Nick Wright On The Saints Salary Cap

One of Wright’s main talking points is the Saints are going into next season with a “stripped down roster”. Ummm….the main reason Loomis handles the cap the way he does is it allows the Saints to keep their star players and sign high profile free agents. There’s a ton of anger outside New Orleans that the small market Saints continually exceed the cap and then maneuver under it. Talking heads and opposing fans are furious the Saints are able to keep Ramczyk, Lattimore, Thomas, etc. and sign guys like Carr.

I’d be a rich man if I had a dollar for every “Saints are in salary cap hades so which of their players should we trade cheaply for” thread on other NFL fan forums. I remember on Finheaven a year or so ago there was a multiple page thread on the Saints cap situation. A majority of posters thought they were going to get several Saints players for massive undervalue. Some even suggested the Saints should trade them star players and give them draft picks because they were going to take on those players’ contracts. Then when Loomis got under the cap they were demanding Goodell change the cap rules so the Saints can no longer operate the way they do. They are hardly alone.