Tom Brady Comes to Travis Kelce's Defense Over Heated Super Bowl Moment With Andy Reid

Travis Kelce's temper got called into question when Super Bowl viewers saw him throw down with Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid on the sidelines of Sunday's Super Bowl LVIII. The typically easygoing Kelce could be seen screaming into the Reid's face and grabbing his arm, nearly knocking the 65-year-old off his feet.

For millions of Taylor Swift fans watching, the heated moment was interpreted as a red flag. But on the latest episode of the Let's Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray podcast, the two veteran NFL players and award-winning sportscaster broke down the viral moment, and explained how emotions can run high in the heat of the moment. As Gray pointed out, for those with behind-the-scenes experience at NFL games, it just didn't seem like a big deal.

"There's always little family issues. And of course, I don't mind seeing it 'cause I was a part of a lot of those things," Brady explained. "You're thinking, 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."

"I just think Coach Reid handled it just awesome, like he always does," the 46-year-old continued. "Because he just said, you know, ‘I was a little off balance and Travis is such a competitor.' And I love that, because it just speaks to his leadership ability."

The hosts then agreed that they could see how fans watching at home might misinterpret the moment and make it out to be something that it's not.

"A lot of it's out of context. They don't understand the context of that moment from a player-coach standpoint," Brady agreed. "They haven't necessarily been in that situation. I've been heated a lot. [Fitzgerald has] been heated a lot. There's a lot of things we've probably said that never went to air in a Super Bowl. They go from 45 cameras at the game to 145 cameras at the game, so you can't pick your nose without them seeing absolutely everything."

Brady said that while a lot of these incidents might get blown out of proportion, that at the end of the day the coaches and the players are more focused on the team's performance and win. He also doubled down on his praise of Reid for handling it as well as he did.

"It speaks to the self-confidence that Coach Reid has in himself, too," Brady added. "Because he doesn't take that personally at all. He doesn't look at that and feel like someone offended him. He takes it for what he is and doesn't make it more than it is, and doesn't see that someone's trying to like, belittle him—Travis isn't trying to do any  of those things, Travis is just trying to be fired up and stay in the moment, and you could see the level of intensity that he had."

Following the game, both Reid and Kelce were asked about the moment, and both commented diplomatically.

"The part I love is he loves to play the game, and he wants to help his team win," Reid said in a post-game interview. "It's not a selfish thing, that's not what it is, and I understand that. And so as much as, you know, he bumps into me, I get after him. And we understand that. He just caught me off balance."

For his part, Kelce laughed it off while remaining coy on just what was said. "Oh, you guys saw that?" he quipped. "I'm going to keep that between us unless my [mic] tells the world, but I was just telling him how much I love him."

In other words, no hard feelings between the future Hall of Famers.