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In all the histories I've read of the Bulge I never heard any mention time as a critical factor, only in how long their fuel supplies could hold out. If this is what you're talking about then I would agree. Their primary concerns were how long the bad weather would ground Allied air power and how long it would be before the Americans could organize a counter attack. But as for the entire operation only the fanatics in the SS thought it could work.

As I said, the Wehrmacht knew it was hopeless. They didn't
prosecute the attack to fail , necessarily but they didn't exactly fight too hard to achieve a victory. As I said many German generals felt it was more important to concentrate all that armor in the East to try and hold off the Russians for as long as possible. Hitler himself was hoping that the attack would cause a political fallout in the tenuous coalition and cause a stalemate.