Force Feeding DA is About Loomis Trying to Prove that He Can Win a Championship Without Payton and Brees

SuperSaint said

I have no problem with them occasionally doing the 'signing bonus' thing for an elite player, but you can't do it for everybody, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, this team's depth is terrible because so much of their future money is already spoken for in dead money from past years.

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They could have, if they chose to, extended out more money and added void years to more contracts this year to have more money to spend. The lack of money to spend right now is a choice to cut back on kicking the can to slowly get the cap under control during a soft reset. So, it's really a consequence of not doing the cap like we always do and changing how we do business. Kicking the can certainly got us in the situation, but the cure is what is hurting us right now. And we did it for the right reasons right up until Brees retired. That does need to change now and should have changed 4 years ago.

But, frankly, the root cause of the lack of depth and lack of impact talent is that they haven't done a good enough job in the draft. We are never going to be big players in free agency and we are always going to bargain shop and hope on upside so not having cap space doesn't mean much as long as you are drafting good to great players and spending the cap space and kicking the can to keep them. But that all comes down to player evaluation in the draft and in deciding who you kick the can to keep. They should have kicked the can to keep Marcus Williams and Hendrickson. They shouldn't have kicked the can to extend Cam Jordan as much as I love the guy. So far doing it for Demario has worked out, but that could change quickly with age.

And no team can have enough depth to deal with the injuries we have had this year. But, good coaches overcome injuries and find a way even if the injuries are unprecedented. And good coaches win the Philly and Atlanta game so the 3 game losing streak after Carr got hurt still has you competitive.