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Originally posted by Darren McFadden
Originally posted by UnderDogs


Originally posted by


diving tackle and jumping makes a great linebacker.

great in SE Asia A, or great in the pros?

I don't have much jumping or diving tackle. I have however been pumping up jumping and diving tackle. jumping is 30 now. All I notice is he gets better and better.

jumping and diving tackle alone aren't going to make a linebacker great...but I can see lately how it should help my LB out anyway, he is getting close but not making the tackle.

I don't recall saying alone. You are seeing the point of it though with the getting close thing. it will turn getting close into tackles.

What's the word on "Aura of Intimidation"? It sounds like it could be a useful SA.

Originally posted by Darren McFadden
Originally posted by Blamo

Shed Block is the only LB SA worth heavily investing in.

have you really tried diving tackle enough to know for sure? or swat ball?

i'd like to get my LBs jumping up to 35 or so with 3 or 4 in diving tackle and see if it makes a difference myself. because it is becoming really difficult the stop the run these days.

My LB has two in diving tackle and 35 in jumping. The thing is, if you're making too many diving tackles... You probably need more speed, unless your speed is already 90+ or something. In which case you could probably add more agility so you can take better angles. Now that I'm at such a high level, I just don't see it being worth 5 SP (pretty considerable at this point) to put two SP more into diving tackle... especially when Aura of INT is mostly worthless. Anyone who looks at my LB will notice that I still miss tackles... but I think most of them are on plays that most LBs wouldn't make anyways, and most of them slow down the runners enough that someone else makes the play before the runner gains any additional yardage. Swat ball I have 3 in with CE, and I've always posted modest PD numbers... but I don't think enough LBs are in position to swat balls often enough for it to matter. Besides, once again I think coverage attributes are the way to go. In the future I might put more into diving tackle... but probably not for at least another season or two. In the meantime I plan on continuing to plug most of my points into speed, agility, jumping and vision to effectively increase my range even more. The better your range, the more times you're in position to make plays and be an asset to your team. Since you're not the last line of defense, I think this is the #1 goal of the LB. IMO they're the real "playmakers" on defense.

edit: However, if bort were to change diving tackle to increase the range you could dive for a tackle, then I'd immediately sink points into it. As it stands, I'd rather just put points directly into tackling if I feel like I'm missing too many tackles.

for my LB I kinda feel like the 61 cap is about as high as I really want to get attributes, to get speed and agility to 3:1 with everything else high will take freaking ages. and i just don't see that speed is the issue, my guy is in position but fullbacks are just as fast...i just don't see 90 speed being the answer, all it will mean is more time backing off and then rushing forward off the snap because of the stupid built in delay..