Aaron Rodgers throws 5 TD passes in Green Bay victory

Quarless sustained the injury to his left knee in the second quarter of the Packers’ 38-28 win over the visiting Kansas City Chiefs.

Rodgers finished the evening with 333 passing yards, five touchdowns and a 138.5 rating. “I think sometimes it’s just assumed that that’s how he’s going to play”, Tolzien said. “It starts with the guys up front”.

The Goats: The Chiefs couldn’t really get a rhythm going on offense, as they were in comeback mode the whole game.

The ability to get 10 other grown men to buy in to the type of game Rodgers wants to call is certainly something that can’t exactly be described with words.

Kansas City put an end to one ugly streak as it tried to dig its way out of a deep hole in the second half.

“I don’t know if there’s anything to say about that”, Richard Rodgers said. “It is nice to get the ball in his hands and get him in the end zone”.

– Green Bay improved to 16-3 in regular-season prime-time games under McCarthy, including wins in 14 of the last 15. He found James Jones for a 27-yard touchdown reception late in the second quarter to give Green Bay a 24-7 lead at halftime. Green, one of the NFL’s star wide receivers, ranks fourth in the league with 335 yards receiving through three games, including a monster performance of 10 catches for 227 yards and two touchdowns in Week 3. Two of Rodgers’ touchdown strikes came in those types of situations.

When the Packers won Super Bowl XXXI after the 1996 season, they were right in the middle of a franchise-record 25-game winning streak at Lambeau Field. Which run defense would show up in Week 3? The Chiefs moving superstar pass-rusher Justin Houston around the defensive line played a part in this. “Obviously, Forte had a few too many yards”, linebacker Clay Matthews said. “It’s the crowd. We have a great crowd”.

The Chiefs were down 24-7 at the break and 38-14 early in the fourth when Jamaal Charles added a couple of rushing touchdowns.

For Reid and the rest of the coaches and players, there’s only one way to get back on track and that’s to make sure that what happened on Monday night doesn’t happen again. Rodgers’ Lambeau advantage is becoming unfair as he has now tossed 48 touchdowns at home since his last interception there.

Each Tuesday, Press-Gazette Media will turn to the week ahead with three storylines for the Green Bay Packers’ next game.

– WR James Jones became the fourth Packer since the merger and the first since TE Keith Jackson (1996) to catch four TD passes in the first three games of the season. “(And) when you’re playing with a great player like (Rodgers) it makes it easy for you“.

“It’s not enough for him, and he still works every single day to try to find different ways to even be more explosive”, fullback John Kuhn said.

Quarterback Alex Smith, who completed just two passes in the first half, led the Chiefs on an 11 play, 80-yard touchdown drive, capped off by a Jeremy Maclin five-yard catch.

Wrapping up the Week 3 NFL action on “Monday Night Football“, we had a solid matchup between the Packers and the Chiefs.