Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers Gets Monkey Off His Back with Playoff Win

As reader Erica Jackson predicted: "Michael Vick will chew the Green Bay Packers up, spit them out, and Packer fans will choke on their own vomit."

Her guess was wrong: The Eagles didn't win and Vick was shaky in his performance at home.

She also thinks that Vick should get the MVP this year, but he won't. Tony Marks, another reader and myself think it will go to Tom Brady with Aaron Rodgers getting some votes.

Rodgers did everything in his young career except win a playoff game. He carried the monkey on his back after last year's exit in the first round to Arizona.

He made sure it didn't happen this time.

Like I mentioned last week, the Packers would come in Lincoln Financial Field and dominate. To my satisfaction, they did with a 21-16 win.

Vick was still capable of bringing the Eagles from behind and the Pack had to stop the bleeding.

Philadelphia was prepared for the passing game of Green Bay. What they didn't see coming was rookie running back James Starks shredding their defense for over 100 yards. This was a guy who wasn't able to play for the first six regular season games because he was hurt.

The 4th-and-26 memories are gone and so are the Eagles. Rodgers is more conservative with the ball compared to Brett Favre when he quarterbacked the Packers. That guy made us nervous every time he had the ball because throwing to the other team cost us at least one trip to the Super Bowl.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy released the dogs on Vick, who half the time ran for his life when his offensive line broke down. When Vick hurt his ankle trying to get away and went down, somebody should've dragged him to the sideline.

When their tight end got popped by safety Nick Collins late in the game, he was down for a little while. I know the guy was hurt, but that was a stall tactic by the Eagles.

If I was the guys on defense, I would've said, "C'mon, drag him to the sideline, we want the game over because we have things to do."

Again, when Vick threw his last interception, it was all she wrote. Again, he was a day late and a dollar short.

The first player that Philadelphia should cut is their kicker, David Akers, who missed two field goals. The next guy that should go is Vick.

So we stuffed one bird. Now we have to try to stuff another bird. I think we will give the Atlanta Falcons all that they can handle in the Divisional Round of the playoffs.