Patrick Mahomes had just groped the ball. He was deep in the fourth quarter and this unilateral super bowl had long been finished.
Travis Kelce left the field, withdrew her helmet and held alone. He spoke to anyone before moving away, to sit on the bench and, devastated, took everything.
Kelce is generally at the center of everything for the chiefs on the day of the match, from the threat on the field to its biggest cheerleader. If Mahomes is his brain, the tight end is his heart.
But Kelce was again far from the game and nowhere the action. Anyone who fears that Fox diffusion could be taken care of by Kelce and Taylor Swift should not have worried. He was redundant and she had nothing to celebrate all night.
If it is Kelce’s curtain call in the NFL, he left without groaning. He finished with four catches and 39 yards on six targets.
This performance will also lead to a greater investigation into the reason why he came out of dinner with Taylor Swift less than 48 hours before the kick -off of the biggest match in his life.
Travis Kelce was anonymous because the heads of Kansas City were humiliated in the Super Bowl
Kelce looked devastated on the bench after the chiefs failed in their attempt to make the three points
Taylor Swift had nothing to celebrate while the Eagles dominated Kelce and his teammates of the Chiefs
No one can know with certainty what was going on in Kelce’s head when he decided to go to a French restaurant in the Uptown district of New Orleans on Friday evening. But that opened the door to doubts that his attention was elsewhere.
When the history of the NFL is at stake and, at 35 years old, the opportunities to win more Super Bowls will only decrease, why do you open such an exam? It didn’t look good at the time. Now he looks irresponsible.
Mahomes should also take its part of the blame. It was a double date after all. His performance, the worst of his career, also suggests that he would have been better or look at the band in his hotel room.
Kelce said this week that he could be played for three more years. But reports have emerged on Saturday that its future is in fact much less clear, and this type of performance shows that time is exhausted.
It was not a friendly farewell either. When actor Jon Hamm took the microphone to present the fields the field, the deafening huts that welcomed them could be heard in Philadelphia.
Jason Kelce looked at his little brother taking place from the start. The line has also spread to Swift when it appeared on the screens at the two ends of the Superdome at the start of the game.
Kelce’s first opportunity to make her mark came on the chief opening road. It was 2 and 9 when a pass in the middle by Mahomas seemed to be a routine taking. This connection that we have seen so many times before.
Kelce finished with four catches and 39 yards on six targets and had no impact on the game
Kelce was under pressure and could not keep the pass. Just when he dropped the ball, a crunchy stroke back sent him to the ground.
He got up, rocked him and ran to the group, but it was an early error that contributed to the chiefs who had to reject the ball.
To make things worse, Dallas Goedert, who was in the tight shadow of Kelce for a large part of the construction of this game, made his first game without problem. A simple gain in motion while the Eagles walked on the ground and marked with a Tash push.
The response of the chiefs was at the very least disappointing when the defense of the Eagles invaded the Mahomas and did not give up any land for the rest of the first quarter.
An interception of Bryan Cook should have been injected from energy to the offense of chefs, but they went for three years and came out with Kelce, failing that, another pass.
Third down, Mahomes again looked for its tight end. His pass was too low and Kelce could not go down to collect it. Something was off, the best friends were on different wavelengths.
They finally connected for the first time with a little less than three minutes to play in the third quarter with a pass of eight yards and a socket in the middle of the field. Mahomes was almost chosen for the next game when the domination of the Eagles continued.
At 34-0, with the chiefs that rush to avoid becoming the first team to undergo a bleaching in a super bowl, Mahomes found Kelce with a nice film.
They went on the dashboard with the touch of Xavier Worthy, but Kelce could not transport in the pass of Mahomas for a conversion in two points. It summed up their night.
The chiefs managed to rally at 40-22, but when Worthy marked another hit to relieve embarrassment, Kelce was not in mood to celebrate.
Jason retired on the back of a heavy defeat of the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay. Will this humiliation be the last chapter of Travis’s career?
