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Originally posted by Darren McFadden
Standard thinking by most seems to be to avoid all SAs for your entire career, which I definitely disagree with. But say you have a guy with 80+ natural in strength and agility and almost 80 in speed, and maxed shed block. Well what are you gonna do after that, second, third cap vision? Second cap confidence? Two or three more points in strength or agility? Or maybe go with something like breakthrough? It's definitely a question worth considering thoroughly, without relying on unexamined, reactionary, anti-SA opinions.

I think for most positions there comes a time when putting points into SAs instead of needing a huge amount of points to raise your main attribute or slowly increasing already high secondary stats is a good idea. The real trick is finding the ones that make a noticeable impact and having advanced equipment to help boost them so you don't have to use as many skill points.

I have 11 in Breakthrough and 9 in shed Block on my DT. I will full admit this and its only my opinion. Did it help my player make plays? Probably not. Did he pancake a bunch of guys and allow others to make tackles because of that this season? YES, absolutely.

Originally posted by Rage Kinard
I think breakthrough is a bonus to shed block %. How effective it is depends on the build.

rage, you turd!

elaborate on this. everything "depends on the build."

Originally posted by fakesanta
Originally posted by Rage Kinard

I think breakthrough is a bonus to shed block %. How effective it is depends on the build.

rage, you turd!

elaborate on this. everything "depends on the build."

The better your player is built to shed blocks (higher strength + agility) the more it works.

If you are a level 56 DL with only 180 strength + agility getting break through up probably isn't going to provide any results. However if your strength + agility is 205+ then you should see some results from break through.


edit: for example I have breakthrough on my NT who has 113 strength and 95 agility, and feel like it produces results. I don't plan on putting it on my speed pass rushing DT since he is only going to have about 97 strength and agility at lvl 60 because he will also have 90+ speed. However, I might put some on my agility based pass rusher once he gets to a higher level.