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*Adam's Mega Position Review: Defense - AdamS - 01-26-2021 And we’re back with the defense. Just like in part 1 I’m going to break each position group down. All the same ideas, all the same caveats. If you forget them, feel free to go back to part 1 and give me another view count. Thanks for choosing Carls Jr, home of the BIGASS FRY. Here we go. Offenses though are quite robust around the league. It’s going to be a bit of a task for defenses to try to keep up with all the changes that have occurred. Traditionally defense usually lags behind anyway so it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise. A true shutdown defense is exceedingly difficult to create in a world where offensive firepower is just crazy coocoo banana pants nuts, as ours is. So let’s take a look at what teams have put together. DEFENSIVE END (I’m going to rate the DE’s equally. If a third exists, it will be barely considered unless it can be swapped in. If it’s only one, they’re going to be judged more harshly for it. This is another one where the team by team breakdown may have some differences as players are judged within the context of their own roster and not vs their positional peers). Elite AUS Troen Egghands 1,225 Slinky Claxton 796 Owen Isaac 391 HON K. Kāne-Maikaʻi 1,093 Asher Montain 831 Ismael Sanchez 390 Good COL Immanuel Blackstone 1,396 Arlington Heights 403 Tycker Om 397 SAR Son Goku 1,000 Ernest Lover 549 Demon Jaxson 477 OCO Rapid Eagle 1,123 3’ Jeffrey 444 YKW James Cho 940 Leonard Taylor 507 ARI Sandro Ryeu 827 Logan Noble Jr 594 BER Mario VonPebbles 1,105 SJS Raylan Crowder 722 X. F. Jaxon-Waxon 646 BAL Mike Karpaasi 712 Etrigan T. Slayer 535 Maui Waialiki 326 NOLA Medicinal Toblerone 711 Azarius Ranger 573 Still kinda good but this position is overpowered around the league CHI Von Hayes 986 PHI Tex Wrecks 699 Sam Roes 390 Laxus Dreyar 286 NYS Brick Van Sanzo 546 NYS Jayson Kearse 491 Well, this is the most stacked this position has ever been. I feel like that’s beyond safe to say. Imagine getting to 1k in TPE, barely cracking 6th, and the climb to 5th is almost an entire season’s worth of TPE. This is ridiculous. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around this level of firepower at a position where historically people below 400 TPE were making the Pro Bowl for essentially the entirety of the league’s history. I don’t even know what to say to the bottom half of the list here. Tackles in the league are in trouble. Especially those who have lesser OL squads. I’m dreading what this next category will look like. DEFENSIVE TACKLE (Same as DE. They’ll be judged as one unit on the team breakdowns to better account for the overall look and feel of the combined DL). Elite CHI John "Tripod" Smirh 1,030 Daymond Brooks 978 Timmy Dimbi 499 Really Good ARI Pete "Plop" Miller 1,340 Chuck Roth 683 SJS Otis Allen 1,338 Yuuto Kira Cloudera 660 OCO Rotticus Scott 1,256 Goat Tank 743 NYS Leon McDavid 1,322 Bubba Thumper 643 NOLA Magnus Rikiya 1,209 LeBong Simwell 692 Good BER Claude Miller II 876 Hank Steel 810 YKW Patrik Money 1,181 Nero Alexander 295 AUS Tyler Montain 1,097 SAR Fawn Dillmiballs 1,056 You sure you wanna pick this fight? COL Big Edd 724 HON Bane Kaʻanāʻanā 483 Momona Keiki-Kāne 343 PHI H.-T. Haywood 637 Brent Silva 50 BAL Nuniq Annastesia 547 Well, the other half of the DL is monstrously overpowered as well. This entire process has been sobering to realize exactly how straight up bloated the league is. I knew already that teams were operating with crazy high amounts of actives compared to like...3 years of league history. The level the current crop of players are at though is just mind boggling. And as was recently pointed out to me, with the new sim, new traits, and archetype setup changes, there’s far less dropoff at high levels than there used to be. Remember that scene in one of the Expendables movies where an unlucky bad guy peon comes around a corner and is faced with like..the entire cast and they just shoot him for like a solid 15 seconds? That’s how I feel about the D-Line sin the league right now. And there’s Chicago, ahead of the game on both sides of the line. At this point I wonder who the power players really are in this league. Either way, let’s move on to Linebackers. I’m sure that won't make me wanna drink. LINEBACKERS (With the varied LB alignments and setups anywhere form 2-4 LBs could be on the field at a time. I’m gonna rate the top two at about 75%, 3rd at 20% and the 4th at about 5% if a team has one.) Elite SAR Derred de Ville 1,115 Haha Mango-Panda 1,103 AUS Dex Kennedy 1,044 Brach Thomaslacher 896 Griffin Porter 780 Jim The Vampire 354 SJS Lawrence Bass 1,158 George Fisher 877 Tyron Brackenridge 542 Good ARI Galf Wilf 960 S. Koniecpolski 954 L’Gazzy Burfict 701 COL Adélie de Pengu 1,058 Melvin Murder-Moose 860 Rusty Rucker 658 CHI Juan Domine 905 A. Chainbreaker 685 Wasrabi Gleel 637 Mike Hockhertz 409 OCO Deshun Jones 1,096 Joseph Joestar 823 Sergio Kitchens 286 HON Heinrich Kackpoo 1,041 Guy Fields 702 Holden Summers 403 NYS Jack Banks 1,014 Hank Winchester 693 Makoto Otawara 451 Still not bad but kind of a work in progress YKW Douglas Quaid 1,387 Big Slammu 469 Mack Arianlacher 432 BER Adam Schell 835 BamBam McMullet 536 H. McCringleberry 533 PHI Gary Goodman 683 Jimi DeSoto 642 Thomas Rose 479 Inspectah Deck 352 NOLA Busch Light 698 Vincent Jones 543 Ugarth the Dissector 481 Quenton Bode 276 BAL A.J Lucas 478 Spike Suzuki 454 Chet Larson 354 Dexter Jackson 329 Linebacker is packed to the gills with high level talent all over the league. My shock no longer exists. Sarasota just ekes out on the top spot over Austin. They lack the depth and volume the Copperheads have but they have two of the heaviest hitters in the league. It’s viable and I’m not going too deeply into strategy as I stated before. Really though everyone should be pleased with where they are lineup wise. Much like bounty hunting, Linebacking is a complicated profession and you need a variety of skillsets for it. Well, we’ve got that all over the league. As someone who’s player primarily goes over the middle I am straight up not having a good time right now. Let’s go to the corners. CORNERBACK (With the top two on the field at all times, I’m going to grade them equally. A 3rd CB would likely be in the Nickel position in any formation they’re in so I’m going to heavily favor the top 2 to the tune of about 90%.) Fuck you and your entire magnificently run organization CHI Osiris Firestorm-Fjord 1,156 Tyler Oles JR 1,031 Tyron Shields 1,030 Elite NOLA Andrew Witten 1,185 David Rector 857 Dorothy Zbornak 690 ARI Desmond Scarlett 1,192 Tayshawn Crunk 692 Mason Gillion 540 NYS Colt Mendoza 1,132 Dukburg QuakStak 714 Good BER Matt Krause 1,066 Swantavius Jones 701 Jeeeeroy Lenkins 642 Asher Quinn 636 BAL Eldrick Avery 1,048 Ben Stackinpaper 783 Dermot Lavelle Jr. 395 OCO Brandon Booker 1,223 Richard Leaking 660 HON Jim Waters 933 Ray-Ray Jackson 657 Cadillac Harris 535 SAR Harrison Andrews 875 Peter Patterson 702 AUS Lesean Paris Crooks 919 Tomage McGullager 523 B. Alexander-Arnold 392 Oh no baby what is you doin? SJS Rich Triplet 719 Rashad Hilliard 658 Rickie Vaughne 634 COL Randy Vuxta 724 Albert Ruschmann 696 R. McFredbeard 367 YKW Dan Foster 696 D. McJimmerson 690 Mervin Leonard 498 PHI Doy Fieri 685 Atlas Quin 484 James Hoffman 404 Well, CB is not quite as OP as a few of the other positions. That’s something I guess. Even so there appears to be a clear pattern here. Chicago has ⅓ of the CB players who have at least 1k in TPE. YKW and Philly have 240 more TPE combined across 6 CBs than Chicago does across 3. One of those teams is gonna be harder to pass on is what I’m saying here. We do have a lot of very solid CB tandems across the league though, and this is probably the first real time for that as the position has notoriously dragged behind others. And yet I still needed to take a pause and do some dishes to relax myself from all these big ass TPE numbers. You might argue that I’m literally making it worse by doing so much comparison and you would be right but you don’t have to throw it in my face like that. Good day. SAFETY (All safeties are listed together. Without knowing how each plays in the new sim and not wanting to use much bias from the old, I’m just gonna weigh them about 60-40. Any 3rd safeties will be considered for their potential Nickel and 3-3-5 value but not super heavily as I don't know that this is even the plan for the team’s in question.) Elite OCO Prince Vegeta 1,347 Eugene Smoothie 1,012 Bob Bob 739 Tyrone Biggums 716 SAR Cuco Clemente 1,182 Jamie Nkiah 1,059 Teddy Utterstruzen 575 Good HON Shawn Dawkins 1,197 Davriel Lavigne 705 Buck Thornton 467 YKW Johnny Hellzapoppin 1,013 Magnus Valdyr 889 ARI Wesley Eriksen 968 DB Jadakiss 937 PHI Matt Cross 1,115 Jeremiah Zelos 527 SJS Philip Stein 925 Brendan Lanier 755 AUS Maverick Bowie 886 Gregor Macgregor 735 Diet Good NOLA Mason Blaylock 994 Steven Wadham 471 CHI Hamish MacAndrew 838 Damian Blackfyre 644 Oliver Sloan 466 COL Joel Drake 795 N.S. FootballLeague 655 NYS Bob Roberts 644 Thor Kirkby 631 Dogwood Maple 529 Mac Griddle 466 BAL Iheart Syracuse 658 Tony Yeboah 619 BER Benoit Blanco 467 Derek Wildstar 463 Well, this is less disgusting so there’s that. Except for OCO up top there. That’s pretty fucking ridiculous. That said, even the bottom tier are traditionally players who can compete. The new sim may skew thigns a bit more to the top end as we’ve discussed but none of these players are what we’d call a liability. Safety is going to be one of the more interesting positions to watch in the new sim to see how both how it’s treated directly, OCO signed another 900 TPE Safety while you read this, and also how the position is indirectly tread as it comes into conflict with the various new offensive schemes and abilities those players also have. Overall the defenses in this league really are at the epak they’ve ever been in my view. Short of maybe that one insane season where there wa sno offensive line and the sack leaders had like 20 and 30 sacks. The fact that we’ve skipped right past healthy and into wildly overpopulated and terrifying though is a more than small issue. Even positions like CB and Safety are breaking record after record for TPE and depth. Honestly it’s just the icing on top of the cake here. In fact, that reminds me I have cookie dough in the fridge and it’s probably okay to eat my feelings if they’re feelings of abject terror at some of the rosters teams are putting on the field. Those offenses plus these defenses are leaving some teams out in the cold here that would have had playoff caliber rosters for almost the entirety of the league’s 26 season history. I can easily see a team with 500+ starters across the board ending up with a losing record because not only has the upper limit has risen so much, but the basement is now also above ground. This flood of players at ridiculous levels explains the entitled nature of some GMs to both their DSFL stashes and the level of player they’re able to put on the field without even really breaking a sweat. I guess we’ll see exactly how each of those teams stack up in part 3. 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