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Packers safety Charles Woodson (21) celebrates a play during the fourth quarter. (Jeff Hanisch, USA TODAY Sports)
 
The Vikings turned to Joe Webb with Christian Ponder sidelined by a sore right elbow
Come on home, Aaron Rodgers.
All Rodgers did for the Green Bay Packers Saturday night, in a 24-10 wild card round win against the Minnesota Vikings, was provide yet another reminder of that no matter how good your running back is, no matter what happened in previous games - even as recently as six days ago - when it comes to the NFL playoffs, a team is only as good as its quarterback.
Amid the focus Saturday on Minnesota quarterback Christian Ponder's injured triceps and elbow, and with the dismal passing performance by backup Joe Webb, Rodgers methodically and efficiently earned the first home playoff win of his career, and with it, a divisional round date next week against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park.
It will mark the first time Rodgers plays a meaningful NFL game in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he played in college at the University of California. Rodgers' hometown of Chico is less than 200 miles away. And then there is the ever present draft-day-snub story line that will follow Rodgers every time he plays the 49ers for the rest of his career.
Rodgers frequently downplays the quarterback-vs.-quarterback matchups, but with Webb playing opposite Rodgers Saturday night at Lambeau Field, it hardly seemed fair. The Packers will face another quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, in his first postseason start next week. The other three remaining NFC teams are quarterbacked by two rookies (Washington's Robert Griffin III and Seattle's Russell Wilson) and a veteran without a playoff win (Atlanta's Matt Ryan).
"I feel like we have the best quarterback in the league, let alone the NFC," said Green Bay receiver James Jones. "It always falls back on him, and we're only going to go as far as his right arm takes us. If we play good defense and make plays for him on offense on the outside, we'll be fine."
Ponder, who played the best game of his career six days ago in Minnesota's 37-34 win against the Packers, wasn't ruled out of Saturday's game until 90 minutes before kickoff, and Webb learned he would be starting not much before that. Ponder threw about a dozen warm-up throws three hours before kickoff, but a deep bruise in his triceps (an injury sustained in the second quarter last week) was too limiting. Ponder had thrown little during the week, but until Saturday morning, he and team officials remained optimistic he would be able to play in Minnesota's first playoff game since the 2009 season.
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SOURCE: USA Today
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