GREEN BAY – Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes the offense is on the verge.

With Randall Cobb and Geronimo Allison mending, the team's rookie receivers settling in, and Rodgers' own confidence he'll start playing better, the two-time MVP QB expressed on Thursday the offense is about to turn a corner.

"I told you guys Week 1 it's going to be a work in progress," Rodgers said. "I don't feel like we're far off."

He didn't make any run-the-table proclamations, but Rodgers' feelings are much like two years ago as the Packers' midseason four-game losing streak was mercifully ending. Back then, it was the emergence of tight end Jared Cook and the health of the offensive line taking shape that produced the vote of confidence.

This time, even as he rehabbed his injured knee again with the hope of returning to practice full-time on Friday, Rodgers can see the potential from the 321-yard, 23-point second half the Packers put together in the loss at Detroit.

With rookies Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Equanimeous St. Brown getting more familiar with up-tempo adjustments, Davante Adams playing like "a different breed," and Cobb and Allison (hamstring injuries) back at practice on a limited basis, Rodgers believes it's coming around.

In his view, as soon as it no longer takes multiple possessions to find footing and the offense clicks from the start, the outlook of the whole team will change. It all needs to take root starting Monday night at Lambeau Field against San Francisco.