Ranking of the NFL General Managers

Here's the article from rotoworld.com. Saying and ranking Kevin Colbert just as I've been saying for the last 4 weeks.

http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/61907/57/nfls-best-gms-2016?pg=2

 

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knew it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew that someone would attack the guy because he doesn't say what the majority of us Steeler fans want him to say about Colbert. LOL.

 

You think writing, "Is Colbert overrated or underrated?" makes him a genius? Truth be told, there is very little separating any of these guys except for how their picks pan out according to the author of the article. None of us know how a pick is really going to turn out until after he has played. Then we are able to go back and say, "See, I told you so!" With this ability we are able to say we could manage a team better than these guys (or rank them in an article). Life is funny that way.

 

Not at all. He's an idiot because he's ignored the fact the they've had to rebuild the entire freaking team.

 

I guess Colbert was supposed to replace a HOF safety, a lockdown corner, a perennial Pro Bowl nose tackle, a stud inside linebacker, a guy who would lead the way if 3-4 defensive ends were ever to have a spot in Canton, and a handful of other strong contributors all within about a five-year span.

You don't just draft the next Troy Polamalu. Casey Hamptons don't grow on trees (the trees wouldn't grow).

It's especially hard to replace these guys when you're always drafting in the later part of each round and have an extremely talented team and a salary cap.

 

Not only drafting in the later part of the each round AND you have a philosophy of hardly ever trying to trade up.

 

Come on furnace. That is a story from Sept. of 2015. From last year. Before last year's boo boo secondary could be taken into account.

When you factor in the poor job Colbert did on last year's secondary, the story I posted is the way that most people see Colbert OUTSIDE OF THE REGULAR STEELER FAN!

And that's my point. Your being a homer. I get that. But stepping outside of my homerism for the Steelers, Colbert did a credible job but failed again in upgrading a secondary that was bottom 3 from the previous year.

It's not just an opinion. You can't do "B" work in most areas of a team then do "F" work on the secondary and say he's top 10 in the league. And it's "F" work for 4 years straight on the secondary.

Colbert is about # 13 in the league. Still upper tier, but not nowhere in the top 10.

 

This thread has me like:

 

Is being the number 13 GM really that bad? I still think it's upper crust.

 

One of the worst at managing the cap??? Where do they come up with this nonsense?

But seriously, didn't we all stop taking this article seriously when we read #5?

Then to find Spielman and Smith in the top 10? Lol

Even Bellichick at #1 is comical. He's the best coach in the game... maybe ever. But he's not in the upper echelon of GMs

I would have Ted Thompson, Kevin Colbert, Ozzie Newsome, John Schneider is the upper echelon.... they've proven it. Elway, Keim and Gettleman, there's not enough track record, and they inherrited a lot, so they are in the next tier.

 

I looked at that guys top 4. Really?

Belichick? As a coach I'm fine with it as a GM? Meh, ditto on the first round bust they just cut.

Elway because he won a Superbowl this year with a QB that took less than 40% of the teams snaps and were a fumble by a backup RB away from being in serious trouble in the divisional round?

Scheider? Because he drafted a bunch of guys that Carroll had already scouted and managed to be able to have them perform on minimum contracts until last year?

Newsome? Seriously? Have you not seen what his roster has been like these last few years as his "stars" fell off?

 

I was dying reading that.... tears

 

The funniest thing about NFL GM's is that the Bungles don't even have one. Isn't that like an elite restaurant not having a chef?

 

Where do you get "B" work?

QB: Ben (1st) - A+
RB: Bell (2nd) Williams (FA) - A+
WR: AB (6th) Bryant (4th) Wheaton (3rd) DHB (FA) - A+
OL: Villy (FA) Foster (FA) Pouncey (1st) Decastro (1st) Gilbert (2nd) a A-/B+

NT - tbd - incomplete
DE - Heyward (1st) Tuitt (2nd) - A
OLB - Jones (1st)/Harrison (FA) Dupree (1st) - B- too early to tell with Dupree could be better or worse
ILB - Timmons (1st) Shazier (1st) - B could be higher if Shazier breaks out
S - Mitchell (FA) Golden (6th) - C? Still incomplete undtil after draft
CB - Gay (6th) Cockrell (FA) Golson (2nd) - C-/D+ still incomplete because we know nothing of Golson and will draft one too

He's done excellent work building the offense and has really done an admirable job replacing one of the best defenses in recent history. So what, the secondary has been bad for a couple years. It will get better. The roster is a fluid beast. We could be strong at CB as soon as next year and could be bad at WR... That's how the salary cap makes he NFL work. It's hard to look at our team and not recognize it as one of the most talented rosters in the league. Every team has a wart in it. Ours is the secondary. No team is perfect. The salary cap ensures that no team can afford a perfect roster.

And worst at managing the cap is a joke. theres a reason we are up against the cap year in and year out. We're a good team. We pay to have a team like that. Just because we don't have tons of cap space to throw at outside FA's doesn't mean we don't manage the cap properly. We can let he Browns and Jags "manage the cap" to an excess of space for FA's. We will take the wins and the rings.

I don't think Colbert is the best GM ever, but barely above average undersells him big time. No doubt he's one of the top 10.

 

The OP or the writer ?

 

It really blows it out of the water if you use his logic and put Ozzie up there after last year's debacle!

 

I'll be the first to say Ozzie had a bad year last year. No doubt. But it was a bad year. They happen.

 

Dude, look at the article date. September of 2015 is the start of the 2015 season. So your article cant be taking into account the 2015 season that has yet to play out. But.......if you want to discount the 2015 season, that's still three previous years of ignoring of the secondary coupled with bad cap management. No way Colbert is a top 6 gm in the league.