Bill Williamson, who covers the AFC West for ESPN, seems to think so.

I originally thought after the NFL trading deadline passed with him remaining in Kansas City, where he has been since he was the Chiefs' first-round pick in 1997, there was a chance that Gonzalez and the team could agree to march on together next season if he thought the team was committed to winning in 2009.

But from reading his comments after the trade deadline, it's clear that Gonzalez is angry at the team -- and particularly general manager Carl Peterson -- and wants to leave.

And that spells trouble for the Chiefs after this season unless something changes.

I'm firmly in the camp that it wasn't worth it to us to trade away Tony Gonzalez for a third round pick...the chances that we'd snag a player close to the caliber of player Gonzalez will be the next two and a half years with a choice that low are extremely slim (the only ones I can think of during Peterson's reign, off the top of my head, are Jared Allen, Dave Szott, Donnie Edwards and Will Shields...and Szott, Edwards and Shields were grabbed back in the Marty Schottenheimer era).  That said, if Gonzalez makes an issue of this and decides that he wants to force the Chiefs to make a trade this offseason (or if he decides to retire, which is less likely because he'd have to pay back a very large amount of money) not trading Gonzalez now becomes a major problem for us after 2008 if something's not done to mend fences.

And you can't really blame Gonzalez for being upset either...all he wanted was a straight response.  If the Chiefs had told him that a trade wasn't viable, he says he'd have accepted it.  He might not have liked it, but he'd have accepted it.  If the Chiefs hadn't gotten the offers they'd told Gonzalez they were looking for, he'd have understood.  The man's been a professional his entire career.  But from what Gonzalez claimed was said to him, Carl Peterson lied about trying to trade Gonzalez, and he turned down the offers he said he was looking for, and that's a slight that very few football players are going to be willing to overlook...and it's a pretty safe bet that the free agents looking for new homes after the 2008 season are going to notice as well, and that it'll make the Kansas City Chiefs a much less attractive destination (since nobody wants to deal with somebody who'll flat-out lie to them unless they have to).

Something's got to change if the Chiefs want to keep the Gonzalez situation from becoming a problem...and right now the first place that fingers should be pointing is at the the man who started this entire mess to begin with...Carl Peterson.