Chiefs legend not ready to say dynasty is over despite Patrick Mahomes' injury, Travis Kelce's final days

After winning back-to-back Super Bowls, world has acceptable successful for the Kansas City Chiefs.

They got shellacked successful Super Bowl LIX by the Philadelphia Eagles and past missed the playoffs this past play — to adhd insult to wounded (or, perhaps, wounded to insult), Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL the time the Chiefs were eliminated from playoff contention.

Travis Kelce seemed to insinuate that Super Bowl LIX near a atrocious sensation successful his mouth, causing his instrumentality for what seemed similar 1 much season. Well, helium did the aforesaid aft missing the playoffs and is returning for a 14th year.

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Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs walks disconnected the tract aft a crippled against the Denver Broncos connected Oct. 5, 2003, astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Sporting News via Getty Images)

Fellow legendary Chiefs choky extremity Tony Gonzalez is fired up to spot Kelce backmost connected the gridiron.

"I did a sit-down with him...and I did honestly — I was like, he's done. He's got to beryllium done. I mean, helium was playing immoderate bully football, but intelligibly it's not what it was. Just similar with maine astatine the extremity of my career, it wasn't what it was erstwhile I was 27, 28, 29 years old. But he's got that drive. He wants to play," Gonzalez precocious told Fox News Digital.

"Everybody knows, it's nary secret, he's winding down an unthinkable career. But helium is 1 of the champion to ever bash it, if not the best. And it's been amusive to ticker him play and spot each the occurrence he's had connected and disconnected the field. I emotion that guy. He's specified a bully dude disconnected the tract arsenic well. He's casual to basal for."

With possibly a rejuvenated Kelce for what mightiness beryllium his last season, a revamped moving crippled and a afloat steadfast wide receiver room, Gonzalez believes determination is simply a accidental the Chiefs could revert to their aged form.

Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes look connected during an NFL crippled betwixt the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs astatine Deutsche Bank Park successful Frankfurt americium Main, Germany, connected Nov. 5, 2023. (Getty Images)

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"I mean, I've been much excited astir them successful the past, not going to lie," helium admitted. "But I truly bash deliberation Patrick Mahomes is going to person a large year. For immoderate reason, I mean 1 of those old-school-type years. They inactive got truly bully receivers: [Xavier] Worthy, [Rashee] Rice, [Tyquan] Thornton, don't slumber connected him. And past evidently Travis is inactive there. They got the moving backmost present with Kenneth Walker. Offensively, they're going to beryllium fine. They'll beryllium a top-10 offense, Eric Bieniemy's back. So, offensively, I'm not disquieted astir them...

"If they tin creep into that top-10-type defense, past I spot nary reason. I mean, successful the AFC, I deliberation they got a bully shot. I deliberation they got a truly bully changeable to triumph their part and to marque immoderate — hey, travel playoff time, Patrick Mahomes successful the playoffs? Come on. I'm not picking against them."

The Chiefs are idiosyncratic for Gonzalez, arsenic the enactment drafted him 13th wide successful 1997 retired of California. Now successful retirement, Gonzalez has partnered with Novartis to dispersed the connection for men to get their prostate checked, different facet "close and idiosyncratic to me" aft losing 2 household members to prostate crab with different presently battling it.

"It's thing that runs successful my family, thing that I'm astatine hazard for. The connection that we're trying to dispersed unneurotic is: instrumentality the humor test. It's conscionable a elemental humor test, and aboriginal detection tin prevention lives," Gonzalez said.

Tony Gonzalez attends the crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Rams and the Houston Texans astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California connected Aug. 19, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

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"It's the astir communal crab amongst men — 1 successful 8 accidental of getting prostate cancer. So, it's important, and aboriginal screening tin prevention lives. So, that's what has to beryllium understood astir it, is that you tin leap retired successful beforehand of it. And there's worldly you tin bash astir it. It's thing that tin beryllium treatable if aboriginal detected. So, that's benignant of what it is for me. It's like, wherefore wouldn't I privation to get connected committee with thing similar this?"

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