The Athletic: The Best Front Offices in the NFL (Incidentally, the Saints Aren't Listed) (1 Viewer)

[RJ in Lafayette]

The Athletic is currently running a piece on the best front offices in the four major professional sports leagues based on anonymous rankings from high-ranking team executives and coaches. In the NFL, this was the top ten:

1. Baltimore
2. Kansas City
3. San Francisco
4. Philadelphia
5. Detroit (much love for GM Brad Holmes)
6. Green Bay
7. Seattle
8. Los Angeles Rams
9. Buffalo
10. Pittsburgh

Some general comments: The best front offices not only do a great job of identifying talent but share their vision of the team with every department in the building and do not allow office politics to interfere with the goal of winning games. A comment made about Baltimore is that it not only knows what a Raven looks like but understands how to win with those players. A similar comment was made about the Lions front office today. A comment about Howie Roseman is that he is very aggressive and willing to take risks but will quickly move on when mistakes are made.

The link is long. There is probably a paywall. I have access through my New York Times subscription.

 

[guillermo]

Interesting list RJ.

The interesting office on the list is Detroit. Brad Holmes came from the Rams, working under McVay.

McVay has been very good with later picks, building around high profile veterans.

What has impressed me about Holmes is that he is very clear on how he built the team. People may considered he went early to pick Jamieson Williams, Jahmyr Gibbs and Jack Campbell. All three perfect for what he was building.

 

[RJS]

Interesting list RJ.

The interesting office on the list is Detroit. Brad Holmes came from the Rams, working under McVay.

McVay has been very good with later picks, building around high profile veterans.

What has impressed me about Holmes is that he is very clear on how he built the team. People may considered he went early to pick Jamieson Williams, Jahmyr Gibbs and Jack Campbell. All three perfect for what he was building.

I'm very intrigued by Ray Agnew. He certainly has the resume.

 

[DSnfla]

Take that same poll 5yrs ago and see the results.

 

[SystemShock]

Baltimore and Pittsburgh have proven to be the front offices that continuously put competitive teams year in and year out for well over a decade.

 

[Saint KayBee]

Nine of these ten teams made the playoffs last season (Seattle, who moved Pete Carroll upstairs, is the tenth)
Nine of these ten teams made the playoffs in 2022 (Pittsburgh, who entered week 15 at 5-8 then won all four games to end with a winning record, is the tenth)

Team 1 has last season’s MVP
Teams 2-4 have played in the last two Super Bowls
Teams 6 & 9 (nice) drafted their quarterbacks
Teams 5 & 8 traded for each other’s QB and somehow neither got over on the other
Teams 7 & 10 have the kind of roster stability that let their veteran FA QBs come in and flourish

Good for them
Results-oriented league - and they deliver