Kansas City Chiefs must throw Travis Kelce The Ball

The Kansas City Chiefs have to get Travis Kelce more involved in the offense.

Normally the bye week for fans of an NFL team is boring.  No press conferences, no practices and no games can leave them craving anything to watch.  The bye week for the Kansas City Chiefs last week did not have that problem as we were able to watch Travis Kelce star in his own reality TV show, “Catching Kelce.”

For those of you who haven’t heard of the show, picture “The Bachelor” meets “Miss America.”  Travis has a woman from each state vying for his affection, and he will make his picks until there is only one.

In terms of football, Kelce has been getting far too little attention from head coach Andy Reid. The Chiefs have used him more in the past and now need to utilize him more going forward.  There is no doubt he is the best tight end the Chiefs have had since Tony Gonzalez.  The funny thing about Tony is, when he played people said he got the ball too much.  Many Chiefs fans said that quarterback Trent Green depended too much on Tony and didn’t allow the offense to open up as much as it could have.  Now with Travis, people just want the Chiefs to throw him the darn ball!

I don’t feel it’s unjust to say the Chiefs have misused Travis in the past. Travis has the size, strength, hands and route-running ability to be a top-three tight end in the NFL.  Yet the Chiefs will throw him screens behind the line at the goal line and go a whole half without Travis seeing a single target.

Those are things that can not happen for an offense that is struggling the way the Chiefs offense is.  So coming out of this bye week, one of the top priorities for the Chiefs is getting Travis consistent and quality targets.

I would consider quality targets as any target inside the end zone and in the middle of the field.  The Chiefs have done an OK job of clearing out the middle and then having Travis come through on a linebacker.  No linebacker can guard him so it is the perfect matchup and thus something the Chiefs need to run more often then they are.

One thing the Chiefs have done poorly this year is giving Travis targets in the end zone. Once inside the red zone Travis should be almost guaranteed multiple looks in the end zone.  Big players need to be the main targets for big plays at big times.

So I’m begging Andy Reid and Alex Smith to please come out of this bye week and target Travis.  I want him trying to catch as many balls this week as there are woman trying to catch him on his TV show. And if I see one more pass to Travis behind the line of scrimmage on the goal line, Andy and Alex will both need to be eliminated from the Chiefs show on Sundays!