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The Kansas City Chiefs enter the bye with their 28-21 loss to the Buffalo Bills weighing heavily on their minds. After going 12-0 in one-score games last season, Kansas City is 4-0 this year Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes told reporters after the game, “We’ve had great moments, we’ve had bad moments…I mean, we’ve kind of been in a lot of these tight, close games in our history, but they’re not going our way now. So how can we deal with that adversity? How can we be better and learn from it?” Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce discussed the team’s loss during Wednesday’s episode of “New Heights” with his co-host and older brother, Jason Kelce, 38. “I can’t say that I’m not frustrated, more from the entire start of the season than just this Bills game,” Travis said. The Chiefs sit in third place in the AFC West with a 5-3 record. “I mean, there’s games that I don’t think we had any business losing.” Jason shared his brother’s frustration and called out the Chiefs’ inability to run a key play with Mahomes. Jason Kelce Called Out The Chiefs Not Running The ‘Tush Push’ With Patrick Mahomes Jason, a future Hall of Fame center, found a lot of success with the Tush Push, effectively a quarterback sneak, during his 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles. Bills quarterback Josh Allen scored two rushing touchdowns via quarterback sneaks, while Mahomes didn’t record a rushing or passing touchdown for the first time since 2024 against Buffalo. “Here’s the reality,” Jason said, “That play before half, we’ve got to be able to Tush Push that thing in. They got two. We need to get the Tush Push down. “And we need Noah Gray or somebody over there to get the Tush Push down. That’s how they scored every time they got to the 1-yard line. Josh Allen, Tush Push. Philadelphia Eagles, that’s how we score every time we get to the 1-yard line. You can’t go into halftime only getting three points because you don’t … got a Tush Push in the damn play. “I get that Pat can’t do the Tush Push because he’s got funky knees, but we got to have somebody doing the Tush Push,” Jason concluded. The Chiefs, however, haven’t run a quarterback sneak since they defeated the Denver Broncos on Oct. 17, 2019, during which Mahomes suffered a dislocated kneecap. Travis disagreed. “Or we just give the ball to Kareem Hunt, who’s one of the best right now at short-yardage situations,” he said. “I don’t want anything to do with it. I’m good with just running our play-action rollout with Patty Mahomes.” Chiefs TE Travis Kelce Got The Wind Knocked Out of Him Against Buffalo Travis lamented not catching the ball in the end zone, which led to Kansas City going for a field goal instead of getting seven points before halftime. The 36-year-old tight end took a huge hit from Bills safety Cole Bishop and entered the locker room for further evaluation before halftime. The 10-time Pro Bowler, however, brushed off any concern over a concussion. “It knocked the wind out of me,” he said. “He caught me. I got kind of sandwiched in there.” Travis did take issue with the questions asked during the concussion evaluation. “ Before a concussion or after a concussion, I don’t know who we played last week,” he joked. “We’re in Week 9. Are you kidding me? Who did we play last week?” “The Commanders. We played the Commanders,” he answered. While Travis fielded trash talk from Bills fans enroute to the locker room, he didn’t mind. “That stadium was rocking,” he said. “Shout out to all the Bills Mafia that was talking all the (smack) in the world. “And it’s just a sacred place to play a football game. And I cherish every game that I get an opportunity to go up there. But it… sucks when you don’t come away with a victory out there, because they let you have it.”
