Redskins resign Doughty

[SkinFan4Life]

He is painfully slow and in my opinion a below-average tackler, however he IS football smart and hopefully that and his leadership will rub off on our "young" group of starting players of the secondary.

[terpsez11]

Originally Posted by SkinFan4Life

He is painfully slow and in my opinion a below-average tackler, however he IS football smart and hopefully that and his leadership will rub off on our "young" group of starting players of the secondary.

to me Reed looked like a marginal player at best

[BigHairedAristocrat]

I dont really know if Doughty is versitile enough of a player to have resigned. He, like Horton, can only play Strong safety. Kareem Moore can only play FS. Landry mostly played at FS last year, but is better suited to be a SS. IMO we are pretty thin at FS right now and we would have been better off signing a marginal FS safety than a marginal SS one.

[30gut]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

I dont really know if Doughty is versitile enough of a player to have resigned. He, like Horton, can only play Strong safety. Kareem Moore can only play FS. Landry mostly played at FS last year, but is better suited to be a SS. IMO we are pretty thin at FS right now and we would have been better off signing a marginal FS safety than a marginal SS one.

I don't mean to quible but, Doughty and Horton played both SS and FS during pre-season and Horton saw action last year during games at FS for a few plays when Landry was blitzing.
So i don't think your statement is accurate.

Doughty and Kareem Moore also saw action last year in the Cobra package as SS/LB/CB hybrids.

Landry has always been a FS, he only played SS b/c Taylor (rip) was a Pro-Bowl FS.

With Landry, Horton, Doughty and Moore i'm happy with the depth at Safety, my only concern is with Doughty's injury i wish they could have found a way to keep Springs b/c he was an insurance policy at S.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by 30gut

I don't mean to quible but, Doughty and Horton played both SS and FS during pre-season and Horton saw action last year during games at FS for a few plays when Landry was blitzing.
So i don't think your statement is accurate.

Doughty and Kareem Moore also saw action last year in the Cobra package as SS/LB/CB hybrids.

Landry has always been a FS, he only played SS b/c Taylor (rip) was a Pro-Bowl FS.

With Landry, Horton, Doughty and Moore i'm happy with the depth at Safety, my only concern is with Doughty's injury i wish they could have found a way to keep Springs b/c he was an insurance policy at S.

Quiblings alright with me, bro! We're all here to express our opinion and we dont always have to agree 100%. Like you, i wish we could have kept springs (to be our starting FS this year) but we couldnt keep him under his current contract.

Neither Horton or Doughty can ever be counted on to play FS, though. Theyre both way too slow. Landry hasnt always been a FS - he's played both in his career. Hes very versatile. You forget that we drafted Landry specifically to play SS because we had Taylor and wanted him to play FS. that was our plan. The only reason Landry moved back to FS is because Taylor died and we had no other safety on our roster who could be a suitable FS. last offseason, it was our plan again to move Landry back to SS - thats why we picked up Stuart Schweigert, the starting FS from Oakland. The only problem was, he ended up being a bust... so we were forced to keep Landry as our starting FS and Doughty as our SS because they were the two best safeties on our roster.

We drafted Kareem Moore (FS) and Chris Horton (SS) and when Doughty got hurt, Kareem Moore was hurt as well, so Chris Horton came in to play SS. If Moore had been healthy, its very possible, he would have come in and played FS and moved Landry to SS.

Ever since we drafted Landry, we've been trying to get him to be our starting SS. However, due to death and injuries, he's never been able to spend significant time there. Horton had a great year last year, but i would be shocked if we dont try to move things around soon to put Landry back at SS where he can be more disruptive and make more plays and do all the things we envisioned him doing when we drafted him.