One thing is plainly evident when going back and watching the 38-35 Packers victory back in Week 13 of the 2011 season:

Whichever team gets better play at the safety position will have a much better chance of winning this Sunday's game at Lambeau Field.

For the Packers part, this of course means needing an increased focus on the fundamentals from both Morgan Burnett and Charlie Peprah. Perpah in particular was targeted by the Giants last month, and quite successfully.

While Peprah is not about to become an elite safety overnight, there are plenty of things he and safeties coach Darren Perry can concentrate on and drill this week in regards to footwoork, both pre- and post-snap. Too often this season, and in that Giants game in particular, Peprah has been caught taking what coaches call "false steps," meaning taking one or two steps that take the defender out of position against the keys he is supposed to be reading.

This problem showed itself early in the game, on the game's first touchdown, shown below:

There's a very old coaching point when it comes to the defensive secondary that says, except on very rare occasions (when asked to blitz, for example) the first step a defensive back takes should always be backward. Always. Once the DB reads run, then they can start forward. But the first two steps at least should be the beginning of a backpedal.

Look no further than the rest of the secondary on the play above. Every single one of them explodes backwards at the snap of the ball - Peprah's hop forward basically loses the down for him before Manning ever lets go of the ball.

There are tons of little coaching points like this that Perry will be able to point to and hammer on this week (and, hopefully throughout the playoffs) that could help make a difference when the Packers face a pretty potent Giants passing offense this Sunday in Green Bay.