GREEN BAY, Wis. -- They may not speak about it much -- at least not until they're asked -- but to some Green Bay Packers' players, the NFC Championship Game loss at the Seattle Seahawks still ruminates in their minds.

By all accounts, coach Mike McCarthy made nary a mention of the overtime loss from three months ago when he addressed the team at the start of the offseason program on Monday morning. Yet when players such as Morgan Burnett, Randall Cobb and Mike Daniels met with reporters later in the day, it became clear that game is not just a media topic.

"It was very disappointing," Morgan Burnett said of Green Bay's NFC title game loss, "but you've got to put that behind you." AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

It's a tangible force that will have some impact, even if the effect remains indiscernible at this point.

"I can't speak for everybody else, but for myself, yeah, I thought about it in my training these past couple months whenever I reached that point of fatigue or feel like I can't go no more," Cobb said. "Just having those thoughts in the back of my head and knowing that next rep may be the next rep that's going to excel us past that moment. You use it as motivation. You have to. You find ways to fuel yourself in the offseason, and that's one of mine."

As a group, however, they players say they don't spend a lot of time talking about the 12-point lead they let slip away in the final four minutes of regulation.

"It was very disappointing," Burnett said. "But you've got to put that behind you and got to move on."

For his part, McCarthy tried almost immediately to establish how they would treat the Seattle collapse going forward. In his season wrap-up news conference, he proclaimed that this year's team "will not bear the burden of what happened in 2014."

McCarthy reiterated that at the NFL annual meetings last month, when he said there will be no "Remember Seattle" rallying cry when the team reconvened.

Sure enough, McCarthy's address to the team on Monday spun things forward.

"New year. Same work. Get better," Daniels said when asked what McCarthy said in the team meeting. "That really doesn't change from year to year. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and we've been very productive as a football team. Like I said, we just have to take that next step. He knows what we have to do. We know what we have to do. There's not going to be any big, grand message. Hey, let's get to work."

Said Cobb: "It's the same every year. We're chasing Super Bowls. That's our plan. He puts that in place from the first day. We all understand that. We all know what the ultimate prize is and what we're here for, and today starts that journey."

That doesn't mean players have neglected to watch the tape of that game. In fact, some have watched it repeatedly.

"I don't know if I'm a sadist or whatever, but I've watched it quite a bit," Daniels said. "You've got to learn from it. I know I can learn myself. I know I had a really stupid penalty, and that's something I never plan on doing again. Like I said, amongst other things, you can really learn from it."