Carson Palmer and Aaron Rodgers, two California kids with far different playoff experiences, will square off when the Arizona Cardinals host the Green Bay Packers in Saturday’s NFC divisional round game at the University of Phoenix Stadium.
They met less than three weeks ago, when the Cardinals trounced the Packers 38-8. Leading up to that game, we compared the two quarterbacks and their seasons to that point.
Now, we take another tale-of-the-tape look at them from ESPN Cardinals reporter Josh Weinfuss and Packers reporter Rob Demovsky:
Northern California ties
Palmer: He was born in Fresno and lived in Northern California through junior high until the Palmer family moved to Rancho Santa Margarita, a city south of Los Angeles.