Apologies as these will invariably have been asked somewhere before, but after just a couple of games still slightly off the pace and not sifted through all the many many threads, but anyway:

Do you ever get defences scoring from interceptions on this game? Just wondering if there's any value at looking at catch/carry stats for some defenders as secondary/tertiary skills. Also, for breaking up a passing play what skills would be important - speed to keep up I guess, then positioning/vision? - there's no 'getting in the way' skill so assuming some combination of the others are used.

I've seen stuff abou preferred position vs relevant skills, as my team is new and largely rubbish, do we know how much weighting a correct BPOS will give to performance? Is it comparable to 2-3 points in key stats to someone who's not BPOS for that position?

There was other stuff, but I've largely forgotten now I've come to typing it up

As I'm a bit of an NFL tactical rookie on the whole (despite liking watching it) - what formation would normally be played against a running offence. The other day I coughed up a lot of yards, and having had what I thought my better tacklers as LB I found my SS making a huge number of tackles. I'd thought LBs were most likely to be first up on runners - am I mistaken or were my linebackers just a bit rubbish and requirng help?!

DO NOT look in the thread made by kingdom come

Thanks for the fast replies, will certainly be useful. I had been thinking blocking was key for OL and tackling for DL, but looking round it seems they're secondary to strength.