ESPN host blasts Travis Kelce for ghosting media after disastrous Chiefs loss, rips 'New Heights' podcast

Chris "Mad Dog" Russo took clip connected Wednesday to blast Kansas City Chiefs prima choky extremity Travis Kelce for not talking to the property pursuing the team’s 16-13 nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Chargers, wherever backmost Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL to extremity his season.

Russo adjacent laid into Kelce’s fashionable "New Heights" podcast successful the process.

During a conception connected ESPN’s "First Take," Russo was huffy that Kelce didn’t instrumentality the clip to talk to media aft the nonaccomplishment that eliminated Kansas City from the playoffs for the archetypal clip since 2014.

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Chris "Mad Dog" Russo speaks connected SiriusXM astatine Super Bowl LVIII. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

It was surely a unsmooth time for the Chiefs, but Russo believed Kelce should not person ghosted the media.

"I could attraction little astir his anserine podcast, but however astir Kelce connected Sunday afternoon?" Russo quipped to statesman his lengthy rant. "They conscionable suffer the crippled and Mahomes tears his ACL. The past play of the game, [Gardner] Minshew goes to Kelce to effort to footwear a tract extremity and gets intercepted. Kelce, aft helium settles down successful the locker room, says, ‘Not contiguous fellas, I’m not going to speech to you.’ The media.

"Hold connected a minute, clip out! We got these mediocre guys who person been covering the Chiefs for years, who spell to each grooming campy practice, each preseason game. Every time for 7 months they screen the shot squad and you stroke them disconnected astatine the extremity of this crippled erstwhile they got Mahomes out, possibly the past crippled you’re ever going to play. You’re not going to springiness them 3 words. You can’t springiness them, ‘Terrible time for us. I don’t cognize what I’m going to bash with my career. Hope Pat volition beryllium OK,’ erstwhile you’re walking retired the door? You say, ‘Not today,’ and you don’t speech to the press."

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To extremity the rant, Russo claimed that nary "serious sports fan" listens to "New Heights."

"Listen, I recognize you got your member and you bash the podcast. I get that," Russo said. "Maybe you privation to prevention the exclusive news. But nary superior sports instrumentality listens to that nonsense anyway. This is simply a concern present wherever it’s a Sunday day wherever we privation to perceive from you. Mahomes is retired for the year, you whitethorn not play again. The season’s over. You mislaid and you’re not making the playoffs."

The Chiefs inactive person 3 games remaining, but it’s a bittersweet clip for the franchise that has made it to the past 3 Super Bowls arsenic the AFC champion.

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce hangs his caput walking disconnected the tract aft an NFL crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs connected Dec. 14, 2025, astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, MO. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire)

It was besides reported by NFL Network that Mahomes tore his LCL arsenic good arsenic his ACL, which could complicate recovery.

He underwent palmy country from Dr. Dan Cooper successful Dallas connected Monday. The Chiefs are hoping that Mahomes tin instrumentality for the commencement of the 2026 season, but his betterment could beryllium longer than 9 months.

To Russo’s point, though, Kelce’s aboriginal with the franchise is inactive up successful the air. He said earlier this play that helium would beryllium letting the Chiefs cognize his determination astir imaginable status earlier the caller league twelvemonth begins successful March.

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But Kelce inactive has 3 games near with the remainder of his teammates, truthful it’s improbable that helium would instrumentality a spot done these last weeks adjacent if the playoffs are unreachable.

Kelce, playing successful his 13th NFL play with the Chiefs, has tallied 67 catches for 797 yards and 5 touchdowns done 14 games this season.

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