Chiefs fans: I hope you enjoyed last week’s game against the Panthers. Actually, I’m pretty sure you didn’t since it was a 34-0 loss. But it also was not only the game where Tony Gonzalez broke Shannon Sharpe’s record for receiving yards by an NFL tight end, but it also might be his last game with Kansas City. The KANSAS CITY STAR reports that Gonzalez has asked the team to explore the possibility of a trade to a contender before Tuesday’s trade deadline.

Teams who have expressed interest include the New York Giants, Buffalo Bills and Green Bay Packers. But so far only the Giants have apparently only made an offer of a sixth-round pick, while the Chiefs are asking for a third-rounder. As Jay Glazer notes on FOX SPORTS, that sounds like a deal when compared to the second and fifth-round picks the Giants got for Jeremy Shockey in the offseason.

But will a deal happen? After all, this is the NFL, where in-season trades are rarer than St. Louis Rams’ defensive stops. PRO FOOTBALL TALK thinks that Chiefs’ GM Carl Peterson’s relatively low asking price for Gonzalez means that he’s serious about getting something done, even if that price might be a lot lower than what the KANSAS CITY STAR’S Jason Whitlock thinks Gonzalez should fetch.

Word came a few weeks ago that Gonzalez would consider a trade to a contender, and the KANSAS CITY STAR’S Joe Posnanski says that Gonzalez had talked privately about possibly leaving the team at the end of last season. But it would still be jarring to see him wearing anything but Chiefs red.

But what everyone seems to agree on is that if Gonzalez wants to leave the Chiefs and play for a contender, the team owes him that.  Whether they can get the right deal together to make it happen remains to be seen.