Travis Kelce Says Losing First Game 'Pisses Me Off' and Calls Himself Out: 'I Didn't Play My Best'

Mar. 15, 2025

Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs looks on from the sideline prior to an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on October 7, 2024.Photo:Cooper Neill/Getty

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Travis Kelcewas disappointed in himself after the Chiefs first loss of the season.

The 35-year-old NFL star expressed his frustration while recappingKansas City’s 21-30 losstoJosh Allenand the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Nov. 17 during the latest episode ofNew Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce.

The tight end told his brother,Jason Kelce, and their listeners on the Wednesday, Nov. 20 episode that he gets “fired up” each time the Chiefs take on the “best” teams in the NFL, like the Bills, who sit on top of the AFC East with a 9-2 record. But while he was certainly “fired up for this one,” Travis admitted, “I didn’t play my best.”

The three-time Super Bowl champ continued, “And that s—, it pisses me off, and it made me, you know, go right back into work on Monday after the game and get after it and find a find a way to make s— right.”

“I think this is something that you won’t see out of us in the future,” Travis said of his team falling short in close games, adding, “a lot of this s— is very fixable and I’ve got all the faith in the world in this team.”

Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs warms up prior to the game against the Cincinnati Bengals at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 15, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri.Jamie Squire/Getty

Jamie Squire/Getty

Jason, 36, read some of Reid’s postgame quotes where he said he told his players, “This should hurt…You can’t just say everything’s going to be okay…You have to check the ego at the door and do some self eval.”

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TheGrotesqueriestar expanded on his head coach’s sentiment, saying, “I don’t give a f— how your body’s feeling. I don’t give a f— where your mentality is off the field. When you step in that building, we are here to figure s— out, and we are here to get better as football players for the football team.”

Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs warming up for a game at Arrowhead Stadium on November 4, 2024.David Eulitt/Getty

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Looking ahead to the rest of the season, Travis said he’s “got to be the leader that I’ve been in the past” and “hold myself accountable” as a veteran of the team.

After the Chiefs loss on Sunday, quarterbackPatrick Mahomesshared a positive takeaway during his postgame interview, calling the Bills a “good football team” and that a loss to them “nothing to hang your head [about].”

Mahomes, 29,told reportersthat the team feels like they “can play better” and said, “We’ll get back to work and try to use this as a spark so that we can be a better football team in the end.”

source: people.com