Of all the areas in which Aaron Rodgers has excelled this season, a case could be made that his best quality was that he rarely threw an interception. That he threw just six in 502 pass attempts probably will end up being what pushes him over the top for the NFL's Most Valuable Player Award, which will be announced on the eve of Super Bowl XLVI.
Rodgers' interception rate of 1.2 percent tied the franchise record set by Bart Starr in 1966, when Starr threw just three interceptions in 251 attempts.
"That's a testament to his accuracy and decision-making," said Rodgers' backup, Matt Flynn. "He's smart, and he doesn't do anything crazy with the ball. You probably can't go through the history of the NFL and find a season like that."
Almost. Dating to 1936, only five times has an NFL quarterback had a lower interception rate. One occurred this season, when San Francisco's Alex Smith threw five interceptions in 446 attempts (1.1 percent). Another was last season, when Tom Brady had the second-best interception rate of all time (0.8 percent, four interceptions in 492 attempts).
Love this part............. Still, Rodgers saw how Favre's final interception, in overtime of the NFC championship game loss to the Giants on Jan. 20, 2008, infuriated the Packers organization.
"There's no question, Aaron hates interceptions," Packers third-string quarterback Graham Harrell said. "He's a perfectionist. Interceptions, no matter if they're his fault or not, he takes pretty hard. No one likes to throw interceptions but a lot of quarterbacks have come to accept them. Not him. He hates them, and he's hard on himself about them. But it makes him better. He wants to be perfect, and he's been pretty close."
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