SEATTLE (AP) - Pete Carroll kept raving about Seattle's resiliency and effort in nearly coming all the way back after an inept first half.

Doesn't erase the fact the Seahawks are 1-3.

Down 27-7 early in the third quarter, Seattle staged a furious rally behind quarterback Tarvaris Jackson and a no-huddle offense. But Steven Hauschka's 61-yard field-goal attempt with 13 seconds left fell short and wide left, and Atlanta held on for a 30-28 victory Sunday.

"It's about as much as you can take out of a game and getting beat," Carroll said. "We're going to try to grow from this and get better.

"Last week was terrific to get the win, but we gained more today, and I think we proved more today."

Seattle got two second-half TD passes from Jackson, who finished with a career-high 319 yards passing.

The no-huddle gave consistency to the Seahawks offense for the first time in four games. Jackson was able to get into a rhythm and gave Seattle a chance to win the game late.

"We had a little more time and guys did a great job," Jackson said. "If that's how we've got to do our offense to score points, I guess we'll do it."

With Seattle picking up the pace, the Falcons were forced to play more basic defenses and couldn't attack the Seahawks the way they did in the first half.

"We were not able to put in pressure on the quarterback in the second half when they went into their no-huddle. That was probably the biggest thing," Atlanta coach Mike Smith said.

Jackson finished 25 of 38 and had touchdown passes of 52 yards to Sidney Rice - Seattle's one first-half highlight - 6 yards to Mike Williams and 8 yards to Ben Obomanu. The TD pass to Obomanu with 8:13 left pulled the Seahawks within two.

Marshawn Lynch also had an 11-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter.

"Just the positive thing from this game that's very encouraging to see is that we have those type of guys on this team that never give up," Jackson said.

But after Obomanu's TD catch, Atlanta kept the ball for the next six-plus minutes, and Seattle finally got the ball back with 1:49 remaining at its own 15 and with just one timeout.

The Seahawks quickly moved toward midfield and caught a break with 41 seconds to go when referee Walt Anderson was buzzed to review the previous completion to Doug Baldwin and stopped the clock. Jackson then hit Zach Miller for 13 yards to the Atlanta 45.

With the Seahawks at the Falcons 43 with 13 seconds left and one timeout, Carroll sent out Hauschka for a 61-yard attempt instead of going for it on fourth-and-8.

The kick was short and wide left. Hauschka's career long is 54 yards.

"I didn't want to not have a chance to win the game," Carroll said. "We had an opportunity, and an old coach told me that if you have a chance to win on the last play of the game, you go for it."

The kick was slightly into the wind and into the open end of the stadium. Hauschka still thought he had a chance.

"Obviously I would have liked to have made that one and it was definitely makable, but it was a tough kick," Hauschka said.

The Seahawks defense finally began to bottle up the Falcons run game that had pounded Seattle for 92 yards in the first half. The Seahawks held Atlanta to just 29 yards rushing after halftime.

"It was outrageous what they did to us the first half, and we came out in the second half with a couple adjustments. But we really still ran the same stuff we ran in the first half, but we just stepped it up," linebacker Leroy Hill said. "We've got to find a way to come out the gates. We can't come out that slow."

Notes: Williams left with a concussion suffered on Lynch's TD run. Seattle also lost LB Matt McCoy with a knee injury in the first quarter. ... Seattle plays just once at home (Oct. 30 vs. Cincinnati) until Nov. 13. ... Nine different Seahawks caught passes from Jackson. Baldwin led Seattle with five catches for 84 yards.