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#264 - Travis Kelce's New Deal Proves the Chiefs Aren't Done Winning · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So the Kansas City Chiefs just re-signed Travis Kelsey.
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  That's exciting news. How about them Chiefs? So Travis Kelsey,
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  everybody was, what's going to happen this offseason? Is he coming back or is he not?
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  This reminds me of Brett Favre. Every year, is he going to come back?
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  Has he got one more in him?
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  I loved those years. Those were like some of my favorite years in the NFL.
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  I became more and more increasingly a fan of Brett Favre when that was happening. Was anybody else?
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  It was so just drama. I mean, Brett Favre, he didn't just sign in the offseason
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  and decide he's going to come back.
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  He waited until the season was starting after they'd gotten through all walkthroughs
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  and camps and all those fun things that they want to do.
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  And then he comes back right when they're ready to start game one. And it was sensational.
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  It was awesome. And he put up every year. Travis Kelsey?
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  Let's see what he can do. What's up, 1-5? Patricio.
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  Patricio. Let's go, baby. Home sweet home. You know what I'm saying?
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  This is Travis. He's signing his... Me all morning. Yeah, he's all got his outfit
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  on. He's like, okay, let's sign it. Let's get the ink on there.
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  Kelsey entering his 14th season with the Chiefs. Experts are weighing in on
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  the deal, believing this actually could and most likely will be his last season,
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  but he won't play for all three.
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  Don't say that. They point out that a longer deal lets the Chiefs navigate the
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  salary cap. future process that is in the future. So we're just.
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  Yeah, I hope I hope it is not his last his last year.
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  I hope I hope it's not just let's I mean, what are you going to do?
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  You have your whole life to be a commentator and go and have your podcast and
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  do all that fun stuff with your brother. You have your whole life to do that.
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  And you can still do that on the side, man.
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  Just get as much out of it as you can, because he's still without question,
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  at least the best out of all, like half the Titans, then I thought he's one
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  of the top, you know, top 15, at least still.
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  And just his presence on the field is just without question.
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  So it says technically the Titan Travis, Travis Kelsey has signed a new three-year
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  deal, but it's more than likely it could be a one year,
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  you know, we'll see, but it's structured to be a one-year deal with what amounts
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  to be a placeholder provision for 2027 per resource with knowledge of the terms.
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  The contract pays $12 million in 2026. The money comes in the form of a fully
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  guaranteed $3 million base salary, a $3 million fully guaranteed reporting bonus
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  earned on the fifth day of training camp, and a whopping $6 million in per game roster bonus.
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  $352,941 for each of the 17 regular season games.
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  How those contracts are set up, the mechanisms, once you hit this point,
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  he's getting paid, and I don't think he even needs the money.
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  I mean, the money is icing on the cake. I think he's pretty good,
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  going to get married with Taylor Swift.
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  I think he's set. I don't think we need to worry about his money problems going forward.
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  I just, I'm excited. I, that kind of, I was going back. I think I was telling
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  myself, we don't need him, Travis.
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  You can just, you know, you had a good run, you know, just become a,
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  like a coach on the Chiefs, you know, become like a position coach,
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  you know, something like that.
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  I'm excited. He's coming back because this is going to rejuvenate the franchise,
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  going to rejuvenate, resurrect the dynasty that we had as the Chiefs.
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  Chiefs because people got so sick of when people see winners,
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  you know, Tom Brady every year in the Super Bowl, they just whine and cry, no, no, no.
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  And then it became Patrick Mahomes every year. That just shows you that people,
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  they hate winning for some reason. I guess if you're beating the hell out of
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  everybody else, that makes them mad.
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  But it certainly, it shows what the Chiefs can do.
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  And last year was, it was terrible. It was, it was terrible.
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  It was not good because every game, like, I think that every game we went into,
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  it's like, I felt like we have it. It's easy.
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  We don't even need to play that hard. We just need to just show up.
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  Every game, it felt like that.
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  Even after we're having a losing record, it felt like that.
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  And I think the Chiefs themselves kind of bought the hype.
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  And I think this humbling experience is only going to show them, man, we need to get real.
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  We need to get serious because the year before it was a tight game every game
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  and they won by like three points every game.
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  And that's where everybody said the officials were rooting for the Chiefs and
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  it was all Vegas and all this kind of stuff. Everybody's going to say that. Everybody.
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  This coming year, everybody's going to say that. They're going to find something
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  about some team, some game, you know, and they're always going to blame Vegas.
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  They're going to blame officials.
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  That's BS.
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  The real winners will win. The real winners will win. And, uh,
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  last year just wasn't their year.
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  And I think Travis Kelsey, he's been worn down after he's been beaten down and it's like,
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  I think all the Taylor Swift kind of stuff got in his head, you know,
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  it was, it put him on like a different echelon,
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  a different, you know, stratosphere that now, like, you're not just playing
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  for yourself, you know, playing for your homeboy, Patrick Mahomes,
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  but you're playing like every game, they're showing Taylor up there.
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  You make a good player, a bad play. They're going to put the camera on her.
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  So it probably got to him a little bit, probably got to him.
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  And I think if If he wants to go out with a bang, you know, have a,
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  a good start to his marriage. You know, maybe that's not the best thing to say.
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  God bless them. You know, God bless them. I don't want to, I don't want to say that.
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  That may I take that back or reverse, you know, or I take that back. I take it back.
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  They will, they will have a, a good marriage, you know, and I pray for the best for them.
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  All right. So where do you stand on this? Are you for, are you,
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  are you good? Are you good with this with the chiefs bringing back Travis Kelsey?
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  I'm totally on board. I'm, I'm excited. I'm pumped. I'm ready for September. I'm ready for kickoff.
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  All right. We'll leave it at that. I hope you've enjoyed this video.
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