With just under two minutes to play, the Seahawks had a choice to make facing third-and-6. Run the ball, and the Seahawks would force the Broncos to use another timeout, but the odds of converting would be low. Or the Seahawks throw the ball, giving them a better chance to convert, but also increasing the odds of stopping the clock for Denver with an incomplete pass.

Trusting their offense, the Seahawks elected to pass, and Geno Smith connected with Tyler Lockett for a 9-yard gain that allowed Smith to take a knee to run out the clock after Denver burned its final timeout.

In real time, the part of the play that stood out was Lockett's outstanding one-handed catch, but what replays also showed was just how tight of a window Smith had to fit the ball into in order to get the ball past the outstretched hand of cornerback Riley Moss.

"If you've seen it, you understand," Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said of the throw and catch. "There was no space there. And then from the other angle, bringing it in with the one hand and then the guy's all over him. There's a lot of things going on in that play. Like, DK (Metcalf) took a great angle to change the corner's angle and chase, to make him have to undercut the throw where he couldn't play the outside hand, which is the hand that (Tyler) Lockett caught the ball. Guys have to set guys up for success too, so, that was a great play by DK. And then it takes time to run from this side of the field to that side of the field, so the o-line (offensive line) has got to hold up in five-man protection, and they did. That's 11 guys working as one right there. That's big-time stuff."

And thanks to NFL Next Gen Stats, we have a lot more detail on one of the biggest plays of the game.

According to Next Gen Stats, the throw had a completion probability of 47.8 percent (which quite frankly seems high given how precise the pass had to be), and traveled an air distance of 12.6 yards.

Lockett traveled a total of 27.65 yards on the play, while Smith got rid of the ball in 2.53 seconds. At the time of the pass, Lockett had just 0.7 yards of separation from Moss.

That Lockett came through in the clutch, earning a "closer" game ball from Macdonald after the game, hardly comes as a surprise to those who have watched him play throughout his career.

"Tyler Lockett, again, one of my best friends and one of the best players in this game, he's so clutch," Smith said. "Just think about all the catches he's made in clutch situations. Time and time again, week after week, he's the guy who is going to show up. I was talking to (Ryan) Grubb about that this week. Wait until you see Lockett on game day. It's a completely different player. He is out there getting in fights with D-linemen and doing all those things. That big time third down catch really sealed the game for us, that last one. That's who he is and that's why we love him. We are going to continue to rely on him and he's always going to show up in those moments.

"That's who he is. Big time players make big time plays in big games. I remember hearing that when I was a kid. Tyler Lockett is the epitome of that. Any time there is a play to be made he's going to play the game."