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He scored a fourth-quarter touchdown in the fourth quarter, catching a 21-yard pass from Patrick Mahomes. It was his 84th career score, breaking a tie with Priest Holmes for the Chiefs’ team record.
After the 22-19 loss to the Broncos, Kelce declined to talk to reporters in violation of the NFL’s media access policy.
“If you’re going to ask me about the record, I could [sic] care less about that right now,” Kelce said, via James Palmer of TheAthletic.com.
The Chiefs’ hopes of continuing their streak of AFC West titles is on life support, and at 5-5, their playoff hopes aren’t much better.
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For the defense, those moments arrived in the fourth quarter, when it looked like the Chiefs were gearing up to run away with the game. A Travis Kelce touchdown put Kansas City up 19–16 with 9:57 left. The Broncos’ defense went back out there with 8:11 left. They secured their first three and out. Then, after a resulting short field helped set up a 54-yard Lutz field goal to tie it, the defense got another three and out, keyed by a McMillian sack on third down.
“[Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph] called it at the right time,” said McMillian, who’d picked off Mahomes earlier in the second half. “He’d been saying I was gonna come free, we were going to come free on that play, with the nickel, which is me. I was just reading Mahomes. The whole game, I’d watch his hands go up, and that’s when the ball was snapped. I just timed it up well, and they didn’t slide the protection my way, and I just made a play.”
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The more pressing concern right now is to get back in the playoff race with a surging Indianapolis Colts team heading to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium fresh off its bye and eager to stay in the fight for the AFC’s top seed.
Kansas City currently sits ninth in the AFC pecking order.
The top seven teams make the postseason, so the Chiefs’s season is far from over, but a dismal 2-4 conference record and losses to two teams currently in the Wild Card spots — Jacksonville, which effectively has a two-game lead, and Buffalo, which essentially has a three-game cushion — increase the degree of difficulty for coach Andy Reid’s to play past the first weekend in January.
“At the end of the day, all the goal is is to get into the playoffs and try to make a run at it,” Mahomes said.
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