Goodbye Doughty, Hello Horton!

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Honestly I think it is nice we have two guys that we can use at SS that are both effective. Most teams would die for that.

good call man. whose to say horton would not have given up a big pass play when going against the likes of boldin and fitzgerald or that zona would not have heavily targeted him if he was starting.

doughty is our weakest link on D but thats more a testament to our solid group and not a knock on him. doughty is serviceable to solid, decent to good. i see the horton/doughty discussion much like heyer/jansen; all are solid and pretty much interchangeable right now which is a good thing, especially yesterday when heyer went down for alil and jansen stepped in and we didnt miss a beat.

go skins!

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Honestly I think it is nice we have two guys that we can use at SS that are both effective. Most teams would die for that.

Is Doughty the only player in the league to get beat by Fitzgerald? I'm glad we have these guys.

[Defensewins]

I did not have internet on Sunday and I wondered if there was going to be talk of Doughty getting burned deep. It was painful to watch, his angle was all wrong.
I think it is time to make the change to Horton. Horton has earned the starting role by his play on the field this preseason and last weeks game. Another thing to keep in mind, Doughty has not set the world on fire in order to keep the starter position either. Everyone likes Doughty, he looks like my frat brother, but that is not reason to keep him as the starter when Horton has been playing noticeably better.Horton has earned the starteps role and Doughty has not.

[MTK]

Horton's time will come, in the meantime I think Doughty is still an important part of the D. I think people are so caught up in the Horton hype, and are so down on Doughty no matter what he does, that every mistake Doughty makes is magnified. Chill with the Doughty hate.