The fastest path for the Saints to clear the decks of their salary cap issues

Never rebuilding... you are always mid... you are never good.
Tell it to the Ravens.

I've yet to hear a single convincing argument. All I hear is the short term outlook of the parent yelling at the high school coach how he should cut the whole team after a three and out. The kind of thinking that expects quick and easy results when the last 100 years or so of football have explicitly proven that sustained success is very, very hard to achieve and take both time and skill.