The fastest path to real Super Bowl contention for New Orleans would probably start with some sort of retooling, cleaning the decks while this version of the team isn't that good, to have spending power again in two or three years.
That's not to say the Saints were wrong when they used cap mechanisms to create more and more cap space while they were truly competitive with Drew Brees. It's an acknowledgement that this is not a smart strategy anymore when you don't have a championship-caliber roster." ...
To be fair, this could have been written by any number of the pro-rebuild posters on this site. I've seen the same logic rehearsed here many times.
Of course, that logic usually becomes a little frayed, when you realise that rebuilds are rarely successful, let alone quick to be achieved. The normal fact of NFL team life is that you rebuild only when you're absolutely forced to.