The Las Vegas Raiders hate the Kansas City Chiefs. The Raiders also, for the most part, have a terrible time when they play the Chiefs.
Mark Davis’s team is 4-17 in its last 21 games against the defending two-time Super Bowl champions. That’s left Las Vegas in need of motivation to rise up and derail their AFC West rival. When they beat Kansas City 40-32 in Missouri in 2020, then-coach Jon Gruden took a post-game victory lap around Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs responded with six straight wins.
Last winter, the Raiders snapped that win streak with a 20-14 victory in one of the ugliest games of 2023. Las Vegas didn’t revel too hard after that win; instead, the team saved its trash talk for the offseason. And aimed it right at two-time MVP Patrick Mahomes.
The #Raiders appear to have a Patrick Mahomes Kermit the Frog doll at training camp. 👀
(🎥 @RaidersAQ)
pic.twitter.com/vaOs2TNrQh— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) July 25, 2024
Dressing up a Kermit the Frog puppet like Mahomes, then having it say “I’m a [expletive]” is certainly a choice. The Raiders wanted Kansas City’s attention. They got it.
The Chiefs have not forgotten how the Raiders mocked Patrick Mahomes in July with a Kermit The Frog puppet. At the time, Mahomes said, “I’ll get it handled when I get it handled.” This is the first time the Chiefs quarterback will have the opportunity to get it handled. pic.twitter.com/t9mbN4rfw8
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 27, 2024
Week 8 marks the first Chiefs-Raiders game since the offseason. It pits the league’s last undefeated team against a 2-5 squad and the league’s fourth-worst scoring defense. Mahomes has had the worst season of his career, efficiency-wise, thanks to a depleted receiving corps. Now he gets to face a just-OK passing defense with a chip on his shoulder.
Mahomes’s opportunity to “get it handled” begins at 4:25 ET Sunday.
