Travis Kelce makes clear 'brutal' change in mindset after rough start to season with Chiefs

Travis Kelce has admitted to a 'brutal' alteration successful mindset aft a dilatory commencement to the caller NFL play for him and Kansas City Chiefs - but the choky extremity is remaining calm

Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs' prima choky end, has opened up astir maintaining a chill composure contempt a sluggish commencement to the caller NFL season, revealing helium "stopped caring astir stats" a agelong clip ago.

The legendary subordinate has been pivotal successful his team's caller successes, with the Chiefs clinching 3 Super Bowl titles successful the past 5 years. Now, astatine 34, Kelce, alongside backmost Patrick Mahomes, is aiming to pb his squad towards an bonzer "three-peat" this season.

Yet, Kelce's show successful the archetypal 2 games against the Baltimore Ravens and the Cincinnati Bengals has been somewhat subdued. The Arrowhead favourite managed conscionable 4 receptions for 39 yards successful total, failing to permission his accustomed people connected the game.

Despite the dilatory idiosyncratic start, the Chiefs person kicked disconnected their play with consecutive wins, defeating the Ravens 27-20 and edging retired the Bengals 26-25. Kelce has present candidly assessed his early-season signifier during a speech with his brother, Jason Kelce.

The NFL prima is keeping it chill contempt not hitting the endzone yet this season, choosing to stay zen during these aboriginal stages. "There's a batch of things that person to spell close for anyone to get the ball. These past 2 games it hasn't gone that mode for me. That's football, man," helium said connected New Heights podcast.

He continued, reflecting connected however his attack to the crippled has evolved: "I'm not going to beryllium present and get frustrated. I utilized to get really, truly [...] disconnected and astir suffer my chill a batch of the clip from not having that success, knowing I request that retired of myself and I conscionable similar to play the crippled to specified a precocious level of accountability that it's pugnacious for maine to woody with being mediocre oregon having stats that correspond that."

Further expressing his existent cognition towards the game, helium added: "I stopped caring astir stats astir 4 oregon 5 years agone and I conscionable went retired determination and started to conscionable play escaped and wanted to play for my guys, and definite capable I deliberation that's a amended mentality."

Wrapping up, Kelce addressed his team's caller form: "We've got to play amended arsenic an offense. The defence is playing their [...] off. . . . I enactment that connected me. I deliberation it starts with the leaders, I deliberation it starts with making definite you spell successful with the close mentality. I didn't play my best. It spreads if you don't hole it and I've got to get that happening fixed."

Mahomes has lauded his teammate's show this season, acknowledging the pugnacious absorption theyve faced successful the Ravens and Bengals, but assured successful the interaction yet to come. He said: "Obviously we've played 2 opponents [Ravens, Bengals] we've played a lot, truthful they person a program connected however they're going to relationship for Travis."

"But arsenic the play goes on, I mean, he's going to get his catches, he's going to get his yards, but the person helium is, what's peculiar is he's hyping everybody up, he's keeping everybody motivated, and that's what you request retired of your large players."