Nick Underhill: Saints Might Not Move on from DA
The DC contract is one of the reasons we couldn't sign anyone of note last year or the year before. So it carried consequences. He couldn't produce with the talent around him so the $150M was a waste... a terrible Catch 22.
Bigger mistakes would be Jordan, Ramchek, Lattimore, players signed to big money around 2020 and now are not producing.
This really is a team with no legitimate Star players and a lot of players on the decline.
So your problem is with the who we signed aspect not working out and not the financial management, right?
Hindsight is 20/20. Most people were happy to lock themselves into those players and many were also happy when we signed Carr.
Two of those players didn’t work out because of injuries (Ram and Marshon), one has aged out after being signed to a deal he should not have been (Cam), and one is playing average football and being paid like an average player at his position (Carr).
Now that it hasn’t worked out as hoped we can’t now blame the salary cap strategy as the reason.
We aren’t the only team stuck with bad contracts. Teams with healthy caps have the same restrictions as we do because they don’t want to mess up their “healthy” cap; it just looks different.
When you sign busts to big contracts, you’re SOL one way or another unless you want to be like Denver and torpedo your cap for a year. Thankfully for them they have great coaching to compensate for it because most of that roster is putrid.
It’s like “Yay, we signed all these guys we wanted despite not having cap space…we are Loomising! Horray!,” followed by “Oh no, we regret it now because the players we got didn’t work out…damn you salary cap accounting strategy for making us have so many subpar players!”