There's no easy way out of this

Ghost said

To me as a non-Saints fan I'm fascinated that there are Saints fans here who (paraphrasing) "The Saint's cap management isn't an issue because the cap always goes up."

When in reality it actually there are multiple issues with that.
- Aging roster.
- Lack of depth.
- Roster issues when drafting fails.
- Contracts that are difficult jettison.

And to cap it all off, if this were some sort of "cap manipulation hack" then why don't all other 31 teams do it if it were so advantageous?

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There’s a time and place to push the limits of the cap where it could be justified. Somewhere along the way we tried to convince ourselves Dennis Allen and Derek Carr was a good enough reason.

The reality was we should have never signed Carr and tore it all down 2 years ago. The downside of doing it then was we would probably have a team full of unknown players sitting on 2 wins in week 7 but doing so with a pile of cap space and draft picks. We may have even been doing it with a guy like Jayden Daniels or Penix under center.