Jim Nantz came to Travis Kelce’s defense amid the noise about his decreased production, and Jason Kelce seemed to appreciate it.
While discussing the Kansas City Chiefs 17-10 win over the Los Angeles Chargers during the latest episode of their New Heights podcast, Jason Kelce gave the CBS play-by-play voice a shoutout for something he said on the broadcast.
“A lot of noise throughout the week, Jim Nantz had your back on the broadcast,” the ESPN analyst and former Philadelphia Eagles center told his brother Travis. “All week, hot takes, gotta find someone else to troll.”
After three weeks, the 35-year-old Kelce was experiencing his slowest start to an NFL season since his rookie year, garnering widespread criticism with some of those critics even blaming Taylor Swift for derailing his career. But after Kelce broke out with seven catches and 90 yards against the Chargers, Nantz issued a warning for those critics.
“All the hot takes, you gotta find someone else to troll this week,” Nantz said as the clock expired and the Chiefs improved to 4-0 on the season.
While Jason Kelce appreciated Nantz defending his brother from the trolls, Travis seemed less impressed with his own performance.
“I said it here on the podcast last week, everything outside of the building is just noise,” Travis said. “Big game? When is 89 yards a big game? It was a solid game, a big game is like I score a touchdown or something.”
“I was accountable this game, I didn’t have any drops, which was what happened in Atlanta to make me feel like I had a bad game,” he continued. “I still didn’t have an outstanding game, there’s a lot that goes into having a great game but I did have seven catches which is, a lot of times you get the rock and I got north with it, so, it is what it is, I helped my team find a way to win, and that is all that will ever matter.”
It may not have been an “outstanding game,” but it was productive enough to more than double his stats from the first three weeks of the season. And more importantly, it was productive enough to make Nantz help get the hot takes and trolls off his back, for one week at least.
