Getty Eagles All-Pro center Jason Kelce may have provided Jacksonville some bulletin-board material heading into Week 4.
The question of retirement for Jason Kelce has lingered over the offseason ever since the final whistle blew in Tampa Bay. Will the All-Pro center return for a 12th season? Or ride off into the sunset as a Super Bowl champion?
No one knows for sure, including Kelce who plans to take some time off and mull over his future. According to The Inquirer’s Jeff McLane, the 2021 campaign was supposed to be Kelce’s swan song but things changed following the Eagles’ surprise playoff run. Sources close to Kelce believe the 34-year-old is gearing up for at least one more season in midnight green, per McLane.
“We ended on a good note, minus the playoff loss, which sucked,” Kelce told McLane. “But so there’s definitely a lot of things right now that are making me entertain the idea of playing another year.”
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The comments jive with what Kelce told John Clark of NBC Sports the other day in Los Angeles. He loves the fans and the organization too much to leave them high and dry, yet the stress on his body has been taxing. Especially after 122 straight regular season starts.
“We’ll see. I don’t know where I’m at to be honest with you,” Kelce told Clark. “I’m all over the place in my head but I do love playing, I love my teammates, I love the city. If I’m going to stop doing that, it better be worth it.”
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Nick Sirianni Trying to Bribe Kelce with Beer
One person who definitely wants to see Kelce back in 2022 is Nick Sirianni. The first-year head coach joked that he sent two kegs of beer to Kelce’s house as a bribe. Sirianni can’t imagine not having his leadership, toughness, and personality in the locker room.
Nick Sirianni just said on WIP that he sent Jason Kelce 2 kegs of beer yesterday to try and convince him to come back to the Birds next season.
“I sent him two kegs of beer yesterday. You know what, he’s awesome and I’ve told him how much we want him back,” Sirianni told Angelo Cataldi. “He’s an unbelievable leader. Everything you hear about — if you don’t know Jason Kelce personally, everything you hear about him is as advertised. He’s awesome, he’s a great leader, he’s a great player.”
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Kelce joked that he hasn’t been home much this offseason and would check to see if a beer delivery had arrived: “When I get back there, we’ll see.”
NFL Returning to Mexico, Playing in Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic made the logistics of putting on a game in Mexico impossible in 2020 and 2021. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently revealed plans to hold a regular-season game at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City in 2022. The Dallas Cowboys have been mentioned as a likely team to travel down there, per Blogging The Boys.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that Munich will host a game in 2022, and there will be four total games in Germany over 4 years — two in Munich, two in Frankfurt. In addition, there will be a game in Mexico this coming season.
The Chiefs and Chargers were the last two teams to play in Mexico during the 2019 season. Goodell also announced that the NFL would be play its first-ever game in Germany next season. It’s part of a four-year program that puts a different team in Europe once a season.