Plus it's so risky (probably too risky) to run in that situation given the clock. It's a bit risky, but he had enough time to scramble throw the ball, have the ball get intercepted, and have the person who intercepted it dance around a bit before his own teammate tackled him and there was STILL 1 second left on the clock after (I believe the refs just let the clock run out because I distinctly remember seeing 0:01 on the clock immediately after the play when the SF players were celebrating). Also, it would have been risky to run but less risky than trying to fit a ball through 2-3 SF defenders. Also, the one of the replays showed Bennett standing there at the goal line facing Cutler with a defender about 2 feet to his left. Now I can't tell if theres a defender to his right as well, but Cutler could have easily thrown the ball to his right and hit Bennett for a TD IMO. I have seen a couple of people bring this up in the press. But the least risky thing he could have and should have done was throw the ball away and take one last shot at a play. He still had plenty of time to do that. People are making it seem like it was the very last play of the game but it wasn't. Wasn't there a timeout left, too? Yeah of course. If we didn't have that timeout, I wouldn't at all have been advocating scrambling to the end zone on that last play. With the time out there was plenty of time to scramble get stopped short and all a time out. Even if he gains 5 yards, there are probably a lot more plays you can try running from the 7 yard line vs. the 12. I'm not sure if there would have been time left or not. Cutler threw the ball from the 16 yard line with 4 seconds remaining. By the time he takes off running, is tackled, and calls a timeout, there either would have been zero or MAYBE one second left on the clock. Would have been very close. Oh well, they lost. Can't do anything except for move onto Week 11.