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Like, restructuring a big deal here and there, particularly if it’s a good QB that is aging, can be a good strategy if used sparingly to spread your money out, much like using credit to pay for unexpected emergencies.

But Loomis is the guy who’s not even checking his balance and is maxxing 5 different credit cards out until one day a creditor comes to repo his car

 

oh I'm not praising anyone

just still dont think the cap is that real

and even still, the Saints are the EXTREME example

 

It’s week 6 in our Madden league and @CarpetElf literally already has the best QB season of all time with Josh Allen lol

 

to clarify, that wasn’t targeting one person, more so the entire football community acting like Loomis is a “genius” for tactics that will come back to bite him. As an individual, I respect you disagreeing.

however, it is curious to me that you are saying it’s fine that a quarterbackless team is consistently making the irresponsible win-now decision… but then also argue that the Dolphins having 7-9 wins per season is sadder than the Jags

those things definitely conflict haha

 

but the Saints are newly "quarterbackless"...they had Brees for what, 15 years? And they won a Super Bowl and were contenders basically every year

yes, to me its worth it to have sustained success like that if you have to work the cap like they have

now, as they stand now? I would probably take a "tank" year and trade a bunch of these guys. But we need to see who they get to play QB because I still think their roster is a playoff contender at the moment.

 

The Taysom Hill extension is the one that just cracks me up. At no point have they treated him like a starting QB (they literally didnt start him, while healthy, the game after he signed that deal), and yet now they are paying him $10+mil/yr.

And they'll lose guys like this that could have been kept for that money.

They're at $18mil of cap space in 2023 with like 16 actual startable players signed. Thats before all the restructures they're going to have to do to get under the 2022 cap. They'll almost certainly head into 2023 over the cap with not even enough guys to form a starting 22 AND that's with the cap jumping $10+ mil.

 

Were they more successful than the Steelers? The Patriots? Those are also teams with sustained success that both have $80+ mil more in cap space than the Saints right now, and the Patriots are just coming off a major spending spree.

I mean, I'll root for the Rams to do things they way they did them, but, they didnt actually ruin their cap. They just mortgaged draft picks; they can actually trade a bunch of guys and have $100mil in cap space reasonably quick. Saints did the endless restructure game rather than make some tough choices; if they'd let a few guys go rather than restructure, they'd probably be able to sign a legit QB right now and cakewalk through that soft as division.

 

The Saints GM traded a 1st round pick to draft Davenport, who never started until this year, when he beat out their current 1st round pick. Also they seem incapable of drafting receivers. Really anything tbh. It's gonna be rough without Payton

 

Yeah I think the saints problem is an inability to manage assets. I don’t think it’s a cap forced problem as opposed to just a bad at their jobs problem.

 

I was always under the assumption that Davenport and Hendrickson were way more of a rotation than Hendrickson a clear, full-time starter

 

Bakh’s cap hit in like 2025 is like 32 million hahaha

 

This by the way, is exactly what was dooming the Steelers in the mid-2010s. 2012 saw them lose a bunch of veterans and they couldnt keep a Mike Wallace or Keenan Lewis long term. Their FA moves were almost exclusively 1 year extensions of their own guys. And they missed so many defensive picks in that era, especially in the secondary, that not having the cap space to sign new guys really hurt them. And then they miss on LB picks and are franchising a dude like Worilds.

Note that in the last few years they went and got Haden/Minkah/etc to shore up that weakness and they have the cap space to keep them should they want

 

I wonder what the Trade Market would look like for Shaq Mason

 

Probably not super great considering he’ll be a 29-year-old guard, but maybe they’d get a third for him idk

 

The Darius Slay trade actually seems to be one of the better high profile first round pick trades for the buying team.

 

This is confusing me because Slay was not drafted in the first round, nor did the Eagles give up a first round pick to acquire him

 

Holy shit it was only a 3rd and another late pick? Highway robbery lol.

 

Sounds like he's staying in GB

 

Lol poor Jordan Love

 

Sucks for love but he's only 23. He's younger than Kenny pickett by a few months lol.

 

Who should the Packers have taken instead. Tee Higgins?