Kevin, Vernon's comment about defenses taking away his routes does not make me worry about Vernon so much as about Roman. Vernon runs the routes he is told to run. Receivers can't just freelance unless the pocket breaks down and they are in scramble mode. If Roman is giving Vernon a very limited number of routes, it will be easy for the defense to take him out of the game. I also suspect that Vernon may be referring to the routes that are usually the big play routes like the seam route, not to every route.