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Quick quiz: Name two Green Bay Packers.

There’s Brett Favre, of course, then . . .

Yes, Packers fans can rattle off most of the roster, but much of the country would be hard pressed to name many current players beyond the team’s future Hall of Fame quarterback.

No team has come further than the Packers this season, going from a 75-to-1 shot to win the Super Bowl to a team that lived and died by the pass to a well-balanced winning machine, one that will play host to the New York Giants on Sunday in the NFC championship game.

For the second consecutive season, 38-year-old Favre is the quarterback of the youngest team in the NFL. But instead of frustrating him, this year’s infusion of youth has reinvigorated him. Sometimes, he has to remind himself that he’s been around as long as he has.

“I was getting some treatment yesterday, and James Jones was getting some treatment beside me,” he said, referring to the rookie receiver. “And he asked me, ‘So how many championship games is this you played in?’ I said, ‘This will be three.’ ”

But the trainer was quick to inform Favre he was one off; in fact, it’s his fourth championship game. It’s easy to understand how the quarterback might be losing track of time. He is having more fun this season than he’s had in years.

So many Packers have made big strides over the last three months. There’s the rise of running back Ryan Grant, who rushed for 201 yards and three touchdowns in last weekend’s victory over Seattle.

Then there’s receiver Greg Jennings, who overcame the ankle injury that slowed him last season to emerge as one of the league’s best -- and most unheralded -- deep threats.

From the ability of tight end Donald Lee to stretch the field, to the reliability of rookie kicker Mason Crosby, to the toughness of safety Atari Bigby, to the tackling of linebacker Nick Barnett, the Packers are the most unheralded team in the league. Defensive end Aaron Kampman, who led the NFC in sacks in 2006, had a dozen this season. Yet even Packers fans would have a tough time picking him out of a crowd.

For that matter, Coach Mike McCarthy could probably walk unnoticed down any street in America.

The way the Packers have been playing lately, however, their anonymity might not last long.

Some people think the San Diego Chargers have almost no chance to upset the New England Patriots in Foxborough. Those people are flat wrong.

Far worse teams -- namely Philadelphia and Baltimore -- have given New England all it could handle this season. And San Diego is a much different team in terms of confidence and chemistry than it was when it was blown out at Gillette Stadium in Week 2.

But there’s no catching these Patriots off guard. Maybe the most impressive thing about their so-far perfect season is the players’ ability to focus on the task at hand. To go that many games without a major mental letdown is remarkable, and the hallmark of a team loaded with veteran leadership.

All the talk this week has been about the health of San Diego’s offensive stars. Philip Rivers, LaDainian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates are in various states of disrepair, and those are significant issues. But the Chargers have shown they can move the ball with or without them, and New England’s defense has not been as dominating as the season has progressed.

This game will hinge on turnovers -- San Diego led the league this season with a plus-24 turnover differential -- and how much pressure the Chargers can put on Tom Brady, while covering the Patriots’ array of offensive weapons, particularly slot receiver Wes Welker and running back Kevin Faulk.

Just blanketing the receivers won’t get the job done. Jacksonville tried that and it didn’t work. The Jaguars devoted a lot of bodies to coverage, almost never blitzed, and gave Brady what felt like an eternity to pick them apart. When they finally did try a blitz, Brady spotted it and threw over the top to Donte Stallworth for one of the few big gains of the game. In the end, Brady wound up setting an all-time playoff record for completion percentage.

“They do struggle when [Brady] takes a lot of hits back there; he hasn’t taken many this year,” Chargers cornerback Drayton Florence said. “I think that’s key: Getting to Brady, make him throw the ball quick, make him not be able to read the field as quickly as he’d like to to Wes Welker over the middle, and Stallworth and [Randy] Moss on the outside.”

That requires San Diego to mix in lots of different defensive formations, and for players to do the best they can to disguise what they’re doing until the ball is snapped. No quarterback is better than Brady at sniffing out a defensive scheme and reacting to it. That, coupled with the airtight pocket his offensive line provides, makes it seem like he’s playing a leisurely game of backyard catch.

“We definitely are going to bang him up a bit and try to slow him up so he doesn’t get to make those quick decisions,” said Chargers safety Clinton Hart.

Because really, San Diego would love to give Brady all the time he wants.

Ideally for them, the whole off-season.

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sam.farmer@latimes.com