Chiefs' Travis Kelce receives major praise via George Kittle's recent comments
The Kansas City Chiefs have the luxury of having the best quarterback, or just the best player you could say, in Patrick Mahomes, and the best tight end in Travis Kelce. It's not often we see that, and I don't know if there has ever been a connection better besides theirs and Tom Brady with […]
The Kansas City Chiefs have the luxury of having the best quarterback, or just the best player you could say, in Patrick Mahomes, and the best tight end in Travis Kelce. It's not often we see that, and I don't know if there has ever been a connection better besides theirs and Tom Brady with Rob Gronkowski.
About three or four years ago there were still conversations about Kelce being the best tight end in the game, but George Kittle was the other guy people were throwing in there. Now it seems Kelce is the unanimous best tight end in the league. Instead of that conversation, he has boosted himself into one where he is considered the greatest tight end to ever do it.
Some still say Gronkowski is the best ever, and that's fine. Everyone can think who they want to think is the best. But, I don't think anyone can deny just how good Kelce is. Even Kittle took a minute to break down why Kelce is just that good. The praise was intense.
"Mahomes and Kelce's connection these last couple of years has been absolutely silly to watch," Kittle said on the Bussin with the Boys Podcast. "If you were a defensive coordinator going against the Chiefs, would your game plan not be, I'm gonna put an outside linebacker lined up over Kelce on every play with a guy playing in man coverage behind him and just try to not let him out… Everyone else is like, yeah, our best guy can cover him one-on-one or our nickel can cover him one on one. He's just like the third-best cover guy. It ain't gonna happen, bro.
"He's had over 1000 yards, seven years in a row for a reason. Let's just put an average guy on him. It's just like, what are people thinking? I'm just like, even, even a good guy, like one on one, is just never gonna work. You can put Darius Slay on him. He's still a little, like eight inches shorter than him. I'm just like, wow, I just double-cover him maybe. I don't know, but like, I love seeing Kelce go off. It's super fun to see and it's really fun just to see like the standard he sets in the wide receiver. It also blows me that."
Kittle broke it down perfectly, and the best part is, I think he knows that that is something privy to Kelce. Kittle is a very good tight end, one of the best in the league, but he isn't guarded the same as Kelce. He isn't a guy that gets doubled-teamed as often or has the same defensive attention as Kelce.
That isn't anything against him either, it's just that is what Kelce demands the opposing teams to do. They also mentioned in there that when they played the Buccaneers, they matched Lavonte David up with Kelce a ton, and it still didn't work. Sure, the Buccaneers won that Super Bowl, but when I say it didn't work, I mean that Kelce still got his own. He had over 130 receiving yards and 10 catches.
Kelce is just different, and I think we can all acknowledge that. Even Kittle knows it.
