Todd McShay, a former NFL Draft analyst for ESPN, didn’t mince phrases when he assessed Travis Kelce’s efficiency over the primary 3 weeks of the season.
Month Kansas Town Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes defended Kelce’s sluggish get started and pointed to alternative defenses being ready for Kelce, Awful Announcing famous that McShay stated Kelce’s off-field exploits are dressed in on him.
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Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce warms up for the Cincinnati Bengals duel at GEHA Grassland at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Town, Missouri, on Sept. 15, 2024. (Denny Medley-Imagn Photographs)
“So, I don’t understand this, and maybe it’s a political thing, maybe it’s like the NFL, and maybe I’m gonna wind up getting a phone call from the league office. Maybe it’s Taylor Swift, I don’t know,” McShay stated on “The Ryne Russilo Podcast.” “But like when you’re staring at something so obvious… Cris Collinsworth is, honest to God, my favorite analyst out there to watch; most respected analyst, I think, in football for anyone that has half a brain…
“Each display I keep watch, each pregame display, halftime display, postgame display, weekday display, each broadcast I look ahead to the extreme few weeks, it’s like, are we no longer allowed to mention that he’s out of environment? That he’s been partying all offseason? He’s been jet-setting round with probably the most well-known individual, most likely in all the global. That he’s consuming… getting to the U.S. Seen, he’s were given cocktails in…”
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce reacts after a first down against the Baltimore Ravens at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, on Sept. 5, 2024. (Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images)
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McShay then contrasted the 2022 preseason with the 2024 preseason to suggest that Kelce isn’t as locked in as he was. He then pointed to Kelce sitting on the bench looking downcast while watching film on a tablet as him not being the same player he has been.
“There’s refuse debating that his frame sort is other,” McShay added. “He’s no longer in the similar environment. He’s no longer the similar. I don’t see the similar explosiveness. I see him dressed in unwell a little in-game. It’s OK. He’ll paintings himself again into the environment. It’s no longer the primary man ever who’s no longer slightly within the elite environment that he used to be.
“And now you’re sitting here, and you’re defending him, too. Is there some kind of message I’m not getting from the league that you’re not allowed to say he’s not in the same shape, he’s not able to produce at the highest level right now? And he’ll probably work himself back into shape by Week 8, 9, 10 this season. Are we not allowed to say that?”
Kansas Town Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce catches a cross all over the Cincinnati Bengals duel at GEHA Grassland at Arrowhead Stadium on Sept. 15, 2024. (Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Photographs)
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Kelce is set to show 35 years used. Utmost season, he began the time coping with an trauma. He additionally had 121 objectives at the season – the fewest since 2017. However that season, he nonetheless controlled to document 1,000 receiving yards.
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