GREEN BAY, Wis. — Thanks to their season-opening loss to the Seahawks, the Green Bay Packers are eager for their return visit to Seattle.

“I can’t wait to go up there on Sunday,” always-passionate defensive lineman Mike Daniels said in a crowded Lambeau Field locker room Wednesday. “I just can’t wait to go back.”

The Packers seek to even the score with the Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game at CenturyLink Field.

For a team installed as a touchdown underdog, second-seeded Green Bay (13-4) believes it can take down the top-seeded and defending league-champion Seahawks (13-4) in their boisterous stadium.

“We’ve got some attitude,” Daniels said.

That is a far cry from how the Packers meekly left Seattle in the dead of night Sept. 4 after falling 36-16 to the Seahawks in the NFL’s season-opening game.

“First game of the season, we’re trying to form an identity as a team,” right guard T.J. Lang said. “We didn’t know what our strengths were, didn’t know what our weaknesses were. We didn’t really have any bread-and-butter things that we knew were going to work. We were trying to figure those things out.”

As proof, Green Bay rolled out a straightforward game plan on offense in the opener as it ratcheted up its use of the no-huddle from previous seasons. To lessen the confusion in speed-up mode between plays, the Packers kept receiver Jordy Nelson exclusively on the left side of the formation.

In doing so, quarterback Aaron Rodgers never threw one pass in the direction of All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman.

Four and a half months later and given how dynamic and prolific the Packers offense was most of the season, there is no way the Packers eliminate half of the field again by playing keepaway from Sherman, right?

“Just depends on who’s open,” Rodgers said coyly Wednesday. “It’s always important to throw it to the right and throw it to the left a little bit.”

When pressed further on the topic, Rodgers held his ground.

“Well, I plan to throw it to the open guy,” he said. “That’s kind of been the way I’ve played for a number of years. So, if the guy on the right is open, I’ll throw it to the right. If the guy on the left is open, I’ll throw it to the left. Go through my progressions the way I’ve always played.”

Play on is precisely what Rodgers is doing, needing only one win to have the Packers back in the Super Bowl for the first time since they won the title following the 2010 season.

Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy has no doubt that Rodgers, who played the past three games on a strained left calf, can uphold the self-proclamation from earlier in the week that he is good for playing another 120 minutes this season.

“I just hope we don’t go to overtime,” Rodgers quipped.

He didn’t do much in practice Wednesday. Even so, all signs point toward Rodgers being good enough behind a well-fortified offensive line to hang in there against Seattle’s thunderous defense and give the Packers a fighting chance to pull off the upset victory away from Lambeau, where they went 9-0 this season.

“We feel like we’re a different team right now,” Lang said. “We know they’re a great team. Their defense flies around, they’re physical, they hit you in the mouth. I think the first time, we kind of let them dictate how we were going to play, and that’s not how you want to operate as an offense.”

The Packers managed just 255 total yards at Seattle in September, their second-lowest output of the season. Rodgers went 23-for-33 passing but for only 189 yards and one touchdown with one interception and a fumble lost (for a safety) while being sacked three times.

“We know it’s going to be a challenge for us offensively,” Lang added. “One of the bigger things is we’re going to have to dictate how the game goes. We can’t just turn one-dimensional and throw to one side of the field. We know we’re going to have to be well-balanced and we’re going to have to challenge those guys. We know it’s going to be a great challenge for us, but we like the team that we are right now. I’m sure they like their team.”

Added right tackle Bryan Bulaga, whose first-half departure because of a knee injury contributed to Green Bay’s woes in that Week 1 loss: “You’ve got to play a perfect game (against Seattle). You can’t have turnovers. You’ve got to make the most of every opportunity. You just can’t make mistakes against those guys. You just have to play a solid game.”

–This is the 18th all-time meeting between the teams. The Packers lead the series, 10-7. Four and a half months after the Seahawks rolled to a 36-16 victory in the league’s season-opening game, the teams meet again at Seattle’s CenturyLink Field. It is the third postseason matchup. Green Bay won the first two, both at Lambeau Field: 33-27 in overtime in the wild-card round in the 2003 season on cornerback Al Harris’ 52-yard interception return for a touchdown, and 42-20 in the divisional round during the 2007 season. Starting with their controversial 14-12 victory in 2012, also at Seattle, the Seahawks are on a two-game winning streak in the series for the first time since they won three in a row from 1984-90. The Packers lost three of their past four games at Seattle, all at CenturyLink Field going back to 2006.