Brett Hundley had the best game of his career for the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, but Mike McCarthy says a helmet-to-helmet hit on the quarterback ruined the team's final drive.

T.J. Watt sacked Hundley on the first play of Green Bay's final drive, which began with the score tied 28-28 and 80 seconds on the clock. There was no penalty called. On the next play, Jamaal Williams took a short pass out of bounds, stopping the clock with 32 seconds left.

"There was a hit on the first play," McCarthy said. "We all recognized it. The quarterback wasn’t checked. ...

"The play entry from the boundary went in late because I thought there was a helmet-to-helmet hit on Brett Hundley. You obviously check to see if your quarterback's OK. That's a natural reaction in the flow of the game. It might affect how you're going to call the second play, too. That's what happened as far as Jamaal. I don't fault Jamaal for going out of bounds on the second down.

"Jamaal didn't know we were out of the two-minute mode. . . . It's football. It happens. Hey, I don't want to see officials make calls in the fourth quarter of a game. It happens sometimes. It happened tonight. That's the reality of what happened. No excuses. That's where we were."

Hundley said he didn’t tell Williams to stay in bounds, since the plan was to play for overtime. The Pittsburgh Steelers forced the Packers to punt and drove for the game-winning field goal.

"It's football," Hundley said. "You've got to get up and keep playing. Threw a screen, and we just didn't communicate with Jamaal … letting him know what the situation is, and that's on me as the quarterback to let him know and let our offense know what our thoughts are going into the down."