DETROIT — What has to kill defenders about Aaron Rodgers, what has to absolutely drive them crazy when they watch film or run back plays in their minds, is not that Rodgers make plays that few, if any, other quarterbacks can make. It’s that time and again, it must feel for those defenders like they are so close to stopping him, only for Green Bay’s QB to tear out their hearts.
How many Lions narrowly missed dropping Rodgers for a sack Sunday night, during the Packers’ NFC North-clinching 31–24 win? If not every member of the defensive line plus a linebacker or two, it sure felt that way.