How do I generate pressure?

My defensive line consists of Amare Barno (charge up UF, DON + Relentless), Larry Allen (Colossus), Tvondre Sweat (UF), and Jason Taylor (UF). I mostly run 4 defensive lineman formations and rarely send extra blitzers or drop lineman into coverage. I’m lucky to get one sack a game, and I almost never get pressure on the qb. However, my opponents (without looping, glitch blitzing, or any other shenanigans) constantly force pressure or get sacks with four rushers. I’ve got a decent offensive line, with the only player without secure protector being Will Shields (who I often double team in an attempt to negate the pressure). What am I doing wrong?

who are your o-line and what abilities do they have?

Josh121 said:

who are your o-line and what abilities do they have?

Hmmm

I have no idea what your doing wrong, but I get multiple sacks a game with SWEAT and George,  don't have Allen anymore but did with him as well. I mostly user them and bust through line for quick sack

Josh121 said:

who are your o-line and what abilities do they have?

Jason Peters - SP, AD, NS, Matador, Omniscient

Bill Fralic - SP, AD, NS

Bruce Matthews - RP, PP, I

Will Shields - AD, NS

Jordan Mailata - PP, RP, AD

Plus everyone except Fralic is getting Eagles TT boosts and motivators from Jalen Hurts at backup qb and Jalen Carter at backup defensive tackle.

REALdeal75 said:

I have no idea what your doing wrong, but I get multiple sacks a game with SWEAT and George,  don't have Allen anymore but did with him as well. I mostly user them and bust through line for quick sack

I don’t usually user defensive line because I feel like even when I beat the lineman my opponent frequently has open receivers in the middle of the field or places I can’t switch stick to. Sometimes on fourth and very long I will, but for the most part I user a lb.

loop blitz or a gap/hump the guard blitz

ProlateSpheroid said:

I don’t usually user defensive line because I feel like even when I beat the lineman my opponent frequently has open receivers in the middle of the field or places I can’t switch stick to. Sometimes on fourth and very long I will, but for the most part I user a lb.

In my experience sometimes you have to user certain playersnom the Dline to get them to use their abilities yhat help generate pressure...I admittedly suck at the game after all these year so I just stuck to using players in my dline...

I have ngata and gravedigger and mason graham as my main d tackles/ends and with Nolan smith subbing in at times  but I.mosly user graham to get pressure or take up blocks for gravedigger to get through and  also use Hendrickson when he moves to the end for the same effect but he uses speed moves better to get around tackles and cause pressure as ImI rarely send 5 myself...

Sometimes I admittedly get blocked and just have to let my DBs earn their keep...

NoPay2Win said:

In my experience sometimes you have to user certain playersnom the Dline to get them to use their abilities yhat help generate pressure...I admittedly suck at the game after all these year so I just stuck to using players in my dline...

I have ngata and gravedigger and mason graham as my main d tackles/ends and with Nolan smith subbing in at times  but I.mosly user graham to get pressure or take up blocks for gravedigger to get through and  also use Hendrickson when he moves to the end for the same effect but he uses speed moves better to get around tackles and cause pressure as ImI rarely send 5 myself...

Sometimes I admittedly get blocked and just have to let my DBs earn their keep...

I do the same but when the get blocked I immediately swith to DB or LB

NoPay2Win said:

In my experience sometimes you have to user certain playersnom the Dline to get them to use their abilities yhat help generate pressure...I admittedly suck at the game after all these year so I just stuck to using players in my dline...

I have ngata and gravedigger and mason graham as my main d tackles/ends and with Nolan smith subbing in at times  but I.mosly user graham to get pressure or take up blocks for gravedigger to get through and  also use Hendrickson when he moves to the end for the same effect but he uses speed moves better to get around tackles and cause pressure as ImI rarely send 5 myself...

Sometimes I admittedly get blocked and just have to let my DBs earn their keep...

Yeah, I’ve peeked at my d-line to try and see what they are doing and it doesn’t look like they are even using moves. I’ve only had my current d-line for a somewhat short amount of time (got Barno a couple weeks ago, got Taylor in the UL glitch, built Sweat last weekend and took my tokens out of Pat McAfee for Allen a bit before I got Sweat) and haven’t noticed much of a difference, if any, between these and my previous d-line (TOTY TJ Watt, SB Karlaftis, SB Jalen Carter, and Season Pass Hutchinson).

ProlateSpheroid said:

My defensive line consists of Amare Barno (charge up UF, DON + Relentless), Larry Allen (Colossus), Tvondre Sweat (UF), and Jason Taylor (UF). I mostly run 4 defensive lineman formations and rarely send extra blitzers or drop lineman into coverage. I’m lucky to get one sack a game, and I almost never get pressure on the qb. However, my opponents (without looping, glitch blitzing, or any other shenanigans) constantly force pressure or get sacks with four rushers. I’ve got a decent offensive line, with the only player without secure protector being Will Shields (who I often double team in an attempt to negate the pressure). What am I doing wrong?

Try nickle 33 sets olb swap or any 33 set move blitzing lb out

Or try middle lb blitze move him to other side

Move line left lbs to right..u have to do adjustment bro.

What are ur presnap adjustments?

REALdeal75 said:

I do the same but when the get blocked I immediately swith to DB or LB

Honestly I am afraid to swap to either of those because I always accidentally move them out of position and ruin my own coverages...I will typically move to the interior lineman or vice versa though to at least try and get to the qb or force a bad throw

ProlateSpheroid said:

Yeah, I’ve peeked at my d-line to try and see what they are doing and it doesn’t look like they are even using moves. I’ve only had my current d-line for a somewhat short amount of time (got Barno a couple weeks ago, got Taylor in the UL glitch, built Sweat last weekend and took my tokens out of Pat McAfee for Allen a bit before I got Sweat) and haven’t noticed much of a difference, if any, between these and my previous d-line (TOTY TJ Watt, SB Karlaftis, SB Jalen Carter, and Season Pass Hutchinson).

Yeah it's really weird sometimes how the computer fails to actually make the D-linemen do what they're capable of doing...Im not sure it's an awareness stat thing or what but its gets annoying...

ProlateSpheroid said:

My defensive line consists of Amare Barno (charge up UF, DON + Relentless), Larry Allen (Colossus), Tvondre Sweat (UF), and Jason Taylor (UF). I mostly run 4 defensive lineman formations and rarely send extra blitzers or drop lineman into coverage. I’m lucky to get one sack a game, and I almost never get pressure on the qb. However, my opponents (without looping, glitch blitzing, or any other shenanigans) constantly force pressure or get sacks with four rushers. I’ve got a decent offensive line, with the only player without secure protector being Will Shields (who I often double team in an attempt to negate the pressure). What am I doing wrong?

create one on one matchups. post up can negate colossus when double teamed and double teaming unstoppable forces can negate them. sliding, spreading and pinching your line in certain formations can give you the one on one match ups that will let your pass rushers dominate....