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Is he really all we have at cornerback?
 

DB is our thinnest area but I actually thought Vereen played a pretty good game. He was playing against some really talented WRs.
 

Bob_Loblaw said:
DB is our thinnest area but I actually thought Vereen played a pretty good game. He was playing against some really talented WRs.
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He was tossed around like a rag doll on the screens and quick outs
 

Is Troy out for the season? I guess I haven't really been paying attention to that.
 



Vereen does well for a Soph, he'll improve as time goes on. Looking forward to his Jr & Sr years.
 

He had one play were he absolutely laid the receiver flat on a quick screen. Other than that though, he definitely has much room to improve. We really need to beef up our d backfield.
 

I kind of hope Troy is out for the season so he can potentially get a red-shirt.....
 




Vereen is still young. He should have been red-shirted last year but didn't get to due to the lack of depth. He'll be a good B1G corner the next two years.
 

Ski U Master said:
He was tossed around like a rag doll on the screens and quick outs
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I can only remember a couple of them going for much, one of them was on a play where he made a mistake and jumped inside and then on another one that was just the perfect play call (blitzed the linebacker from that side and it was just a foot race with the WR and the S).

He did force a holding penalty (same if not better than blowing one of those up) and then he really laid the WR out on another one.

That is a play that is just going to be there with the kind of defense that we run. We are going to always play our safeties back a bit and therefore it's going to be an immediete 2-1 (till the safet gets there) on those kinds of plays. Every team has ran a lot of those plays and I actually thought he held up ok on those today.
 

You are correct .......

Okie said:
Is Troy out for the season? I guess I haven't really been paying attention to that.
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...... you really haven't been paying attention. That not a problem but it is a fact.:)
 

There is definitely room for improvement. Hopefully, the experience he is gaining will benefit him going forward.
 



I'm sorry, but Vereen was terrible today, and not just in coverage. Lewis is worse, which is saying A LOT, but Vereen is not good right now. Will he be? I don't know, but the fact that he's playing over Carter and Bouie says a lot about a) how far Carter has fallen, and b) Bouie must not even exist.
 

TCF=UnitedWeStand said:
I'm sorry, but Vereen was terrible today, and not just in coverage. Lewis is worse, which is saying A LOT, but Vereen is not good right now. Will he be? I don't know, but the fact that he's playing over Carter and Bouie says a lot about a) how far Carter has fallen, and b) Bouie must not even exist.
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I didn't think Vereen played particularly well, either. It seemed MSU was targeting his side of the field most of the day and it also sounded like Glen Mason isn't real high on the kid based on his comments during the TV broadcast.

Johnny Johnson didn't help much, either. He absolutely has to defend that TD that Nichol caught in the corner. That was a terrible place for Cousins to try to throw the ball and Johnson (or Lewis) didn't make him pay. At best, that should be a Gopher INT, at worst that should have been an easy pass breakup. No way can that go for a TD. Then, Johnson had the pass interference play before halftime setting up the TD pass to the FB.

As for Carter, I heard he was not even on the trip.
 

tjgopher said:
I didn't think Vereen played particularly well, either. It seemed MSU was targeting his side of the field most of the day and it also sounded like Glen Mason isn't real high on the kid based on his comments during the TV broadcast.
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Glen Mason is the first person I'd go to when it comes to defense...
 

Vereen is nearly tied for second place on the team in tackles with three linebackers.
Royston is way out front overall. Vereen has two more years to beco9me even better. But on our team right now...he is pretty good actually.
 

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