A pass 1st offense weekly lament

[30gut]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

It's not good enough to just run the ball to eat up clock, you have to run it successfully. If you run the ball three straight times, you've eaten two minutes, which is really not a lot. If you throw the ball 7 straight plays getting two first downs before a punt, you're going to eat up more than two minutes even with 2-3 incompletions mixed in. You have to move the chains to eat time.

I'm not sure what point you are arguing here but I'm not talking about running out the clock.

With that said, if Hightower can't be trusted to grind out a win in the fourth quarter, Helu needs to be the guy. I realize Hightower is a much better pass protected at this point in his career, but if we have to throw while ahead because that's all our personnel will allow for, we need to change the personnel so that we can run.

Not trusting HT was a mistake imo.
You dance with the girl who brung you and Hightower + playaction lead to the only TD drive.

I think our personnel, specifically Rex, dictates that we should be a run/play action team.
Not a pass first team.

The scheme is solid and we have 2 backs that fit our run scheme very well, both have the ability to be effective frontside runner and both have the ability to cutback.

Even Torain, for all his faults with his vision, would have provided the confidence necessary to run to win at the end of a close ballgame. Though I think Helu gives us the much better chance.

Why would a lesser back provide the confidence to run but not the back that we traded for who ended up winning the starting job? Why would the 3rd string back provide the confidence to close out a game and not the 1st string RB who legs were the cog behind the only TD scoring drive?