A pass 1st offense weekly lament

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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.

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.

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.