Travis Kelce details the options he weighed before making the decision to return to the Chiefs.
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00:00I really hate it when you're not here, when I get to gloat.
00:04Oh, thank you.
00:05Oh.
00:06All right?
00:07It's not that I, you know, fine if you're not here.
00:09But as predicted, Travis Kelsey, as I predicted, announced that he is coming back to play in
00:15the NFL next season.
00:17He isn't going to let it go after that disaster of a Super Bowl, if you want to call it that.
00:23But he was talking more about the decision, because there was a lot that went on it, so
00:27went into it.
00:28He was on New Heights with his brother, Jason, and revealed all the things that he was weighing
00:35before deciding to come back to the NFL.
00:38And there's a lot, a lot he was weighing.
00:43Why are you playing another season?
00:45Why are you going to go out there, risk injury, and make less money than you could make not
00:51playing football?
00:52Why are you doing this?
00:53Well, that was kind of the one I had to juggle right there.
00:57I think the biggest thing is that I f***ing love playing the game of football.
01:01That's a good reason.
01:02I let my guys down in a lot more moments than I help them, especially if you look at my
01:07track record and how I've been in years past.
01:09I don't know if that's true.
01:10I just, you know, I want to give it a good run.
01:14My question is, is Aaron Rodgers, though, a cautionary tale for him?
01:20Seriously.
01:21I don't think so.
01:22And, look, things didn't work out for Aaron Rodgers in New Jersey, or New York.
01:27He didn't play terrible.
01:28And, by the way, Aaron Rodgers also doesn't get hit as much.
01:30Yeah.
01:31Very true.
01:32And, look, the Jets didn't win.
01:34But I think for Travis Kelce, he could definitely make more money off of the field.
01:39He's due to make like $17 million or so for the Chiefs this season, but it's not about
01:45money.
01:46He will.
01:47But he can still make money.
01:48I mean, come on.
01:49He can, but his legacy is on the line here.
01:50Look, there's a big debate.
01:51Who's the greatest tight end of all time?
01:53Is it Rob Gronkowski?
01:54Is it Travis Kelce?
01:55Right now, Travis has three Super Bowls.
01:57Rob has four.
01:58If he goes out next year and wins a Super Bowl, that debate rages all the more.
02:03What if he doesn't do well?
02:04Then what?
02:05Then he retires the next year.
02:06He's not going to embarrass himself.
02:07And you can, he can be, he can be in entertainment for the rest of his life.
02:11You could theoretically be 74 years old and be a mogul in entertainment.
02:15You can, but there is a thing in entertainment about striking while the iron is hot.
02:20And it's never arguably going to be hotter than it is right now because of his, no,
02:28I'm just saying, I'm just saying, he and Taylor Swift are attached at the hip now, right?
02:34That's why he's going to make so much money.
02:35And that's why people want him.
02:37Now, God forbid, I'm not wishing anything, just like he got so upset when his brother
02:41brought up injury.
02:42I'm not bringing up things that they're going to break up.
02:46But things do happen sometimes.
02:49And let's say at the end of next season, he and Taylor aren't together.
02:52Well, the iron's not going to be quite as hot.
02:54I'm not going to say he's going to go broke, but if he was looking at a hundred million
02:59this year, maybe he's only looking at 20 million.
03:02What Charles is saying is strike while the iron is hot.
03:06My point is the iron's still going to be scalding hot next season.
03:11It'll be, but potentially things happen.
03:14I mean, look, I'm not saying, hold on, hold on, hold on, what if they get married?
03:18I know.
03:19But hold on.
03:20Yeah.
03:21And if they get married, then all the drama's gone.
03:22But it's true.
03:23But he could make more money.
03:24Let me give you an example.
03:26A year ago, Ryan Reynolds was top of the world.
03:32And he's gotten dragged into this whole thing that nobody saw coming.
03:37And stuff like that happens.
03:39So all- Wait, are you saying that this whole Justin
03:43and Blake thing is going to derail another Deadpool movie?
03:47Don't put that out there.
03:48I'm not saying it's going to derail.
03:49Don't put that out there.
03:50But you know what I'm saying.