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Players and coaches are obviously important, but the General Managers are often overlooked. I'm not familiar with Allen, but as soon as I started reading this story, I wondered who the GM was.

Later on in the article, it became pretty clear that Allen is a problem, and I'm not all that convinced that Jay Gruden is the right guy. Without a good GM, the coach and players are not going to compete against another team with better coaching and better players.

Look at the teams who draft in the early in the rounds every year; and those who are always picking at the end. You would think that the bad teams would get the better players out of college, yet year after year, you see the same teams win and the same teams lose. Every now and then there's a little movement, but for the most part, it's pretty consistent.

That's what good management does for a franchise.

Note that the Cleveland Browns resurgence might be credited to Baker Mayfield, but the guy that picked him was former Kansas City Chief GM, John Dorsey. He's a winner, as long as their owner, Jimmy Haslam doesn't meddle.