#Marquez Valdes-Scantling

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MVS Softball Charity Game

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The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl LVII Champs!

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IG: nfl (2/28/24)

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Marquez Valdes-Scantling - San Francisco 49ers vs Kansas City Chiefs 02/11/24/

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Marquez Valdes-Scantling scores on a 19-yard touchdown pass from QB Patrick Mahomes during the AFC Conference Championship.

The Cincinnati Bengals versus the Kansas City Chiefs was the matchup of the year. We like to paint the matchup as Joe Burrow vs Patrick Mahomes and how Burrow and the Bengals were 3-0 against Mohomes and the Chiefs. It’s never QB vs QB. The defense plays a tremendous importance to who wins these games. Prior performances show that Mahomes held his own in each of those loses. Twice the game went into overtime with the Bengals defense making a play to seal the game. 

This weekend showed just how special Mahomes could be during the Chiefs win. Without their top two wideouts, Marquez Valdes-Scantling chose to have his best performance yet. The 5th year wideout is in his first season with the Chiefs. He opened up his night with a hitch up the right sideline. Next he caught a body twisting corner route between two defenders. Valdes-Scantling’s longest play came on a flat route where he caught the ball and exploded up the field, shaking 3 defenders in route to a 29-yard gain. 

He finished the night with 6 catches for 116 yards and 1 touchdown. By default Marquez is the wideout of the week. 

My early prediction is the Chiefs will beat the Eagles in the SuperBowl. Mahomes is a better quarterback than Jalen Hurts who appears to not be 100% healthy. Philly does have a better wideout core but the person delivering the ball is most important. At the end of the day I feel Mahomes avenges his lost to Tom Brady and takes it out on the Eagles. 

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Taylor & Travis Timeline

August 2023

August 2 - in an interview with Andrew Siciliano and Michael Robinson on NFL 'Inside Training Camp Live' Travis is asked

"Did you really have your phone number ready in a friendship bracelet to give to Taylor Swift?" To which Travis replies " I said what I said and I meant what I said when I said it" ""you shot your shot, hey man?" "It is what it is, Im not gonna talk about my personal life..." "Has [Taylor] reached out yet?" Travis responds, while smiling, "And that’s gonna wrap it up here"

There is a noticeable shift from his willingness to talk about Taylor previously to this desire for privacy which is likely indicative that sometime between July 26th and August 2nd Taylor reached out and contacted Travis at the very least. (x 4:40)

Chiefs IG report Travis sporting coach Andy Reid style moustache (x)

August 3 - The Eras Tour ~ SoFi Stadium, Los Angles, Show is filmed.

I Can See You (guitar), Maroon (piano)

August 4 - The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles. Show is filmed.

Our Song (guitar), You Are In Love (piano)

August 5 - The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles. Show is filmed.

Death By A Thousand Cuts (guitar) , You're On Your Own Kid (piano)

Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson petition Taylor to date Travis on their podcast Calm Down with Erin & Charissa Ep. 166 (x 33:30) and on their IG (x). Travis later thanks them (see Oct 15, 2023) and Taylor wears an Erin Andrews Chiefs windbreaker (see Oct 12, 2023)

August 6 - the Chiefs post a tiktok asking the players who their celebrity crush was growing up? A teammate responds for Travis (x)

"Who's mine? Mine was..." says Travis

"Taylor Swift" responds team mate Marquez Valdes-Scantling 

"Haha alright now" says Travis

August 7 - The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

Dress (guitar), Exile (piano)

August 8 - The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

I Know Places (guitar), King of my Heart (x Piano) - interesting combination! Check out the huge smile on Taylor during KOMH. She had to be thinking of Travis here!!!

Ryan Reynolds follows Travis on instagram and twitter. Travis follows Ryan back.

August 9 - The Eras Tour, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

Taylor announces 1989 (Taylor's Version) (x)

Taylor hints at announcement with BLUE costumes for the Speak Now, Folklore & 1989 eras and acoustic set.

New Romantics (guitar), New Year's Day (piano)

August 24, 25, 26 & 27 - The Eras Tour ~ Foro Sol, Mexico City

I Forgot That You Existed (guitar), Sweet Nothing (piano)

Tell Me Why (guitar), Snow On The Beach (piano)

Cornelia Street (guitar), You're On Your Own Kid (piano)

Afterglow (guitar), Maroon (piano)

No New Heights podcast episodes aired in August

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Call it a dynasty: In Eras Tour of own, Chiefs rally to win 3rd Super Bowl in 5 years

In a small side room at the Chiefs’ team hotel on Tuesday, Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt considered the question of how this period in the team’s history might be perceived a generation or two from now. 

Even with the franchise about to play in its fourth Super Bowl in five years while seeking to become the first team to repeat in nearly two decades, Hunt prefaced his response by saying “I certainly hope it doesn’t end any time soon.” 

“I think how you end up labeling this era of Chiefs football is really for an outside observer,” he continued, smiling and adding, “It’s not for me to say what it was, to label it with the ‘D’ word.” 

While how long it goes remains to be seen, any lingering debate or quibbling about whether this remarkable time constitutes the “D” word — dynasty — were quelled on Sunday night at Allegiant Stadium when the Chiefs outlasted the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in just the second Super Bowl to go to overtime. 

The Chiefs prevailed on Patrick Mahomes’ 3-yard touchdown pass to Mecole Hardman, establishing another landmark in the Chiefs’ very own Eras Tour. 

Emblematic of a regular season that often was a grind and at times made the Chiefs appear vulnerable and splintering, they fell into a 10-0 first-half deficit that featured more airing of grievances in Travis Kelce’s appalling and berserk dash into Chiefs coach Andy Reid. 

Also mirroring the season, though, they reset and rallied courtesy of the defense that never rested and four field goals by Harrison Butker — including a Super Bowl record 57-yarder and a 29-yarder with 3 seconds left to send the game into overtime. 

And with the considerable help of a stupefying special teams blunder by the 49ers that set up the Chiefs’ vital first touchdown on a pass from Mahomes to Marquez Valdes-Scantling — the picture of redemption this postseason after a dud regular season. 

While perhaps none of this recent run could eclipse the sheer thrill of winning Super Bowl LIV after a 50-year drought, the real triumph has been all they’ve achieved since … and it would be hard to top how it went Sunday. 

As the air has gotten thinner and thinner on the way to the top in a league predicated on creating parity, the Chiefs fended off so many factors — including their own issues — to achieve something seldom seen in the annals of pro football history. 

Whatever else is to come, the victory cemented an enduring legacy for the Chiefs and particularly Reid and Mahomes — the man who altered the very meaning of what it is to be a Chiefs fan and even the self-image of Kansas Citians. 

With a third Super Bowl victory to his name, Reid now trails only Bill Belichick (six) and Chuck Noll (four) and is on trajectory toward becoming the winningest overall coach in league history should he continue to coach for another five or six seasons. 

With Mahomes’ third Super Bowl title, he now is 15-3 in postseason play and in Super Bowl wins trails only Tom Brady (seven) and Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw with four apiece. 

At age 28. 

If that speaks to the abundant future possibilities with Mahomes, the victory also embodied the rich intersection of the Chiefs’ past and present. Because it reiterated the momentous place in the pro football world of the Hunt family, starting with Chiefs and AFL founder Lamar Hunt, who died in 2006, and Norma Hunt, who died last summer. 

In the first Super Bowl ever played without the regal “First Lady of Football,” the Chiefs punctuated a season of wearing a patch honoring her with an exclamation point paying further tribute. 

The game and season also will be remembered for the glitz and glamor of the Taylor Swift Effect: The worldwide pop icon’s rabidly followed relationship with Kelce has had a multiplier effect on the popularity of the NFL itself but also on the Chiefs’ ambitions to become “the world’s team.”

 (As if the Swift-Kelce dynamic hadn’t been phenomenon enough, having one of the most popular performers on Earth fly here between concert dates in Japan and Australia to attend one of the most-watched events in the history of the planet makes for a mind-blowing impact that could take years to fully comprehend.) 

And that world’s team campaign surely was enhanced by winning their third Super Bowl in five years to give them four overall — two fewer than New England and Pittsburgh’s record six and one behind Dallas and San Francisco’s five. 

But something else distinguished the meaning of this win. 

Not just the result but the journey. 

Not the glitz but the grit, perhaps captured in a snapshot of a chunk of Mahomes’ helmet being knocked off in the 30-below windchill of the playoff opener against Miami. T

his has been not so much about the spectacular scenes that have so defined the Mahomes Era but the resolute and methodical moments from a simplified offense and the anchoring of a stellar defense that paved the way and enabled all this. In this four-year cycle, as general manager Brett Veach put it last week, “everything has just kind of flipped itself.” 

With a laugh, he thought of the contrast between previously just hoping the defense could get the opponent “to punt once” to give the Chiefs a chance to feeling that if the offense can just score once “we’re good.” 

While the offense reset from an epidemic of dropped passes and pivotal offensive penalties and other issues, that came only after it pushed off bottom after the Christmas Day debacle against the Raiders. 

The hideous 20-14 loss was marked by disorganization and sideline dissension, including the bizarre spectacle of Reid turning his back to the start of an offensive drive to block the return of Kelce’s helmet to him after Kelce had spiked it. To that point the Chiefs were an aimless 9-6, and nothing was assured — even a playoff berth. 

“It’s almost like because of the (past) success, there’s that mindset (that) this team might be just fast-forwarding to the playoffs,” Veach said. “But it’s so hard to do, you can’t do that. And (if) you do that, you might not end up making the playoffs.” 

So that Raiders game, Veach said, made for a “come-to-truth moment” that may not have been as effective if the Chiefs had snuck in a win and been lulled into thinking everything was fine.

 The Star’s Sam McDowell diagnosed the turning point last week: 

The coaches met alone first, without any players, and decided to “make things easier for the players schematically,” Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy said. So coaches shortened play calls to reduce the lengthy and complicated verbiage, reduced substitution patterns and made a concerted effort to get plays into Mahomes’ headset more promptly.

 The decluttering helped diminish crucial pre-snap mistakes and clarify assignments, making for far crisper offense. 

But the Chiefs have continued to play a more complementary style to take advantage of the breakthrough defense — traits that proved essential on the way to the monumental win on Sunday that stands for something more. 

“Each one is more satisfying than the last,” Veach said the other day. 

He was speaking of just getting to the Super Bowl, but the same doubtless applies to winning it. 

So the Chiefs will revel in this for days, including at the parade on Wednesday. But soon they will be looking toward the future and another tier of possibility. No team ever has won three straight Super Bowls. 

That in itself will be a fresh challenge, and the Chiefs will have to contend with some offseason question marks before they embark: 

Will they be able to sign Chris Jones to a long-term deal after being unable to last offseason? 

What if Travis Kelce were to retire — a prospect he has hinted at considering only to later walk back? 

And might Reid, now 65, be pondering that despite the Chiefs’ brain trust saying they expect him to stay for years longer? 

But that’s all for another day while we try to process and appreciate this momentous feat — all the more incredible considering the half-century of futility before. 

Asked the other day if he ever steps back and thinks to himself how this all happened, Hunt immediately pointed to the hiring of Reid after the 2012 season as the day it all started to change. 

Optimistic as he was then, he smiled and added, “I would be lying if I told you that (I thought) we would have this level of sustained success with him.” 

Sustained enough already to call it the “D word” — a term that may need amplifying in the years to come.

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Chiefs' Travis Kelce has been taking his play to a new level with Taylor Swift in the house.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — This season of the Kansas City Chiefs might someday be remembered for two distinct eras: pre-Taylor and post-Taylor.

Travis Kelce's season certainly will be.

Whether coincidence or fate or a function of true love, the Chiefs tight end has been on a tear since his overtures toward pop superstar Taylor Swift resulted in a newfound relationship. Kelce was out with a hyperextended knee in Week 1, when the Chiefs lost to the Lions, and had four catches for 26 yards in his return against the Jaguars. But in the six games since Swift first watched Kelce play, he's caught 48 passes for 499 yards and four touchdowns.

That includes a 12-catch performance for 179 yards and a score in a 31-17 win over the Chargers on Sunday, when Swift was back in an Arrowhead Stadium suite and chest-bumping Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

In the four games Swift has attended, Kelce has averaged 108 yards receiving. He averaged 46.5 in the two games she did not.

That led Chiefs coach Andy Reid to say: “Taylor can stay around as long as she want.”

He wasn't joking, either. She might be Kelce's good-luck charm.

Or maybe he's just defying logic by getting better with age.

Even though he turned 34 earlier this month, the same age as retired tight end Rob Gronkowski, Kelce continues to make plays that leave everyone wondering just how he did that. Take his game against the Chargers, a division rival that has seen him plenty of times yet was powerless to prevent him from finding open nooks and crannies in their defense.

In one case, Kelce found a yawning chasm and ran 54 yards before he was finally brought down by the Chargers.

“The younger Trav would have scored on that one,” Mahomes said with a smile, “I'll say that.”

He might not have been that open, though. Mahomes said the biggest difference in the 34-year-old Kelce from the one who broke into the league a decade ago is his ability to diagnose what the defense is doing, then quickly find a way to counteract it.

“He's played every single team and every single coverage,” Mahomes said, “and knows every way to make them pay.”

That much is true regardless of whether Swift is in the house.

WHAT’S WORKING:

The Chiefs sacked Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert five times on Sunday, and each came from a different player — and none from Chris Jones, whose streak of eight straight regular-season games with a sack came to an end. That production from across the board is a good sign for the Chiefs' pass rush, which has been relying heavily on their All-Pro defensive tackle for years.

“All of us are versatile, we’re all playing inside or out. Getting us all on the field is huge — every single one of us can rush,” said Mike Danna, who had one of the sacks Sunday. "Keep on stacking the reps and getting better with the guys.”

WHAT NEEDS HELP:

The Chiefs were penalized six times for 43 yards, but a few of them were particularly painful. One was a questionable block in the back on left guard Joe Thuney well downfield that took away Jerick McKinnon's 48-yard touchdown reception; the Chiefs wound up getting a field goal on the drive instead.

STOCK UP:

Second-round draft pick Rashee Rice is quickly developing into an impact wide receiver. He had five catches for 60 yards and a score against Los Angeles, and he's had at least four catches in each of his last three games.

“He’s doing a really good job of just doing what he’s supposed to do and making the plays that he’s supposed to make, not trying to be anything that he’s not,” wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling said. “You see a lot of rookies come in and try to do too much and can’t figure out the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. He’s just been doing his job and it’s been paying off for him. He’s a quiet kid who listens to what he’s told to do. He always wants to learn. He’s always taking notes, and it shows.”

STOCK DOWN:

Former first-round pick Clyde Edwards-Helaire's time in Kansas City is coming to a lackluster end. He had just two carries for five yards against the Chargers and has 32 for 105 yards through seven games in the final season of his rookie contract.

INJURIES:

Playmaking linebacker Nick Bolton fractured his wrist while tackling the Chargers' Keenan Allen. Bolton was only in his second game back after missing the previous three with an ankle injury.

KEY NUMBER:

29 and 3 — Mahomes has 29 wins and three losses in his career against the AFC West. And with the victory over the Chargers, the Chiefs have a three-game lead in the division just seven weeks into the season.

NEXT STEPS:

The Chiefs can do more damage in the AFC West race when they visit the Broncos on Sunday. The two will be playing for the second time in three weeks after Kansas City scraped its way to a 19-8 win on Oct. 12 at Arrowhead Stadium.

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Marquez Valdes-Scantling discusses if Jets' Rodgers is a 'diva' - https://devishop.gives/marquez-valdes-scantling-discusses-if-jets-rodgers-is-a-diva/

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Is Patrick Mahomes a part of the problem for the Chiefs?

As they set their sights on the upcoming season, the Chiefs have already commenced strategic maneuvers. The impending release of Marquez Valdes-Scantling, the potential franchise tagging or trade of L’Jarius Sneed, and the looming contract extension negotiations with Chris Jones underscore the intricate web of decisions facing the team Chris Jones Jersey.

With Mahomes and Reid primed to pursue an unprecedented 3-peat, they are on the brink of etching their names in NFL history. This ambitious endeavor could position them favorably in juxtaposition to Tom Brady and the illustrious Patriots’ dynasty.

Despite their recent Super Bowl triumph, the Kansas City Chiefs find themselves grappling with significant internal dilemmas. Notably, the team ranks as the second lowest in the annual NFL Player Report Cards, painting a disconcerting picture for the entire organization.

Subpar grades in crucial areas such as treatment of families (D+ / 18th ranked team), nutritionist-dietician services (F / 31st ranked team), locker room environment (F / 28th ranked team), training room facilities (D / 31st ranked team), training staff performance (F / 32nd ranked team), team travel arrangements (D / 27th ranked team), and ownership satisfaction (F- / 32nd ranked team) cast a shadow over the team’s recent success.

While championship victories remain paramount, the evaluation outcomes present a glaring concern for owner Clark Hunt, who harbors aspirations of building a dynasty amidst unfavorable circumstances.

In contrast, Andy Reid emerges as a beacon of excellence within the franchise, earning the distinction of being the highest-rated head coach in the NFL with an A+ grade. Nevertheless, the broader assessment conducted by the NFLPA on the team’s personnel carries significant weight, potentially influencing the trajectory of numerous star players’ futures.

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𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The #Chiefs are releasing veteran wide receiver Marquez Valdes Scantling, per @JFowlerESPN

The move saves them $12 million in cap.

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If you watched the game last night, you'll understand. 🤣🤣

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Marquez Valdes-Scantling - San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs 02/11/24/