Do you approve of the job Brandon Beane is doing?

[Bangarang]

Meh. He's ok. I certainly don't think he's some guru that others make him out to be. 

 

When it comes to the draft, he does better on day 3 than days 1 or 2 which has been so problematic for this team. 

 

His use of resources in the draft is questionable. Drafting Kincaid after paying Knox big money. Drafting Moss in the 4th a year after drafting  Singletary in the 3rd, then drafting Cook 2 years later in the 2nd and Davis in the 4th a year after that. In a matter of 5 years, Beane has used a 2nd, 3rd and two 4th round picks on RBs! Doubling down on DE and drafting Boogie Basham, who had zero high impact NFL qualities, in the 2nd round after drafting Groot in the 1st. 

 

The money he hands out seems like it goes to mediocre players more than game changers. Trent Murphy, Star, Settle, Samuel, Quinton Jefferson, Epenesa etc.

 

Then there's all the restructures that kicks the cap hit down the road and you're left with a cap situation that sucks and leaves minimal room to make moves. 

 

Beane absolutely hit a home run with Josh but his ability to keep weapons around him has been mediocre.

 

Beane is the person that wins the lottery, doesn't know how to manage the wealth and goes broke within a few years and that's how I feel this roster has been  managed.

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[GASabresIUFan]

Beane is fine.  Other than Polian he is by far the best GM we have had.  
 

His drafting is fine.  It’s BS that he doesn’t draft offense or weapons for Josh. Since he has been in Buffalo he has drafted 28 players for the offense but only 25 for the defense.  His premium picks (rounds 1-3) are nearly evenly split with 10 on O and 11 on D.  In the last 3 years he has used 1st and 2nd rd picks on Kincaid, Coleman and Cook.  In fact of his last 6 1st and 2nd rd picks 4 have been on offense.  
 

If you want criticize his drafting, he used, in his early drafts, many premium picks along the DL with some bad misses like Boogie Basham and even Epenesa.  He also recently missed on Elam in the first.   
 

Of his 21 top 3 round picks only Ford and Basham are true busts with Elam trending in that direction.  
 

However he has made up for it with Davis, Shakir, Benford, Taron Johnson among others.  
 

Does Beane make other mistakes? Absolutely.  His cap management hasn’t been great.  Some of his FA signings have been questionable.  However he also has some huge wins in trade and FAs.  Guys like Diggs, Morse, Beasley, Douglas, Hyde and Poyer come to mind.  
 

Overall he’s done a very good to excellent job and our W/L records is the proof.

 

[CountDorkula]

14 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:

Beane is fine.  Other than Polian he is by far the best GM we have had.  
 

His drafting is fine.  It’s BS that he doesn’t draft offense or weapons for Josh. Since he has been in Buffalo he has drafted 28 players for the offense but only 25 for the defense.  His premium picks (rounds 1-3) are nearly evenly split with 10 on O and 11 on D.  In the last 3 years he has used 1st and 2nd rd picks on Kincaid, Coleman and Cook.  In fact of his last 6 1st and 2nd rd picks 4 have been on offense.  
 

If you want criticize his drafting, he used, in his early drafts, many premium picks along the DL with some bad misses like Boogie Basham and even Epenesa.  He also recently missed on Elam in the first.   
 

Of his 21 top 3 round picks only Ford and Basham are true busts with Elam trending in that direction.  
 

However he has made up for it with Davis, Shakir, Benford, Taron Johnson among others.  
 

Does Beane make other mistakes? Absolutely.  His cap management hasn’t been great.  Some of his FA signings have been questionable.  However he also has some huge wins in trade and FAs.  Guys like Diggs, Morse, Beasley, Douglas, Hyde and Poyer come to mind.  
 

Overall he’s done a very good to excellent job and our W/L records is the proof.

 

Or is the w/l record a direct result of having Josh Allen. 

[stlbills13]

The Von Miller signing was a huge all-in risk. I actually applaud and appreciate the type of move. It didn't work out and that's a big deal .

 

He has done a good job on the offensive line. I do think the line falters in big moments but for the most part they keep Josh upright for 17+ games

 

He's done a good job with our cornerbacks although 1st rounder on Elam sucks. 

 

He's done a good job with our linebackers especially letting expensive guys walk 

 

He has totally and completely failed the franchise quarterback with what he's done at wide receiver. WR was a need even with Diggs. I have no real problem with moving on from Diggs. It wasn't working. But you had to find a way to get creative and get better at WR. He didn't. 

[CookieG]

29 minutes ago, GASabresIUFan said:

Beane is fine.  Other than Polian he is by far the best GM we have had.  
 

His drafting is fine.  It’s BS that he doesn’t draft offense or weapons for Josh. Since he has been in Buffalo he has drafted 28 players for the offense but only 25 for the defense.  His premium picks (rounds 1-3) are nearly evenly split with 10 on O and 11 on D.  In the last 3 years he has used 1st and 2nd rd picks on Kincaid, Coleman and Cook.  In fact of his last 6 1st and 2nd rd picks 4 have been on offense.  
 

If you want criticize his drafting, he used, in his early drafts, many premium picks along the DL with some bad misses like Boogie Basham and even Epenesa.  He also recently missed on Elam in the first.   
 

Of his 21 top 3 round picks only Ford and Basham are true busts with Elam trending in that direction.  
 

However he has made up for it with Davis, Shakir, Benford, Taron Johnson among others.  
 

Does Beane make other mistakes? Absolutely.  His cap management hasn’t been great.  Some of his FA signings have been questionable.  However he also has some huge wins in trade and FAs.  Guys like Diggs, Morse, Beasley, Douglas, Hyde and Poyer come to mind.  
 

Overall he’s done a very good to excellent job and our W/L records is the proof.

 

Overall he has, there is no doubt about that.  But every GM has its strengths and weaknesses.  Even Ozzie Newsome, who could have been the best GM in our generation, had his weaknesses.  (WR and QB).

 

WR is not one of his strong suits.  It applies to both drafting and FA pick ups. It started when he got here, his 2018 WR corps was horrid and made worse by actually trading for Kelvin Benjamin.  To an extent, I think he understood it, and ended up with John Brown and Cole Beasley the next year.

 

He really seemed to understand it in 2020 when he used a 1st round pick for Diggs.  It was as much an admission of his inability to find a stud in the draft, as much as it was getting a vet stud for his new stud WR. 

 

Now, jumping ahead to 2024, after 4 years of Diggs, the WR room has been gutted. 

 

And the current WR corps, save for Shakir, looks as bad as it was in 2018. And that's bad when you have one of the best QB's in the league.

 

Is there a solution?  Yeah...he needs to put his ego aside (McD as well), he needs to bring in a senior scout/asst GM with proven experience in judging WR talent.

AND...he needs to give the guy control. As someone said in another thread, he and McD need to be locked in a closet for the first three rounds of the draft.

 

It really should have been done this year, but what's done is done. But Josh's window is closing, and this is no time to be pretending that you can judge WR talent, when you can't.

 

[GASabresIUFan]

6 minutes ago, CookieG said:

WR is not one of his strong suits.  It applies to both drafting and FA pick ups. It started when he got here, his 2018 WR corps was horrid and made worse by actually trading for Kelvin Benjamin.  To an extent, I think he understood it, and ended up with John Brown and Cole Beasley the next year.

If you want to criticize Beane for not using premium picks on WRs, I’m in full agreement, but he has drafted WRs and has found capable players like Davis and Shakir. He has made 7 WR picks before Coleman, all in the 4-7 rounds.  He took Davis in the 4th, Shakir in the 5th, and Ray-Ray McLoud and Hodgins in the 6th.  That’s actually very good late round WR drafting.  
 

He also brought in Diggs, Brown, Beasley and Sanders.  Like so said, much more good than bad.  

 

I’m sorry but your argument about WR evaluation doesn’t hold up.  The best that can be said is that he hasn’t invested enough in WR through his tenure and that’s an argument I can accept and agree with.  When you have Josh why did it take so long to use a top 2 round pick on a WR (he’d argue he spent a 1st on Diggs)? I honestly don’t understand it either.