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Bills’ Brandon Beane ranked a top-10 GM

Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane in Rotoworld’s general manager rankings for the NFL.

Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane has impressed the folks at NBC Sports’ Rotoworld enough to see himself ranked as a top-10 general manager in the NFL recently.

In these GM power rankings, Buffalo’s lands at No. 9 overall. While quarterback Josh Allen doesn’t get the big praise in the explanation, Beane does and one very intriguing potential future projection is mentioned.

Here’s why Beane is considering Rotoworld’s ninth-best GM:

Rick Spielman has company. Like his Vikings counterpart, Brandon Beane only speaks in big moves. The two worked together on one this offseason, with Beane avenging last year’s Antonio Brown near miss by acquiring Stefon Diggs. It is Beane and Sean McDermott’s last-ditch effort at salvaging their front office-defining move of trading up — twice — for Josh Allen. Beane and McDermott are in perfect harmony on defense. The pieces are also falling into place on offense, but Allen is a literal and figurative wild card. If he’s the next Blake Bortles, the Bills’ defensive foundation won’t amount to much. If he’s something more, the Patriots’ reign of AFC East terror might finally be over. Beane and McDermott have been good enough that they should survive a potential Allen failure, but it will represent a massive missed opportunity with an otherwise readymade roster.

Traditionally, the Patriots’ Bill Belichick lands at the top-overall spot in such polls, and he does once again. He edged out the Steelers’ Kevin Colbert and Chiefs’ Brett Beach, respectively. Still, that’s to be expected, Belichick’s done it a long, long time. Beane’s relatively new to his gig, only hired in 2017, and he’s done a bang up job since then.

The most interesting point by Rotoworld is their opinion that Beane might get a second crack at a quarterback. Most NFL GMs have one chance to get that right. And so much rides on it. It’d be quite the scenario if Beane does get a chance at finding another franchise QB, that is, outside of Jake Fromm.

 

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Bob Quinn ranked as the worst NFL GM by Rotoworld

Quinn ranks 30th but new hires are not included in Daugherty’s individual rankings

Bob Quinn is the worst GM in the NFL. That’s one man’s opinion, and Patrick Daugherty of fantasy football site Rotoworld unleashed it upon the wired world this week.

Quinn ranks 30th in Daugherty’s ratings, but because new hires are excluded from the process it’s effectively dead last.

Daugherty’s preface on his own, completely arbitrary rankings:

All front office activity — from players and coaches to draft picks and contracts — is taken into consideration. Past achievements are not forgotten, but recent history is given greater emphasis. Even in a results-based business, the process is vital.

The commentary hits all the familiar points that critics chronically (and often rightfully) use to chastise Quinn:

  • Lack of impact players across the roster
  • Collecting Patriots castoffs
  • Firing Jim Caldwell after consecutive 9-7 seasons

For context, Quinn ranked 24th last season in Daughtery’s annual concoction. He was 19th in the 2018 edition. Not that a 3-12-1 finish merits any uptick, but based on previous rankings it’s clear Quinn just isn’t ever going to impress Daugherty.

Rotoworld ranks Sean McDermott in top-half of coach rankings

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott in Rotoworld’s NFL head coach rankings.

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott has a long way to go to become part of the best of the best among NFL coaches.

But he’s certainly made strides during his three seasons with the Bills. McDermott has taken a club that suffered a near two-decade playoff drought to the postseason twice in three seasons.

Rotoworld recently released their annual ranking of NFL head coaches and McDermott is in pretty decent standing. He lands at No. 11 on the list.

Here’s the McDermott explanation:

The Bills have two playoff appearances this century. They have come under Sean McDermott over the past three seasons. Although McDermott is still working on the franchise’s first postseason victory since Bill Clinton was president, he has confirmed himself as one of the top coaching hires of the past half decade. Already one of the league’s best defensive game-planners, McDermott has coordinated top-three units by yards allowed each of the past two years. The Bills’ 259 points against last season were the second fewest in the NFL. McDermott knows defense, period. He’s still working on the rest. A brash front office presence alongside his handpicked GM Brandon Beane, McDermott’s executive aggressiveness has handicapped his offense, where the project is now tied to Josh Allen. Allen’s concerns coming out of the Mountain West were accuracy and decision-making. They had the looks of fatal flaws in 2019, never more so than in the Wild Card Round, where Allen’s stupefying choices down the stretch helped snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. McDermott is the coach of the future in Buffalo. He’s probably still a quarterback away from translating that into annual winning campaigns and playoff appearances.

Overall, McDermott is 25-23 as the Bills’ bench boss. That 6-10 season between two playoff berths doesn’t help. But still a decent standing on a list which includes some of the best to ever do it. Plus, McDermott’s ranking improved, jumping up from No. 16 on Rotoworld’s list a year ago.

On the list, McDermott is sandwiched between the Titans’ Mike Vrabel at 12 and the Vikings’ Mike Zimmer at 10. Vrabel recently took his team to the AFC title game, so that’s some good company.

But just to show how far McDermott really has to go, in no surprise, the Patriots’ Bill Belichick takes the top spot here, followed by defending champion Andy Reid of the Chiefs and the Saints’ Sean Payton, respectively.

 

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