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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yes and no.
You like Conley going up against a good CB sure. But Johnson's a fine skills matchup for Conley.
Johnson's a big, physical corner just like Smith. He's a guy that wants to get into your body and use length and strength to neutralize you. He's also a very very good situational CB; extremely smart, positionally sound player. He's not going to take a lot of risks, he's not going to make a lot of amazing plays. he's a damn sound player who's going to be where he's supposed to be most times.
What he isn't, however, is a premium athlete. So when you match Conley up on him, he's going to do a nice job of reading Conley's routes but he isn't quite athletic enough to drive in front of them. And since Conley is such a long, relatively strong WR, Johnson will have trouble knocking him off or coming through him to make a play on the ball.
You'd rather see Conley succeed than fail, for sure. But I think Conley's weaknesses match up nicely against Johnson in that Johnson's strengths aren't exactly going to expose them.
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Judging from what I've seen in 1 on 1's and camp reports, Conley has learned how to use his size/body to his advantage. Against the smaller and more athletic corners, I think that will come into play more.
Bottom line is, as the #2, he's not often going to go up against corners much better than Johnson.