Travis Kelce FULL EPISODE | EPISODE 15 | CLUB SHAY SHAY

hello welcome to another edition of club. shayshay i am your host shannon sharp. also the proprietor of club shay the guy. that's coming by today for drinks and. conversation. is one of the most swaggalicious guys in. all the nfl he's definitely the most. swagalicious tight end. he's a super bowl champ six time pro. bowl two time first team all pro. and he has five consecutive one thousand. yard receiving seasons. the great travis kelsey all my life. grinding all my life sacrifice hustle. pay the price.

wanna slice got the roll of dice that's. why all my life. i've been grinding all my life look all. my life been running all my life. sacrifice plus will pay the price wanna. slice. got to roll the dice. nephew what's going on um what's going. on shannon man it's a it's a pleasure i. told you right before man it's a. pleasure to be on here man you were. you're one of the goats that that laid. out this uh platform of success for a. young tight end like myself to come.

through on and uh. i appreciate you deeply for it man man i. really appreciate you coming on i know. it was kind of last minute we kind of. threw this thing together i reached out. to you and asked you could you do it you. say bro no problem. hey let me get back to you within a day. here we are doing this interview. first of all i want to congratulate you. congratulate you on a great. regular season at the start of your. season tell me. what are your thought process what are. your goals how do you go about laying. out. this is what i want to accomplish in a. given season well i think uh.

the biggest thing about setting goals is. uh you have to review you have to you. have to study yourself you have to. figure out how do i get better how to. where where. at what points in my game can i have. more success to help the team out and uh. the biggest thing for me was i had i had. way too many drops. um i had way too many uh routes that i. did not get open on which i. feel that i could have gotten open on so. that's helping out pat that's helping. out the offense move the ball down the. field. um in terms of first downs i wanted to. do more. more in terms of that and then. touchdowns i wanted to put more.

touchdowns up i thought. um anything in single digits just isn't. enough i'm not doing enough for my team. so. individually uh you said you set you. know. goals for yourself uh statistically but. at the end of the day i mean winning. every single game was. was the biggest thing on my mind i felt. like our team was good enough. uh offensively defensively and special. teams wise to to go out there and uh. and win every single game and so far. we're very close to that but uh. we're we're working for uh the number. one goal which is to get another super.

bowl man. when when i hear you talking you say. about drops and i've always looked at. guys. guys that catch a lot of passes done a. great run after the catch. they're gonna have drops because they're. always looking to make that big play. and you consider yourself not only just. a typical tight end you are a big play. i'm gonna need a hundred yards i need. touchdowns to get down. the field and sometimes you have to take. you out the ball you like okay i got. this. and turn and try to locate that defender. as soon as possible oh yeah. i mean you know it's it's all focused. and what comes with that is.

understanding. and being aware of the things around you. so knowing what coverage it is knowing. where your hit is coming from. no increases when you get the ball to be. able to split the fenders and get north. a little stuff like that it's being more. aware so you can focus on the football. you know and uh and put in the work with. uh with the quarterbacks to make sure. that you guys are on the same pages. uh in terms of what they like to see or. where they like to see you fill the. voids. uh depending on what the defense is. presenting so it's just uh making sure. you're on it's a team game right. right stop trying to either help pull.

defenders to help guys get open or at. the same time. uh be able to get the ball north as fast. as possible but i think uh. having uh have drops in themselves are. inexcusable all it is is just lack of. focus and. uh over the course of my career i've. really tried to. hone in on on staying focused throughout. the course of the game and not letting. the game. uh become too much trav there's been. several tight ends to have 100 catch. seasons and. have 100 catch in a season you're the.

only tight end that's ever done it twice. and to do it coming off a super bowl. when a lot of times people have what. they call a super bowl hangover. how are you able to stay focused and. like okay yes. i want a super bowl yes my team won a. super bowl but i can come back and i can. be better. even better than last year and help this. team repeat. well i like to think of it as what are. you trying to be are. are you always chasing greatness you. know. and when does greatness stop it never. stops so as long as i'm putting on these.

pads i'm finding a way to get better and. better every single year. um with that being said i i'm in an. extremely fortunate situation i'm sure. you turn on the film and you watch the. film and you. you know might have wished you had the. opportunities that i was getting i mean. it is what it is i'm getting the ball. thrown to me like i am a wide receiver. and i and i understand. tight ends don't get that across the. lead and it took a lot of. a lot of guys before my time yourself. tony gonzalez. um the list goes on i mean i the list.

goes on but. it took guys like that to gain the trust. for coaches to be able to implement. a guy like me in their game plan um and. be able to get me the ball. as much as possible like that i um i'm. very fortunate to be able to have coach. reed and then on top of that one five is. back there. uh slicing up the defense any way he can. and uh taking advantage of match-ups so. um non-stop just trying to make sure. that i'm there for my teammates and. always chasing greatness. trev when i look at your stats um like i. said you have five consecutive 1 000.

yard receiving seasons. over 1400 yards receiving season in a. given year. two years in which you caught for. uh a hundred receptions when i first got. into the league that was reserved for. the elite elite wide receivers. uh the jerry rice's my brother chris. carter's. uh there were very few receivers that. could put up those numbers. that you're putting up as a tight end do. you. understand what you're doing and how. special. it actually is i'm not gonna lie.

uh i honestly i'm just appreciative of. the opportunity and i just go to work. every single day. thanks for for the opportunity that i. have to play this position. in this offense and get this much trust. from the coaches from the. from the offensive personnel um to be. able to you know. have that success for the team i i i. i see i'm not blind i see what's going. on. across the nfl and what uh history has. told us and. um the titan position has been very um.

it's been put in a bubble. for a long long time and i feel like uh. it is such a mismatch all over the field. if used correctly um and if and if the. tight end has enough pride to take. uh his his um ownership and his craft. that is knowing the entire offense. having the responsibility of doing that. making sure you're on time. and prompt for your other teammates um. i'm definitely thankful that uh that i. get this opportunity every single day to. put up these numbers man you.

when i look at the evolution of the. tight end position. the guys are getting bigger um dude i. played basically my whole career at. about 225 228. you guys oh wait. you are out there. [Music]. most of my career i played between 225. and 228. my when they first moved me to tight end. i weighed 212.

but when i look at the evolution of the. tight end the guys have gotten. more angular six five six six. 245 to 265. uh as a po and you guys are not really. the receivers you got. like basketball player you guys are like. a a power forward or a small. forward talk about what your ability at. being six. five and a half 255 um.

i'll say this i was always i was always. tall and lanky and then when i got to. when i got to college i really put on. the weight okay. and it was it was it was definitely. party weight it wasn't. it was it was a whole lot of keg it. wasn't a weight room weight. uh it wasn't that weight room weight it. was one of those you got your body taken. a picture of the body in the weight room. and you can tell i ain't been in the. weight room too much. yeah so so moving the tight end. obviously you find out real soon that. you got to get in the weight room you.

have to be able to protect the shoulders. you have to be able to. uh get the leg strength to be able to. drive block somebody not just once but. when it's played 15 down on the goal. line you have to be able to train. yourself to be able to do stuff mentally. and go beyond and that's why i really. found a love for this game because um. growing up and you can see it in the way. i play basketball is my favorite sport. right you can throw in hockey and stuff. like that when i was a kid but. when i really started taking sports. seriously in high school basketball it. took. over everything and um i was i was one.

of those like you just said that small. forward power forward if i had a bigger. guy i'd take him out of the wing if i. had a smaller guy. i'd take him down to the post and and. that's exactly what i did. onto the football field if i had a. smaller guy. i've been fortunate enough to coach reed. has kind of. given me and placed me into these. opportunities if i got a smaller guy. kind of play more of a big body kind of. role and if i got a bigger guy. use my speed and my agility and my. wiggle to to be able to maneuver around. him. and um if you when you see my route it's.

almost like i got a basketball in my. head now. all right my handles were suspect that's. why that's why i'm on the football field. but i always had the ability to make. plays see the floor. and i think that that helped out. tremendously. um being in the quarterback room my. first couple years of college helped out. tremendously understanding what the. quarterback was thinking so i could be. on the same page as him. timing uh when the ball needs to be out. in terms of leverages. what guys are doing uh defensively in. terms of how they're playing their.

leverage. and uh really just seeing the field. instead of just being in this lane of. running a paper route you know and uh. from there i've just been able to have. success with him and just keep going up. and up i always tell guys. uh coming into the coming into the. league or young guys playing tight end. um be an artist. yeah they're they're on on paper you're. gonna have a. a certain route you're gonna have a. slant you're gonna have. a a corner route be an artist though the. quarterback.

creativity creativity you have to be. able to be an artist out there. and paint that picture for the. quarterback as long as you're on time. and where you need to be you how you go. about that. and that's where you really uh your. athleticism takes shape and and that's. your identity. and um and man i can't i can't tell you. how much that's helped me. out in terms of being uh being a tight. end because there's times where. i'll leave a game and a guy will come up. to me and say listen man the whole game. i didn't know which way you were going.

right that's what i'm trying to do i'm. trying to manipulate your mind. right that i'm doing something else all. the time so it keeps the defense at a. reactionary position. you played you say for the better part. of your career growing up you were a. college quarterback and but for you to. transition to tight end now i did play. one year i played tight end uh one year. high school played tight in one year of. college. so it was really a natural transition. for me to go from a big wide receiver. down to the tight end position.

but for your mindset to be a quarterback. quarterback number. glamour position you got your little. jersey tucked in you got your little. towel. you know you pretty you know you look at. all good everybody to change your. mindset to know. i got to get grimy i got tim's all night. ain't no more nice sneaks on out here. i got to get grimey because i might have. to block 30 times a game. but also i got to have the ballot the. ballet should be able to catch 10. 15 balls if i need to tell me about the. transition that you had to go through.

well it's it's definitely a different. mindset and the reason the biggest. reason why i think i made the transition. so. uh comfortably is because i i owned it i. didn't i didn't go to that position i. see a lot of guys transition to that. position. and think to themselves i'm still really. a wider hell bent on playing on position. exactly exactly so they see oh i'm. moving a tight end because they think i. can't run routes no your body type is. just that much more. uh student for this position right. lettuce isn't that much more suited for. this position and guys.

guys don't just attack it well me. personally i knew i wasn't a quarterback. i wasn't the guy that was gonna. you you know the the suit and tie and. keep a clean cut. i was the i was the rebel right so it is. what it is i've learned a lot. through being that guy and i've become a. lot more mature. uh throughout my career and throughout. my life because i've understood that. that i was that guy but. um transitioning into the tight end room. i grew up playing hockey i grew up. playing lacrosse all these physical. sports i was a little brother so i was.

getting beat up on. by guys that were two years older than. me and everything that i did. i had that that ability to be able to. get knocked down and feel comfortable. with all i can get back up and still. and still do my job and um when you. transition. you're going to have you're going to. have failure you're going to have that. failure. you don't know what you don't know right. you know that you know going into a. block in terms of hat placement i. had no idea what hidden hands and. driving your feet. uh you know getting on the track i did i. didn't understand any of this.

right transitioning into this when when. i'm being taught this. it's all starting to make sense right as. i got in the weight room i was able to. to stay on my blocks be able to have. success within the fundamentals that i. was. being taught and um and it just. skyrocketed. from there but the transition into tight. end um. transition into anything in life you. have to be aware that you're gonna hit. adversity. right he's gonna set in because it's. it's the battle of the unknown you just. don't know that you don't know these.

things. and you have to go through something to. be able to figure them out. and uh and honestly i fell in love with. that i fell in love with the grind i. fell in love with the ability to. persevere through. you know screwing up something at one. point in time and then coming back the. next play and having success knowing. that. you know this is what happened last time. this is what i have to do this time. it sounds like to me your attitude. played a huge part in you being able to. transition as smooth. and as effortlessly as you did because i.

remember when dan reeve they asked me to. transition from a big wide receiver to. tight end. the only thing i asked him am i gonna. get an opportunity to play because at. that time i was barely playing like five. or six naps on offense. i was mainly a special teams player but. the hardest part. was not being able to do to see success. instantly. guys were just throwing me around you. know trying to get off blogs i'm like. man all this space. you try to they shove you down into the. offensive tackle you run into the. defensive lineman. so it's like man am i ever going to be. good at this and then all of a sudden.

you just keep working you get better and. better you get better and better. and then all of a sudden you're like oh. i could be a wide receiver out there. catching 10 passes 20 pounds a year. or i could be a tight end down here. catching 70 80 balls a year. yeah i think i like this one a little. better. what you did was you found success in. the routine that you were at so whether. the routine was practiced every single. day. or getting in the weight room being able. to you know lift weights and get. stronger so you can. take on these d-linemen or these. linebackers and and.

that's the biggest thing is is finding. and trusting that routine of success i. was coming in. i was going to practice once i moved to. tight end i was going to practice 10. minutes early. just to get my head and hands on. somebody just just to get that. that feeling of drive blocking rolling. the hips and lifting somebody. yep those little things over the course. of time. become so routine that it just it's. natural on the field. and when you have your fundamentals so. natural that uh you don't have to think. about them that's when you can really.

really take advantage mentally. of what's going on on out there on the. field and uh as you know this game is. 90 middle it really it really is an. understanding down in distance area of. the field and that's what i tell. gathered like god. how do you get beat inside you know it's. 31 you know it's fourth and one. you know he's going to try and cross. your face don't let him into you don't. let him. cross your face i'm listening you know. we're out here to manipulate man. tricks every titan if you go back.

through. through errors all the tight ends had. another guy that was very comparable to. them. um we go back to the you know 60s you. got mackey and dicker. you come to the 70s and 80s you got. kellen winslow and ozzie newsome. myself ben cost gonzo and then it was. gonzo. whitten and um antonio gates uh then it. was gronk. and you and kittle you and kittle have a. very interesting relationship. you broke the record and then he comes. along later in the day. he re-breaks it now you take it back you.

guys have been going back and forth back. and forth. talk to me about your relationship with. kittles man he's uh. he's unbelievable man unbelievable guy. on the field off the field. can't say enough good things about him. uh and then. especially what he can do with the. football in his hands i think that i. mean obviously his blocking is second to. nobody. that i've ever played the position but. on top of on top of that when he gets. the ball man he turns into like the. tasmanian devil man. it's like he's a maniac an uncontrolled.

maniac. and uh and it's just it's awesome to see. see him grow throughout the league. uh knowing that he was a fifth round. pick a guy that really had to work for. his way. uh to and gain the trust of his coaches. and his team and uh. yeah i i just think that as a tight end. kind of union that we have man showing. love to to. fellow tight ends and being being. excited for their success man it only. helps out. uh guys in other positions around the. league and uh. right now what 85 is doing to san fran.

is a is. is setting up uh these these up and. coming guys that don't even know. uh that that he's laying out the the. groundwork for them. um and we just keep raising the bar you. know you just keep raising the bar you. see what a guy across from you is doing. and it's. it's a competitive world you know i'm. i'm somebody you won't see me getting. anything conflicting outside of football. but once it comes to being competitive. man i'm i'm going to compete my tail off. and i'm going to be in your grill the.

whole game. you talk about the relation your. relationships. you got patrick mahomes who has a 99 oh. rating. in madden you have a 99 rating in madden. you're the only. you're the only team to have two guys on. one team with 99 rating. and tyree has a 98 rating. talk about your relationship earlier you. should have been 99 before the year. started man. he's the most unstoppable player in the. national football league if you don't. have two guys on him. on every pass concept it's liable to be.

a touchdown and i'm not just. i'm talking about one of those daggers. that you know i mean those 60 yards. seven yard bombs. that just take the wind out of um and. what he can do. all i mean the most dynamic football. player i've ever seen you talk about. track speed there's been. plenty of guys that have ran four twos. in the national football league. but this guy what he can do with the. ball in his hands outside of just his. speed be able to. to hit somebody with a hesitation and. hit the sideline being able to rock. rock route up a cornerback who who has.

to. they have to have to take off the top of. the diva. they have to play deep uh for him to be. able to understand how teams are playing. him. and mentally uh still get open and still. have the success he's doing man. um i don't think that guy gets enough. credit man you should have been 99. before so. when i watch him i look at a guy that. came in. mainly as a return specialist and he. relied. solely on speed he didn't understand how. to set guys up he didn't understand. how to run routes and one thing led to.

another now. i watch a guy that can run the route. tree that can set you. up that can put you in a situation oh. you think my friend to run deep okay i'm. stopping right here throw it to me now i. face you. up i've never seen a guy accelerate like. him and i've been around some guys that. run 4-3. runs sub 4-3 but i've never seen a guy. accelerate i'm talking about from. from a dead standstill position to he's. 100 100 miles an hour i've never seen. anything like it. man i'm telling you it makes it and it.

never gets old. i'll tell you what it it blows my mind. every single time i see it happen. uh the last time i have it was in miami. he gave a coin he. got a little jet sweep because you know. get him on the perimeter right yes. so he got a jet sweep split split two. defenders. and then had a one guy had an angle on. him and i tell you he. smoked that angle within a half a second. and the guy had no chance and then just. went up the sideline for a touchdown. it amazes you every single time and his.

development into being you know. the best wide receiver in the national. football league every single game. the accountability he puts on himself. he's really creating his own new route. tree because of how fast he is. most of his routes are 20 yards. downfield when i tell you if i. if if i get 20 yards downfield that ball. better be out now. get too long to get that get to 20 yards. pat doesn't have that much time. tyrique tyrique he just takes he takes. four or five moves 20 yards downfield.

now i mean you just can't cover that. and uh i mean the stress he puts on the. defense is second to none. talk about your quarterback patrick. mahomes you were there when he arrived. they trade up to get him with the 10th. pick in the draft they told. they they they moved heaven and earth. what were you thinking on draft night. when andy. moves up 17 spots to take patrick. mahomes. what was going through your mind when. you see him there and you like okay. when did and when did you know like this. kid's special.

i would say i was uh i i i was just. reading uh. tyrique hill said okay let the cat out. the bag and said oh we all thought he. was trash. when i tell you that he that never went. across my mind that he was trash i. really was just messing with him but. you could tell the moment he walked in. the room. how personable he was how his energy. um you know how excited he was to just. be in the building. you could tell right then and there that. guy was special i didn't know. necessarily how.

great of an army he had you know. everyone talked about how. far he could throw it at texas tech and. this and that but. seeing him develop from just a. gunslinger i mean his first year his. first true year in the league which was. which was his second year. his first true year in the league seeing. him develop from just a natural. gunslinger. to being able to create. a routine of success without that. watching film. he watches film before. before he was even in the league he's.

watching film of certain teams and. certain defenses. and he's got these notebooks that just. get packed with what looks like chicken. scratch but it's like it's like. deciphering a code to him you know what. i mean. he's all his it's all his lettering all. his wording but it all makes sense to. him. right it's this week in week out and. just keeps getting better and better and. better and better. um to be able to sit behind alex i think. that helped him out a lot but. um i also think that he was going to. have success no matter where he went man.

the guy's determination. his ability to just feel comfortable out. there and uh and be able to sling the. rock however he feels is necessary. um man it's uh it's been a pleasure to. work with him uh. and see him grow into the best player in. the national football league. well i knew it was special when you when. they when you guys arrested alex in week. 17 and you went to denver. and it was cold and he threw for like. three he's been like three touchdowns. i said this dude can play oh yeah like. no no this dude this dude can play. and it was it was you know you get those.

uh those texas tech gunslingers man they. only know how to throw it in 100 degree. heat. you're right it was ice cold you know. very cold yes. late december early january i mean i'm. talking about 10 degrees. was as hot as it got and it was it was. it was ice on the field. so for him to go out there and still be. able to sling it um. the way he did man with the confidence. that he had uh. it was definitely special but there were. there were throws throughout the year. that i saw on scout team that and the.

stuff that he was doing. i was like listen man this guy's this. guy's got it i don't know i don't know. how this offense is going to change when. he takes when he takes the lead. or when he when he takes over the huddle. but uh he's got it man. andy doesn't and i've known that andy. was my brother's. offensive coordinator when he was in. green bay yeah and so uh he's very. imaginative. and he's gonna get his playmakers to. football. he you mentioned something about how he. tries to go about and tries to find a. mismatch.

and when he finds that he's going to. take advantage of it you go back to. tampa. well they were going to single to. tyrique and he's like okay. i'm going to make you double tyree and. then you look at the next two weeks. you have back to back i think i'm not. mistaken eight catches 130 236 yards. so go into the mind of andy what is it. what is it like. playing for andy first off it's an. absolute blast man you want to talk. about a personable guy the ultimate. leader. of.

how many different personalities you. have in the nfl locker room man. yes there's so many different different. people from different walks of life. you have to be able to relate to all of. these types of people as. a as a grown man in the nfl you have to. be able to especially as a head coach in. the nfl you have to be able to relate to. all these grown men. right what coach reed does is he does an. unbelievable job of. of fueling guys with trust that this. process works. uh with on top of that being able to um.

have the discipline to be able to talk. to a guy as a man and tell him you need. to work a little harder you need to do. this you need to do that get that. respect out of somebody and uh coach. reed doesn't like nobody else man he. tells everybody let your personality. show but no we're gonna go to work. and uh and and ever since i got into the. league man i just been like a fly on the. wall. everything every single thing that he's. taught in the offensive room i've. listened to whether it's to the running. backs to the quarterback. to the offensive line to the wide. receivers or to other tight ends.

i've listened to every single thing that. he has to say and his. overall knowledge of the game is second. to none man and. i've learned just so much just by. listening to to. him talk to everybody that i i've. literally given him no reason to put me. anywhere on the field. and uh and with that i mean if you get. everybody. with that kind of mentality and you it. just makes it that much harder on the. defense zero indicators for the defense. to be able to say that. that i'm running a certain route or that. somebody else is running a certain route.

it just opens everything up i'm watching. him. call plays and he'll try anything. anywhere you try to throw a pass he's. letting sami watkins throw a pass. uh uh your completion percentage is not. very good. our skill set our skill position on the. offense i think we got like three or. four picks as an offensive. as a skill player i don't know if you'll. be seeing us pass the ball at any time. i'm just waiting on tyree not to make it. complete to let tyrek throw one.

and then i'll get it it'll be done with. the wide receivers. and tidying throwing passes you already. know we only got one more opportunity. until it's. everything's botched but that's coach. reed that's his personality man he likes. to have fun and let guys. he likes the offense to be um be a whole. lot of fun for everybody. and he's gonna he's gonna give guys. opportunities that they. typically wouldn't have otherwise what's. patrick mahomes. like in situations because you look at.

the last several weeks you guys have. needed. to go down and get scores in order to. win the game what's his demeanor like. normally and what's his demeanor like in. situations where. you need a field goal or you need a. touchdown in order to win this game. you can see it on his face man he just. locks in to another degree. and it's not that he wasn't locked in. before he just. the the confidence that he has and uh. i really think it all pays tribute to. how much he how much film he watches and.

how much he dissects the defense before. going into a game. because in the crucial moments the. moments where we need it the most. moments where you need to focus the most. and understand what's going on with the. defense the most patrick mahomes is. always ready. and on top of that the ball is always. where it needs to be. and we always move the chains and um you. can't say enough about that. because because situational football. i mean that's that's the nitty-gritty. that's playing. fourth quarter four minutes left in the. game down the score maybe down two.

scores what are we doing. what kind of mode are we in we need a. leader to be confident in what we're. doing and how we're. going about our business and one five i. mean second. none he's always right on time always. on on point in terms of throwing the. ball in terms of what we're doing in. terms of blitz pickup. he just has everything uh everything. figured out man and i think it all pays. tribute to how much he works. and how much mental acuity he really has. when i look at you guys and you. mentioned four-minute offense i. four-minute offense when i was in denver.

in the west coast system. it was two tight ends two backs and a. wide receiver. you guys basically stand your same you. stay in your same formation. three wives uh 11 perks basically 11. personnel. and i'm like wait a minute and you look. at tampa. on third down he's like i'm not running. this football i'm throwing it. you look at a couple of last week i'm. not running this football i'm throwing. it. the confidence that andy has in him. because even i've seen a lot of great. quarterbacks. when the situation like that is 31.

they're handing the football off. they're running the football but andy. has the uh. the utmost confidence in that young man. to make plays to absolutely make a play. no matter what if the first read isn't. there now let's get freaky time. we're out there out the pocket we're. doing so we're doing whatever we got to. do. that's what pat calls it he calls it. it's time to get freaky because when pat. gets out the pocket that's when our. biggest plays happen his ability to see. the entire field. understanding where to throw the ball um.

and and. i mean you can't you can't not get. excited for those moments. right it goes back to what we were. saying about. you know having as a quarterback having. the ability mentally. to to you know under pressure. be able to know what to do and you have. that moxie aaron rodgers is another guy. just swag that's out there walking. around got the swagger got the. got the confidence and that just loses. out of both of them. and and you know and as a player you. just know that guy's going to be ready.

so i and so having having trust that. that guy's going to be ready. i can go out here and just be myself i. don't have to do anything above or. beyond. my capability because that guy is. special right there and he's going to. make the play happen. you mentioned about how with the play. getting off script. that's what we call it get our script. you call to play it's not there now can. you get our script. and go make a play on your own what. makes him unique there's been a lot of. guys that can get outside of the pocket. and maybe if they're rolling right they. can make a play going to the right.

or maybe they can make a play with their. legs but there have been very few guys. that when getting off strip can still. throw the ball 50 yards over your head. rolling left or rolling right oh yeah i. think i think a lot of it honestly uh. goes back to his days uh playing middle. infield or playing. playing baseball to be able to to open. the hips have the arm. strength uh no matter where your hips or. your shoulders are. or are whatever direction they're in. because. the the biggest plays you see him make. or when he's rolling out right he throws.

it all the way across the field. or he's rolling out left it throws it. all the way across the field right. no nose the the don't throw it over the. middle late. you know the all the no no's as a. quarterback he's. throwing all those in the trash he's. like wow we can make that throw. that throw is it's it's makeable for us. and uh as a player you just get excited. off of that man you i mean. i think a lot of it is is to have the. faith and the trust in your ability. as a quarterback and i mean pat he works.

those throws. all day every day in practice you'll see. him make those throws. three or four times a week and and as a. player you just know. that he's going to be able to to make. that play in the game he's going to be. able to make that throw in the game you. just got to be ready for it. can't let it surprise you you grew up in. ohio with an older brother. jason when you guys were growing up did. it ever. did you guys ever talk about playing in. the nfl what were your dreams what were. your aspirations of growing up as two. young boys in ohio.

man when i tell you i had a very very. fortunate upbringing to be able to have. uh my brother. two years older than me um kind of walk. this. walk the steps before i i was able to. you know. jump into it um and see how he he. conducted himself and see how much. success he had and try to one-up him. um it created a competitive aspect in. the household. and it was never just oh we're gonna go. to the nfl or oh we're gonna go to the. mlb excuse me it was always.

um just whatever sport we wanted to play. that day. so yeah i i was a very big i remember. when i was real young playing hockey and. basketball both winter sports i would go. from hockey practice straight to. basketball practice or go from a hockey. game straight to basketball game. and it just i told you i played lacrosse. football basketball baseball soccer i. mean you name it. both of us played it all and i think. what that did was it gave us.

great understanding of of leverage it. gave his great understandings at angles. um and uh and it just got us competing. in so many different ways. uh so mentally it was every game became. a chess game. um but to have that guy kind of go. through. this football life before me and for him. to have success. within it um gave me all the confidence. i needed to. to know that i belonged and uh and i owe. a lot of my. a lot of my success to that guy you know.

what it's funny that you say that. because my brother came before me. he's three years older than i am and i. remember when he went to college i was. like well hell he went to college i. could go to college. and when he got to the nfl i'm like well. hell i could beat him in the backyard. i should be able to go to the nfl too. that was that was my thinking. it never dawned on me like uh the nfl is. really tough to get to and a lot of guys. don't make it. i'm like well hell he there he lived in. the same house with me. what makes him so he ate the same food. that i ate. we went to sleep pretty much at the same.

time so i'm thinking oh yeah. i'm definitely going today to fail is. that was that your thought process also. without a doubt the the one thing it was. for me. was why wasn't i having the type of. success. that he's having right and that didn't. come around till college because i had. i had probably a little bit more success. i actually had college offers to play. basketball and play. uh football my brother was a walk-on at. the university of cincinnati when he. went to. university of cincinnati i asked my life. why would you go there out of all the.

places and. and for him it was the coaching staff. and everything aligned for him and i. just followed my footsteps gave my. parents one way to go. and i didn't have success in college i. just thought. everything was fun for me i was i was. the i was the fun guy i was. let's go out here and enjoy our time out. here practice. have a few laughs make a few jokes um. where my brother he. he was like the switch turned on. everything just turned into business for. him. and and it was it was a strategical.

business approach. even in the college level and and i. didn't really pick up on that until i. moved to the tight end position. and i really got in his brain on how he. was thinking right. what that did was it was almost like. well now we're playing chess. and that was a game that we played. growing up almost every single. day at the dinner table you know just. randomly just throw the chess board out. there and let's go. let's let's compete right right and it. was just. i mean to understand that to see it. in person to know that he's having.

success and that's my that's blood. that's i. i know our athleticism you know mirrors. each other. yes i know i can have success i just. have to channel my mind. differently to to be able to have the. success that he's having or the success. that i want. did how how how old were you when you. outgrew him. i was probably a sophomore in high. school i might have been a freshman i. might have just. yeah i jumped on them uh my eighth grade.

to. to freshman year i was about five ten. five eleven eighth grade and then my. ninth grade year freshman year high. school i was six four. just a tall lanky didn't know what to do. with it all i could do is long snap and. try and get down the field and tackle. somebody. so that's funny that you say that. because i really don't think i outgrew. my brother until i was probably like a. junior senior. because my freshman year i was five five. 132 and then by the time i became a. senior. i was like you know 180 pounds but.

you this number tell the story how you. chose the number 87. 87 so i have a lot of pride of uh of. where i came from and the people that. have helped me out. along the way because i know i know my. silly self needed some help i needed. some guidance. i need somebody to slap me upside the. head and tell me which way to go in life. just because i always chose the fun. route over the the what was needed. and um my brother has always been that. for me you know he's always been the. the one that you know like i said.

earlier kind of walked. walk this this life before i was able to. even get into it. right i took so much so much pride in. seeing him have success that i wanted to. have that same success or i wanted to. to have success for this family and um. and it all started back in uh 1987. in uh cleveland ohio when my brother was. born i i had like three or four. different numbers that the chiefs would. told me i could grab and. 87 was one of them it was the only one. that really made sense for me.

was it was to you know show some love to. the to the guy and. and i don't think i would be here. without him uh knowing that. you know this has definitely been a fun. journey man. so i was just showing a little love to. my brother it's that's. unbelievable because that was the same. thing that happened to me to have. somebody that's. already walked the path that's already. there. where you're trying to get to to tell. you what you need to do. how to go about it and once you get. there things you need to do.

is invaluable but when i i want to go. through some. some some all-time brothers okay we got. the watts. uh-huh we got the the barbers ron and. tiki. we got bruce matthews we also got the. son. clay the third we got peyton and eli we. got. the kelseys and we yours truly last but. not least pull it up the rear. the sharks sterling and shannon. where where when it's all said and done. where are we going to put the kelseys on. the all-time brothers. nfl brothers list i'm gonna have to.

start throwing i'm gonna have to. just put on an excel sheet of what. everybody's accomplished i'm gonna have. to see what and see what it is man. after that we have to turn on the tape. you know i mean the tape don't lie in. the sky angle a lot. better it's gonna be hard to catch. demanding man god dang i got that. and they did five at all three levels. high school college yeah.

i would put us up there though man i i. think i think our journey our our road. um and the success we've had at the time. that we've been in the league man. um you can't you can't not say that that. both of us were dominant players when we. played man and uh you know that's. something. that uh pridefully you can hang your hat. on as you know man. yeah it's an unbelievable feeling i. remember the first time my brother and i. made the provost together. uh we made first team all pro together. man it was that's a. that that's that's an unbelievable. feeling there's there's nothing like.

that feeling. and people and unless you know it's you. know people like what that you know. but you don't get it there's been a lot. of brothers and there you know when you. make the the all-pro team that's just. not one conference. that's for the entire league and to have. you like man to go to the pro. although you're not gonna have it this. year to go to the pro bowl and take that. picture standing on the field. with your brother and knowing where you. came from and here you are. here man that's a great feeling that's a. great feeling trial. you got it and and obviously everyone.

always likes to say the statistics of. youth football and the oh the one of a. million. you got to be one of a million in high. school and then one of a hundred. thousand in college and this and that. but for two guys to be able to come from. the same place the same household. and be able to have this this much. success uh in this game man it's. definitely special and. like i said man i hang my head on that. one right there. so football you said i remember you. telling the story early you played a lot. of sports you played lacrosse you played. hockey you played basketball you played.

football. once you say you probably got to the. 10th of 11th grade you was like football. is my passion football is to write them. so did you stop those other sports. or did you just dedicate more to. football to be honest to be honest it. was uh my sophomore junior year of. college where i was about to. take football seriously because i went. to the university of cincinnati to play. both sports. the the reason why i even committed to. the university was. um i went down to to cincinnati for a. five-star basketball camp.

and my brother was in the middle of. spring ball so i'm at the basketball. camp and. um i'm talking to everybody they're. thinking that we were thinking about. offering you a basketball scholarship. and i stayed the weekend with my brother. just to hang out my brother hadn't seen. him in a while. and um i ran into uh brian kelly the the. coach of notre dame who. at the time was the head ball coach over. at uh cincinnati. he looked at me sized me up real quick. and was like well. do you play football and i was like yeah. man i'm a quarterback.

you know i'm over here thinking. so you're interested in me i'm look i'm. lucky bye so he uh. he comes over i handed him a film i had. him a cd. a dvd of my highlights and by the end of. the weekend i had a. dual scholarship uh the football. basketball. scholarship from the university of. cincinnati so i actually went down there. to play both sports. um but it it the basketball like i said. the handles it just didn't it didn't. work out for me. so i ended up making the transition. pretty smoothly did you know.

that did you think you were gonna play. quarterback in cincinnati or did he tell. you you were going to move to a. different position. he told me he was going to give me the. opportunity to play qb and i remember it. like it was yesterday man i remember. going out there the first day of a. training camp right before the season. started uh my sophomore year my my. registered freshman year my second year. league i mean my. college my my redshirt year i didn't do. anything but just sit around that's when. i told you i kind of gained that good. weight.

but i came in my my second year and um. the first day he took me he took me away. from all the other players and. coach kelly was just sitting there. working with my drive my three step drop. the one step out of the gun uh little. things asking me if i knew the plays. here and there if i knew how to read. coverages and um. i felt like i gave him all the right. answers and he gave me an opportunity to. play quarterback. he actually put me in at a wildcat. position and and. had a few different plays off of it but. knew that i wasn't ready. mentally to be able to take over this.

entire offense i just i was too mature. but he could put me in there and i could. run a little something and uh and do. some stuff off the instincts but i. definitely went down there with the. intentions of playing both. both sports and being a quarterback and. uh. basketball never happened and uh. football ended up i slowly transitioned. into the tight end room. uh where i i found out that i i. definitely belong so so how nice was. your game in high school your. quarterback game in high school. um i'm not gonna lie i was i was a. pretty selfish kid in high school man i.

was somebody i was out there just trying. to sling it and get the girls. some fun have some fun out there on the. field with the guys. um i always felt that you know i could. get five yards so a hitch a. hitch was out of my mind i'm not. throwing a hitch man. he did five yards on the ground i was i. was much more comfortable with the ball. of my hands and running it and the. coaches. hated me for it but at the same time. like i said i was just a little immature. and. wasn't ready for it but i had i had some.

success. man i'm looking at ohio you look at the. nba players lebron james steph curry. oakley ron harper cj mccullum. john havlicek nate thurman terry roger. earl boykins. and then you look at your your nfl. players charles woodson roethlisberger. starback. chris carter james harris and luke healy. le'veon. page jack lambert bruh the o-h baby. you know like when it's all said and. done when they start mentioning like nfl. and ohio.

travis kelsey is going to be on this. list and so is jason kelsey. yeah i'll be the pro y'all got a nice. little setup here oh man it's uh it's. definitely. prideful you know i mean let alone being. from the midwest. i feel like a lot of midwest cities have. that have that blue-collar prideful. mentality of where they come from. uh growing up in a sports town like. cleveland and just a sports state. like ohio uh how much how much pride. they have in football. alone my father my grandfather played.

football my uncle played football. uncle ended up playing at purdue um. knowing all of that knowing what was in. my bloodline and and knowing what. where i came from in the history and the. tradition and the prestige um. it just fuels you mentally to to want. to go out there and have success and and. with that i mean you just try and find. ways. uh to to make yourself better and and to. go out there and find wins bad but uh. i'm definitely pride and prideful and.

proud to be from northeast ohio man. you mentioned about how playing with. your brother. at the university of cincinnati and he. possibly saved your career. you the guidance of some trouble i think. if i'm not mistaken he had already gone. you had gotten kicked off the team. and he comes back and he asked the coach. to put you back on the team. and then your senior year you catch 45. passes 722 yards eight touchdowns. first team all big east but the previous. two seasons you had two touchdowns 153. yards. why were you able to take off your.

senior year what what what click. what what what was different like uh so. so the process the timeline events was. my my sophomore year i had the wild care. my second year. in college i had the wildcat which was. my ended up being my wretched freshman. year. um and then that next year i got kicked. off the team. when i when i got kicked out the team. that year was my brother's senior year. he i mean. the entire offseason he was begging the. coaches to give me another chance and. set a list of things that i had to.

accomplish to be able to. bring the benefit of playing football. again at the university of cincinnati. or appreciate the opportunity of playing. football again at the university of. cincinnati and um. i'm forever thankful for that. conversation i mean it took a lot of. a lot of guts for him to be able to go. in there and put his name on the line. uh for myself uh knowing that you know i. threw this scholarship away and down the. drain like it didn't mean nothing to me. and um and it was it was a very it was. it was a moment where i had to grow up.

i had to grow up and become uh. a man or a man of of my own mistake so. because up to that point it was always. oh yeah i could get away with this i. could get away with that. well like my father says the [ __ ]. always catches up excuse my language but. [ __ ] always going to catch up if. you're out here. doing the wrong things it's going to. catch up to you just because. that's just not how you live and i would. i'm all like i said i'm always here for. the fun. so i'm a very passionate guy and i want. to do the right things.

fun just sometimes overrode that as at a. young age and. uh to have him put his his name on the. line for me. and and to give the coaches enough you. know confidence that i was gonna be able. to be that guy for them. uh i i was able to you know step into. the locker room be a leader. um it still took you know a process and. a group of men to help me. and guide me in the right direction i'm. just thankful for everybody university. cincinnati that. not only gave me that chance but guided. me in the right.

you know my brothers at the forefront. man it's funny because. andy reid drafted your brother at philly. he gets terminated he goes to kansas. city he turns. and drafted in draft you now there's a. story i don't know how true it is you. can confirm or deny this. that after andy talked to you he asked. to speak to your brother and ask. is he gonna mess this up that's the. truth man it's the god honest truth man. when i tell you i had never been more.

excited but it was it was like a roller. coaster of a call and all and it all. happened within like 15 seconds i get. the call it's a missouri number i'm. thinking i'm going to say louis. shout out to jeff fisher and everybody. over there but i did not want to go to. saint louis. the recipe for success and uh and and. actually what i didn't know is that the. chiefs didn't have that. recipe for success either they actually. had a worship which was 2 and 14 the. year before. so andy reid comes in uh drafts me with. his second pick.

and uh and i i answer the phone thing. and it's it's gonna be saint louis. he answers the phone and hey how you. doing is this travis i said yes he said. this is andy reid with the kansas city. chiefs and i'm talking about. i got one of the greatest coaches to. ever do this i'm ready to go man. right immediately takes it right back to. the floor. listen man this is this is serious this. is no no goofing around it was a. there's a whole lot of words that i. would rather not repeat.

basically said do not screw this up. right this is a. serious opportunity and he was asking me. if i was going to mess it up and they. said all right put your brother on the. phone i was like how did you know my. brother was right here i didn't even get. that guy. in my eyes he already knows so and sure. enough you should see my brother get on. the phone i'm staring at my brother like. what are you gonna say. you know what i mean i hope he doesn't. say anything bad and you're just like. yeah nope nope i got you i got you know. it was almost like he was. asking my brother to make sure that that.

i knew what i was getting myself into. and it reiterated and uh at the end of. the day i think it was something he was. he was just telling him like. i need you to make sure that this dude. does not screw this up because i will. kick both your ass. the the year you were drafted tyler. eiffer. win the first round the 21st pick to. cincinnati zach erz went second. 35th pick to philly gavin escobar 47 to. the cowboy vance mcdonald. second round 55th pick to the san. francisco 49ers.

what's going through your mind you're. like i'm better than all them cats and. i'm gonna show you i just. just because that's how i was trapped. all the receivers that went before me. i'm like because i went to the bowl. games i don't know if. you but i went to the blue gray game. went to the east west shrine game. i'm watching these guys and i remember. calling my brother man i'm betting all. these cats. and i see them going off the board. before me i'm like hold on wait a minute. what did i miss. man i'll tell you what you have to have. that mentality you have to have that. confidence within yourself to know that.

you. can go out there and have success no. matter where you are no matter who's in. front of you. and uh and and that's just that's just. the. the competitive my state that i've been. i've always had um but what it really. did was. it made me dislike the guys that that. were taken in front of me i mean it's. that. great guy unbelievable guy we've ended. up becoming good friends over the years. uh tyler i've heard the exact same way. uh but. what it made me do was it made me you. know gain this competitiveness to.

to every single day uh. kind of i don't know mentally be crazy. enough to. to outperform somebody that you don't. even know what they're doing. right today i told myself i'm gonna work. harder than every tight end. in in this in this league i didn't know. what gronk was doing i didn't know what. erch was doing i didn't know what. anybody else was doing all i could do. was control. myself and my process and what i was. doing. and and have confidence that i was going. to keep getting better in that. and um man throughout the years it's.

been awesome to know all those guys. vance mcdonald another guy that i. absolutely love and have a tremendous. respect for gavin escobar. ended up coming and playing for the. chiefs for a little bit um. i i what it did for me was. initially start the the competitive edge. to be the greatest. and and at least try to be the greatest. me. and uh and that's where it started man. what was the first thing you purchased. with some of the money. from your rookie contract man you wanna.

i just i suspect it all shannon. thank you i was i should have been on. the the 30 for 30 broke the way up. all the young guys in the league all the. guys that have the opportunity to. to you know get that big first check in. from the nfl. save it man find a financial advisor. that you trust that that's going to do. right with your money. because i was searching around for car. deals after my first year trying to you. know just pay rent. supplementary car exactly no so.

the one of the first things that i. bought was uh i'm a big sneaker fan so i. and the marty mcfly's man the back to. the future and the nike air bags. were uh were the the first purchase. their kicks that i got i knew i wanted. them ever since i saw them self tie. themselves. uh on mcfly's feet and then on top of. that i always wanted a rolly man so i. went out and got myself a rolly. uh from uh from a kansas city jewelry. shop man. you got to get the rollie when i was. walking i was walking in this. empty apartment with some marty mcfly's.

on a rolex man i felt like i was the. coolest guy in the world. man how difficult was the transition. because what i try to tell people about. okay look when you're in college you're. basically playing for. room and books you got study hall. when you go to the nfl as a job you're. playing for mortgages. you're playing for kids future and two. college tuition it's a whole different. ball game. ain't nobody gonna say go to study hall. ain't nobody waking your butt up to say.

go to class. you gotta be professional man and that. and that's why i was saying you got to. find that. that routine is success what is your. routine in college. uh for me it was the coaches had. workouts early at 8 00 a.m we had. class from nine to noon and then we had. practice at one that is a. structured routine yes that to give you. success. that what you're doing in the weight. room is is a structured routine for you. to get bigger and stronger so you can. have that success. well in the league you don't you don't.

necessarily have that. and you need you need to be a. professional. and uh and like i was saying you have to. own your craft you have to own. who you are and uh that has grown so. much throughout my career. my my first couple years it was just let. me just show up and go to work. you know and then uh through throughout. my my years i was starting to feel a. little bit more soreness so what do i do. for that how am i how am i eating. how am i am i doing certain things. outside of the facility or does my day.

end as soon as. that last meeting hits um and it what it. did for me. was it created a lifestyle that that i. could lean on. and a routine that i could lean on to to. not only stay on the field but keep. having the success that i was having on. the field. there's nothing like a plan. and to see that plan come to fruition. there's nothing like training. the way i eat the way i train the way i. do certain things. and to see that payoff on the field. because once you see it it's just like.

anything once you see a little success. and you're like wow that's why i'm. having success you keep that going and. you if. it's hard to ever get away from that oh. yeah and what it does is it just fuels. you to be able to. nitpick it now it's everything's details. now now it's how many carbs am i taking. in how many. oh do you want to put a tracker in my. pads how many what how many miles am i. running so i can know. what type of recovery that i need how. much sleep i need. in terms of hydration it you can start. to nitpick it to the point.

to to really see it becomes an obsession. exactly you get obsessed with the. prostate if that's where. everybody talks about enjoy the process. enjoy the journey. that's the journey right there see. seeing your. your scheduled events turn into success. and. and just you know thriving that know. that know that. you can be accountable for the guys next. to you by doing this. how much time do you think you put in. the training uh your nutrition. your physio things of that how much time.

do you think you put in the off season. and how much time you think you do. put in during the course of a week damn. man. when i tell you sheesh. that's it it's at least in the off. season at least two hours. two hours out of the five days so monday. through friday you're going two hours. every single day of at least. spending time on on muscle and body. development. so whether that's you want to take that. to to the skill. aspect or you want to mentally get after. it uh depending on. you know whether it's a recovery day or.

whatnot taking. that much time out of a day to just hone. in and put complete focus. on your craft and on your body uh. can do wonders for you and on top of. that throughout the week i mean i. couldn't tell you. how much i actually because i'm a big. visual guy i like to visualize i like to. fantasize about making plays out on the. football field so i'm never. in a moment on the football field where. i haven't thought about some. type of way to instinctually have. success because that's what that's. that's the biggest thing from going from.

my rookie year to. my third fourth fifth year in the league. is i understood. more of what was going on around me. right so i was able to play faster my my. mind wasn't tricking my feet up. so being able to to put that into play. with the athleticism that you train for. all season long or all off season um. it's it's it's just it's needed it's so. much needed you hear about all these. guys putting in. a half a million to a million dollars. and just recovering. to get their blood flow circulating into.

and to get these muscles. loosened up i mean it's not only is it. injury prevention which keep which is. keeping you on the field or on the court. but it's also making you that much more. efficient when you are. out there right and you can't say enough. about what it means to recover in terms. of rehab. and prehab um and uh. i've taken it to a whole another level. these past couple years man and it's. really paying off for me. what was that first pro bowl experience. like to get that call.

it says travis kelsey you've been. selected to the pro bowl. what was that feeling like man what i'll. tell you is the coolest because i. i had just went to the year before i. just went to scottsdale arizona when uh. the pro bowl and super bowl was in. scottsdale or in arizona. and uh and i watched my brother playing. his first pro bowl. and and i saw my family's excitement. during the game i had on his practice. jersey and i was i was out there. being a fan boy all over again and to be.

able to see. my family's excitement that i was out. there that. that my brother was out there with all. the stars all the guys are. dancing in the end zone all the guys. that you know the names the top names of. the national football league. um to see the smiles on their face to. you know oh there he goes there you go. that's everything that's everything i've. ever needed in life to be able to. give me motivation um because making my. parents proud of. of who i am has always been the number. one goal for me.

um knowing how how fortunate i was as a. kid and how much they gave me. uh as a kid and um that first pro bowl. in hawaii man i. do i tell you is like nothing else man. not only was it my first pro bowl but i. got to sign my first extension. uh in in hawaii on that day right on. that week and. man it was um that my family was out. there with me and we had a few. uh a few my time ties. of course the waves come in it was a. beautiful scene man.

first hey rookie you got a bite of my. ties bro i know they hit you a real. hopefully when you went to y they didn't. get you hey trav what's your room number. you give them the room number and you. get that bill they're like man they. don't. got me listen i was ready for it all but. i was ready to take the hit man i'll. tell you i'll pay my dude. last year you had you guys had a. miraculous run because. no one had ever done this what you guys. did to fall behind by double digits. and then turn around and win every game.

by double digits. on your way to the super bowl so let's. start first with the houston texans. you fall behind 24 nothing what's going. through your mind. on the sidelines when you when they. score that kick that field goal to go up. 20. 24 to nothing what's going through your. mind. well the first thing that was going. through our mind was. initially frustration right you start to. ask yourselves why. why is this happening why is this. happening like oh man it must be. something. out of our control like you know i mean.

like something like the football guys. just got it against us man we did. something we didn't we ain't living. right or something. and then you and then you you face. reality coaches come together we come. together as a collective group and. everything we were doing was. self-inflicted. right penalties do us it was mis missed. assignments it was dropped. passes exactly it was stuff that we. could control. and uh once we found out and kind of got. regrouped by pat by. coach eric the enemy everybody kind of. just. locked in and from there we showed our.

personalities coach reed dialed up the. right stuff for us to be able to march. down the field. uh in an unstoppable performance by. patrick mahomes and what he did to surge. us. back into into that game and then just. take us into a blowout man. the next game your tennessee titans they. were the hottest team. in the playoffs they had gone on the. road beating the new england patriots. and for all intents and purposes. broken up the dynasty they go to. baltimore and beat the unanimous mvp. so they're coming in red hot they got.

derrick henry who's running over. everybody. you fall behind ten nothing and you like. here we go again. i'll tell you what it was a little bit. different of a feeling um. i honestly never never felt frustrated. in the tennessee game i was never. it was never a down moment in the. tennessee game i always had confidence. that we were just right there you know. we might not have been. in the lead but i still felt like you. know we had a good grasp of the position. that we were in. right all it took was a couple plays. right before half.

uh pat went out there and had his famous. you know as he has he moved on the line. hit this unathletic spin on somebody and. just find his way into the end zone. um he had that moment and then the. momentum just kind of. just takes over and and it's all about. the greatness that one five is and just. following his lead man because in those. moments. uh you need you need your quarterback to. be great. now you're on the biggest stage you. can't ask for anything more. than this you're here a couple years.

earlier you witnessed your brother. go to the super bowl they win it and. you're like we're here. and you're down 10. start the fourth. what's going through your mind. i'm not gonna lie that's when it it did. get a little frustrating. you know you go you go into the fourth. and you know you just can't get it going. whether it's the the angle in which guys. are coming out of routes. or you know it's uh it's just minimal. stuff that we just we haven't been. hitting on whether it's a slam a flat. route little stuff like that. uh getting one extra guy blocked in the.

in the run game. um it started to get just a little bit. frustrating. and you started to see a lot of a lot of. your hopes and a lot of your dreams. start. to slip out of your grasp um and uh. all i can say is that you know the. leaders and the. and the coaches in this locker room um. when adversity hits it's almost as if we. we turn we flip a switch and uh and. it stayed true ever since you know those.

first couple playoff games. and it's really i think it's. it it dates back to the the patriots afc. championship game the year before. yes where we know we have that. capability to turn this thing on lock in. and play our best football when needed. you know what i mean tom brady got us. that day he was a. he had the ball the last time in that. year he was the one. that had the ball in ot and scored his. touchdown he got us that day but we. knew that we belonged you know and.

and what that did for us is mentally. we had this switch to where no matter. what point in time it is no matter how. much doubt you got. it's time to go we need to lock in and. be ourselves. and uh and i mean we just have great. leaders here it starts up top and. just trickles down from coach andy reid. all the way down to the offensive. defensive coaches to the the offensive. defensive captains. and um and it's a it's definitely a. pleasure to be in and. it's something something special to be a. part of clock goes down to zero super.

bowl's over. confetti starts to fall down on the. field what's going through kelsey's mind. we uh man i can still picture it because. i don't know if you've been down to. miami's new new stadium man but this got. the. perfect opening to make you feel like. you're you're in heaven. man when that confetti is flying down i. just looked up i tap. coach the enemy like man look at this it. looks like stars were flying out of the.

sky man it was just uh to reach the. mountain top the way we did. uh together you know it and you could. you could say it was one guy because. my homes played his tail off the entire. playoffs and led us to all those. victories. but we did it as a collective group and. he'll even tell you that man and it was. just it was so much fun and i cherished. those memories. uh with every single one of those guys. on the team man it had been. 50 years since you guys had won the. super bowl. how special was it to win for kansas.

city and what was it like. going to that parade and seeing all that. red. and all those fans like we brought this. we brought this lombardi back to kansas. city. you want to talk i mean you know you. know what just like uh everybody. else over there in bronco country kansas. city fans are going to show up man. yes they're going to get loud and. they're going to give give you all the. passion that they got. and uh i'm so fortunate to to not only. land to this organization but to be here. in this city i think. it embodies a lot of uh the values that.

i have. in life which is very prideful where i. come from um. very blue collared work your tail off or. for what you uh. what you work your tail off for what you. want in this world. and um and kansas city is every bit of. that man and i uh. i would i'm just you know i'm still. prideful to you know keep bringing. uh the success and the rings back to. kansas city knowing that uh. they put their all every single sunday. that we go out there man. what do you think has been the most. difficult part.

about repeating. patience getting through this season. to get to to where we are now um. sometimes you uh i feel like coming into. it all you can think about is is the. playoffs all over again all right yeah. we're gonna we're gonna make the. playoffs mentally you say that to. yourself we're gonna make the playoffs. we have a great group. we've got patrick maron's the best. player in the national football league. leading and we're going to we're going. to make the playoffs. mentally being able to lock in every.

single week so that. dream that that that situation happens. that's been the hardest thing because. you wanted to fast forward man you do. you want you want all the. all these games to to take care of. themselves you you handle business in. the division you handle business to get. the number one seed. but you really want to get back to this. point right here. right the the playoffs to be able to go. through that journey. that you know this is the last dance. it's it's either win or go home.

right that's been probably the most. difficult difficult part. and uh and and we're here now so so now. that now we got all that over with i can. just go out here. and really play for the for for another. super bowl man and uh and. well i'm a week i'm a week early we. still got to go out here and take care. of the chargers but it's uh. i was that would definitely say just. being patient and um not letting. complacency set in. uh while we're kind of you know gearing. up for the playoffs. and that's what my question was how have.

you been able to avoid complacency. i think leadership man i i i i would say. you know call me silly but i think. leadership uh was what they had in. seattle when they when they went back to. back. leadership is what they have in in new. england for all those years. um kansas city we have great leaders. we have guys that it matters when when. we come into the building. to have the accountability to do our job. for the guy next to us.

and when you have guys like that every. single day that love to come in. to work love what they do enjoy the. process of getting better at football. and enjoy the competitiveness and don't. get complacent with that. um that's that's special and when you. know you have that. it just gears it up it turns it up even. more like you said you get obsessed with. it. it kind of loses out of you every single. day you wake up. and uh it's contagious i think the. biggest thing for us. is that going back to back i remember. mike told us to start when we were.

starting the uh. we won in 97 beat the packers and then. we're coming back to try to repeat. and i remember mike his very first. meeting he told us there have been a lot. of teams that's won one in a row. he said if you want to be special repeat. and and he said we're going to take it. one week at a time and what we did the. way we approached the travis that he. would just put the game up that we were. playing that week. we didn't know who the next game was and. then the next week and then the next. week. and then once we got there you know we. ended the season 14 and two.

and it was like okay let's go win the. super bowl and it was about. we didn't care about who got the credit. because there's gonna be enough of the. cake to go around. that everybody's gonna get a piece now. clearly your piece is not going to be as. big as. is is my homes or it's not going to be. the guy's not going to be as big as. yours or tyrique and some of the other. guys. but you'll get a piece you'll get a. slice of the cake as long as you play. your part everybody's a part. whether special teams whether it's. offense defense. the holder everybody has a role to play.

nobody role. is more important everybody role can up. in this card and so that's the way we. approached it and i'm talking to you and. it sounds like. man i've never had this conversation. with him before and he's talking like. the very things that we. said as a team is that let's handle. business game the game. let's get out of this season healthy now. let's go win another super bowl. without a doubt and that's the makeup of. a championship team is when you have the. guys in place.

you know that understand their role that. understand. their their success within this. this game um it just makes everything go. that much smoother and i was saying. in terms of leadership what leadership. is is coach reed does an unbelievable. job of trying to get everybody involved. he tries to make sure that everybody. gets a piece of that pie on the. offensive side. yeah right and what that does is it. helps everybody else out when you have. to. cover all five you know skill players. out out there on the field. that makes it that makes my job easier.

when tyree takes two guys and i know i. i'm. i'm singled up or entirely both getting. double the guy like sammy watkins or. miko hartman. or demarcus robinson are singled up or. we got you know le'veon bell on. on a linebacker you know these. mismatches. start to start to become more of an. issue for defenses. when you try to you know alter your. defense towards one guy. and uh coach reed understands that he. understands what defenses are going to. try and do. and it just makes this this this machine.

this offensive machine. just that much better but like like we. said man it just goes to the leadership. that you got in that building and in. that locker room. to make sure that everybody's doing. their job and uh and. and you know not only that but excited. about doing their job. yeah i think it does i think it's it. does a does a great. uh service i think andy does a great job. and patrick does a great job. of guys on the field don't always feel. like they're decoys. because at any given moment as you men. mentioned robinson.

he caught the game winner last week it. might be him it might be hardman. it might be sammy you know you and tyree. you guys are going to get your. go get your targets but it's these other. guys that sometimes they don't get a. catch in the game. then all of a sudden but they still know. they're running they're busting their. butts knowing. but hey this still might be my moment he. might put it up sir. so hey i can't fall asleep on this route. oh yeah. and that and that's the fun about. playing in this offense man uh one five. is gonna find you if you're open. and we just we just try and take.

advantage of all those opportunities man. we got unbelievable. unbelievable men in this locker room man. i want to ask you something that. happened in week five the raiders beat. you guys in kansas city. did you know that they took a victory. lap. around arrowhead a couple of times or. when did you find out about it. uh i found out in the media as everybody. else did. and then uh when we played them later on. in the season everybody made sure that. we knew about it. um you know good for them man.

good for them but that's what they feel. like they got to do after a win to you. know. uh we beat the we beat the top dogs you. know do your thing man but uh. excuse me i think it's uh you know. when you guys beat them in vegas did. andy take y'all to drive down the street. he said it is himself man that's that's. not our gig man we don't do that kind of. stuff we just take. we try to take care of business on the. field man and just leave it right there. um i think it was a it was a lot of and. i've been to little brother my entire.

life so i understand. i think it was a lot of uh the little. brother beating being. beating the big brother and uh and. feeling feeling pretty bold about it but. um we all knew what was what was real. and that uh. i feel like at least i'd do away the. game for us and uh that loss if we don't. lose another one from here on out which. we don't plan on uh. that loss is gonna it's gonna hold some. weight for me for a long long time man. are you superstitious. um i would i would say that i'm not but.

um i do believe that there is a little. bit of karma in in some things that i'm. doing. so so what i mean do you eat the same. pregame meal. do you do i mean do you drive the same. way to practice. what is the do you get the same room at. the hotel the night before a game. what are some of the things that you. would do um. i would i wouldn't take it to that. extent um. because pregame meal is is the same. every single time. uh when we're whenever we're on the road. uh i'm always eating french toast before. games so i mean i guess that's about.

the friendship french toast oatmeal and. egg whites no sir. see i need so i need that sweet i need. that kick. that delight um i would say i'm. superstitious. i was superstitious like if i went. somewhere like if i go to kansas city. because we're gonna stay at the same. hotel for the most part same if i had a. good game i'm gonna stay in the same. room. i got the same we're at home i'm. standing in the same room. i'm driving the same way to the stadium. i'm going in front of the elevator i'm.

gonna press the button and i gotta stand. in front of the elevator door which i. think is going to open first. and then once that if i get that thing. right on the first try. somebody trouble trail. about to get a note hung on i hear you i. hear i would say i'm superstitious and i. gotta live right man if i'm not living. right. i know i know it's gonna be a rough day. for me so i just make sure that i'm. living right throughout the week. so i can feel comfortable going into a. game but uh in terms of game day having. little stuff like that for me it was. i started off doing that when i was.

younger in the nfl. and if one thing went wrong it would. just be like ah. you know whether it was you know i. forgot my my special. uh undershirt that i was gonna wear out. for pregame or something like that i was. just like man it just. you know it makes you feel out of whack. it makes you like got to do something. else to. to make up for that or you know it just. doesn't it's not the same routine so. obviously i'm not going to have the same. success. other things start to play in my mind. and i just become. a mental [ __ ] out there man i screw. everything up.

what what makes andy reid an offensive. genius. man i would i would say. i would say this creativity but it has. it goes more than just the creativity. it's um it's the work that he puts in. to understand what other defenses are. doing. so that he can have the creativity. in in place if that makes sense so his. his knowledge of another team's defense.

his understanding of what they're doing. what they're trying to take away. how they're leveraging guys his. understanding of that. allows him to be creative in the routes. that we're running and allows. us to have success in the routes that. we're running and it sets us up for. success. um it puts us in positions to where. it enhances my skill set and for. a offensive guy offensive coach to be. able to.

always you know put their their players. in a position to have that success or to. have the upper hand. that's what more can you ask for as a. player that opportunity right there. man-to-man to to go up against somebody. that i have had success. you know doing this you know you get an. outside leverage man well let's run deep. cross. i get a guy that's head up let's run a. fake deep cross and come back out sail. out. whatever whatever it is that the defense. is doing coach reed always has an answer. for it.

and uh and as a player man as long as. you know how to set these routes. up and then and play with that leverage. play with the. the the scheme man you can you can have. all the success in the world. where does the swag come from we don't. normally see guys like yourself. as swaggalicious as you guys are i see. the lv robes. i see the dior i see the greg lord i see. y'all i'm like hold on bro what. what's really going on where did that.

come from you just got to enjoy it man i. i personally i think it comes from. cleveland heights ohio where i come from. uh every day in my house they don't. dress like that in cleveland heights bro. you gonna try something today you will. be surprised we got we gotta we got two. different sides of the. of the sea okay yeah we got we got we. got the side that's um. there's predominantly we'll just we just. have different social classes so we have. you know we have one social class where. it's you know two three million dollar. houses and and then. other ones that we have you know. apartment living so.

you have both sides of the spectrum uh. where i come from and. um and so every day was it was it was it. was a fashion statement and then i mean. on top of that you see a nice car. coming by you know everybody knows who's. in that car and. right what it is and you get excited for. it but uh. it's it's just always been in me to uh. to appreciate that kind of stuff man. and have fun with it it's never been. something that i that i've. you know i've focused on or anything. like that it's just kind of always just.

been the natural. uh just who i am and it just oozes out. of me a lot of people. kind of throw the the word swag into. uh you know what you wear what you drive. and all this kind of stuff man swagger. is how you wear it how you driving. you know and and just to have that that. uh that. that comfortable and confident you and. no matter what you're doing man that's. the real swagger right there. did you know like man if i ever give me. some cheese bro this i'ma just i'ma rock. it i'm gonna rock it like this. you know it man you know i was never a.

chain down to your belly button kind of. guy you know i mean right. just keep it right here around the. collar right and. this is something nice and nice and. subtle man so. are you so you you you're more of a. clothes as opposed to a jewelry guy. for the most part yeah don't get me. wrong you got to have your ice man man. yeah you got to have. a few people you don't need 10 you don't. need 10 pieces. okay you need one or two chains a watch. i'm good. i was telling my my friends i like the. subtle aspect of jewelry you know i mean.

just like just a little bit of shine. here and there i usually got my chain. tucked. but it says i was at club shay shea i. thought i you know i mean literally i. appreciate that i appreciate you. bringing out. the little sparkling sparkle i see that. i see that trap. bro i really appreciate the time man i. know you got a busy week coming up. stay healthy get out of this game. healthy if you play. good luck along the way brother i'll. catch you down the road but i want to. really thank you for coming on today bro. this ain't the last time big dawg i. appreciate you all right hey. after you win the football come back.

i'll be right back in the club baby. appreciate it bro good looking all right. have a good nephew. shannon you're the best dog appreciate. it all my life. been grinding all my life sacrifice. hustle paid the price. wanna slice got to roll the dice that's. why all my life i've been grinding all. my life. all my life sacrifice. plus will pay the price wanna slice got. to roll it dice that's why. all my life i've been grinding all my.

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