unfortunately you cant cherry pick games to say if a player is elite in sensing pressure coming in the pocket. Its something you judge season to season. Just like I wouldnt use 2009s Bengals, Vikings, or Tampa Bays games to judge his pocket presence.
In 2010 Chad Henne, Matt Hasselbeck, Josh Freeman, Mark Sanchez, Carson Palmer, Matt Cassell, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Peyton Manning, and Eli Manning all took less sacks than Rodgers. so to say he is "elite" in terms of avoiding sacks is a reach at best.
Again, I had this same discussion at Acmepackingcompany.com, it's borderline assinine to correlate sack totals with pocket presence.
To do that, you have to completely disregard the quality of OL, the conditions in which every sack was made, who was responsible for every sack, if taking the sack was the best solution in that moment or not.
Favre took way less sacks than Rodgers, but he also threw way more picks.
Tom Coughling was quoted saying that Eli Manning was a big reason why they didn't take many sacks, but that he was wrong in doing so, because that was also the big reason why his INT totals soared.
It's idiotic to take number of sacks and determinate if the QB has good pocket presence or not. What Aaron Rodgers did against Atlanta, you can't do that if you are not ELITE at pocket presence and avoiding sacks.
And this isn't evaluating Rodgers' career or year regarding his pocket presence. It's evaluating it
NOW. The last 7 or so games, he was elite.
NOW, he's elite. It's not cherrypicking, I'm not just selecting a few games, it's a STRETCH of games, the most recent stretch of games, against the best pass rushing teams in the NFL.