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	Commanders Post at The Warpath > Commanders Football > Locker Room Main Forum > Saunders and the Fullback. PDA Saunders and the Fullback. Pages : [1] 2 3 4 Daseal 01-21-2006, 12:59 PM It has been no secret that Portis said he loved having a fullback in front of him. With Saunders in as coordinator won't a fullback be a staple for this offense? If so, what happens to Cooley? Does he get moved to a pure TE position, and we draft/FA a fullback? Use Sellers? Maybe someone a little more familliar with Saunders can give me a little help! Skins fan 44 01-21-2006, 01:05 PM It would be hard to imagine a Gibbs offense without a H-back. So who knows what will happen. MTK 01-21-2006, 01:15 PM I thought Portis said he likes running out of the singleback better?? steveo395 01-21-2006, 01:32 PM if they do start using a fb a lot, they should definitely use sellers jamf 01-21-2006, 01:54 PM I thought Portis said he likes running out of the singleback better?? Thats what i thought. mooby 01-21-2006, 01:55 PM i dunno, if we started using a fullback i would use sellers and put cooley in as a tight end. That Guy 01-21-2006, 02:20 PM KC runs a lot of single back sets. He used blocking backs too, but wouldn't hesitate to run out of 3 WR sets either. skinsguy 01-21-2006, 03:38 PM It has been no secret that Portis said he loved having a fullback in front of him. With Saunders in as coordinator won't a fullback be a staple for this offense? If so, what happens to Cooley? Does he get moved to a pure TE position, and we draft/FA a fullback? Use Sellers? Maybe someone a little more familliar with Saunders can give me a little help! I believe he'll implement more fullback lead running sets - I don't believe it will be the only running set we implement. We'll more than likely continue to use the same Joe Gibbs syle of running attacks - counter Trey plays, and also the Denver plays we implemented for Portis this past season. It will be a good mixture of stuff. You'll probably still see Cooley as an H-Back, though, he might be slowly converted to a pure tight end role. SmootSmack 01-21-2006, 03:42 PM Here are a couple of good articles on Saunders' philosophy: http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2005/07/18/gretz_21st_century_offense_part_1/ http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2005/07/20/gretz_21st_century_offense_part_2/ jdlea 01-21-2006, 06:09 PM I doubt that Saunders was brought in to overhaul the offense. I think he was brought in to give it more of a facelift. I think he'll open up the playbook, but I doubt that the Gibbs system will change too drastically. I especially can't envision the use of the H Back being phased out, but I could be wrong.