The Packers got back to work as a team on Monday for the first time since they dropped the NFC Championship game to the Seahawks.
It has been three months since the Packers blew a 19-7 lead with less than five minutes left in the game and that bad end to the season hasn’t faded from memory yet. Wide receiver Randall Cobb said that no one is talking about the loss, but he admitted that he’s thought about it throughout the offseason when he needs to summon up a bit more energy for a workout.
“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, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “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.”
Defensive end Mike Daniels has also been going back to the game over the last few months. He regrets the taunting penalty he picked up after a Ha Ha Clinton-Dix interception would have set the Packers up on the four-yard line and said he hopes that his teammates have also gone back to learn from what went wrong in the loss.
“You have to learn from it and seeing how that’s the last game of the season you don’t get a chance to go over it and evaluate it as a group,” Daniels said. “So guys find some time to watch it, break it down and move past it. There’s a lot of great learning points from it, just like any other game. So that’s the way we have to take it and the next game is the next week.”
The Packers will find out when their next game is on Tuesday when the league reveals the schedule for the 2015 season. It could be a home date against those same Seahawks, which would make it hard to avoid looking back as they look forward to the start of the new year.