AP

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers only played two series into the second half against the Bears last Sunday night as the Packers turned to Matt Flynn after taking a 45-0 lead.

Rodgers threw six touchdown passes in the first half of the game and admitted Tuesday that he would have liked to tie the NFL record for touchdown passes in a game by tossing a seventh in the second half and said that he thinks you owe it to the game to keep playing, although he allowed that “there’s a time and a place” for such efforts and that the same respect for the game sometimes calls for a different approach.

Missing out on a chance at touchdown No. 7 wasn’t the only downside of the trip to the bench for Rodgers. While he generally felt well on Monday after the limited night’s work, one part of his body was worse for the lack of wear.

“My low back was actually hurting,” Rodgers said on ESPN Milwaukee, via the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “I think it attribute that to standing around the entire time in the second half. The guys took really good care of me on the field. I barely got touched all game, but my back actually got a little tight on the sideline. I forgot what a strain that can be to stand there and watch. It’s more fun, obviously, to be out there and play.”

There’s no suggestion that the lower back tightness will be any more of a hindrance than Rodgers’s recent hamstring tweak, which means that the quarterback should be able to keep up his torrid recent pace.