Rodgers powers Packers past Browns 31-3

CLEVELAND — The Browns were no distraction. The Green Bay Packers can now focus on Brett.

Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes, Ryan Grant rushed for 148 yards and Green Bay warmed up for Brett Favre's first visit back to Lambeau Field next week with a 31-3 laugher Sunday over the Cleveland Browns, who got over the flu but can't shake other problems.

It would have been understandable if the Packers (4-2) had overlooked an inferior opponent with their eyes on Favre's hyped return to Wisconsin with the Minnesota Vikings. But Rodgers and his teammates took care of business against the Browns (1-6), who have scored just four offensive touchdowns and 72 points all season.

Rodgers finished 15 of 20 for 246 yards and the three TDs — a 71-yarder to Donald Driver and 41-yarder to tight end/linebacker Spencer Havner in the first half, and a 5-yarder to James Jones to cap a 99-yard drive in the fourth quarter.

Despite being without injured starting left tackle Chad Clifton, Green Bay's offensive line did not give up a sack after allowing a league-high 25 coming in. Rodgers' white No. 12 jersey had no grass stains. He had plenty of time to throw and picked apart Cleveland's secondary.

On one of the few plays he was under pressure, Rodgers stepped up and scrambled for 19 yards before sliding safely at the feet of Browns cornerback Eric Wright, who was playing with a sore shoulder suffered in a car accident and may not have been able to bring down the Packers QB anyway.

Grant ran through huge holes up front as the Packers' line dominated Cleveland's defensive front, which was hit hard this week by a flu virus that knocked 12 players out of practice on Wednesday.

Unlike Rodgers, Browns quarterback Derek Anderson was under duress for four quarters. He completed 12 of 29 passes for 99 yards — just 44 after the first quarter. Anderson drove Cleveland to the Green Bay 1 in the fourth, but the Browns couldn't get the last 36 inches after two running plays and two incompletions.

By game's end, Browns Stadium was mostly empty and the only noise was coming from Green Bay fans chanting "Let's go Pack."

The lopsided loss capped a turbulent week in Cleveland that included linebacker D'Qwell Jackson suffering a season-ending shoulder injury, the rash of flu cases, trade rumors involving Brady Quinn and Joshua Cribbs and Wright flipping his Mercedes on a wet highway entrance ramp.