salary cap hell!
If I read this right, it’s simply how the Saints do business and for some reason the other teams haven’t figured it out?
I mean in essence you’re saying it allows to spend more than is allowed (in a manner of speaking) as long as they get down to a mandated level at the start of the league year? It’s really a case of operating at a lesser percentage wise because despite your dislike of the term, yes that bill is due even if they keep pushing it out to eternity.
If that’s the case two questions: 1) why aren’t other teams doing it to the level of the saints? 2) if it’s some sort of advantage why hasn’t it been more successful?
I can’t answer the first question but I do know that we have an owner willing to pay a ton of upfront bonus money each year, and that’s an important part of the equation.
But to answer number 2, I’d say the beauty is in the high of the beholder. I do know that despite losing a HOF QB and drafting very poorly we have managed to keep our heads above water and field a competent football team, unlike, for instance, the Patriots.
Also, and most importantly, accounting books don’t win football games. Good coaching and keeping a steady flow of good young players do.
We may have a small handful of veteran contracts we are stuck with, most teams do, but the avenues are and have always been there for us to bring in new talent on top of what we already have, and we have been whiffing a lot in that department lately.
…not to mention the DA/PC factor.
I said it earlier in the thread though…if we make a field goal in GB, I’m not so sure this thread exists, or certainly not as many like this. I get it, we are in a playoff drought and that’s frustrating coming off of what was essentially our Golden Era, but at least we aren’t out here going 4-13 and going into seasons with absolutely no hope whatsoever.