GREEN BAY, Wis. -- If you think the Green Bay Packers need home-field advantage in the playoffs -- and it sounds like Aaron Rodgers thinks perhaps they do -- then games don't come much bigger than Sunday's at the San Francisco 49ers.
No wonder the Packers quarterback didn't even try to downplay it.
"The way I look at it, we've got to beat them once at their place at some point," Rodgers said Wednesday. "It would be nice to do it now."
If Rodgers and the Packers (8-2) can't, then they would fall two games behind the 49ers (9-1) in the NFC playoff standings.