‘Monday Night Football’ schedule and results: Aaron Rodgers torches Chiefs for 5 touchdowns

Aaron Rodgers has been downright masterful with his pre-snap actions and ability to score the Packers free plays by manipulating the snap count. That doesn’t mean he’s always calling out complicated audibles to fool people, however. Sometimes he just tells everyone exactly where the play is going.

Rodgers called an audible which led to one of the Green Bay lineman asking “which way.” With time running out on the play clock, Rodgers didn’t have time to spare so he just yelled out “right!” The Packers did indeed run right and it’s almost as if the Chiefs knew exactly what direction the play was going since they stopped it for a 2-yard loss. Weird.

If the Packers were ever vulnerable, it was after being forced to punt with just under six minutes remaining in the game. The Chiefs had just pulled within 16 points on their previous drive, technically two possessions after the two point conversion, and had the ball at their own 17-yard line. They went on a long touchdown drive, finding the end zone on an inside give to Charles on play No. 18. They may have sapped too much time off the clock, however.

Down 24-7 to open the second half, one might have thought the Chiefs would have tried to get the ball downfield to overcome a sizable deficit more quickly. Nope! Facing a third-and-13 on the opening drive of the half, Smith dumped a pass off to Kelce 14 yards from the first down marker. Kelce was tackled well short and the Chiefs punted.

One of football’s strangest streaks is finally over.

It didn’t seem like a big deal when no Kansas City wideout scored in the last three games of the 2013 season, but people started to notice as 2014 came and went without it happening.

Jamaal Charles found the end zone in Green Bay and wasted no time mimicking opponent Aaron Rodgers on Monday Night Football.

Rodgers, of course, is known for his championship belt move that became featured in State Farm commercials. This isn’t the first time an opponent has mocked the “Discount Double Check,” but Rodgers probably doesn’t mind too much. He’s already tossed three touchdowns and has Green Bay out to a 24-7 lead at halftime.

When: 8:30 pm. EDT

Where: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisc.

Instead, Kansas City will likely need to flip the script and force some turnovers against a Green Bay offense that leads the NFL in points through two weeks. Rodgers hasn’t yet thrown an interception in 2015 and has completed 76.8 percent of his passes with five touchdowns.

The Packers have been susceptible against the run, though. Opposing backs have averaged 5.3 yards per carry and that could be problematic against the NFL’s all-time leader in yards per carry, Charles, who already has 4.9 yards per carry in 2015.

The Chiefs nearly knocked off the Broncos last Thursday night, but a couple of late miscues led to a heartbreaking loss. Kansas City allowed two touchdowns in the final minute, letting a seven-point lead slip away. Once again, the Chiefs were forced to watch Denver escape Arrowhead with the win. Kansas City fell to 1-1 with the loss and now faces an uphill battle in trying to overtake the Broncos in the division race.

The Chiefs and Packers don’t have a long history of playing each other -- this will be just the 12th game in the series -- but their first matchup is one of the most important games in NFL history. On Jan. 15, 1967, the Chiefs and Packers faced off in the first ever AFL-NFL World Championship Game -- which is now more famously called the Super Bowl -- at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The Packers took a 14-10 lead into halftime and then broke the game open with three second-half touchdowns en route to a 35-10 win.