Rodgers - I thought he would be a top 10 QB eventually if given enough time and thought the expectations on him were way too high for him to live up and he just wasn't that good to be that good that quickly. Wrong and I am so happy for it!
He was not only BETTER than I thought he was going to be. He got to that elite status before I even thought he would get to the top 10 QB status.
And an even better person, I said it before but the way he's handled this whole Favre stuff is classy and remarkable. May be I suck at judging talent or may be I was apprehensive about giving him so much credit in light of me liking Favre but whatever it was, I was wrong.
I also never thought Mike McCarthy would be a Super Bowl coach but he did it, he won games against great coaches (Reid, Tomlin, etc.). I will still bitch about the next game next year when he goes conservative in the 2nd half but he did it.