NOF: Saints in position to get under the cap with ease and create another $30+ million in cap space to add new players

Rouxble said

There are minimum cash spending requirements, so the days of being cheap relative to the cap to squeeze out extra profit are practically over.

Right now, seven teams have higher cash payrolls than the Saints in 2024, before any new deals are signed. Eight teams spent more than us the year prior, and eleven teams spent more than us in 2021.

Having the highest future cap commitment doesn't necessarily mean we are spending the most money.

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Yes and those minimum cash spending requirements allows owners to still make a huge profit.

And I didn't say all teams do that and some of the teams that spend a bunch of money, do it the same way we do, but not necessarily to the same extent we do. Philly for example.

The point is that there are many ways to manage the cap and it's not clear that any one way is better than the other. They all have issues some don't allow you to keep your own good but expensive players, some give you less flexibility if you sign a bad contract, some make you sacrifice older leadership and talent in exchange for flexibility, others force you to tear your team apart once you have a really good year, etc.

But, in the end, none of them work well if you are bad at talent evaluation and coaching where as most of them work really well if you are good at talent evaluation and coaching. In the end, it's likely that the best way to manage the cap depends on the situation and circumstances you are in.