ATLANTA — In the morgue silence of the Seattle locker room, several Seahawks sat frozen on folding chairs, staring straight ahead at nothing. A few heads were hidden beneath white towels. One player sniffled.

The rookie quarterback, in stark contrast, casually slipped into a patterned, conservative three-piece suit as if dressing for a day in the corner office. Russell Wilson’s demeanor belied the fact that he had just engineered a comeback of the highest drama, only to have it trumped by Atlanta’s beat-the-clock field goal in a 30-28 Falcons playoff victory Sunday.

“Obviously, very disappointing,” Wilson said. “We had high, high hopes for the rest of the season.” But the gloom was fleeting. As he walked off the Georgia Dome field and into the tunnel afterward, Wilson gushed to the quarterbacks coach Carl Smith how excited he already was about his sophomore season.

In the huddle, Wilson’s mantra is to move on to the next play. Evidently, he lives it, too.

“The greatest thing about it is, we get to look forward to the next opportunity,” he said.