Tom Brady delivers home truths to Travis Kelce | NFL News

Following the Kansas City Chiefs‘ Super Bowl defeat, tight finish Travis Kelce has been searching for steerage, receiving pearls of knowledge from NFL legends Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.

After their aspirations for a historic three-peat have been dashed by the Philadelphia Eagles, who dominated the Chiefs, Kelce endured a difficult recreation, mirroring his season’s wrestle to grow to be Patrick Mahomes’ main option.

Now 35, Kelce stays a top-performing tight finish and has one other 12 months on his contract, however there’s an acknowledgment that his standout days may even see additional decline subsequent season.

With retirement choices looming, Manning counselled: “So, the last thing you want to do is say ‘OK, I’m going to make a decision now. Take some time. Take a full month. Let some things digest and calm down. He can make a better decision then. I hope he comes back and plays. He’s fun to watch, but he’s got to do what’s best for him.”

Meanwhile, Brady shared his insight into the aftermath of Super Bowl loss, intimating Kelce ought to sidestep making decisions pushed by emotion and take time to course of the setback inflicted by the Eagles.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Brady revealed: “You just don’t sleep for a couple of days. You think it’s a nightmare, you really do. You’re like, “it did not occur, I woke up, it was a unhealthy dream” and then you’re like… it sinks in.

“And then in the end, you recover from it. I imply, acute ache, however then there’s that continual scar tissue of making it that far after which coming up short. Giants, Eagles. Especially whenever you’re the higher workforce. In all three Super Bowls we misplaced, we have been the higher workforce. Not that day, however..”

During last week’s episode of his New Heights podcast, Kelce implied that he would weigh his options over the coming weeks before deciding whether to return for a 13th season. “I’m gonna take some time to determine it out. And I believe I owe it to my teammates that if I do come back that it is gonna be a wholehearted determination and I’m not half-a–ing it, and I’m totally right here for them. I believe I can play, it is simply whether or not or not I’m motivated or it is the best determination for me as a man, as a human, as a particular person to tackle all that accountability.”

Kelce will likely need to make this decision in less than a month, with free agency set to start on March 10.

This article originally appeared on Mirror US