Life comes at you fast in the NFL, as teams oftentimes are contenders one year and pretenders the next. For the better part of the last decade, however, the Kansas City Chiefs were the exception. Unfortunately for the multi-time Super Bowl champions, the luck pendulum swung in the other direction a year ago and some roster deterioration showed in the process. With general manager Brett Veach attacking the offseason aggressively , is Kansas City back to being among the NFL's elite? How about simply within the AFC West division? Multiple teams made headline moves to improve their rosters. Has the gap between the Chiefs and others closed? Tucker Franklin and Matt Verderame discussed all of that and more on the latest episode of the That Football Show podcast on KC Sports Network . Don't forget that the Chiefs typically run the AFC West Not so fast. Sure, coming off a 6-11 effort in 2025-26, the Chiefs aren't exactly operating from a place of leverage.…