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Originally posted by foshizzel17
When the TE 1/2 slots came open, balanced TEs became a thing of the past. Try to excel at 1 or the other


Those of us who BUILD TEs should be banging the drum to fix that. It seems silly to me to forced into building one of only 2 EXTREME build options--neither of which would actually function in real football.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
Originally posted by foshizzel17

When the TE 1/2 slots came open, balanced TEs became a thing of the past. Try to excel at 1 or the other
Those
of us who BUILD TEs should be banging the drum to fix that. It seems
silly to me to forced into building one of only 2 EXTREME build
options--neither of which would actually function in real football.what? It functions in real football ALL the time. Are you kidding me? Let's take the Bengals for example. Sure Reggie Kelly can catch a pass every now and then... but he's there for mainly blocking.. where as Utecht is there for catching and running with the ball. Hell, they just picked up Chase Coffman who's strictly a pass catching TE. This scenario isn't unique.

I would actually prefer if they gave us more freedom on the depth charts as a whole as to who we can sub in on certain scenarios etc on offense and on defense.. for every position, not just the main ones.

Originally posted by bombones33
I started out a blocking TE.. was released from my current roll and had
to play catchup to become a receiving threat.. work on your WR
attributes first.. then bring blocking into the equation.

if you got released, your team either doesn't understand the dynamics of a blocking TE, or you can't build for shit. Sorry. Hopefully it's the previous one.

It works so much better in GLB because you can only use the receiving TE for passing and only use the Blocking TE for running and pass blocking and it works perfectly. In real life teams would catch on and easily dispatch the predictable strategy. GLB defenses lack this awareness and thus the extreme build strategy works perfectly.

You don't have to be a speed demon to be an effective receiving TE, but you do have to focus in on being a receiving TE and leave the blocking alone.

If you build a TE with insane strength and average speed/agility, not only will he be a good blocker but he will break tackles well if you use your custom equipment and veteran abilities correctly. It doesn't matter if you can be tracked down from behind if they can't tackle you.

My TE had these stats:


Pancakes:

7 16 276
8 16 178
9 16 188

Receiving:

7 16 24 500 31.3 20.8
8 16 41 689.5 43.1 16.8
9 16 42 366.5 22.9 8.7

If not for playing in run dominated offenses, he could easily be a 100 pancake and 1000 yard receiver.

Someone mentioned checking the marketplace. It's not even a close call, teams want/need truly blocking TE's. It's not glamourous and you're basically spending 200 flexes to build a 100 flex OT. But if you're looking for what the market wants, it's a blocking TE. Not a combo TE, there are a ton of those out there. But a blocking TE.

Yeah, there's some clips of some TE's bowling someone over and scoring, and that's nice. But if you're really looking to fill a need and want to be sought after (while not getting any glamourous stats), build a ROT in your TE spot...