Originally posted by steellithium
If you don't use the DPC, your defense will suck no matter what.
That's completely irrelevant. No matter how you use the DPC, 80 speed LBs are still going to get exposed at higher levels. They won't be able to stick with HBs or TEs, and they won't be able to control the edges in the running game. The reality is that with offensive players almost always at 100+, defensive players need to be pretty close. If offensive players suddenly started stopping at 80 or even 90, then sure, your linebackers could stop there too.
Originally posted by
There are slower but tougher CB's out there, and you could design a nickle or dime defense using them as OLB's. They would get to the flats quicker, and cover better. Maybe they wouldn't tackle as well, but that is the same problem we are discussing with LB's.
They would get pancaked endlessly, and if tackling is already an issue then why would you want to make that even worse? While it's true that CBs develop speed faster than LBs, every major attribute for LBs is appropriate for their role. Meanwhile what are CB advantages in catching and jumping doing to help you against the run game? People obviously do use extra CBs for obvious passing situations, but proposing that as a viable base defense is just silly.
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The thing is you can cap a CB"s speed using leveling bonus and better rolls much quicker and using less SP's than a LB. Right now people are turning OLB's into shitty CB's anyway.
The first part is irrelevant, and the second is simply wrong. The thing you're missing on the first is that you don't get any bonus to equipment from playing CB, and equipment is where all this extra speed is coming from. And as noted above, all the LB major attributes are relevant to their role, whereas a CB would almost certainly negate whatever speed advantage by needing to invest equipment in things like strength or tackling that aren't major for them. And no, people aren't turning OLBs into shitty CBs. If they were, WRs would be having it as bad or worse with knocked loose passes than TEs, but they aren't despite often having lower carrying. The need for speed and agility at almost all defensive positions isn't even unrealistic, as you see the same phenomenon on Saturdays and Sundays. Speed & agility are critical for CBs and LBs, but it's the other attributes that differentiate the two.
