You still haven't shown where the Saints don't have options because of the cap. You have MAYBE one player they could not retain (and they could have) and haven't named a single free agent they missed on because they didn't have the cap to pay them.
Except I did. I posted a table showing how it would be impossible for the Saints to get under the cap by cutting players when practically every other team can, isn’t that a lack of options relative to other teams?
It would be impossible to know who the Saints wanted that we didn’t get to sign, but there’s plenty of free agents that we would prefer over who we ended up with. For example, you’ll never convince anybody that Nathan Shepherd was the DT the Saints coveted in free agency, but the local spin machine will pump that sunshine and say we got a diamond in the rough.