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explained he should be 100 percent for training camp. He’ll spend this Saturday evening at Kansas City’s Bar K." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesHorizontal - WhiteArrowhead PrideArrowhead Pride | Kansas City Chiefs Schedule Xavier Williams Jersey , News, Roster and StatsLog In or Sign UpLog InSign UpSeriesLatest NewsFanpostsFanshotsCommunityAboutStubHubMoreAll 322 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteSeries Stagner ThingsLottery Tickets ’19Summer of SpagsDixon’s MailbagLatest News Fanposts Most recentMost activeFanshots Community Community GuidelinesContactAbout StubHub ✕Travis Kelce to be ready for training camp, wants to spend entire career in KC and play “forever”New,28commentsKelce joined the Arrowhead Pride Podcast Network and explained he should be 100 percent for training camp. He’ll spend Saturday evening at Kansas City’s Bar K.CDTShareTweetShareShareTravis Kelce to be ready for training camp, wants to spend entire career in KC and play “forever”Photo by David Eulitt/Getty ImagesKansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce spent the duration of the team’s offseason program without a helmet, wearing a Chiefs cap and helping fellow teammates where he could.The 29-year-old Kelce underwent an ankle cleanup earlier in the year, and that has kept him on the sidelines, the very last place he’d want to be.“I’m ready to go,” Kelce told Arrowhead Pride’s From The Podium podcast on Wednesday night. “It’s kind of been a little bit of an experience just not being able to really go out there and train for the upcoming season quite yet. I don’t know if I’ve had an injury that hasn’t allowed me to get on the field, at least a little bit in the offseason, outside of my knee surgery my first year.”Kelce landed on injured reserve as a rookie in 2013, missing the entire season.“It’s been a little frustrating,” he said. “I want to get out there and mesh with everyone and teach, have fun and get better. But right now, just getting healthy is the main thing, and I think we’re there. I think by the time training camp comes around, I’ll be 100 percent.”That should be welcomed news for the Chiefs, who lost Demetrius Harris to the Cleveland Browns in free agency and might need Kelce more this year than ever before. At times during OTAs and the first two days of minicamp, he has looked much more like a coach than an active player, joking with teammates while providing instruction from the sideline.“I’m sick of everyone snickering in the background,” he laughed. “‘Coach Travis! Coach Kelce!’ I’m over that at this point. I just want to get out there and play football. Although, I feel like I can help out some of the young guys with the experience I’ve had and the success I’ve had in this offense and Andy Reid giving me the tools and the ability to be able to coach this up in the offseason. It’s been a blessing—I don’t want to say in disguise—but it’s been fun because I can sit back and I can watch guys, see how they progress and things like that. It’s definitely been fun coaching for the offseason, but I’m ready to play.”All that being said, just because the four-time Pro Bowler hasn’t been able to participate in offseason workouts doesn’t mean he’s been completely out of the public eye. Kelce joined Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes at the NCAA’s Final Four in Minneapolis, and the two recently attended a Bruins-Blues Stanley Cup Final game together in St. Louis. Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images“He’s a pretty open guy,” Kelce said of Mahomes. “I’ve had a lot of friends that have met us at some of these events that—they kind of look over to me when he walks away, like ‘Man, he’s as advertised. He’s just a great dude, a guy’s guy, just someone that can relate to anyone, have fun anywhere, do anything.’ I’m just like, ‘Yeah man. That’s Pat Mahomes for you.’”During one televised shot during the Final Four Patrick Mahomes Jersey , Kelce was caught chugging what looked to be a Coors Light, something that may have accidentally launched an NFL-wide trend. Kelce laughed at that suggestion.“I did not start that, by the way,” he said. “That has been something that has been going on for decades I think ever since television has been invented. You know what? It’s been fun, and I’m pretty sure you could say that those cameras wouldn’t have been on me if it wasn’t for Pat Mahomes being around. But it’s been a fun offseason, especially with having to deal with the surgery and trying to get around and do some things and some cool events. It’s been a fun offseason for us with a little bit more fun during the season yet to come.” Speaking of this past offseason, it was one in which New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski opted to retire. A year apart from “Gronk” in age and similar in his offensive style of play, Kelce has often been compared to the three-time Super Bowl champ.But similarities abound, Kelce has no plans to hang his cleats up anytime soon.Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports“Forever,” he said when asked how long he intends to play. “I love this game, man. Honestly, I can’t put a number on it. Unfortunately, this game has an end for everyone, and I know that. I’m trying to take care of my body as much as I can, which is kind of why I got the surgery after the season this past year, so that I can play as long as I can. I have a blast every time I come into the facility with these new coaches, players. “There’s more electricity in the building than I’ve felt since I’ve been here in Kansas City, and the expectations are high and you know what? It’s kind of like I started playing football all over again. I love Kansas City, so I hope I’m here for the entire career that I have in the NFL, and hopefully I can stay healthy so I can play as long as I can and hopefully, that’s many, many years to come.”For the past three seasons—2016 to 2018—Kelce has compiled more than 1,000 receiving yards each year and scored a total of 22 touchdowns. But at this stage of his career, Kelce has said that stats are the last thing on his mind.Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports“[I want to] be accountable for every guy on the team,” Kelce said when asked about his 2019 goals. “I know that’s kind of cliché, but I’ve gotten to the point where you know what? Stats are going to take care of themselves. There’s no reason to put a number on anything. All and all, when you go out there and want to win a football game, you just have to be accountable on every single play for the guys around you, the coaches that have put you in those positions to succeed, and that’s where I am in my career. The stats and everything are going to take care of themselves. “I know Andy (Reid) is going to dial me up, and I’m going to get a couple opportunities a game to make a play and it’s my job to go out there and make them, whether I’m running the ball, I’m blocking, I’m catching Mitch Morse Jersey , I’m throwing, whatever they want me to do. That’s where I got to hold myself accountable.”Being in the building, Kelce says that it is easy to see the defensive additions—especially Frank Clark and Tyrann Mathieu—have “without a doubt” made a difference.But there is one important ingredient still to come.Mark Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports“The craziest part is we’re still missing — and it’s out of respect — we’re still missing the most loud human being I’ve ever met in my life in Chris Jones, so I could only imagine how this thing’s really going to get when Chris gets back into the building. I’m excited for it. I know the entire team feels the energy and we feed off of it, and sure enough, this minicamp, this training camp, this OTAs, that stands true. We’ve just been competing our tails off trying to get better, and guys have been getting better.”So is 2019 Super Bowl or bust for the Kansas City Chiefs? “Yes,” he quickly said. “To be honest, that’s how I’ve felt every single year. If you don’t achieve that, then you’re selling yourself short. No more than what we did last year. What we did last year is cool and all—bringing that much excitement to Kansas City for the first time in a long time, I think that’s fun and that’s awesome, but I think we fell short of our goal.“And that’s created a lot of motivation this offseason not only for myself but for this team and we got an edge coming the first week of September.”Kelce is partnering with Seresto and Bar K Dog Bar this weekend for the grand opening of the Seresto stage on Saturday. Kelce will judge a touchdown dance competition at Bar K from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Arrowhead Time. Bar K is located at 501 Berkley Plaza, Kansas City, MO 64120. This is part one of a three-part weekly film analysis on the performance of Patrick Mahomes.Well, this is weird.It’s been a while since the Kansas City Chiefs lost a game, and it’s the first time in Patrick Mahomes’ career. Just as having a young, home-grown quarterback is unfamiliar territory for a generation of Chiefs fans, so is this feeling with the kid under center. The responses have been appropriate to the moment. This wasn’t a shellacking. This wasn’t remotely embarrassing.Mahomes went to toe to toe with the G.O.A.T. Tom Brady and brought his team roaring back to take a lead in the fourth quarter. Bill Belichick had three extra days to prepare to stop an offense that has been the talk of the league. He got the 23-year-old early in the game with a few plays we’ll talk about in the next few days that led to mistakes and turnovers. The Chiefs trailed 24-9 at the half, and things look bleak.Lesser 23-year-old quarterbacks have been chewed up and spit out in Foxborough, and for a half, it looked like that might be the case. Not your guy, Kansas City. The Chiefs lost, but your young quarterback hung 31 in the second half. He earned the respect of yet another locker room. He’s learning every opportunity he gets and he’s not duplicating many mistakes. There were rough moments on Sunday, but you still got the spectacular you’ve come to expect. He makes you forget that he’s not a veteran every week.The Patriots threw a lot at Mahomes this week, and it worked enough early to force the Chiefs to play from behind. No moment has looked too big for him for an entire game, though. He’s still having to manage the juice early, but he continues to figure it out as the game goes on and with enough time to give his team a chance to win. Every week, he’s inching closer and closer to it not mattering what the defense tries to do, and you can count on one hand the guys that are like that.Something goodThey scored too quick!This is, of course, the last time the offense would touch the ball. The Patriots are playing Cover 3 and the Chiefs dial play-action with Tyreek Hill working into the boundary on a deep crosser. The Chiefs ask Hill to eat up a ton of ground in order to get over. He threatens the safety vertically as he works across the field Chris Jones Jersey , and safety Duron Harmon opens his hips to Hill as he gets depth. As Hill crosses the safety’s face, it forces him to flip his hips, giving Mahomes additional space to throw. With the boundary corner occupied by Kelce, there’s no one in the way of this throw.The ball was a little behind Hill, but it didn’t matter. The velocity let Hill make up for a little lost time to accelerate away from Harmon. The route by Hill gave the duo some margin for error, but the 40-plus-air yard throw with rare velocity helped maintain enough of it for Hill to score.The Chiefs have run similar looks to this with Alex Smith in the past, just with shorter routes. They’re stretching the limits with Mahomes and Hill further now. Even though everything wasn’t perfect, the Chiefs are still keeping defensive coordinators up at night with plays like these. We’re spoiled getting to watch this perfect pairing.Something badHow about we add some positives to this week’s something bad before delving into a big mistake?There’s 51 seconds remaining in the half and the Chiefs trail by 15. At their own 30, the Chiefs face a third-and-15, needing to extend the drive to keep the ball out of Brady’s hands and give themselves a chance to shrink the lead.Things that are becoming norms should not be becoming norms. Quarterbacks aren’t supposed to make third-and-long plays look this easy, but every week, it feels like Mahomes pulls one of these off. The Chiefs are lined up in a Y-Iso look with Travis Kelce lined up to the left in the boundary. The Patriots are showing a two-high shell but roll into a Cover 3. They’re running a flood concept into the boundary with Kelce clearing space underneath on a vertical. With a late blitzing Kyle Van Noy coming to Mahomes’ front side, he rolls to his left with the direction of the pass concept.With space between the underneath defender, the cornerback on the vertical with Kelce and the middle field safety, Mahomes finds Hill with a throw of 38 air yards rolling to his non-dominant side, on a rope to convert for a gain of 27 yards. His ability to rotate his body to be able to deliver the velocity he did is absurd.You can hear a quiet but audible “Wow,” from Chris Collinsworth on the game broadcast. Unfortunately, that amazing play was wasted.With 17 seconds remaining and one timeout left at the New England 15-yard line, Mahomes makes a critical mistake.Mahomes does a nice job stepping up against front-side pressure and then exiting to his right. With a chasing Donta’ Hightower hanging onto him, he elects to take a chance and throws the ball into congested space to Kelce on the scramble working laterally with him after running a middle curl. The ball is undercut by Harmon, then bounces off of Devin McCourty and back into the hands of Harmon for a drive-ending interception.This play was a first-and-10. Had he thrown the ball away, Mahomes could’ve had a few more chances to get into the end zone before having to kick a field goal. The Chiefs still had a timeout remaining, so the playbook was still pretty open. This is the kind of mistake Mahomes has mostly avoided in the last few games. I don’t expect it to happen too often, but in this situation, the young quarterback tried to do too much. Quarterback anecdoteEvery week, I add a quick note about something I’ve picked up about the quarterback position through my time learning and playing the game.“Kill, Kill!” If you’ve ever heard that picked up a quarterback saying that on a broadcast microphone, you might have wondered what that meant. The quarterback gives two plays in the huddle and based on what the defense is doing. The play call might sound something like:“Wide Right Jet Right 544 F-Whip...Kill...3 Zone”The pass play is called in the huddle, but if they like the look to run they can kill into a zone-run play. If the quarterback elects to run the original call, he goes through his normal cadence. If he likes his numbers in the box, he would yell “Kill, Kill” into the run play.