Lake Dawson is a nice guy who did well making friends.

He certainly made a contribution to the Tennessee Titans and did well to get interviews for general manager jobs. He didn't wow anyone, however, or he'd be a GM somewhere instead of an ex-Titans executive.

Tennessee fired Dawson on Friday, erasing a middle man and creating direct link from the head of the college side of scouting, Blake Beddingfield, and the head of the pro side, Brian Gardner, to general manager Ruston Webster.

I don't like to see anyone out of a job, but I know a lot of people inside team headquarters marveled at Dawson's ability to rise to a vice president level with the team and didn't feel he was a huge contributor.

The former Kansas City Chiefs receiver joined Tennessee in 2007 as director of pro personnel and was promoted to vice president of player personnel in 2011.

Strong safety Bernard Pollard certainly feels differently that Dawson's critics:

Talk about the wrong guy getting fired. I can name a lot of players/people that SHOULD'VE been in that position today. Bad ball! Smh at yall

— Bernard Pollard Jr (@Crushboy31) January 30, 2015

I imagine Pollard had time and interaction to get to know Dawson and come to like him. But most players don't really know who's doing what upstairs.

I see people saying the Titans hardly needed to streamline. Throwing numbers and layers at a problem, however, doesn't make solving it any more likely.

This doesn't look like a terrible idea to me at all.

The Titans have had a similar cycle at a higher level in the past. They promoted or hired guys like Jeff Diamond and Mike Reinfeldt to team president and eventually wondered if there was enough for them to do, deciding the additional management layer was unnecessary.

They reached a similar conclusion with Dawson.