Travis Kelce says Chiefs likely missing playoffs after his crucial drop is a 's----y f-----g feeling'

The Kansas City Chiefs find themselves successful acquainted territory, arsenic they are presently connected the extracurricular looking successful astatine the playoff picture.

After falling to 6-7 connected Sunday nighttime with a nonaccomplishment to the Houston Texans, the Chiefs are the 10th effect successful the AFC with conscionable a 12% accidental of making the playoffs.

Travis Kelce has not missed the playoffs since his archetypal afloat play successful 2014, but helium had a important driblet connected Sunday that led to the loss.

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Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (87) reacts to dropping a walk successful beforehand of Houston Texans cornerback Myles Bryant (25) during the 4th fourth astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Denny Medley/Imagn Images)

Perhaps this is simply a regression to the mean aft the Chiefs were capable to squeak by successful galore wins past twelvemonth and find answers, but Kelce admitted those answers are presently mislaid this year.

"I consciousness similar I’ve ever had the answers successful years past. And this year, I conscionable can’t find them," Kelce said connected his "New Heights" podcast with his brother, Jason. "I support reasoning if I amusement up to enactment and I enactment successful the enactment and I hole the issues done my signifier habits and done perfecting the crippled program and my fundamentals and what I’m being taught and spell retired determination and effort and play my ass disconnected for my guys adjacent to me, it’s each going to travel unneurotic similar it has successful years past. And this twelvemonth is conscionable not, man."

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce (87) warms up anterior to the crippled against the Houston Texans astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Amy Kontras/Imagn Images)

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Kelce hinted, successful announcing helium would instrumentality for the 2025 season, that this would beryllium his last NFL campaign. While it's not acceptable successful chromatic whether Kelce volition travel backmost for a 14th NFL season, this is surely not the mode helium would privation to spell out.

"If there’s a crippled to beryllium played, I’m going to f---ing marque it the astir important crippled successful the world, but obviously, looking astatine the playoffs, this is simply a pugnacious world to beryllium successful particularly with however we’ve ever recovered a mode successful years past so, it’s a s----y f---ing feeling, particularly dropping the f---ing shot precocious successful the crippled similar that erstwhile we were connected our past f---ing accidental to marque thing shake. It’s a s----y feeling, man. You enactment successful each this enactment to beryllium determination for your guys," Kelce said.

Kelce is connected gait to instrumentality to the 1,000-yard nine for the archetypal clip since 2022 (he was 16 yards abbreviated successful 2023 and did not play successful 2 games).

Mahomes threw 3 interceptions, but helium surely did not get assistance from his weapons late, arsenic some Kelce and Rashee Rice dropped important passes.

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce heads disconnected the tract pursuing an NFL shot crippled against the Houston Texans Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, successful Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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The three-time reigning AFC champions person 4 games near connected the docket to marque a run, and their homestretch begins with a matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers connected Sunday.

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