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liveoakh said
Do you remember losing Carl Nix, because Drew and the Saint's couldn't get the deal done till the bitter end. That was about $$$. We could have kept Nix, had the Saints just given Drew the money, he was going to get any way. It would have freed up enough cap space for us to keep Nix.

Indeed, just another instance of the team dragging their feet in re-signing key components unfortunately.

St. Geezy said
This was the most extreme of extreme cap anomalies imaginable for this scenario of losing Trey to occur though.

The cap went down significantly due to covid, the only time in history it has gone down instead of up, putting strain on our cap.

We also lost Drew Brees to retirement, which accelerated his cap hits.

And this was also the year that virtually all of our renown 2017 draft class’ contracts were up, so decisions had to be made.

No team can keep everyone. Even teams with “healthy caps” lose free agents.

At the time we had Jordan, and Davenport, who at the time appeared to be ready to step up. It made sense why we wouldn’t want to have signed a to that point, injury prone, one year wonder in Trey to a big money deal.

In all, no way can you fault the team for not having an unprecedented global pandemic factored into their long term cap economics. You’re talking about a swing of at least $25 million lost there.

The most bizarre set of circumstances led to us losing Trey. Just an absolute perfect storm of setbacks.

Entirely agree tenfold.

Sucks we lost Hendrickson considering he was really showing promise, but all these people still saying we could’ve afforded him “if they wanted to” is amusing. The front office has done a lot of dumb ****, but purposely not re-signing Hendrickson isn’t one of them.

We just had higher priority re-signings to make at top position money, had to cut several starters in order to free up significant money to do so in addition to getting under the drastically lower than expected cap.

People forget just how low the cap dipped that year and hamstrung our plans. Without that happening, we get Brees’ deal of the books in one season and likely never have as much as a hiccup and keep on chugging along while retaining nearly all our players including Hendrickson and Williams.