No. A quick slant or something to try to save a second or two if it missed isn't really any better. If ball gets tipped in the air, game over, and there are sure to be a lot of bodies around the ball and hitting the receiver if you try to hit something over the middle. And throwing to someone out of the pocket would have taken the extra second for the ball to get there anyway. I think once they decided to run the play, they knew it was win or bust on that play. Otherwise, they would have just kicked the FG.