Travis Kelce Called ‘Lazy’ by Shannon Sharpe After Loss to Eagles

The Kansas City Chiefs are 0-2 on the young season, and fans aren’t the only ones frustrated by what they’re seeing on the field.

Shannon Sharpe laid into the Chiefs after their 20-17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2, singling out star tight end Travis Kelce.

“Kelce has been lazy,” Sharpe, 57, said on his “Nightcap” podcast on Sunday, September 14. “He’s getting lazy with his head and he’s getting lazy with his eyes. He knows in that area of the field, he has to snap his head. He knows, I don’t know why he is so lazy with his head.”

By the numbers, Kelce, 35, actually had a good game. He pulled in four receptions for 61 yards — both team-highs — on six targets. But Sharpe is a former tight end himself and he knew Kelce cost his team when he failed to make an easy catch just in front of the end zone that would have given the Chiefs the lead in the fourth quarter.

Instead, the ball bounced off his hands and to Eagles safety Andrew Mukuba for an interception.

“There is nobody inside, and [Reed] Blankenship has got you manned. Why are you so lazy?” Sharpe continued. “Your head, you have got to snap it around, you know that. And you took points off the board. In other words, you don’t get points and they go down and they get points.”

Sharpe added that quarterback Patrick Mahomes doesn’t have the talent around him that he needs.

“There is nothing special about anybody on that team right now offensively other than Patrick Mahomes,” he said.

Kelce, for his part, has been vocal about needing to play better. After the Chiefs lost their season opener to the Los Angeles Chargers, he took responsibility as a “leader” on the team.

“I know it’s kinda sounding like a broken record from last year’s Super Bowl, but that’s on us as leaders,” he said on the September 10 episode of his “New Heights” podcast. “I’ll take the most accountability myself. I wasn’t ready that first drive.”

During the second quarter of Sunday’s game, cameras caught him yelling “I’m sick of this s***” to a group of teammates.

ESPN’s Nate Taylor, who was at the game covering the Chiefs, also reported Kelce “launched his helmet on the sideline” and that he was “yapping” with head coach Andy Reid.

The Chiefs will look to notch their first win of the season on Sunday, September 21, when they visit the New York Giants for Sunday Night Football.