Starr In The Making: How Aaron Rodgers Compares To The Legend

After recently comparing Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre to Steve Young and Joe Montana, I felt the urge to go on to the next step. 

For those that watched the Arizona-Green Bay game on Sunday, may remember Joe Buck talking about how Bart Starr lost his first playoff game and went on to win his next nine. 

This got me thinking, do we have another Bart Starr on our hands?

As of right now, it could go either way. 

Bart Starr's stats and achievements are impressive. Two Super Bowl wins that happened to come when the thought of a "Super Bowl" had only just presented itself were astounding in their own right. Starr had four Pro Bowl selections, was a two time Super Bowl MVP and the 1966 NFL MVP.

Aaron Rodgers has only made a chip into his career. 

However, at the rate he's going, he is a shoe in to overtake Bart Starr in the not too distant future. He has 726 completions, 8,801 yards and fifty nine touchdowns in his career. These passing numbers are part of the reason the Packers defense has barely struggled since Favre's departure.

These are just stats though, and in Green Bay they don't mean everything. 

When you're a Packer, you're expected to live up to standards, play with all your heart, and above all, win. 

Bart Starr was successful in that regard. 

Though I wasn't alive at the time to witness it, if you were to ask me what my greatest sporting moment was, I would automatically say "The Ice Bowl Game". 

A quarterback's play these days is a mere way of moving the chains. For Starr, his play was the way to win a clutch game in below freezing temperatures.

Whether or not Aaron Rodgers will be as successful as Starr, or even Favre for that matter, is still a question without an answer. One thing is for sure though, Rodgers' future is at Lambeau Field.

He may not have that Ice Bowl moment just yet, and he may not have an interception record next to his name, but there is still time.

If there's one thing Green Bay is good at, it's producing legendary quarterbacks. Bart Starr, Lynn Dickey, Don Majkowski and Brett Favre, just to name a few.  Aaron Rodgers is on a path to be the fifth guy up there.  If he keeps going the way he is, don't be surprised to see him go down as one of the best Packer quarterbacks in the past fifty years.

Whether or not Rodgers will go on an impressive playoff streak after suffering a crushing loss on Sunday is also a mystery. If history is any indication, don't be surprised to see it happen next season as Rodgers tries to win the NFC North for the Packers.