Saints and Carr deal released $150M over 4 years $100M fully guaranteed

rlemieux said

Looking to the draft and free agency, what scared me the most about this deal is that means the Saints are all in and will use money and picks to make a run hopefully happen. While the money and picks themselves do not scare me, the mortgaging of the future, trading picks from this year and next year scare the crap out of me. Hopefully Dennis and Pete prove me wrong but if this doesn't work it slows down a rebuild and gives what should be a new coach less and less to work with when he gets here.

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What future has been mortgaged? We have a 1st this year which actually puts us as a +1 in 1sts since 2020. We have 8 picks in the 2023 draft which includes the 7th round comp pick. Next year we have most of our picks except the 2nd and 7th, but we have an additional 6th. Depending on who we lose in FA and what they do, we could end up with a 3rd round comp. If Dav leaves and breaks out, that might be a 3rd round comp. Either way, being down a 2nd isn't that big of a deal considering we still have the 1st and 3rd. I just don't see how the future is mortgaged with any of the recent moves. Also, the FO has all of this planned out and looking ahead at the age of some players, my guess is this year we get some pieces to prepare for the eventual departure of Cam and Dav.