Travis Kelce breaks silence on NFL struggles with Taylor Swift being blamed

Travis Kelce has gotten disconnected to a dilatory commencement this season, hauling successful conscionable 8 receptions for 69 yards and zero touchdowns done the Kansas City Chiefs' archetypal 3 games

Travis Kelce has brushed disconnected concerns astir his dilatory start to the NFL season, insisting he's inactive the aforesaid powerhouse subordinate arsenic before.

Despite lone making 8 catches from 12 targets for a full of 69 yards and nary touchdowns successful the archetypal 3 games, Kelce remains confident. During the Kansas City Chiefs' 22-17 victory implicit the Atlanta Falcons past Sunday, the 34-year-old was seen looking downcast connected the sidelines portion his woman Taylor Swift was noticeably absent from Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Many observers person blamed Kelce's narration with Swift and the new-found fame it has delivered for his slow-down. However, contempt his underwhelming violative show astatine the commencement of the year, Kelce is adamant that helium tin inactive present the aforesaid results he's achieved passim his illustrious 11-year NFL career.

"I deliberation this twelvemonth stats whitethorn accidental thing different, but astatine the aforesaid clip you'll spot the aforesaid idiosyncratic wrong this building, and that's each I truly attraction about,'' helium told reporters connected Friday. "I'm my ain worst critic. Everything extracurricular of this gathering is conscionable noise.

"I'm fortunate. I've had the occurrence successful the past and I realised that the shot can't ever spell to 1 person. It can't ever get successful my hands, but astatine the aforesaid time, I got each the spot successful [Patrick Mahomes] to marque the close decision, and he's been making large decisions.

"We mightiness not beryllium putting up arsenic [many] points arsenic we privation to, but astatine the aforesaid clip we're 3-0 and we're doing thing right."

With Kelce struggling, respective different Chiefs players person stepped up to transportation the violative load. Against the Falcons, wide receiver Rashee Rice made 12 catches for 110 yards and 1 touchdown, marking his 2nd crippled with implicit 100 yards successful receptions.

Backup choky extremity Noah Gray has caught 4 passes for 50 yards this season, portion undrafted moving backmost Carson Steele racked up 72 yards connected the crushed successful Week 3, stepping successful for the injured Isiah Pacheco.

"I emotion the mode Rashee's been playing,'' said Kelce. "He's amusive to play with and he's 1 of my favourite guys successful the building. We enactment much spot successful Noah.

It's large to spot him spell retired determination and bash the things that helium tin bash and he's conscionable specified a well-rounded player.

"Outside of that, [Steele], too, I deliberation the emergence of guys stepping up to the sheet and making plays for america and helping america triumph shot games is the astir amusive truthful acold this year.''

Despite the Chiefs holding a flawless 3-0 grounds this twelvemonth acknowledgment to victories implicit the Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals and Falcons, Kelce insisted that determination are inactive areas wherever helium and his teammates request to improve. "I deliberation determination is simply a spot of knowing of we're going to person to support moving and we're not wherever we privation to be,'' helium stated.

"We privation to triumph each azygous shot crippled we tin and astatine the aforesaid clip there's a consciousness of urgency passim the week to get things close for the hostile that we're playing.

"And past connected apical of that, erstwhile we're watching the games successful review, we're conscionable nonstop trying to critique ourselves to get better."