PHOENIX—For as many missed opportunities as there were in the Green Bay Packers' loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship game, the two-point conversion with just 85 seconds left is among the most painful.

What causes so much anguish is that the Packers actually appeared to be in position to break the play up. When quarterback Russell Wilson heaved the ball to tight end Luke Wilson, safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix was right there seemingly ready to pounce and cornerback Sam Shields is right behind them.

Almost inexplicably, Clinton-Dix is caught flat-footed as he watches the receiver catch the football.

"To be honest, I think all three of us kind of misjudged it, kind of a very odd play and not how it was drawn up by any means," said Luke Wilson in Arizona this week. "But I maybe misjudged it the least."

The two-point conversion followed Marshawn Lynch's 24-yard touchdown run with 1:25 remaining in the fourth quarter. When the bruising running back crossed the goal line, the Seahawks would go up by one point, 20-19, and elected to go for the two-point conversion, which would make it a three-point game.

If the Packers could have foiled the two-point conversion, Mason Crosby's 48-yard field goal with just 19 seconds left would have been for the win and not the tie.

Electing to pass the football, the Seahawks split three receivers to the right side of the field while Luke Wilson is the lone tight end on the left side of the formation.

Russell Wilson rolls to his right and, once again, it seems as if the Packers are in good position to thwart the conversion. There's good coverage in the back end while Julius Peppers applies almost immediate pressure on his rush.

The Seahawks quarterback has to buy time and is heading for the sideline, but he's running out of real estate. Sam Barrington breaks through a block by Lynch and actually hits Wilson as he makes a last-ditch lob to the opposite side of the field.

Meanwhile, Luke Wilson doesn't give up on the play. After blocking Nick Perry, he disengages and releases from the linebacker.

"I'm actually kind of not even in a route, but the play broke down," said Wilson. "It's a sprint right, and I'm just kind of blocking on the backside. And then I turned around. It was supposed to be a quick play and obviously it wasn't. And I saw Russell scrambling around, so I just tried to give him an option to throw."

Wilson backpedals toward the end zone, where Clinton-Dix comes up to meet him.

When the ball finally arrives from its high trajectory, the rookie safety from Alabama is seemingly trapped in a mental state that lasts only a split second, not knowing whether to leap for the ball or make the tackle. Luke Wilson actually has to exit the end zone to haul in the football at the one-yard line.

All Clinton-Dix can do, however, is make an awkward lunge and watch Wilson as he momentarily bobbles the football before wrapping his hands around it. It's puzzling. Baffling. Perplexing. Maybe even bewildering.

Luke Wilson attempted to get inside the mind of Clinton-Dix, the player that came up with two big-time interceptions earlier in the game.

"Some things you're not used to, like a guy throwing from over there and lob one up to the other side, you're not really used to defending that," said Wilson. "Again, it was just kind of a misjudged football."

Had Clinton-Dix somehow batted the ball away or hit Wilson short of the goal line, it might be the Packers that are preparting for the Super Bowl this week instead of the Seahawks.

Even former Packers executive and current Seahawks general manager John Schneider was at a loss for words on the two-point conversion and how the whole comeback transpired.

"The two-point conversion was unbelievable," said Schneider. "Russell Wilson and Luke made a heck of a play. When you go back and watch the game, it’s amazing how it went down. I’m not quite as positive as Pete (Carroll) is all the time. I was thinking to myself how I was going to address each player after the game, what I was going to say to the coaching staff.

"I was going to be like, ‘Hey, we had a great season. We’ll get them next year. Let’s have a great offseason.’ All those things are running through my mind, and then at the five-minute mark, things just started snowballing there. Anxiety, depression, you can throw it all in there. It was nuts.”

Brian Carriveau is the author of the book "It's Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America," and editor at Cheesehead TV and its "Pro Football Draft Preview." To contact Brian, email [email protected].