GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Maybe the difference, really, is Aaron Rodgers.
Maybe if Ted Thompson hadn't taken a future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback during the 2005 NFL draft -- not that Thompson, in his first draft as the Green Bay Packers general manager, could have foreseen Rodgers being this good during his draft-day free-fall to No. 24 -- and the Packers were still hoping to find their next great quarterback, maybe Thompson's approach to roster building wouldn't seem so different from that of Rick Spielman, his Minnesota Vikings counterpart.