How will Saunders affect our running game?

[12thMan]

Wow, we're all over this one, huh? You would have thought this was the first day of the draft.

I mentioned on the QB thread that Saunders will further expand on Gibbs' current philosophy. He'll add a wrinkle here and there and inject some new play calling.

I don't, however, that any single player will be transformed by this one move alone.

[jdlea]

I don't think that it will change any one player, but the entire unit. I think Portis will be better, the QB play will be better, playcalling won't be so stale, the O Line will be better and Cooley will get more passes. I think this offense will be transformed.

[Dana87]

Originally Posted by jdlea

I don't think that it will change any one player, but the entire unit. I think Portis will be better, the QB play will be better, playcalling won't be so stale, the O Line will be better and Cooley will get more passes. I think this offense will be transformed.

I think you are exactly right, because if your not there wasn't any reason to hire Saunders in the first place. Gibbs didn't fly to KC so fast to hire Saunders to run the same plays we ran last year. Basically Snyder just bought the number 1 offense' playbook and the coach that can help implament a lot of it. I will say this I think the two schemes are already very similar. And we are not scrapping our offense or playbook. We are broadening it.