Originally posted by Meatdawg
Originally posted by Dustin Diamond
Originally posted by NRS
Let me start by saying build a purely blocking FB. Great teams won't run the FB if they know what they're doing. Don't bother pointing out the good rushing FBs it's doesn't matter.
Agility is the single most important att for a FB. Bottom line is you need to get to the blocks and agility, speed and to a certain degree vision is what gets you there. The FB has to move in all directions very quickly. Agility is critical for both run and pass blocking. To those that say speed is not important just watch a 90 speed HB outrun their blocking. It's not fun.
So in order agility, speed, blocking, strength, and vision. Of course once you get going lead block and spot blitz are very important.
Unless you need your player to compete right away there is no point in softcapping speed before strenght, agility, vison, or blocking. All of those attributes have natural leveling because they are major or minor attributes, speed gets no natural benefit of capping early so it should really be the last thing you touch before you need your FB to be ready. It takes a few seasons to build a good FB.
Not caping str first is a waste. The natural gains far outweight any benifit caping speed early could give you. I agree with agl, as I have it rated 2nd, and would probably invest in the VA quick before workout warrior. I am still on the fence on vision because as I continue to raise it on my 41 fb, I sware he makes dumber and dumber decisions on who to block.
I don't agree with this at all because it doesn't matter if you get more benefit for capping STR when you will never need very high STR anyway. You want your FB's agility past 60 before his STR is past 50. Our lvl 35 FB is a phenomenal blocking FB and he has 51 STR. FBs don't need very high STR, it's a common misconception for cookie cutter builders.
Originally posted by Dustin Diamond
Originally posted by NRS
Let me start by saying build a purely blocking FB. Great teams won't run the FB if they know what they're doing. Don't bother pointing out the good rushing FBs it's doesn't matter.
Agility is the single most important att for a FB. Bottom line is you need to get to the blocks and agility, speed and to a certain degree vision is what gets you there. The FB has to move in all directions very quickly. Agility is critical for both run and pass blocking. To those that say speed is not important just watch a 90 speed HB outrun their blocking. It's not fun.
So in order agility, speed, blocking, strength, and vision. Of course once you get going lead block and spot blitz are very important.
Unless you need your player to compete right away there is no point in softcapping speed before strenght, agility, vison, or blocking. All of those attributes have natural leveling because they are major or minor attributes, speed gets no natural benefit of capping early so it should really be the last thing you touch before you need your FB to be ready. It takes a few seasons to build a good FB.
Not caping str first is a waste. The natural gains far outweight any benifit caping speed early could give you. I agree with agl, as I have it rated 2nd, and would probably invest in the VA quick before workout warrior. I am still on the fence on vision because as I continue to raise it on my 41 fb, I sware he makes dumber and dumber decisions on who to block.
I don't agree with this at all because it doesn't matter if you get more benefit for capping STR when you will never need very high STR anyway. You want your FB's agility past 60 before his STR is past 50. Our lvl 35 FB is a phenomenal blocking FB and he has 51 STR. FBs don't need very high STR, it's a common misconception for cookie cutter builders.
