News: BTB: Cowboys 2018 training camp: Risers and fallers from week 1

[John813]

What's the latest on LVE?

Tried to keep up with threads on here but haven't seen too much on him yet

 

[AdamJT13]

8th in what? He was 13th in yards. Just behind the likes of the vaunted Charles Clay and Eric Ebron.

Possibly something related to fantasy football. Witten finished in the top 10 in fantasy points for most scoring systems.

He also had a 108.4 passer rating when targeted, which was eighth-best among the 39 tight ends who got more than 2.0 targets per game.

 

[percyhoward]

8th in what? He was 13th in yards. Just behind the likes of the vaunted Charles Clay and Eric Ebron.

It was time for Witten to go, but during his career he had eight seasons among the league's top 5 TE in yards.

Only Gonzalez and Sharpe had more.

 

[buybuydandavis]

RISERS

Cole Beasley

A lot is made about the new techniques being offered up by new receivers coach Sanjay Lal, but these small attentions to detail are already helping. Beasley breaks sharply out of his routes and the timing with Dak Prescott so far has been flawless. The quick-footed Beasley is doing a great job separating and has stood out in camp as the team’s best receiver.

I want to know if he's beating bracket coverage now. That would be huge. I'm guessing he's just beating single coverage, and that's been clear since 2016 at least.

Sounds like Beasley being Beasley. Which is a good thing, but not news. Not a "Riser".

Beasley was already our 2nd best WR going in. He's might have the advantage now against Hurns when there isn't real hitting, and Hurns stills needs to pick up our system, and get in sync with Dak. Hurns should be the #1 by the time the season starts.

 

[buybuydandavis]

On top of his diminished play was the fact he was out there for just about every bloody snap, so just about every formation had at least one TE in it, which further added to the problems of predictability on offense.

I'm looking forward to more personnel variety with Witten gone. He was good for play action and run, but for pure receiving, he was a limited threat.

 

[Hennessy_King]

1. Can we please not hear anything about Byron Jones. I don't care what he does in practice, we know he looks great every camp and is ready to breakout. Tired of hearing it.

2. I thought Mike White was gonna take Dak's job, what happened?

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I'm looking forward to more personnel variety with Witten gone. He was good for play action and run, but for pure receiving, he was a limited threat.

Well that's it. He was limited. Dez was limited. Beasley was boxed out.

The receiving corps put little or no pressure on secondaries.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Well that's it. He was limited. Dez was limited. Beasley was boxed out.

The receiving corps put little or no pressure on secondaries.

Witten, Dez, Beasley, Witten. Nobody there could stretch the field.

Only Butler. He was actually enormously productive per target, but our being coaches being our coaches, he didn't get many targets.

 

[bsbellomy]

It was time for Witten to go, but during his career he had eight seasons among the league's top 5 TE in yards.

Only Gonzalez and Sharpe had more.

Well the guy said Witten can't be replaced. My response wasn't designed to be a knock on the cumulative value of Witten's accomplishments.

 

[bsbellomy]

1. Can we please not hear anything about Byron Jones. I don't care what he does in practice, we know he looks great every camp and is ready to breakout. Tired of hearing it.

2. I thought Mike White was gonna take Dak's job, what happened?

I'm with you, Jones has had 3 great camps and 3 terrible seasons.

 

[hornitosmonster]

Maybe the WR position won't be the hole that several have forecast.

Dez was the reason for the limited route tree

 

[Hennessy_King]

I'm with you, Jones has had 3 great camps and 3 terrible seasons.

I wouldn't say terrible I would just say terribly average for a 1st rounder that we took over over Landon Collins.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Witten, Dez, Beasley, Witten. Nobody there could stretch the field.

Only Butler. He was actually enormously productive per target, but our being coaches being our coaches, he didn't get many targets.

I agree on Butler.

Yeah, I think part of it was on the coaches. The other part was on the pressure to make Bryant and Witten the first two reads.

 

[xwalker]

Boooo. I was hoping for some sweet Cowboys news, but BtB looks like they just skimmed some headlines for this.

Dear BloggingtheBoys, quality not quantity.

Yes, this is a predictible fan/blogger article that is based on things the writer expected and now has seen/heard a few bits of info to confirm their preconceived thoughts.

 

[alicetooljam]

Witten, Dez, Beasley, Witten. Nobody there could stretch the field.

Only Butler. He was actually enormously productive per target, but our being coaches being our coaches, he didn't get many targets.

Or another contract...