{"id":239192,"date":"2025-07-09T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=239192"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:12:24","slug":"patrick-mahomes-fat-trainer-responds-to-insulting-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/07\/09\/patrick-mahomes-fat-trainer-responds-to-insulting-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes Fat? Trainer Responds To Insulting Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kansas City radio host called Patrick Mahomes fat after the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/10\/20\/patrick-mahomes-sends-strong-message-after-chiefs-win-super-bowl-rematch\/\" target=\"_self\">three-time Super Bowl champion<\/a> posted a shirtless 4th of July image, and that comment has made its way to the quarterback&#8217;s personal trainer.<\/p>\n<p>The radio host in question, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/08\/patrick-mahomes-fat-host-kevin-kietzman-trainer-bobby-strouple\/?adid=social-tw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Keitzman of KCMO<\/a>, called Mahomes &#8220;fat&#8221; and an &#8220;embarrassment,&#8221; and trainer Bobby Stroupe has taken it personally. In a now-deleted tweet, Stroupe went off on Keitzman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Send me your location,&#8221; Stroupe posted. &#8220;You obviously need attention. If you want to see what in shape is &#8211; go make it through a practice at [training camp] or run hurry up offense scrambling back to back to back plays. You don&#8217;t have a clue what it takes. It&#8217;s not a look, it&#8217;s a performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_239193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239193\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-239193\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Mahomes Fat\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Patrick-Mahomes-Fat.jpg 1816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feb 9, 2025; New Orleans, LA, USA; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) walks off the field after losing against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher &#8211; Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Patrick Mahomes Trainer Blasts Radio Host Following Fat Comments<\/h2>\n<p>While the response itself might have been a bit much, Stroupe is correct about the criticism being unwarranted. Patrick Mahomes is one of the great all-time talents in NFL history and clearly knows what it takes to compete at a high level against NFL competition. Maybe he doesn&#8217;t look like Hugh Jackman&#8217;s Wolverine, but you don&#8217;t need to in order to find success in the NFL. After all, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sca_esv=73a6d3bdeda9064e&amp;sxsrf=AE3TifN7rosXCfbEW75D4lHCRVLn4aCXlA:1752084472610&amp;q=tom+brady+combine&amp;udm=2&amp;fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeuYzzFkfneXafNx6OMdA4MQRJc_t_TQjwHYrzlkIauOKj9nSuujpEIbB1x32lFLEvPT3JmO8mWQjm2X3w-eMKXYxLCPpvXIJU9vGA_-1If1VH9uStyQc6SbbCi75JWhEesPnr6Puvh3wkAbwENEfKV6rDzrvFCkcu3YYCAdI2YdWzULG9w&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwit0-ykr7COAxU9MlkFHTx9IPwQtKgLKAF6BAgUEAE&amp;biw=767&amp;bih=695&amp;dpr=1.25\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this guy<\/a> won seven Super Bowls and is widely considered to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2022\/02\/01\/tom-brady-is-retiring-after-22-seasons-in-the-nfl\/\" target=\"_self\">greatest player in the history of the NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a JaMarcus Russell, Eddie Lacy, or Kelvin Benjamin situation. Patrick Mahomes routinely scrambles in the backfield and makes defenders miss, and he wouldn&#8217;t be able to do that if he were too fat to play at his physical peak.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Bill Streicher &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local radio host recently called Patrick Mahomes fat, and his trainer has responded to the disrespectful language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":239194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,16],"tags":[7811,1576],"class_list":["post-239192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-chiefs","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-patrick-mahomes"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239227,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239192\/revisions\/239227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}