Let's talk salary cap
Who cares if it is “Last.” It is $115 million dollars, meaning we can create space whenever we need to in order to realistically handle needs, and being “Last” doesn’t mean anything also because most of the league isn’t going to do this hypothetical thing, so that point to me is moot.
Whether we want to spend it or not is the question. The cap is just not the hinderance it is being made out to be. As Loomis says, it’s way overblown.
My point in all of this is to demonstrate that we can create money if we want to create money. Stop staring at the one year outlook with the negative cap space going into each off-season before we process what we want to process.
The Saints can create $115m in space by restructuring every penny possible and adding void years to max out the benefit, which puts us last compared to every other team if they decided to do the same:
That chart assumes each team either (a) restructures without adding void years or (b) does a max restructure that adds void years to spread the cap hit over five years. It's not hard to expect us to have less room to push into future years than other teams because we have already borrowed so much from future years. Quoting the article that @baarbogast posted:
Any extensions aren't likely to add more space than a restructure because they will likely come with new money. Also, due to all the restructuring, we have few (if any) contracts that will benefit more from a release than a restructure due to dead money.
Even leaving those points out, other teams would have the same (and likely better) options due to less dead money on the books.
Who cares if it is “Last.” It is $115 million dollars, meaning we can create space whenever we need to in order to realistically handle needs, and being “Last” doesn’t mean anything also because most of the league isn’t going to do this hypothetical thing, so that point to me is moot.
Whether we want to spend it or not is the question. The cap is just not the hinderance it is being made out to be. As Loomis says, it’s way overblown.
My point in all of this is to demonstrate that we can create money if we want to create money. Stop staring at the one year outlook with the negative cap space going into each off-season before we process what we want to process.