Donegal demolished Down by 17 points on Saturday night.
Michael Murphy finished as the game's top scorer with eight points, seven of those were via dead balls.
One of those came from an acutely angled sideline ball after 25 minutes.
With nonchalant easy, Murphy hit the black spot on Stephen Kane's crossbar before it bounced over the bar.
Only January and Murphy is already looking imperious from dead ball situations.