Even as recently as 24 hours ago, the Kansas City Chiefs were a team bound to make a big splash in the very near future as the NFL trade deadline approached. October 29 is the date that teams have to wrap up any trade hopes for the rest of the year, and the Chiefs were a team with the Super Bowl hopes and salary cap space to make something happen. Add a dash of general manager Brett Veach’s aggressiveness and you had the expectation that the Chiefs would do something.
But in the blink of any eye on Thursday night in Denver, all of those postseason plans for a February stop in Miami came crashing to a halt—at least temporarily.