The deserved criticism of Bruce Allen is that he's an arrogant asshole. And he is.

But he's had two drafts and McCloughan had two drafts and none of these past four drafts were especially great:

2014, Bruce Allen as GM:
(no first)
2- Trent Murphy
3- Morgan Moses
4 - Bashaud Breeland

2015, Scot McLoughan as GM:
1 - Brandon Scherff
2 - Preston Smith
3 - Matt Jones
4 - Jamison Crowder

2016, Scot Mcloughan as GM:
1 - Josh Doctson
2 - Sua Cravens
3 - Kendall Fuller
4 - Matt Ioannidis

2017, Bruce Allen as GM:
1 - Jonathan Allen
2 - Ryan Anderson
3 - Fabian Moreau
4 - Samaje Perine


honestly, every one of those drafts looks the same to me - a surprising hit or two, one or two obvious duds, and no special players. Teams that take steps towards continued success usually had a year or two where they took a transformational player, one who can occasionally win a game by himself. In four years, we haven't taken one guy who matches that description.

Allen can take credit for Morgan Moses and Breeland, great picks given the spots they were taken, but in no universe was Trent Murphy worth a 2nd round pick.

McCloughan deserves credit for Scherff I guess, and his biggest hit was nabbing Crowder in the fourth, a very good player. But the back-to-back busts of Doctson and Cravens sets us back a bit, Matt Jones is awful, and Preston Smith should be giving you more for a second round pass rushing prospect.

Honestly, much like Jay Gruden who is as bad as he is good, Allen's record is as good as McLoughan's was bad. Translation: Allen is as mediocre as everyone else in the building.

The most unforgivable decision Allen has made was obviously just not figuring out the Kirk thing. That, along with not finding a way to keep Garcon, is bad.