Super Bowl Media Day: Green Bay Packers Unfairly in Brett Favre's Shadow

As Aaron Rodgers answered questions, NFL Network showed a list of the top five quarterback ratings in playoff history.

Rodgers currently is the leader with a 113 QB rating. Bart Starr is third on the list with a rating of 104.8.

Brett Favre, amazingly, is not on the list. And yet, with the amount of questions the media asked about Rodgers' predecessor, you would have thought he was actually the starting quarterback in Super Bowl XLV.

I live with a lot of Packers fans. Anytime they watch a Green Bay game, they cringe anytime Rodgers gets compared to Favre.

You would think the Packers earned the right to avoid having to answer questions about him ever again. Enter Media Day, where journalists always ask the most analytical of questions (cue the sarcastic sigh).

The professional analyst that he is, Deion Sanders got things started by asking Rodgers if Favre contacted him about what to expect about playing in the Super Bowl. Rodgers responded with a simple no.

When Chad Clifton was asked about which question received at Media Day was one he considered the most unintelligent, he mentioned that he was asked about his former #4-wearing teammate.

Donald Driver was asked if he felt that the Packers made the right decision by parting ways with Favre.

"I think they made the right decision," Driver said. "I never thought it would happen, but look at where we are now. I've played with two great quarterbacks, and one of them led me to the Super Bowl."

NFL Network's Marshall Faulk and Rich Eisen theorized that the comparisons between Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers are inevitable. To paraphrase Eisen, you don't want to be the successor of the legend; you want to be the successor of the successor of the legend.

If this theory holds true, Favre ought to consider himself lucky that he did not follow Bart Starr. Otherwise, he would constantly be reminded of the fact that Starr led the Packers to two Super Bowls and five NFL titles, whereas Favre won only one Super Bowl.

Plus, Starr had a better quarterback rating in the playoffs than Favre.