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

Saintaholic said
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.

All teams have info on the future salary cap, and are operating on 3-year plans that don’t require restructuring the top of the roster every year.

And the media take is irrelevant, the Saints were far from all in prior to 2020. How many restructures did we use in 2018, the last year we were close?

The answer is one, we cleared $3.5m with Armstead’s contract, and we had about $40m of restructuring capacity that went unused On that year’s cap.

Also, prior to 2020 only Brees would get void years in his deal, now every player earning above the vet minimum gets them. This is definitely uncharted territory for Loomis.