Off The Grid

Time to re-up!!

Grab your seats while the grabbin's GOOD!!

XB "Shattering" Shane Vereen!!



* Outstanding Diagnostic Skills, Processing Speed, and the Vision to see where the hole is going to be.

* Explosive Burst through the Hole and excellent Speed to the Edge.

* Phenomenal Fluidity and Lateral Agility, navigating the field, and violent Torsion, bursting outta breaks.

* And such a dangerous downfield threat that he was often Split Out Wide in California.

Shane Vereen: Amazing Talent and the Brains to apply it with deadly force.

Best of all: He is such a lethal weapon, running and receiving, that his presence on the field doesn't give the Defense the slightest clue what we have in mind...which makes all 11 of our players far more dangerous!!

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MoLewisrocks

This isn't California and we have yet to see the only thing that we are often painfully reminded matters once you arrive here which what you can do at the next level and specifically in this system.

While I'm sure everyone has high hopes for the kid, as well as his stable mate Ridley, overhyping either at this juncture is just creating potentially unrealistic expectations. The kind that if not achieved or exceeded turn many here against a player on a dime. Why not just wait to see what they can produce on the field in their all important second season and hope it's something solid to build on.

j109

'Cause he's "Off the Grid", and he gets excited. Personally, I like it.

“because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop, and everybody goes, 'Ahh..'”

mayoclinic

As I've said elsewhere, that's SOP for this board. You're right to be cautious, but at the same time, it's hard not to be a little excited about what Vereen could potentially bring to this offense - a dimension that we really haven't seen before in the BB era. Ivan Fears is reportedly very high on Vereen, and I think he will be given every opportunity to establish himself as the primary weapon in the backfield, with Ridley playing more of a complementary role. But the Pats will have other options lined up to hedge their bets.

I'm very hopeful for Vereen, and very eager to see what he does. I'll leave it at that for now until he actually produces on the field for us.

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Patriot 37

He is the young player I'm most exicited about by far.

patsfaninpa

I'm all in. "Can't wait" to see him lined up in the slot and torch Bart Scott and the rest of the speed-challenged linebackers we face. I think he'll be great in the no-huddle. We'll use Ridley as a change of pace sledgehammer.

patfanken

The Pats didn't draft him in the 2nd round merely to be a 3rd down back (especially when you think they had a very productive Danny Woodhead already on the team). He was drafted to be an explosive offensive threat, who had the potential to be 3 down RB. He still has that "potential". I wouldn't be surprised at all to see him become the player he has the potential to be.

What was truly surprising was the explosive running by Steven Ridley. When he was drafted the thought was that he'd be a one cut down hill runner, who might be an eventual replacement for BJGE. Instead we got FIVE 20+ yd runs in just 87 carries, a 5.0ypc, and saw several glimpses of speed and acceleration that we HADN'T expected

Anyone who isn't excited by the prospect of these 2 kids battling for snaps, should be forced to read Ron Borges Pats columns for 10 straight hours. AND THEN be forced to listen to Tony Mazaratti talk about pro football for the rest of the day. .

OTG has a right to be excited. I think BB is a bit excited himself about the potential of the running game. How else can you explain the presence of THREE FB's on the current roster after a 3 year absence of even having ONE. I think the running game is back in NE (relatively speaking anyways) and that shameful time of possession stat will be vastly improved on in 2012

mcsully

I'll be excited if he can take a snap during the regular season :P

patchick

Mo, it's the deep offseason -- getting excited about the potential of promising young players is all we've got!

pdangle

Hi, excuse me, but is this where I exchange my ~Year 1~ ticket?