"For most of the game the Giants had Aaron Rodgers right where they wanted him, shifting around the pocket, worried he might be hit and feeling vulnerable.

It doesn't take a football genius to figure out the best way to keep the NFL's best quarterback from playing like the NFL's best quarterback is to apply the kind of a constant pressure that would keep him from feeling comfortable.

Rich Gannon, a former quarterback turned NFL broadcaster, had put it this way earlier in the week.

"They say if you've got a great quarterback and he gets hit, then he becomes good," Gannon said. "If he's a good quarterback and gets hit, he becomes average and if he's average and gets hit he becomes bad.""