Travis Kelce Talks Justin Tucker Beef, Turning Season Around, & Breaking Relationship News

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Joining us now is the topic of every conversation around the NFL seemingly not only because he’s the greatest tight end of all time mhm not only because he’s the host of The Biggest Sports podcast on Earth not only because he’s in Ohio folk super handsome Fashion Icon right ladies and gentlemen Travis [Applause] Kelsey always a pleasure baby how we doing guys it’s an absolute honor to talk to you because you know the last time we talked to you people were talking about you being the greatest tight end of all time but now people are saying like one of the biggest stars on

Earth Yep hey you’re a superstar Travis you’re Superstar yeah yeah super we’re making our way up to Total pole baby we’re making our way up I said this at the very beginning you’re the right guy for it you know you and your brother are a perfect representation of NFL in

Football so we love every single step of the way of your growth and obviously exposure to the world you you’re the right one you’re the right one to represent us Travis you need to know thaty I’ve been a pat McKie show listener for since day one baby so I’ve

Seen the growth amongst this show as well so you already know I’m a big fan of the show as well and Boston Conor said a best man it’s just those Ohio fold baby there it is you know little sibling banter how can you how can you

Get mad at that yeah right now there’s two Ohio folks okay on the show and uh if you know anybody from Ohio you know exactly what that means and it’s an awesome thing that the world’s getting to learn about it Travis let’s check a little bit about your team here so you

Know going through the year and I heard you say it after you you guys won the AFC Championship you said the Chiefs is still the Chiefs there was a lot of times this year where people were wondering that and obviously the standard of the Chiefs is the standard

That you guys have built and brought to that beautiful kingdom over there over the last few years what was it you think this year trying to find your way were you trying to adapt to a new team did you guys feel it inside the locker room

What what was it about the road this particular year as opposed to years past you think Travis I mean you saw it you saw it we just didn’t win football games and it was the there were big moments in games that we typically make the plays

Or at least the our history has showed that we’ve made those plays and um this year it was just a little bit uh a little bit different you know we were just off a tick here and there um guys pointed at the wide receiver room they

Pointed at you know how old my ass is getting um they pointed at a few different things and it’s just uh persevering through that no one in our heart and our in our minds when we walk in the building we see we have everybody we need to get back to the Super Bowl

And um it’s just having that might that that right mind frame and that and uh being able to you know make those plays when needed uh to to really I don’t know get us over that stepping stone and back into the Super Bowl man yeah you’re old

Ass when the lights get brighty seems to you know have the right mind frame every single time go ahead AJ TR I know you guys have kind of crossed over into that space to where you’ve You’ve Won too much you’ve won so much that people want

To hate you or people want to see you lose and they say say oh I just want to see somebody else get a chance or whatever like first off how good does that feel that you guys are in that Echelon because it’s very very difficult to get there and also though like how

Much juice has it given you and the rest of the team to where you guys it feels like yeah we love going on the road we love kind of embracing this villain role man I’ll tell you what I um it was about I want to say towards the uh the later

Part of the season and um Charles am meno who um man my heart goes out to him uh get an opportunity is going to unfortunately missed the opportunity to play against his old team in the Super Bowl with his ACL injury um and we’re

Going to go ahead and try and get it for him but I told him I was like he he came up to me and said man where’s that where’s that Chiefs offense I’m used to seeing where you guys just put up and blow up blow out everybody and I was

Just like man this is just a different world man we got to become that that team that has the grit and has the fire in their heart to be able to find ways to win at the end of ball games man we just gota we got to feed that beast and

Turn turn that into being you know the villain of the NFL and sure enough man we’re uh we’re right back to the Super Bowl with that kind of mentality man now remember you guys well Patrick mostly but I guess your entire team you guys hadn’t had to play a playoff game on the

Road no nope now the Super Bowl has never been hosted in Kansas City you know and you guys have played there no a few times but going into Buffalo with the snow and how it all was it felt watching you guys it’s almost like you guys were excited for the opportunity to

Play a playoff game on the road and then going into Baltimore and obviously we talked about the Tucker situation and you chatted about how the mindset of the whole week of me and Patrick was like we’re not joking around like we are we are in the we are coming into Baltimore

And I think the film will show it we actually have a in the trenches later where AQ is going to break down you guys were the aggressors that entire game pretty much feels like that has been a mentality and AJ kind of alluded to it there about playing on the road and

Stealing happiness from other people and then maybe bullying the bullies that’s not what the Chiefs have been known for at all and did you guys talk about that was there like full okay all right so you guys did talk it was a mind frame 100% and Coach Reed challenges uh the

Guys every single week uh to be at their best and no more does he challenge that there’s no greater group that he challenges more than the guys up front on both the offense and defensive line to set that tempo of physicality and uh going into Buffalo we knew it was going

To be a hostile environment and we just accepted that challenge like it was like uh it was just the the biggest thing in our lives man and you could feel everybody in the building rally together and have that same mind frame and then we did the same thing going into

Baltimore um and uh if you watch Baltimore on film all year man those guys are getting after it you know a little a little bit extra after the play to kind of you know show their dominance act like they’re the alpha males and uh

You know how do you go in and and and and you just got to punch them in the mouth you know that’s the at the end of the day you got to go in there and when teams try and you know uh Strongarm you or be the tough guy uh sometimes you

Just just got to show them that you’re not going to back down and um speaking of the Tucker stuff everybody’s having a blast with that stuff obviously it was fun um knowing that we won the game and then Tucker had to just kind of chew everything that he was doing and swallow

That um I loved every bit of that Pat I did I I I moved his stuff about as politely as I could saw okay I could have thrown his helmet about 50 50 yards into the stands if I really wanted to you know make a point but um I knew it

Was just friendly B at that point and he was just trying to be a dick about it but um yeah I think that mentality of going in there not messing around and making sure we we take the fight to them because of how physical of a team they

Are and how and how hard they play uh throughout the game did you wear the all black on purpose too I saw the you know oh yeah Chris J Chris Jones made it made sure to tell everybody make sure you’re wearing all black this week we’re going

In there we’re gonna we’re g hit the bank like Chiefs a holic baby he watching in jail somewhere right now I did have my impact on the game Where’s My wolf mask uh last question for me before the boys have some and obviously we’re all massive fans and the

Fact of the matter is Travis and I said at the beginning about you being a superstar like obviously you’re a vet you’ve been around a long time you’ve earned over 100 million in the league you’re you just passed Jerry Jerry you just passed Jerry right most catches in play like you’re you’ve obviously

Accomplished a lot been around a long time you’re mature like your mindset is one that is ready for it but like this year was there ever a moment where it was like damn everything I’m you’re obviously you know the new heights podcast through the like Universe seemingly to everywhere on Earth great

For football and obviously we’re massive fans of the show then you and Taylor become like literally the couple that every human on earth is talking about it used to be like the Kardashians and like Paris Hilton and them like when we were growing up that was that type of stuff

Now it’s you’re in the middle of that all the while in the middle of a dynasty as well with the Kansas City Chiefs was there ever a moment where you had to like just like sit down and be like man there’s a lot going on right now or have

You been able to kind of navigate it all how how has it kind of g% yeah 100% And I had to kind of reel it back and because it’s all uh it’s everybody in this building knows my intentions man football is is my main focus right now

There’s a lot of people counting on me in this building in this city in this organization so this is this is my number one focus at the time to be able to you know uh and on top of that I have a it’s in my heart to be able to pour

Everything I got out there on the field and uh you know there’s there’s some perceptions and and people can perceive what they want but I wanted to make sure that the guys and the men and women in this building knew that uh that I was 100% focused on on on this team and

Getting this team to where we are where we’re going next week and um 100% I had to look back uh take a step back and really see how I was uh you know portraying myself to the world and just to make sure that everybody knew I was

Focused um all while uh still enjoying um my life off the field yeah and being a gentleman through it all man hey yeah hey being a hey you’re representing football right now you know and I don’t want to talk all about I don’t want to talk about your relationship because we

Are a sports program but your relationship has crawled into the sports world it’s like we’ve all learned about Taylor Swift like I did not know a lot about her my wife is a massive fan of her work and her stories and everything and following her career it’s like we

Have been so pumped at like a football guy like hey a you know like a gentleman like chivalry like not scared to be potentially in like somebody else’s Spotlight as well like it is it’s been beautiful to watch Travis we’re all incredibly pumped appreciate it we’re pumped for you buddy we’re just trying

To reel in the good ones one one at a time baby just win everyone over I love that Conor has question for you yeah Travis you mentioned the all black outfit going into the bank this weekend there was actually a uh list kind of a

Montage of the GQ Sports in the NFL put out on the Instagram and it was the best dressed players of 2024 2023 to 2024 and you just so happen to be on there you are also the only white guy on there uh how do you feel to be you know

Representing once again thank you thank you thank you very much how do you feel repres de already for the culture you got your fit planned out for Super Bowl already do you already know what you’re wearing there as well I got I got a few I got a few

Different things that uh that I got in the closet I might pull out but you already know man we’re in Vegas baby the lights are on man you might see me in a in a Sinatra Presley you might see me and I might have to bring out all the bells

And whistles for this one oh man I cannot wait to see the glasses that are side of it you know what I mean those things are going to be absurd the glasses are going to be absurd you look good though hey a lot of people look like you know what I mean you

Have like you still have you know what I mean I’ve had my I’ve had my point I’ve had my days where I’ve looked like an for sure that’s gonna happen in fashion that’s GNA that’s GNA happen in fashion but you you’ve hit you’ve made Solid contact on a lot as opposed to

Missing we’re proud of you buddy AQ has got a good football question yeah Trav so all year you you turn on the film and it’s teams trying handle you in a variety of different ways it’s either Jam help chipping you off the line of scrimmage it’s double coverage it’s man

Covers they’ve tried everything and nothing works how are you always open great question great question and tell us this uh 10 days before the Super Bowl yeah well AQ I wish I was as open as uh you’re making it seem in the 2020 Super Bowl that uh you guys gave me a very

Humbly experience um I’ll tell you what though and congratulations on that um I’ll tell you what it’s uh it’s been an absolute honor to play in coach Reed’s offenses man um I’ve been on Q saying coach Reed can give my dad open uh in the NFL man the way he schemes things up

He your dad’s a dog though we learned a lot about your dad dad’s a dog big head is a dog a dog and um he’s got he’s got some Mischief in his in his back pocket he’ll make sure he he tricks everybody to get off but either way coach Reed has

Done an unbelievable job of uh of kind of like I don’t know letting letting me grow in this offense and um on top of that Pat Mahomes man he could put the ball anywhere he could throw somebody open in a heartbeat so uh I’m just a product of my environment man but um

Definitely trying to take the game uh to another level by uh in the tight end room at least yeah and I I would say you’re doing that pal I mean the conversation about greatest of all time is happening around you has been for a few years that’s why at the beginning of

Your relationship a lot of the swifties going like Taylor’s making this guy famous it’s like greatest end of all time obviously all the new generation of humans are meeting him do you like that or don’t like that you’re in that great I assume you have to like that but do it

It’s an absolute honor you know it man you know it and I’ve uh I’ve taken bits and pieces of all the guys that have I’ve been you know mentioned in that group with like Tony I’ve taken a lot from his game grank I’ve taken so much

From his game um a guy like Antonio Gates has fueled me fueled me with confidence in how I played um and how he played uh there’s just so many different guys that I’ve taken bits and pieces from um and just kind try to you know create this ultimate tight end that that

Uh or at least the the best tight end that I can be for my team and um yeah it’s it’s an absolute honor that’s for damn sure yeah well you’ve earned it all AJ go ahead pal D did did you have any idea I guess when

You let’s say 18 months ago two years ago do you have any idea like when everything with your podcast obviously relationship that everyone wants to talk about do you have any idea it would be this I knew I’m sure you thought okay this is going to be something but now

Does it feel like this is oh I was not uh I was not anticipating how this kind of has played out but it’s got to be fun and exciting at the same time yeah it’s it’s it’s it’s exciting for me but it was all brand new man I I

Couldn’t tell you I mean I’ve from having the paparazzi follow me every single day into the work to you know just uh everybody having their having my name on their talk show every single day whether it’s Sports whether it’s not Sports uh you know it’s

Just been a it’s been a crazy crazy ride I could have never anticipated man but um I’m having fun with it the majority of the world is having fun with it outside of all the an NFL fans that just don’t want to see wi let’s C around they

Thought you were fake they thought you were fake you know what we’re slowly reeling them in we’re slowly reeling them in they just they they’re fighting it right now you know you know what I think it was I think we all like cuz you told thank you for doing what you did by

The way you were like yeah I would like to invite Taylor to the game or whatever at that point I assume you knew she was coming I assume you knew she was coming yeah yeah you guys knew each other pretty well at that St I mean that was the

First time she was going to watch you play but you guys knew each other pretty well at at that point yeah we had we had knew each other uh for close to close to a month up to that point and pretty pretty good constant so it was yeah it

Wasn’t just a out of the blue hey come to the game and enjoy the game all right good not just like an open call but we we were a part very thankful that you allowed us to be a part of that and I think like getting a chance to know you

And kind of watch the entire thing like I was so happy for you and I think like a at learning about Taylor from her thing I was like so happy for her too I’m like it’s going to be this seems like the perfect almost relationship and then both the football people hey hey

How are you hey Justin Tucker was gonna beat your ass dude he was gonna beat your ass you know that hey Pat he’s gonna beat your ass I’ll tell you Pat me and me and Patrick were on the sideline in the fourth quarter when Tucker had that chance to

Cut the lead to one score if he would have missed that field goal we were 100% getting a 15 yard flag of course he made it of course he can’t let us have any fun have any fun man of course we 10000% getting flagged for that one could you imagine you two

Sprinting on the field uh your guys’s relationship is sweet too to Patrick uh an absolutely beautiful thing and the boys were asking about it but I think at the beginning a lot of football people just thought it was fake like they thought they were getting worked like you know they were

Like this is this is this is but now I think people can’t help but realize Travis is phenomenal with football this guy’s everything that we would like be a football player and he’s in love he’s a great guy guys in love I think every that’s why

Everybody’s coming back I think you were hated for a b it’s a beautiful thing isn’t it and and hopefully everybody realizes that uh we’re just uh we’re two people in a relationship uh supporting each other and having fun with it man it’s it’s nothing more than that and uh

How how much the world wants to paint the paint the picture and make us the enemy um we just have fun with it and we uh we enjoy every single bit of it and sure enough I I love when Taylor comes and supports me and um and enjoys the

Game with the fam and friends uh it’s been it’s been nothing but a uh but just a wonderful year man you guys hear the hate though huh you and Taylor both I assume you hear people bitching do you like do you say why do these people why

Are these people is there any of those by you guys or because I assume she’s dealt with this forever right I assume she’s yeah she’s dealt with it forever and we hear it but we hardly ever talk about it it’s it’s nothing to even talk about nothing to really bring on how

Long was that flight where’d you go see that concert at uh Argentina AR yeah on the by eight 8 n you’re all by yourself on or n you’re all by yourself you all by yourself on that plane yeah man yeah I was just hanging there just

Popped in a few movies and put my feet upo enjoyed the ride and then enjoyed the show and enjoyed some Argentinian food some empanadas oh Empanada love the empana all I thought about was you being on that plane by yourself cuz I’m on a plane for an hour and a half by myself

And I’m just like I’m with me tooo much right now I I need I I should not be doing that you’re much different Human Than I obviously speaking of the guy that just walked in TI has a question for you yeah Travis you talked about talking with Charles am menue and saying

How you know like offensively like hey we need to kind of have just a little more grit we got to figure out ways to win these games and then recently there was a quote from Mahomes and he basically said like hey I I need to to learn how to play differently this year

Given how good the defense is was there was there any convers ation between you two and you knowing like hey statistically my numbers might not look the same this year but we are going to have to change the way we play on offense because like you mentioned we

Have everyone we need here to go play in a Super Bowl it just might look a little bit differently than it has in the past that’s a and that’s a great point I I’ll say this I don’t know if it was ever actually specifically talked about

It was kind of like how the season was going it kind of just built and we all just learned it together and uh the expectations that we set for oursel is the score every single time we have the ball and sure enough history’s told us before Pat Mahomes can score at any

Point in the game as fast as he can so not having that success it makes you feel like you’re out of it but in reality we were in every single game we were playing and we had to find that grit to be able to refocus have the right momentum have the right mentality

To finish those games make those plays at the end of the game KN one it has been pretty all day um I think that having that understanding of no matter where we’re at at the end of the game if we’re in it our mentality has to be

We’re too good to to to to let it slip and we got to put the hammer down and and and and you know just make those big those big plays at the end people gave up on you man throughout the year oh yeah I was making a lot of excuses for

You guys I was making a lot of excuses out here it was windy wasn’t it sick I love you for that I love you for that you knew what it was we just had to you know we just had to figure it out man had to figure it out well I want

To let you know though no you don’t have to I have to I picked I picked Baltimore in pral weekend listen I get it man that team had a lot of juice that team had a lot of juice they the bank is a hostile environment yeah the bank you know they

Were talking about bringing Ray Lewis back and and Ed Reed before the game to kind of build that toughness you know and then in the third or fourth quarter they bring out T Sizzle to some Eminem or to some uh to some 50 Cent uh playing

Was just like wow this you know it was an electric feeling for him but um you know as you say you say it best baby the Chiefs is still the Chiefs and uh and we’re going back to the Super Bowl for a reason baby the Chiefs is still the

Chiefs aren’t oh yeah big time how’ I forget that the Chiefs is actually maybe even the better Chiefs than they’ve ever been it’s your quote it’s your quote Pat I know I know that’s why I wasn’t able to celebrate I was because I like I forgot I forgot tra that’s 100% on me

You sound awesome anytime you have a micophone though up yeah you know those I I appreciate the fact you take those over too because there’s some people that are too timid they don’t talk they’re expecting the question person to do it you just say listen been here before this my show

Okay we we we know we know what we’re doing here let’s just go ahead and get the place going this is celebration and there’s no person better I think hey are you always good vibes all I mean not when you’re fighting kickers before the game but like locker room I assume

Locker room all day every day baby yeah I’m I’m living living life to the fullest man absolutely every single day the the glass is full it’s not even half full it’s full man that thing is it’s just I’m I’m oozing good energy man I you know I had a coach Butch Jones say

One one time and it just registered for me it’s a very simple quote it’s uh either you’re uh you’re fueling people or you’re draining people either you’re a fountain or you’re a drain in life and uh I I just love being that Fountain of Life for everybody and bringing the

Energy and setting that tone of Good Vibes man um and that’s just how I live life baby that’s awesome hell yeah with that being said the Chiefs is still the Chiefs you know why cuz kelse is still Kelsey even though everybody was saying you were changing everybody was saying

You were going to change he’s an Ohio folk he ain’t going to change the change of the team though I think is on the other side of the ball which dbut has a question yeah you guys have some e and flows obviously offensively and you get a bunch of the headlines Patrick Mahomes

Andy Reid but on that other side with spags I know you practicing against some time speaking of Pat too shout out to him putting off for the dad Bots too but uh spag see him a lot practice training camp you you know nothing about that Darius knows nothing about that say

That to though I was I was listening to the show ironically the quarterbacks do bring in about three boxes a dozen glazed donuts every Friday see I love that okay so L teammates good teammates good hey but why why is it so tough to uh to beat spags especially in these big

Games I feel like he’s just putting on the master class obviously Josh Allen uh Lamar Jackson and now going against Brock Pon this uh this off offensive 49s why is it so tough to beat him and especially with his adjustments man spags is going to challenge you mentally and uh uh as an

Offense you want to catch a rhythm and I just I just haven’t seen a team catch that Rhythm against uh coach spags defenses and obviously he does a great job of uh of challenging everybody mentally but I think you know the the true test is to to Brett V and the guys

That are bringing in they’re bringing in to that defense because we got we got guys that linebacker that sometimes are playing half field safety they we got guys that are playing dline that are dropping to the flat making plays in the flat you know guys are interchangeable

And when you have that you can you can really screw up a team’s momentum and A team’s uh Rhythm throughout the uh the the day and uh sure enough um it’s been no no more prevalent than than this uh playoff yeah spec said the other day

That everybody on the field has a high football intellect normally you have like one guy or two guys he said all 11 guys have a high football IQ so they’re able to do a bunch of stuff it’s beautiful you got that’s why the Chiefs is not only still the Chiefs but it

Feels like Eli was kind of talking about it and Antonio Pierce talking about switching those blisses like he was playing first bags at that point and what Travis talking about like Justin Reed the he’s doing out there obviously McDuffy sne has been the best corner in the league I think in my

Opinion Bolton like all these guys just been doing their job so the Chiefs is better than Chiefs ever oh no uh Diggs has last question for you here Travis yeah Trav uh you watch a show so you know this is a journalistic show so I

Don’t want to put you on the spot this is a question I just have to ask you it’s not even for me it’s for a huge section of the internet that wants to know will your GQ handsome stylish stylish ass yep be on the red carpet of

The Grammys this weekend or is that something that can’t happen because you know you’re playing in the Super I wish I wish I could go support Taylor the Grammys and watch her win every single award that the that she’s n n minator for but I think uh I think I got I got

Practice on Sunday or I think Sunday is a travel is it Saturday or Sunday I know I got practice Saturday but Sunday is a travel day unfortunately I got to get ready for this big old Super Bowl that we got in a week I can’t wait for Entertainment Tonight to post yes

Unfortunately the only person in Taylor’s life that won’t be able to make it to their Grammys is Travis because he is quoted as saying focused on still winning a Super Bowl that’s right them learning about football has been fantastic TR we appreciate you buddy have a great week and uh thank you for

Stopping by bro best show on TV baby love you guys man hey we love you too man ladies and gentlemen Travis kills Travis