While I totally agree with you that is what SHOULD happen, this team will never finally have the answer until Ross either sells it and we get a smart owner or Ross brings in a top shelf GM and stops buying into with the current crop is selling him. He doesn't get a pass on not being part of the problem.....we all can see that the FO is a bunch of clowns - that Ross doesn't or refuses to make wholesale changes after years of poor decisions and play marks him as either too willing to stand by ineffective people he's hired into those positions or too stupid to realize it. Sure, he's good with money as his business success proves but the years of his ownership have been downright embarrassing from all the FO crap & hirings he's put in place or allowed to be put in place. He's just not a good evaluator of the sport or the kind of people needed and needs to realize it....sadly, I don't think he ever will and that will doom us until he kicks the bucket or sells to an effective owner.
That's an issue with him being a billionaire....he thinks he can just throw money at the problem and fix it. He also probably thinks he knows better than anyone else (since he's rich and successful) and sees any criticism of him or his being part of the problem as not valid. And no one probably has the fortitude or balls to tell it to him like it is.....so we continue to be in a quagmire.
The Ross/Tannebaum combo (and you can throw Grier into that) will never prove fruitful or lead us to being a dependable contender with possible dreams of a new dynasty. They are all football stupid....horrible signings, draft choices, etc....and even when we make a marquee signing like Suh, they ridiculously overpay and set the franchise back years because of it. Don't even get me started on the $10 million wasted on Cutler.
It's actually a major part of the continual mired in mediocrity existence of this team.