Travis Kelce makes brutally honest admission about talks of Chiefs deliberately losing just to avoid Bengals in playoffs
Travis Kelce responds to fans accusing the Kansas City Chiefs of purposefully losing to the Denver Broncos in order to avoid facing the Bengals in the playoffs.
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Joe Burrow and Travis Kelce (Image Credits: IMAGO)
The Kansas City Chiefs have been a dominant franchise for the past four years. Irrespective of whom they have gone up against, Patrick Mahomes and Co. have had a good chance of winning the matchup. However, there has been one quarterback who has had the Chiefs’ number since entering the NFL and that has been Joe Burrow.
To date, he remains the only active NFL quarterback to have beaten Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs in the playoffs. Whenever Cincinnati and Kansas City go up against one another, the fans are treated to an entertaining matchup that ends up with everyone glued to the edge of their seats. This season, however, it is not a matchup that fans will see in the postseason. The 9-8 team missed the playoffs after the Chiefs lost their Week 18 game to the Broncos in a 38-0 blowout.
This has resulted in the notion that the Chiefs lost their final game on purpose to avoid facing the Bengals in the post-season. However, star tight end Travis Kelce set things straight on this narrative. The tight end wanted Joe Burrow and the Bengals to play in the playoffs but fate had other plans.
I ain’t scared of f***ing nobody. I wanted them in the f***ing playoffs. I want to slay every dragon one by one like Mortal Kombat. I don’t even want this to be like we play the lowest seeds. Give me the best teams, AFC, NFC, give me all of them…I’ll go through every f***ing one of them.
Travis Kelce said in an assertive tone on the New Heights Show
“Omg, the Chiefs are scared of the Bengals! That’s why they lost on purpose!”
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Travis Kelce dares to play the Bengals in a street football game after the season ends
As a competitor, there is nothing more a player wants than to go up against the best of the best and beat them. Travis Kelce was quick to get angry when his brother brought up this narrative and his true competitive nature was on display. He proposed an interesting alternative to put the rumors to rest. Travis Kelce wants the Chiefs and Bengals to play a backyard football game after the season ends.
I’ll play em at the Walmart parking lot. I don’t give a s***. We can have our own game in the off-season…Listen, I love competing against the greatest. The Bengals were a fun a** f****ing team to watch there towards the end of this season.
Travis Kelce exclaimed
It would be great if this game becomes a reality. A Netflix special game between two of the best teams after the Super Bowl would be a massive hit.
It would have made no sense for the Chiefs to play their starters in Week 18 and risk injuring their key players just to facilitate a matchup against Cincinnati in the playoffs. The Bengals are to blame for failing to qualify for the playoffs, despite their best efforts in the final weeks of the regular season, it was a matter of too little too late for them.
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