The Kansas City Chiefs are 2-0 to start the season, but both both wins did not come easy for the reigning Super Bowl champions. 

And one player who provided a very critical evaluation of his play along with the entire Chiefs offense was Travis Kelce. 

"Initial thoughts are we got to play better as an offense. I think the defense is playing their a**** off," the tight end said on the latest episode of the New Heights podcast. "Getting turnovers, finding a way to make opposing quarterbacks uncomfortable, and they're really making it hard for them to throw the ball downfield with the type of pressures we're getting and how good our coverage is right now. 

"And I just think we have to match that accountability on the offensive side to really become another Super Bowl caliber team."

As a leader on the team, he said that has to start with him specifically. 

"I think it starts with making sure you're going with the right mentality," Kelce added. "I didn't play my best. It spreads if you don't fix it, so I got to get that thing fixed."

In the first two games, Kelce has been a little quite. He only has four receptions on seven targets for 39 yards, and has yet to find his way into the end zone. 

"There's a lot of things that have to go right for anybody to get the ball," Kelce explained. "Outside of our running back where you're literally just handing it to them, if you want to catch the football, one is has to be the right play, and two it has to be the right coverage, and three is has to be everybody doing their job up front and on the backend in terms of running their routes for everything to kind of matchup and be in sync. 

"And for whatever reason, these past two games it just hasn't gone that way for me."

Kelce explained that earlier in his career, he would get frustrated with his lack of production. He has very high expectations, but "it's just tough for me to deal with being mediocre."

However, once he stopped focusing so much on the statistics and just went out there to play football, everything got much better.  

"And I think moving forward, it's just how can I be better in those moments? What's the issue? Am I not getting out of my route fast enough?," Kelce said. "Whatever the situation may be. It's all play specific anyways, but you're always looking at the film, looking at the scheme and trying to perfect it more and more each week. 

"Typically you see these kind of games earlier on and then you just keep trying to get better and better and more accountable for the guys around you."