"From the midpoint of the 2011 NFL season, Aaron Rodgers was going to be the league's MVP. It was almost as if it were preordained. No one else was going to be close.

Rodgers was doing everything to justify a runaway vote. He was having one of the greatest quarterbacking seasons in the history of the game. His numbers looked like misprints. Joe Theismann was calling him the most accurate thrower the NFL had ever seen.

On a lower plane, debates were being held if Rodgers was the best quarterback the Packers had ever had. Clearly, he was the most athletically gifted, even if he had not accomplished all the things Brett Favre had done in a lengthy Green Bay career."