How will Saunders affect our running game?

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.

Willie Roaf and Will Shields with combined better 21 pro bowls better.

thats a lot of pro bowls :coach:

roaf is old now but he's probably still the best OL in the league (followed by seattle's super tackle). Shields and waters are both amazing guards (they're both fast and athletic enough to play tackle) too.

their line has excellent chemistry also, with shields, roaf, and wiegman their center all being together for a while