NFL

CATCHING FIRE

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Brett Favre wanted Randy Moss. If the Packers beat the Giants tomorrow, the Packers likely will get him – across the field in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3.

Nevertheless, they no longer rue the offseason failure to sign Moss, then a free agent. Where Rue Lombardi meets Rue Holmgren, the Packers enter today’s NFC title game with perhaps the NFL’s deepest wide receiving corps.

Green Bay leads the league in yards after the catch and is second behind the Patriots in catches. Impressive considering that at midseason, the Packers began successfully pounding the run with Ryan Grant. Surprising too, considering that after nine-year veteran Donald Driver, returning Packers receivers totaled only 111 catches last season.

Whoever runs best usually wins in deep freezes. But if today’s weather stays relatively windless as forecast, the ball will be in the zero-degree air, too. So whoever passes best could be the winner.

“It will help lots if there’s no wind,” said Greg Jennings.

Driver is still top dog with 82 catches this season to Jennings’ 53. But Jennings has 12 touchdowns, awfully good for a guy whose 4.4 in the 40 caused him to go undrafted out of Western Michigan in 2006.

“Some guys time well but don’t play fast,” said receivers coach Jimmy Robinson. “He’s a guy that times well and maybe plays faster. He’s a touchdown scorer, what you want.”

Driver scored only two this season, but says he isn’t counting.

“I’m not getting the seven, eight catches a game, but every ball thrown to me now is caught because I might not get any more,” he said. “You feel like you deserve more but does that matter if you’re winning games?”

No it doesn’t, Jennings agrees.

“I’m not really a stat guy,” he said. “All I know is you can’t stop all of us at one time.

“When you have Donald or (rookie) James Jones on one side and me and Koren (Robinson) on the other, you can’t double anybody.”

Robinson caught 21 passes. While doing pushups in a jail cell, where the former Seahawks and Vikings sad case spent 90 days for repeated drunk-driving violations, 21 passes were 21 more than he sometimes thought he ever would catch again.

“I would only drink when I went out and I didn’t go out all the time,” he said. “It was really a couple situations where I made bad decisions, but I had to ask ‘Why are you making them?’ It’s because alcohol was in play.”

He takes Antabuse, which will make him sick if he touches a drop, and says his favorite movie is “The Shawshank Redemption,” for the “redemption part,” not the tunneling out of prison part.

“Yeah, I wanted to do that,” Robinson said with a laugh. “At times I didn’t think I would be reinstated. . . . This (opportunity) is overwhelming, a blessing. It’s difficult enough to get to a conference championship game and I made it even more difficult for myself.”

All’s well that ends well. Ask Favre.

“We had a young receiving corps outside of Donald,” Favre said. “I had a feeling Greg would emerge as a star. But there was a lack of experience. With their work ethic and character our guys have made up for that. It’s worked out pretty well for Randy Moss and us.”

jay.greenberg@nypost.com