re: Malik Zaire named the starter against Missouri.

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Well we can put to bed that it was all Franks fault for us losing games.

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Ahhh no, no we can't. I don't know why you guys don't realize that having no run threat + our best playmaker out on the field makes the game a lot harder. Davis running 5 yards a pop makes lanes open up, not having him or Toney to get those easy 5 hurt.

Perine is not the same runner.

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I was surprised Malik made several poor reads on the option.

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Sitting on the bench for 7 games will make one rusty. That can be fixed pretty easily, because he did indeed make some bad reads -- when if he would have kept he would have easily gotten 8 - 15 yards.

But, as I said: It was his first game on the road with literally 0 playmakers outside of Cleveland -- but if we're missing our #1 and #2 RB it's no wonder that we can't be productive.

Fix the running game, we fix the offense.

But if we're not going to run Zaire on the read, might as well go back with Franks. It makes no sense for Zaire not to run it himself more.