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Here are the stories Syl. I found all the stories on Chiefs Pulse are just stories posted at kcchiefs.com. Chiefs have 13 picks I believe.

http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2008/04..._chiefs_allen/

The Vikings, by acquiring Allen from the Chiefs, must be counting on the NFL’s sacks champion to make them a Super Bowl contender. You don’t guarantee $31 million to any player unless he’s just helped you win a championship or gives you a great chance to go all the way in the very near future.
For the Chiefs to pay that kind of money to Allen would have been a tremendous risk for the very reason that Allen wanted long-term security. Should he suffer a major injury, the Vikings could wind up without a premier pass rusher and the three draft choices they traded to the Chiefs. They also would face a salary cap headache.
The Chiefs could have kept Allen as their franchise player, but they’d be counting on another big season from a player who wouldn’t want to be here. Allen’s eagerness to leave could not have helped Carl Peterson’s bargaining position, and the Vikings must have swallowed hard before parting with so many dollars and draft choices.
A first-round pick and two third-round picks represent fair value for Allen. Yet under the circumstances, it’s mildly surprising the Chiefs got that much.
Coming off a 4-12 season, the Chiefs would have been misguided to pay so much to anybody, short of a quarterback with the promise of a Super Bowl written all over him. You pay that kind of money to a player who’s the missing piece of a championship puzzle. The Chiefs are so many players away from a championship that not even their 13 draft picks this weekend can provide them all.

http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2008/04...e_good_or_bad/

Here’s the question everyone is asking: was it a good deal or a bad one?
RUFUS DAWES: “A promising one, in this way. There is no better time you could do it. The Chiefs are not a player away, or several players away. To think that Kansas City could take a former fourth round player and turn a trade of him into a first and two third round picks in one year’s draft would on the surface be recognized as a pretty good deal, no matter how good a veteran player you were dealing away was.
“Jared Allen was one player on a team that produced a 4-12 season. If he returned, the team’s record while maybe improved would not be so to the extent that Jared Allen was solely responsible for it. Now, the players the Chiefs pick will determine if it is a good deal or not. So, it’s promising in that way.
“It’s dishonest to look at any trade of Jared Allen as some Carl Peterson-Jared Allen feud. Consider it on its merits: what does it do for the Chiefs, or better still, what can it do?