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Last thing you're going to have to do, that you actually have to do, in the off season
menu is just re-order your depth charts and you'll see right now this is just a broad
view of my entire offense. I can look at who's first string, second string. I can hold my
R t and go down to defense. Do the same thing. It shows your first, second, and third string
players. What I like to do is go in to a more in depth look so I can break it down and just
look at one position at a time. So I'm just going to hit A and that's going to bring me
in to just one position at a time and this is a really good example of when you might
want to switch your players up. If you have a couple of players that are both pretty close
in rating the computer is going to automatically put your best rating first. So Brody Croyle
here, is 81 overall and he's the best Quarterback I have on the rooster but what I might want
to do is put my new rookie which is right here Twan Taylor. I might want to put him
at my number two spot and have my former back up Quarterback behind him because in the pre-season
games your second string player is going to get a lot more playing time. He's probably
going to get the most playing time of anybody on the team. That's going to allow them to
get better ratings and help their statistics and I could even, if I really wanted to, after
I played a game or two with him, I could move him up. But you want to just go through, and
I'm just going to go to my defensive tackle here because that's another good example.
It actually only comes up as one spot. It just comes up as one position but in a 4-3
Defense which is what the Chiefs run, the first two Defensive Tackles are both going
to be starters. So you really want to make sure that your second starter here or your
second player is the guy you want starting. Sometimes you might have a young guy, like
this guy's only 23. He's pretty close to my second player, so I'm going to go ahead and
switch him to a starter. First two guys are starters. Another, the other position that's
going to be like that is your corner. It comes up as one position but the actual first two
players in that position are your starters. So just make sure that you have them in proper
order, the computer is usually pretty good at it, but this is a manual way to do it and
it's the last thing that you technically need to do for your off season menu.