Legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady does not think too much of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce screaming at head coach Andy Reid and bumping him during the Super Bowl.
The incident occurred during the first half, when a frustrated Kelce let loose on Reid on the sideline, making physical contact with him and almost knocking him over.
However, Brady thinks that it was just a matter of Kelce allowing his emotions to get the best of him and that it will all blow over.
“There’s always little family issues and of course I don’t mind seeing it because I was a part of a lot of those things,” Brady said, via Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. “Emotions are so high. You are definitely not centered and balanced. You’re not in a meditative state at that point. You are fully determined to go out there and to win. So I think a lot of the things that are said during the games, people should just let them fly off their back. And I actually think Coach Reid handled it just awesome, like he always does, because he just said, ‘I was a little off balance and Travis is such a competitor.’ And I love that because it just speaks to his leadership ability.”
While Brady was certainly a fiery competitor in his own right, he never bumped Bill Belichick on national television, so the Kelce episode was certainly a bit different.
But Brady says that he does not think the whole situation bothered Reid at all.
“It speaks to the self-confidence that Coach Reid has in himself, too, because he doesn’t take that personally at all,” Brady said. “He doesn’t look at that and feel like someone offended him. He takes it for what it is and doesn’t make it more than it is and doesn’t see someone’s trying to belittle him. Travis is not trying to do any of those things. He’s just trying to be fired up and stay in the moment.”
Brady played the game at a Hall-of-Fame level for over two decades, so if anyone has the right to a valid opinion on an event like this, it’s him.
That being said, you rarely see a player physically contact their head coach regardless of how heated the circumstances become.
Surely, Kelce and Andy Reid hammered things out and are completely fine now. They won the Super Bowl, after all. But one can’t deny that this was not a good look on Travis Kelce’s part, and you have to wonder if the matter would be discussed differently had the Chiefs lost.
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