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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce sent a stern message to his team amid uncharacteristic struggles during the 2025 NFL season. The Chiefs, who have won three Super Bowls in the last five years and appeared in the AFC Championship Game every years since 2019, currently have a 5-5 record through their first 10 games and rank third in the AFC West Division standings after losing, 22-19, to the first-place Denver Broncos last Sunday (November 16).
“It’s frustrating because it’s gotten to the point where we’re 5-5, we’re .500 going into the back end of the schedule here, got seven games left, and we basically gotta run the table,” Kelce, 36, said during the latest episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother and co-host, retired former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, released on Wednesday (November 19).
“I haven’t been in this situation in a long, long time, man. It’s even more frustrating knowing the kind of guys we have, knowing the kind of talent we have, knowing the type of coaches we have. Everybody’s just got to kind of look at themselves in the mirror, man.”
The Chiefs bounced back from a 2-2 record by winning five of their next seven games before consecutive losses in each of the last two weeks.
“You can’t sit around pointing fingers… Whatever you go into mentally when you’re frustrated, you gotta kick that s–t aside, and you gotta think about how you’re f–king going to attack the day, and you gotta put all the selfish s–t, all the things you want for yourself aside and it’s just gotta be about this team, the guy next to you and you gotta have fun doing it, man,” Kelce added.
The three-time Super Bowl champion record a game-high nine receptions for 91 yards and one touchdown, which broke a tie with former Chiefs running back Priest Holmes for the most in franchise history.