New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is viewed by some as the best coach in NFL history, and if he isn't No. 1 on your list, he is probably somewhere in your top five. Part of what makes a great coach is his influence, and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers sees a whole lot of Belichick in modern NFL defenses:

“I think that’s the NFL in the last five years, especially, it’s kind of the Belichick effect where teams are more reluctant to really try and scheme up opponents instead of relying on their base defense,” Rodgers told reporters on Friday ahead of the Packers' Sunday NFC Championship Game showdown with the San Francisco 49ers, via Packers' YouTube account. “There’s less and less teams like the Lovie Smith Bears defenses over the years that say ‘Hey, screw it, we’re going to play four-man front, play Tampa-2 the entire game and make you go the whole field, and strip the ball and tackle securely and stop the run with a six-man, seven-man front.’”

Essentially, Rodgers is saying that less and less defenses are playing traditionally in today's game and that it depends on matchups more than anything else:

“There’s more teams that are scheming specifically up for teams,” added Rodgers. “I think the tough part is it might be different than you saw on film. The drawback from that is a lot of these teams are used to playing coverages they’re not used to playing, they’re not super-comfortable playing, they don’t have a lot of reps in and that can cause some confusion at times.”

Belichick is certainly a master at scheming in the playoffs. Just ask Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay, a brilliant offensive mind that Belichick made to look like a novice in last year's Super Bowl.

Rodgers and the Packers will be facing a tough defense themselves this weekend when they take on the 49ers.

San Francisco hammered Green Bay by a score of 37-8 back in Week 12.