Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes Responds to Raiders’ Kermit Doll Video: ‘It’ll Get Handled’

The Las Vegas Raiders may want to think twice about giving Patrick Mahomes of all people bulletin board material.  After video emerged of the Raiders with a Mahomes Kermit the Frog doll at training camp, the quarterback told reporters Friday, “It’s still early in the year. … It’ll get handled when it gets handled.”

The #Raiders appear to have a Patrick Mahomes Kermit the Frog doll at training camp. 👀

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It should be noted Tashan Reed of The Athletic reported a fan brought the doll to training camp and asked safety Trey Taylor to hold it. So it’s not as if Las Vegas players themselves were the ones who put the doll together and brought it to practice.

That didn’t stop it from landing on Mahomes’ radar. The quarterback’s trainer, Bobby Stroupe, responded to the video on social media by saying “we will remember.”  The idea that Mahomes’ voice resembles that of Kermit the Frog is not a new one, as the man himself even joked about it during a press conference ahead of last season’s Super Bowl:

.@patrickmahomes got jokes. 😂

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Still, he would be far from the first elite athlete to take a slight from a rival, real or imagined, and use it as motivation when taking the field.  And the last thing the Raiders want is an even more motivated Mahomes.  The all-time great is 10-2 against his AFC West rival and threw for 3,573 yards, 30 touchdowns and four interceptions in those contests. That is an impressive full-season stat line for most signal-callers, and he had little trouble picking apart the Raiders’ secondary throughout his career.  If nothing else, this makes the matchups between Kansas City and Las Vegas on Oct. 27 and Nov. 29 appointment viewing for NFL fans this season.