... but I know good football numbers when I see them.

Aaron Rodgers finally got his chance to start in 2008 after sitting the previous three years behind a legend who never missed a game. And while Rodgers didn't get the number of wins fans were hoping for, he did show the Packer faithful they have little to worry about at the most important position on the team.

Dealing with the media scrutiny of replacing an NFL icon and the soap opera atmosphere that was the Brett Favre departure, Rodgers remained calm, cool, and concentrated on the job at hand. 

It would be easy to do a line by line comparison of Rodgers' stats from 2008 and Favre's stats from 2007. They were almost identical in the "fantasy football" stat lines (yards...

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