There are lots of complaints about Beane on this and other Bills forums. It is easy to point at a player drafted like Bookie Basham as evidence a GM is a poor evaluator. However, I can easily do this with any GM so you cannot cherry pick, you have to have some comprehensive grading system to compare GM's and truly evaluate Brandon Bane. When I did a google search what I found were opinions mostly called GM power rankings, Brandon Beane show up top 5 routinely in those. Below are links to a few. What are the metrics one should use to evaluate a GM? The point of this thread is to discuss how a GM should be evaluated and does anyone have a source of an objective comprehensive way to do this?
This is a list off the top of my head that might be helpful
1. Team success? How many playoff games played/won, championships, etc.
2. Draft evaluations. For this you don't want to use draft grades from the time of the draft, rather how the players actually performed n the NFL.
2a: How many player starts per draft pick
2b: How many Pro Bowls/AllPro per draft pick
2c: How many years are picks retained
2d: Other contributors in other ways such as special teams, etc.
3. Dead cap per year. Dead cap is bad
4. FA evaluations - similar to draft picks maybe but somehow evaluate the dollars spent vs production gained.
4a: How many FA's dont see the end of their contract
5. Coach evaluations
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-gm-power-rankings-eagles-howie-roseman-reigns-while-brad-holmes-makes-his-ma
https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-general-manager-rankings-2023-eagles-howie-roseman-chiefs-brett-veach
https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/football/news/article-goal-line-stand-nfls-best-gms-2022
If anyone has an account for AAF, this looks interesting
https://www.allaccessfootball.com/p/draftmetrics-grading-the-general