Best explanation of how teams get around salary cap limits
Which makes sense. If the salary cap is expected to rise, tomorrow's dollars are cheaper than today's dollars. Pushing contracts into the future lets a team get more for their dollars now. Then that value gets more team friendly during future seasons.
Where the Saints got stung is COVID causing the cap to stagnate. I believe Loomis had all the contracts planned out into the future expecting a certain cap expansion. When it didn't expand anywhere near the expectation, a lot of the Saints calculated moves became very troublesome.
To some extent it’s always.
Which makes sense. If the salary cap is expected to rise, tomorrow's dollars are cheaper than today's dollars. Pushing contracts into the future lets a team get more for their dollars now. Then that value gets more team friendly during future seasons.
Where the Saints got stung is COVID causing the cap to stagnate. I believe Loomis had all the contracts planned out into the future expecting a certain cap expansion. When it didn't expand anywhere near the expectation, a lot of the Saints calculated moves became very troublesome.