Well, the Green Bay Packers showed that it’s very hard to win back-to-back Super Bowl titles, something that they ended up a few games shy of despite losing just once in the regular season and looking like a juggernaut.  Though the Packers looked at times like a team that could make a run at a perfect season, it all ended on their home field as the Giants came into town and made the Packers a one-and-done team this year in the playoffs.  But even though they obviously didn’t make it nearly as far as they had hoped, is the season a complete bust?

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With Aaron Rodgers looking like the clear-cut MVP of the league through the first 11 games of the season, with an eye-popping QB rating of 127.7 and a team that is 11-0, the discussion has begun about whether or not he’s having the best season in NFL history as a quarterback.  But in a pass-heavy league these days, one only has to look a few years back to Tom Brady’s undefeated Pats’ team to see another season that is very close to what Rodgers is doing this season.  That year, Brady finished with an NFL record 50 touchdown passes while throwing just eight interceptions, giving him an absurd QB rating of 117.  With Brady throwing the ball all over the field, both Wes Welker and Randy Moss broke past 1,000 yards, with Moss finishing with a record-breaking 23 touchdown receptions.

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It’s not exactly a surprise anymore when Aaron Rodgers takes it to a defense and carves up a secondary, and it happened once again this Sunday.  With time to throw in the pocket, Rodgers had a career day, throwing for more than 400 yards and being in on six total touchdowns.  Four of the touchdowns came on Rodgers throws and he ran another two in for scores, giving fantasy football gurus plenty to cheer about in the process.  Rodgers’ end numbers were nothing short of staggering, as he completed 29 of 39 passes for 408 total yards, four scores and just one interception.  But it was Rodgers’ spry nature in breaking from the pocket that made it a career game, as he also scampered for 36 yards and two scores on the day.

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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is on top of the world, but would you draft him with the number one pick this year?  With the NFL likely to come to a deal to end the lockout fairly soon, it’s time to start talking about fantasy, and Rodgers is one of the very best.  Considering his ability to throw both inside and outside of the pocket and to dissect defenses, Rodgers looks like the premier quarterback in the league; at this point I would have to even put him ahead of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, which is saying something.

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A lot of the credit has rightly gone to quarterback Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, as the gunslinger has turned himself into arguably the best signal caller in the entire league in a remarkably short period of time.  With Rodgers mastering the ability to read defenses and sling the ball down field, he’s been carving up secondaries the last few seasons.  But it hasn’t just been Rodgers, as wideout Greg Jennings simply continues to put up big numbers year in and year out.  Coming off of a career season in 2010, Jennings looks to be one of the most viable and consistent receiving threats in the entire league heading into 2011.

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After running the table, winning the Super Bowl and announcing to the world that Aaron Rodgers is an elite quarterback, possibly the best in the league, now the question is what they will do for an encore.  With the league reportedly getting over its labor disagreements and the season getting ready to kickoff in less than two months, it’s already a great time to start speculating as to how the Packers will fair.  What many people may have forgotten, though, is that the Packers didn’t even win the NFC Central; the Bears did in one of the most bizarre seasons in recent memory.

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