Travis Kelce plea falls flat as Taylor Swift snubs latest Kansas City Chiefs game

Despite Travis Kelce's champion efforts, the Kansas City Chiefs discourtesy struggled erstwhile again contempt them beating the Atlanta Falcons to determination to 3-0 connected the play successful the NFL

The Kansas City Chiefs offense faltered successful their latest clash with the Atlanta Falcons contempt Travis Kelce's calls for improvement. It was their defence that shone erstwhile much successful a choky 22-17 victory.

Even though Taylor Swift, Kelce's philharmonic megastar girlfriend, is presently betwixt dates connected her record-smashing "Eras Tour", she elected not to witnesser the Chiefs connected their distant crippled successful Atlanta. Though not missing retired connected classical Chiefs magic, Swift didn't miss them progressing to 3-0 this season.

Despite scraping past AFC competitors the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals successful their archetypal mates of games, the Chiefs person hardly looked commanding arsenic they strive for an unprecedented 3rd consecutive Super Bowl title. Good luck has been a accordant companion successful their opening showdowns, but they managed to stave disconnected an upset by the Falcons this clip around.

Travis Kelce voiced his concerns astir the Chiefs' violative enactment connected his "New Heights" Podcast, which helium hosts alongside member Jason, earlier this week. Despite taking idiosyncratic work to facilitate improvement, the discourtesy collectively struggled to grounds important advances, whereas the defence enactment connected a robust show during "Sunday Night Football".

Kelce said: "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."

Kelce had a dilatory start, with lone 2 catches for 4 yards successful the archetypal half. The Chiefs made an effort to get him much progressive aboriginal successful the 2nd half, trailing by conscionable 1 point, arsenic Kelce made 2 catches that helped them beforehand down the tract astatine the commencement of the 3rd quarter.

However, they were forced to settee for different tract extremity aft failing to person successful the reddish zone. This enactment further unit connected their defence to clasp disconnected Kirk Cousins and the Falcons' dynamic attack.

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes had trouble pushing the shot down the field, with immoderate unusually inaccurate throws, including a first-quarter interception to Justin Simmons. Mahomes ended the crippled 26-39 for 217 passing yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

He began the 2nd fractional strongly, throwing a touchdown to JuJu Smith-Schuster to instrumentality the lead. But with starting moving backmost Isiah Pacheco and prima wide receiver Marquise Brown sidelined owed to injury, and with Kelce mostly ineffective, their violative output was limited.

Despite conceding a touchdown connected the opening thrust of the game, the Chiefs' defence was erstwhile again impressive. They constricted the Falcons' clip successful possession, consistently getting disconnected the tract and giving the shot backmost to the offence, which struggled to afloat capitalise connected its ascendant clip of possession.

With the Falcons threatening successful the reddish portion with little than 5 minutes remaining, a immense antiaircraft halt was made. Mahomes and his squad were forced to punt again, incapable to seal the game, but the defence held beardown erstwhile much to unafraid the victory.

Kelce's last stats showed conscionable 4 catches for 30 yards. The choky end, on with Mahomes and the remainder of the team, volition present question further solutions with caput manager Andy Reid up of their adjacent match, a West Coast travel to look the Los Angeles Chargers successful a consecutive distant game.