This is your classic trap game. Not that I think the Packers will lose to the reeling Chiefs, but if there is a danger game left where Green Bay could have no other possible excuse than to just have a clunker, this would be it.

In the next two weeks, the Packers have division games at home; first with Chicago, then with Detroit. In either one of those contests, any number of things could come into play as to why Green Bay could stumble. In Chicago, you have a team that hosted the NFC Championship Game last year. The Bears always consider the Packers their "Super Bowl" game no matter where it falls on the calendar.

In Detroit, the Lions have similarly been reeling, but they arguably have the best overall roster the Packers will face the rest of the regular season. Plus, it was the Packers that finished off the Lions 0-16 season in 2008; don't think for a second Detroit wouldn't love to be the team that ruins Green Bay's run at perfection.

However, Kansas City has nothing. There is no deep seeded hatred between the two teams to fuel the Chiefs, who are now playing for new head coach Romeo Crennel, who was elevated on an interim basis when the bombastic and combative Todd Haley was fired on Monday. If nothing else, at least the Chiefs won't hate their coach for the rest of the season.

While player for player the Packers are a much better team than Chiefs are, sometimes new coaches can breathe new life into a team that had otherwise quit.

Three key matchups:

Kansas City QB Kyle Orton vs. Green Bay DB's Charles Woodson, Tramon Williams, Charlie Peprah, and Morgan Burnett: Orton knows Green Bay's defensive personnel from his days in Chicago, and is progressing well from his dislocated right index finger. ''I would say he will probably start for us,'' Crennel said. ''Kyle was able to do more than I expected yesterday and we gave him more today as a result of it." The Packers rank second-to-last in the NFL in stopping the pass. As the playoffs approach, you would like to see that glaring weakness get corrected. Back on Oct. 2, Orton went 22-32 for 273 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions vs. Green Bay while he was still a member of the Denver Broncos.

Green Bay LT Marshall Newhouse vs. Kansas City ROLB Tamba Hali: Hali has nine sacks this year, and at times Newhouse has looked like a turnstile. As the playoffs approach, no one wants to see the hit that Aaron Rodgers took last week from Oakland's Aaron Curry. Everyone sitting inside Lambeau Field gasped a full two seconds before the probably NFL MVP was blindsided at full speed. It's things like this that give Packers fans ulcers. No one expects the Green Bay offensive line to be perfect, but Rodgers has been taking more than his fair share of hits for most of the season. And while Newhouse is learning, Mike McCarthy just hopes that one of his teaching moments won't be with his franchise quarterback on a stretcher.

Kansas City DB's Brandon Flowers, Kendrick Lewis, Jon McGraw, and Brandon Carr vs. Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers: McGraw is questionable with an ankle injury, but the Kansas City secondary has a group of playmakers that hawk to the ball well. All of the aforementioned have at least three interceptions each this season, and none of them will have to try to stop Green Bay WR Greg Jennings, who will miss the rest of the regular season with a knee sprain. Rodgers is sitting on a franchise record-tying 39 touchdown passes as opposed to just six interceptions. Rodgers is maniacal about taking care of the football, but there isn't really a weak link to pick on in the Chiefs secondary.

NFL Team Ranks:

Total offense: Packers, 3 - Chiefs, 28

Passing offense: Packers, 3 - Chiefs, 30

Rushing offense: Packers, 27 - Chiefs, 15

3rd down offense: Packers, 2 - Chiefs, 16

Total points scored: Packers, 1 - Chiefs, 31

Total defense: Packers, 31 - Chiefs, 15

Passing defense: Packers, 31 - Chiefs, 10

Rushing defense: Packers, 12 - Chiefs, 26

3rd down defense: Packers, 27 - Chiefs, 10

Total points allowed: Packers, 15 - Chiefs, 23 (t)

Other key games around the NFL:

Detroit (8-5) at Oakland (7-6): Both teams are playing for their playoff lives. The Lions are clinging to the final playoff spot in the NFC, while the Raiders are trying to get back into the hunt. Oakland is still licking its wounds from last week's thrashing at the hands of the Packers, while the Lions welcome back Ndamukong Suh back after he served his two game suspension for stomping on Green Bay's Evan Dietrich-Smith on Thanksgiving Day. Oakland has lost three straight overall; Detroit has lost their last two road games and five of their last eight overall. My prediction: Detroit 22, Oakland 17

New England (10-3) at Denver (8-5): The TimTebows have been on a roll, having Tebowed seven of their last eight games. Last week, erasing a 10-0 defecit late, Tim Tebow kicked a 59-yard Tebow to send the game into overTebow, then he knocked down the game-winning 51-yard Tebow to Tebow the game. New England has regularly struggled away from home in this series, going just 2-15 all-time in Colorado...er...TebowLand. The Patriots are tied with the Texans and Ravens for the best record in the AFC with three games left to play. My prediction: Tebows 31, Patriots 30, on a last-second Tebow.

Broadcast information:

Television: FOX 6 (WITI-TV); Kenny Albert (play-by-play), Daryl Johnston (analyst), and Tony Siragusa (sideline goofiness)

Local Radio: WTMJ – AM 620; Wayne Larrivee (play-by-play) and Larry McCarren (analyst)

For what it's worth:

For the second week in a row, the Packers play a team that they beat in a Lombardi Super Bowl. On Jan. 15, 1967, Green Bay defeated Kansas City 35-10 in what eventually became known as Super Bowl I.

Interestingly, the Packers-Rams game from less than one month earlier at the same Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum out-drew the AFL-NFL World Championship Game by more than 10,000 fans, despite the fact that the hometown team had no chance of making the playoffs.

My prediction:

Green Bay 41, Kansas City 17