By now everyone’s heard of the offside penalty on Chiefs receiver Kadarius Toney and how it ruined one of the more exciting plays fans have ever seen following a lateral pass by Travis Kelce against the Bills.
Kelce seemed less upset than his teammates after the Chiefs’ loss to the Bills.
Days later, Travis and Jason Kelce dove deep into the crazy play that didn’t count near the end of the Bills vs. Chiefs game in their latest New Heights podcast.
Travis spoke on what was going through his mind during the lateral.
“Just a little stuff that we can control, man, and sometimes when you got younger players, you got players that are trying to fill their roles and find their roles on the team you go through these learning experiences,” Travis began with.
“It’s all correctable. Everybody’s just got to focus and be accountable for the guy next to them,” he continued.
“That was the biggest message (on Tuesday): Let’s get back to the details of doing everything the right way and be the best team Monday through Saturday and see what kind of performance we go out there on Sunday with.”
“We’re just going to keep chopping away in practice, and I got all the faith in the world we’re going to get back on track.”
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His brother then asked about the negated play that still has fans talking.
“Honestly man, it was such a bang-bang (play),” Travis said.
“Like I caught it, turned up field, I knew it was man coverage, saw the single high safety coming down, knew I had broke the contain of the guy chasing me and when the safety was trying to tackle me, I broke his angle. I knew it was one-on-one or two-on-one.”
“(Toney’s defender) was the only one on that side of the field, I know KT was over there because of the route he ran, and I saw him out of the corner of my eye in a lateral position. In a position where if I could get him the ball, I knew he had space to score a touchdown.”
Jason then wanted to know what head coach Andy Reid said once he made it to the sidelines.
Jason asked, “What did Andy say when you got to the sideline?”
“I didn’t talk to Coach Reid,” Travis responded. “In retrospect, could you imagine if that got tipped? I could see coach Reid in my head (say) ‘come here.’”
“Insane creativity,” Jason said.
“It was close,” Travis followed with, “When it left my hand, I thought it got tipped. So you probably won’t see me doing that every single game, I promise you guys. It was a little bit too close for comfort.”
Kelce may have taken the penalty in stride, but Mahomes notably criticized the officials as teammates had to hold him back during his emotional rant. He also continued his anger towards the refs after the game.
Kansas City could not score again on that drive, its last of the game, and lost to Buffalo 20-17 at home.
They have now lost two in a row and three of their last four.
