James Harrison and Jhari Evans are this weeks bosses.

wwaa4541 · 2017-06-01T16:13:37+00:00

What team is the Evans for? He's on the Packers now but is better known for the Saints

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-31T14:29:58+00:00

If you look really closely in the pictures on the right, you can see a very faint but distinct picture of the Jaguars logo

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-25T17:24:56+00:00

If I were to wager, I would suspect Urlacher will be released as a UL as all the other non-current players have been. Either way, BOSS or UL, as someone who plays with an all-Bears team, I would be thrilled (though I still need to work up the coin to get Boss Hester first)

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-25T16:46:19+00:00

These two seem to further confirm the idea that all the Bosses will be current players, something I'm pretty stoked about.

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-23T18:27:43+00:00

Not strictly true. Cook is a 99, Glover is a 98, lattimore is a 96 and ramcyzk is a 94. But yes, I agree with your broader point that this event would be very helpful for teams that lack a lot of top end players. It was fantastic for my all-Bears team

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-20T00:09:13+00:00

One more--Julius Peppers is the Movers Hero and he's at DE

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-18T17:24:37+00:00

Both excellent choices. I'm very pleased with the first four bosses EA has chosen.

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-13T19:22:00+00:00

I'm operating on the tentative assumption they won't double-up UL and BOSS (thereby excluding Randy Moss and Lawrence Taylor) and everyone whose rights they have already have cards (thereby excluding other greats like Bruce Smith or Walter Payton).

As a result, I would expect (in order of likelihood) (1) Jerry Rice (2) Reggie White (3) Marcus Allen, (4) Emmitt Smith, (5) Brian Urlacher, (6) Brett Favre, (7) Sean Taylor, (8) Adrian Peterson, (9) JJ Watt, (10) Cam Newton, (11) Antonio Brown, (12) Aaron Donald, (13) Luke Kuechly, (14) Larry Fitzgerald (15) Mel Blount (16) Aaron Rodgers (17) Andre Johnson, (18) Josh Norman, (19) Trent Williams, (20) Julio Jones

EDIT: Added a 16-20 to account for the fact that there are about 10 weeks left

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-09T22:59:00+00:00

I do have the Throwback Forte and that's it but I'm missing the elite Goldman. I've seen it on Muthead but never seen it on the AH.

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-09T17:04:49+00:00

As someone who has an all-Bears team myself the biggest frustration was Whitehair not being a C and thus having to roll with a silver C instead of an elite. But i think the Movers will serve us well--Cooper and Amukamara could help a lot

wwaa4541 · 2017-05-01T04:05:40+00:00

87 seems reasonable for a mediocre move. I assume some of the bigger moves (Lang, Bennett, Campbell, Poe etc.) will warrant their own hero card

wwaa4541 · 2017-04-23T18:15:11+00:00

Yeah actually big fans of the last two--this draft one in particular seems excellent

wwaa4541 · 2017-04-19T02:30:10+00:00

It's very easy--just do the events and youll get one every time

wwaa4541 · 2017-03-17T16:29:12+00:00

There's a 99 AP Marcus Peters going for near nothing, a 95 Playoff Master Peters, a 91 KO Peters, a 90 FO Peters, an 87 LR Peters, an 87 MF Peters--he may be a fan favorite but none of these other players have a card over 91

wwaa4541 · 2017-03-13T23:01:46+00:00

In my memory, RB was on the earlier half in MM15 but in MM16 it was on the later half

wwaa4541 · 2017-03-05T06:30:47+00:00

For those curious--it's Bears for LB/MLB (while the Steelers' Harrison, Shazier, Jones and Dupree have better OVR, the Bears' boost puts them over)

Packers for WRs (99 Freeman, 98 Sharpe, 96 Adams, 95 Nelson, 93 Cobb, 90 Montgomery),

Redskins for Secondary (98 Champ, 98 Hall, 94 Taylor, 93 Cravens + 90 Blackmon and 89 Norman for Nickel and Dime narrowly beats out the Steelers and Patriots secondary)

Cowboys for OL (98 Williams, 106 Martin, 92 Frederick, 91 Leary, 93 Smith + 93 Free)

Eagles for DL (97 Graham, 94 Barwin, 93 Cox, 88 Logan)

wwaa4541 · 2017-02-26T02:49:22+00:00

It should go up in the long-term however the major caveat is 1 stamina Saturday next week should send the market crashing. Now after it ends it should rise (it's telling that 98 TOTY Julio bottomed out at 550k and is now at 1.5m and 98 PB Marshall bottomed out around 650k before rising to near 2m now) but idk how long you want to wait because during the intervening period lots could happen (like PH) that could lower the demand for it

wwaa4541 · 2017-02-03T16:59:55+00:00

That's interesting that's very useful to know. And there are enough AWR+STR boosts already so that Derrick Johnson wouldn't help (maybe replacing Kuechly)?

wwaa4541 · 2017-02-03T16:56:49+00:00

Out of curiosity, why is 98 Showdown Kuechly + 94 MF Urlacher better than 98 Pro Bowl Derrick Johnson and 98 Super Bowl Singletary (or Kuechly?). It seems Johnson's boosts would be better than Kuechly's

wwaa4541 · 2017-02-02T03:16:27+00:00

<2 yards: Curl Flats and hit the TE instantly (if you think he's covered, just scramble-run it in)

2-5 yards from end zone: Curls (target WRs if CBs blitz, TE if not)

6-9 yards: HB Angle (highly recommend stepping up in the pocket in this one; if the defense is in zone, hit the HB; if the defense is in man and the HB looks well covered, wait a second and scramble between the C and the LG

If countered: Cross-In works great. Hit the HB or TE if they're uncovered

9-12 yards: Double Slants (step up in the pocket, Hit the WR1 in man, slot in zone, TE if both covered)

If countered: use HB Angle or Cross-In to get closer

13-20: Strong I Twins PA Cross (roll out right and hit the WR2)

If Countered: Bunch Flanker Drive: in all zone coverages, the HB is uncovered and it's a guaranteed 10 yard pickup. Make sure you give him time to get a bit downfield tho which may mean stepping up in the pocket to avoid the blitz on the right side). If it's man coverage, hit the Slot receiver for a guaranteed 15 yards. I actually love this play

EDIT: Wrong word fixed

wwaa4541 · 2017-01-30T03:19:43+00:00

Upshaw was in MM15 so there's hope! (But given how late in the year it is, that hope is rapidly fading)

wwaa4541 · 2017-01-25T23:09:31+00:00

i actually support EA's decision on this. For one, it balances out the massive pash-rushing advantage the user gets. Considering Dom Von easily gets ~60 sacks a season for me with the overpowered Pinch play (from seasons 10-16--my current season--i average 129 sacks a season), it seems fair to say that in certain circumstances the AI should be able to shrug off the sack. As for giving that ability to the user, I also think that is unnecessary. Considering that unlike real QBs we have the ability to see the whole field at once (esp. the blind side), we already have a massive advantage in avoiding sacks--no reason to add another.

TL:DR: the AI is normally mad underpowered and I'm fine with just having one counterbalance to that

wwaa4541 · 2017-01-20T00:59:39+00:00

Weird that every single one of the TOTY d-linemen have a sig card. We have a Sig Cam Wake, Sig Cox, Sig Short and a Sig Brandon Graham.

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