Yeah, Saunders needs to have the right players to really make his schemes work. Not neccessarily a lot of talent in the skill positions, but a QB who's pretty sharp and a talented offensive line. In KC he had a veteran QB in Green who had a lot of years of reading playbooks to work with as well as a tremendous offensive line. For a team who really only had one talented receiver in Gonzalez and really their running backs weren't that much better than anyone elses yet they still had one of the leagues top 5 offences for about 4 straight years. Trent Green was throwing for 4000 yards a season with Eddie Kennison as his top wide receiver and I think the Chiefs used to be at or near the top of the league in 15+ yard throws largely because their scheme was unpredictable not because their receivers were that great.
I think a team who has a good offensive line and a QB like say a Kurt Warner would do very well with a co-ordinator like Al Saunders running the offence.
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