{"id":433771,"date":"2025-12-08T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:00:14","slug":"travis-kelce-gets-emotional-on-chiefs-bench-after-his-failed-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433771\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Kelce Gets Emotional on Chiefs Bench After His Failed Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travis Kelce looked dejected along the sidelines on Sunday night<\/li>\n<li>The Kansas City Chiefs star bobbled two passes late in the game against the Houston Texans<\/li>\n<li>The Chiefs went on to lose 20-10, and they now have a 16% chance to make the playoffs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/travis-kelce-8285986\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travis Kelce<\/a>\u2019s no good, very bad game got worse when he bobbled two passes in the waning minutes of Sunday Night Football \u2014 and was seen looking despondent along the sidelines afterward.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The Kansas City Chiefs tight end dropped the throws from quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/patrick-mahomes-7503190\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Mahomes<\/a> late in the fourth quarter of the pivotal game against the Houston Texans on Sunday, Dec. 7.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Down 17-10, Kelce failed to connect with Mahomes and the ball came loose for a Texans\u2019 interception.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SMHighlights1\/status\/1997887986285900115\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow\">After the series<\/a>, the NFL veteran sat on the bench and stared into space, closed his eyes and mimed making a catch.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The sequence came at the end of a disastrous showing for the Chiefs, whose playoff chances diminished with the 20-10 loss against their AFC rival.\n<\/p>\n<p> Travis Kelce bobbles a pass during the Chiefs-Texans game on Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Robichaud\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> For Kelce, the game marked his least-productive effort of the season; he recorded one reception for eight yards. Going into Sunday, Kelce had posted 59 receptions for 719 yards on the year.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Following the game, Kelce declined interview requests while Mahomes aimed to make sense of it all.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cYou\u2019re just getting late in the season,\u201d the signal-caller said, \u201cand you\u2019re not getting these opportunities back.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Mahomes continued, \u201cI\u2019m going to go to those guys in big moments. Those guys have made plays in Super Bowls. They\u2019ve made plays in AFC Championship Games. So obviously it didn\u2019t go our way today. I have a lot to do with that myself.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Travis Kelce during the Chiefs-Texans game on Sunday, Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>David Smith\/CSM\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> With their playoff chances hanging in the balance,\u00a0the quarterback also had one of the worst games of his career, going 14-33 for 160 yards and three interceptions.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be able to make that stuff happen,\u201d Mahomes said, \u201cand we haven\u2019t done that enough this year.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6872114\/2025\/12\/08\/chiefs-travis-kelce-patrick-mahomes-texans\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Athletic<\/a>, the reigning AFC champs \u2014 who have appeared in the Super Bowl five out of the last six years \u2014 now have about a 16% chance of making it to the postseason.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> And that\u2019s if they win their remaining four games and get some help by other teams having very bad days of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Travis Kelce looked dejected along the sidelines on Sunday night The Kansas City Chiefs star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-433771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115685256408784139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}