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OL training priorities
 
eisegal
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Posted on 2012-12-28 19:35:58
Hi

What do you think are the skills the OL need the most? Beside strength and blocking, what are your training priorities?

how to decide, who is your center, the guards and the tackles?

greetings
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Posted on 2012-12-28 19:53:30
eisegal wrote:

Hi

What do you think are the skills the OL need the most? Beside strength and blocking, what are your training priorities?

how to decide, who is your center, the guards and the tackles?

greetings
eisegal



I can answer the first part

Next I'd look at Footwork, then I tend to go for Positioning
  

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Posted on 2012-12-28 23:36:20
eisegal wrote:


how to decide, who is your center, the guards and the tackles?



Center by INT
Tackles by skills and CON (Your best OL go here)
Guards are stuffing. No real effect on the game IMHO.
  

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Posted on 2012-12-29 0:30:09
SrednaD wrote:

eisegal wrote:


how to decide, who is your center, the guards and the tackles?



Center by INT
Tackles by skills and CON (Your best OL go here)
Guards are stuffing. No real effect on the game IMHO.

Agreed.

Will add that at lower levels where rushing still plays a part of the game, the guards are useful. My guards are just by tackles backups nowadays.
  
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Posted on 2012-12-29 1:59:06
For my team, I first do physicals. 18 min strength, but I prefer 19 or 20. No min speed for C or OG, but I like my OT position to have 15 or above speed, not sure it does anything, but in my head, I like the speed to contain fast DE's. Once I've reached min fitness I like to train skills evenly with blocking first, then footwork, then agility, then tacticals (both vision and position). This would be the 5 skills I train for all the OL positions. Since all players use 3-5 skills, I feel pretty comfortable that these would be the maximum possible skills used for this position. If I'm training too many, that's okay too. I also haven't found the need to train OL over skill of 14, as my team stays pretty competitive as is and it helps to keep finances in order. Lastly, I bring the stamina up to 16 to keep my guys blocking into the 4th quarter. Hope that helps
  

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Posted on 2012-12-29 8:45:31
Yes, footwork definitely improves the performance of offensive linemen. I also like agility, positioning and vision too.
  
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Posted on 2012-12-29 9:55:00
Gatr22 wrote:

For my team, I first do physicals. 18 min strength, but I prefer 19 or 20. No min speed for C or OG, but I like my OT position to have 15 or above speed, not sure it does anything, but in my head, I like the speed to contain fast DE's. Once I've reached min fitness I like to train skills evenly with blocking first, then footwork, then agility, then tacticals (both vision and position). This would be the 5 skills I train for all the OL positions. Since all players use 3-5 skills, I feel pretty comfortable that these would be the maximum possible skills used for this position. If I'm training too many, that's okay too. I also haven't found the need to train OL over skill of 14, as my team stays pretty competitive as is and it helps to keep finances in order. Lastly, I bring the stamina up to 16 to keep my guys blocking into the 4th quarter. Hope that helps



Agreed.

My OL's are only 20 str and until the BMI is implemented, my OT's must have 16+ speed. The C has 20 INT and guards are just muscle. Skills are trained to 10/11 (blocking, footwork, agility, vision and positioning) for C and G while OT's go to 13-15.
  

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eisegal
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Posted on 2012-12-29 10:53:11
thanks for your answers!

i will put more weight on the strength cap and the footwork training.
  
eisegal
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Posted on 2012-12-29 10:58:54
Gatr22 wrote:

For my team, I first do physicals. 18 min strength, but I prefer 19 or 20. No min speed for C or OG, but I like my OT position to have 15 or above speed, not sure it does anything, but in my head, I like the speed to contain fast DE's. Once I've reached min fitness I like to train skills evenly with blocking first, then footwork, then agility, then tacticals (both vision and position). This would be the 5 skills I train for all the OL positions. Since all players use 3-5 skills, I feel pretty comfortable that these would be the maximum possible skills used for this position. If I'm training too many, that's okay too. I also haven't found the need to train OL over skill of 14, as my team stays pretty competitive as is and it helps to keep finances in order. Lastly, I bring the stamina up to 16 to keep my guys blocking into the 4th quarter. Hope that helps



I really like the point of the training limit of 14 in blocking.

stamina I did not train up to the present day. i will change that as well

your players don't need much talent, right?
  
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Posted on 2012-12-30 2:29:25
I find catching to be particularly useful. Teaches them how to hold defensive linemen and get away with it. I mean, have you ever seen a DT/NT get a sack? I didn't think so!



But yeah, blocking, footwork, agility for me. Physicals are a given.

Currently, I put my best skilled players at OT and a guy with reasonable intel (12+) at centre just because I can. Later on when the rest of the physical monsters get appropriately skilled, I think 15 speed would be minimum for me there (which is no problem as most of the new guys are 15/20 or higher types).
  
 
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