Adam Schefter hyping up Caleb Downs

[cowboys5xsbs]

 

[gimmesix]

Maybe, but he didn't win a lot of his matchups with Chris Olave in the scrimmage with the Saints from what I read. But hopefully, a nickel safety isn't going to be shadowing a receiver like Olave all over the field. Those are good tests for him in practice, but scheme should have him playing underneath routes in zone instead of manning up against the other team's best.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Maybe, but he didn't win a lot of his matchups with Chris Olave in the scrimmage with the Saints from what I read. But hopefully, a nickel safety isn't going to be shadowing a receiver like Olave all over the field. Those are good tests for him in practice, but scheme should have him playing underneath routes in zone instead of manning up against the other team's best.

Exactly. Its great practice. But ideally manning up slot WRs with no help is something that he will do probably less than 20% of defensive snaps.

 

[reddyuta]

people dunking on Downs because he got beat by the shiftiest WR in the league, there is no way Downs is covering Olave in a real game.in case people forget Downs is a Safety.,he may go up against bigger WRs like CD but not Olave.

 

[fivetwos]

Thanks Adam but we already knew this.

The Missouri crew can show up late if they must. I’ve been on the bus for months.

 

[big dog cowboy]

 

[gimmesix]

people dunking on Downs because he got beat by the shiftiest WR in the league, there is no way Downs is covering Olave in a real game.in case people forget Downs is a Safety.,he may go up against bigger WRs like CD but not Olave.

If he's covering him in a game, it's probably a shell coverage where he'll have the underneath zone with a safety over the top. I don't think the plan is to use Downs in a lot of downfield coverage. His strengths are going to be coming up from the slot to play the run, blitzing out of the slot and handling the underneath zone to prevent quick passes. He may turn and run with receivers downfield when we use man coverage, but I think we'll only use man as a change-up.

 

[stilltheguru]

Healthy olave is a top 10 wr in the nfl. I don't care if he beat Downs

 

[J-man]

no way he should be covering Olave 1 on 1. He's a nickel safety not a slot CB

 

[jazzcat22]

Dallas was probably just experimenting with it.
Plus OSU vs. OSU players.

No concerns at all over Downs.

 

[G2]

We talking about practice?

 

[Rockport]

Maybe, but he didn't win a lot of his matchups with Chris Olave in the scrimmage with the Saints from what I read. But hopefully, a nickel safety isn't going to be shadowing a receiver like Olave all over the field. Those are good tests for him in practice, but scheme should have him playing underneath routes in zone instead of manning up against the other team's best.

He won his fair share. He’s not a bust.

 

[Coogiguy03]

We talking about practice?

What you do in practice you'll do in a game

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Are we all talking about the catch that could’ve been overturned in a real game? Or were there others?

 

[Nova]

Did people actually watch the Olave snaps? Downs had excellent coverage and Olave just made plays. That's fine. We've seen Lamb do that as well.

What we're seeing is Downs going step for step with Elite WRs in his very first training camp. That's insane.