{"id":1004507,"date":"2026-09-18T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1004507\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:33:22","slug":"cowboys-caleb-downs-with-some-things-to-clean-up-after-nfl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1004507\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Caleb Downs with &#8216;some things to clean up&#8217; after NFL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downs had a strip sack off a blitz, along with seven tackles against the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, did some good things, some things to clean up,\u201d Downs said Friday. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how I\u2019m always going to look at it. So made a couple of plays, a couple of plays I wish I had back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Downs said he was excited to make his pro debut and was \u201ctrying to seize the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the key moments of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/5-takeaways-cowboys-giants-dallas-falls-flat-22427381.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboys&#8217; loss<\/a> came in the fourth quarter when Downs was facing tight end Isaiah Likely. On a third and 3, Likely feinted a route toward the sideline then darted toward the middle of the field from the slot. Likely\u2019s movement allowed him to get some space between himself and Downs for a 5-yard reception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, everybody saw it was close,\u201d Downs said. \u201cBut close doesn\u2019t really pay the bills. So I got to make that play and that\u2019s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downs had a strip sack off a blitz, along with seven tackles against the Giants. \u201cYeah, I mean,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1000385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,126603,115985],"class_list":["post-1004507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tp-caleb-downs","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117294425915519081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}