Some thoughts from Ditka and apparently Curry knew the play was coming:
"I was disappointed in the play call at the goal line," Ditka said Monday on "Mike & Mike In The Morning" on ESPN Radio. "There's no question about it. The throw back, it wasn't a very well designed play. Nobody left the tight end. The tight end tried to sneak out, they threw it back to him. It was intercepted.
"That changed the whole tempo of the football game. Then again, if you don't have enough confidence to believe you can pound it in from that yard line, then you have to look at the play being called. That's all."
Curry wasn't fooled by the play. In fact, he was expecting it.
"I'll never forget seeing it on film and saying, 'That's their go-to play. If they need these points, that's their play,'" he told reporters Sunday, according to a story on the San Francisco Chronicle website. "Then I saw the formation on the field and I was like, 'This is easy, I'm just going to wait for them to throw it to me.'"
From: http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/...-call-goal-line
It was a terrible play call. Noots said it best in his recap:
"That play works against overpursuit, both horizontally and vertically. When you’re that deep up against the opposing goal, there is no vertical overpursuit. So, the lobbed throwback hangs up in the air for any defender on the left half of the field to steal."