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Smith is a pretty solid comparison to Polamalu as they also seem to be in the same role. I wouldn't go overboard with these basic stats tho, the top of the leaderboards in tackles among safeties contain a lot of players that are not all time greats. The simple fact is, as a defensive back, coverage will be the most important skill and it's very difficult to measure at all, much less with these basic stats. Smith can cover ofc, but that's where guys like Reed and Thomas truly shine. I would've taken Smith over Berry due to the latter's injuries, but probably not over Weddle or Thomas.

Seeing Rodgers over Brees: disappointed, but not surprised.

Happened to me last night.

Is it really slipping when Love shouldn't be anywhere near the top of the first round?

Does Watson really dump the ball off so much? I mean, sure we all remember Taiwan Jones breaking off that 34 yard run against the Bills, but only 5 of Watsons' 25 passes went to a RB. And in the regular season, only 14.8% of the Texans' targets went to RBs, the third lowest in the league. (via Fantasy Pros). Johnson may have been a tackle breaking machine in the past, but there's a very good chance he won't play anywhere near that level again. By SIS, his broken tackle rate on runs (not catches, I can't find that. But they are the same skillset so if he was strong in one, he should be in strong in the other) was a pitiful 6.4% last season and 11.2% in 2018. His pre-injury rate was at 17%. Yeah, if this was prime David Johnson, you can squint and see its an okay deal, but its not. Its broken down David Johnson and O'Brien messed up big time.

Good for him!

Probably one for Ghost too.

If you say it works for NBALM, that's encouraging. But I dunno if that translates over to Madden with speed and awareness being so much better than any other boost. An analogous example to the one you provided would be like if I had a speed oriented offense and add players with strength boost. Except I wouldn't, because more speed is even better. Ultimately, we'll just have 2 categories, the ones with speed/awareness boost and everything else. And among each category, the best cards will be the most sought after and the most common on top teams; just like it is now. To create variety among teams, the goal should be to have a number of viable top cards, without a consensus best lineup.

That sounds fine in theory, but we actually had it in practice and it was not true at all. Like Sulaiman said, the cards with the best boosts became exceptionally valuable and dominated rosters; it did not encourage variety at all.

Agree. Overalls always get out of hand at this point of the game. It'll end up at 115 at reset.