{2023 Thread Bumped} Underhill Giving No Quarter to Nick Wright

Rouxble said

As posted before, we didn’t start using this tried and true formula until 2020. We were never all in with our HOF QB the way we have been these last few seasons. Loomis always kept flexibility in the cap, a big signing one year was followed by a reset the next so that we could make changes where needed for the rest of the roster.

All of our success that you are attributing to our current strategy was realized under a different strategy.

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Nah. We have been told we are in cap hell for a decade now (see pic attachment).

We have progressively gotten more and more aggressive with the strategy as the cap has seen larger and larger exponential growth and is projecting significantly more growth over the next 3 years.

And I think this highlights another part of what most observers aren’t appreciating with this system - the Saints have more data on future cap growth than fans do, so they’re able to operate based on a 3, 5, 7 year plan based on hard numbers most of us aren’t privy to.

The team doesn’t view the salary cap as one year, season-by-season prisms that fans and media “cap experts” do. The way they view it, they have the next 4+ years worth of cap dollars to spend on each upcoming season, obviously to a certain degree. Another season passes, another year in the future (with huge cap growth) gets added to the equation.