"Kyle Orton is to the Green Bay what Kryptonite is to Superman."

Those were some of the final words of Sunday’s game broadcast from play-by-play man Wayne Larrivee when the Buffalo Bills ran out the clock on a surprising 21-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers at Ralph Wilson Stadium in New York.

Despite the fact that Orton was hardly overwhelming – the veteran signal caller was just 14 for 27 for 158 yards and zero touchdowns with an interception – the sentiment was accurate.

Orton was also the quarterback who ended the Packers perfect season in 2011 as a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, and he was one of the few Chicago Bears quarterbacks to beat the Packers over the last decade.

And, oddly enough, even with his 54.2 quarterback rating, Orton outplayed would-be MVP candidate Aaron Rodgers from start to finish.

Rodgers turned in the worst statistical performance of his career as a starting quarterback with a 34.3 rating, set a career high for incompletions (25) and threw zero touchdowns and two interceptions.

He also had several interceptions, including a would be "pick six," dropped.

Even with his receivers dropping a season-high seven passes, Rodgers just didn’t look like himself.

Buffalo takes 13-10 lead on Carpenter's 51-yard field goal. Does Aaron Rodgers start third quarter, or that imposter who played first half? — Jason Wilde (@jasonjwilde) December 14, 2014

 And, the Packers lost.

That would surprise nobody.

Usually, even teams with pedestrian starting quarterbacks lose when that guy lays an egg (see Sanchez, Mark).

But that’s the thing – the Packers could have won the game anyway.

In fact, it reminded me of the offensive disaster of week 3 in Detroit in which the Packers offense scored just one touchdown, Rodgers was average (88.8 rating, 1 TD) and the defense held up their end of the bargain by limiting Matthew Stafford (61.6 rating, 2 INT) and Calvin Johnson (six catches, no touchdowns).

In that game, if you recall, the Lions scored off a fumble return and a safety — 9 points, just given away.

Fast forward to Sunday.

The defense turned in yet another brilliant effort, holding the Bills offense and their "Superman" QB to just four Dan Carpenter field goals. But, Buffalo had a 75-yard punt return for a touchdown and yet another safety.

Throw in another blocked field goal – the sixth blocked kick surrendered by the Packers this season — and you saw a meltdown in two of the three phases of the game, and that was too much to overcome.

Now, we all remembered what happened after week 3, don’t we?

R-E-L-A-X.

And then the Packers took off. Well, I still believe Rodgers said that with a wink toward the upcoming schedule and just flat-out bad teams like the Chicago Bears and (at the time) Minnesota Vikings. He knew the offense would explode against such poor defenses.

Now, they head to Tampa Bay and play a terrible Buccaneers team. Lovie Smith’s team is bad on offense, and eighth from the bottom in total defense in allowing nearly 370 yards per game. Opposing quarterbacks have a 99.1 rating against them (fifth worst) and they are 19th in the league against the run.

So, Packers fans can "relax" for another week, at least until the Detroit Lions head to Lambeau Field in two weeks.

There will be valid concerns and questions this week up in Green Bay, but simply, if Rodgers played like Orton, they would’ve won the game.

And, let’s face it, he’s going to do that more than Kyle Orton even can.

That doesn’t take away the feel around this clunker of a game however, in which Doug Russell said it best:

This game is making my 1987 Plymouth Horizon look like a positive chick magnet. — Doug Russell (@DougRussell) December 14, 2014