Kansas City, Mo. ? Carl Peterson will remain as president and general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs, a decision by co-owner Clark Hunt that’s sure to upset many unhappy fans.

“We have a plan and it’s being implemented,” Peterson told the Associated Press Monday in a telephone interview from his office in Arrowhead Stadium. “I have no intention to leave before the job is finished.”

A 13-10 overtime loss to the equally hapless New York Jets ended Kansas City’s season on a nine-game losing streak with a 4-12 record. It’s the longest losing skid in a non-strike year in team history and the worst record K.C. has had in almost 30 years.

In New York on Sunday after the Jets game, Peterson also told The Kansas City Star that he and coach Herm Edwards would be back for his 20th year running the team.

Hunt, who took over leadership of the Chiefs in late 2006 upon the death of his father, team founder Lamar Hunt, did not speak publicly Sunday.

But Peterson clearly has been assured that he will return for a 20th year and oversee what figures to be a massive retooling of the team and coaching staff.

Peterson already has rebuilt the Chiefs once. When he arrived in 1989, he inherited what had been one of the league’s most poorly managed operations. But given nearly complete power, Peterson and then-coach Marty Schottenheimer turned Kansas City almost completely around and into one of the league’s most successful and consistently competitive teams.