Travis Kelce did not like Justin Tucker's pregame antics before the AFC Championship game.
And he didn't hold back when speaking about it on his New Heights podcast alongside his brother and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce.
“If you wanna be a f***ing dick about it, you keep your helmet, and your football and your f***ing kicking tee right where the quarterbacks are warming up," Kelce said. "Don’t paint me as the bad guy. He was poking the bear.”
NFL Network's James Palmer got the whole incident on video, first showing Kelce throwing Tucker's helmet, kicking tree, and footballs away when it he saw they were in Mahomes' way. He even kicked one of the balls too.
Afterwards, Mahomes also got into it with the kicker. He appeared to say something to Tucker, but the Ravens star was speaking back. He then points to the other end zone, seeming to be showing that the offense was taking up the entire end zone there
Yet, Tucker proceeded to put his kicking tree down. And the minute he turned his back, Mahomes took it and threw it away.
Mahomes also addressed the incident when speaking on 610SportsKC The Drive on Tuesday.
"I've had like seven years of doing that same warmup routine and there's only been like three occasions where there's been a kicker that wasn't, you can talk to guys, there's a kicker that isn't necessarily moving out of the way or you weren't sharing the field in the right way," Mahomes said. "I mean, it was in Baltimore all three times. He does that little stuff, I think to get under our skin. And I asked him to move his stuff and he got up and moved it, I think two inches, but didn't move it out of the way. And I was going to let it slide, but Travis kind of got it and moved it for me. And after that I wasn't going to let him put it down."
So this seems to be a theme in Baltimore.
However, Tucker had a different take on everything that happened.
"I find it kind of silly that we're even having to address it or talk about something that happened before the game that I really don't see as a big deal," Tucker told reporters immediately after the game. "I think you can just see the whole interaction and then you see us at the coin toss, we're all dapping each other up and then we just get on with the football game."
So one thing is clear from this: Kelce is always going to defend his quarterback.
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