem.

The other part is, tackles as a FS is no indication of the safety's ability.

A FS can get 200 tackles on a terrible team because no one else can get the job done,
and the FS is the last line. On a great team, sometimes thereare not many leftovers for
the FS, especially if the scheme always has the FS in deep middle zone.

But personally, I like to see a FS used like the Steelers do-
very aggressively! Then the FS can make some plays...

Originally posted by 420sega
Agility then vision.

Both should be higher, that is part of the problem.

The other part is, tackles as a FS is no indication of the safety's ability.

A FS can get 200 tackles on a terrible team because no one else can get the job done,
and the FS is the last line. On a great team, sometimes thereare not many leftovers for
the FS, especially if the scheme always has the FS in deep middle zone.

But personally, I like to see a FS used like the Steelers do-
very aggressively! Then the FS can make some plays...

We can't all be a Polamalu lol... but the Steelers defined what a safety should be, he's a game changer and here the same can be said. A well built safety can do just about anything, you can rack up sacks and pass deflections, shut down the outside running game and take the over the top pass away with proper game planning. It's the X factor.