salary cap hell!

St. Geezy said
My argument isn't that the GM and front office staff are perfect. I have said so many times that we suck at player evals and who we spend our money on. I am just saying that the strategy itself isn't effecting who we pick to pay or draft. The strategy itself didn't make us go out and sign the highest APY contract on the market and give it to possibly the wrong guy in Carr. The strategy didn't make us go out and give an older Jordan a big money deal for the sake of it. The strategy didn't make us go out and draft a likely bust in Penning, among many others. The strategy didn't make us go out and get a bad eval on a RB that ended up averaging less than three yards per carry for us. The strategy didn't force us to overdraft a LT that appears to be one of the worst players on the team or give up two firsts for a DE that doesn't love football. The strategy didn't force us to promote Dennis Allen or make Pete Carmichael Jr. our play-caller.

These are the things killing us, not "the strategy."

See this is the kind of back and forth that is helpful. This made me think. You make really good points. I think you and I can middle here. I don't like our cap strategy. But I also don't like our overall all in approach. But you point out that the cap strategy didn't play a part in plain old bad signings. Bad signings are bad no matter the cap strategy. I would argue that those signings are part of the overall all in approach but I understand your argument. I would argue that drafting Penning was also part of the all in approach. The Saints needed a WR and a LT to come in and help immediately so they moved heaven and earth to make that happen.

So if we want to separate the cap strategy from the holistic, "all in" approach then that's a solid debate to be had. I think we can agree that it's not just one thing holding this team back. The cap certainly didn't have anything to do with DA and Pete. I see where you're coming from. You don't want people to just blame everything on our cap management and that's fair enough. There's enough nuance here to talk about things without getting personal.