Saints restructure Ramczyk to vet minimum per Jason Fitzgerald of Over The Cap

From the article:

"Ramczyk’s contract still has $23.066 million in dead money and by using the June 1 release the Saints will be able to split that up across two seasons at $11.083 million in 2025 and $11.983 million in 2026. Overall this puts the Saints in about a $12 million better position with the salary cap than if they released him or allowed him to officially retire in March.

The Saints still have a ton of work to do for 2025. Following this restructure they are still approximately $50 million over the 2025 salary cap, $27 million worse off than the next closest team."

I have read and understand that the way Mickey handles the cap has a logic, of using future resources for the present, and it works if there are no bumps like Covid or so. The cap is always growing, so Mikey takes advantage of the future resources at the present.

However, I am very critic of carrying over 11 million a year for two seasons for a player that is not contributing in our roster. And he won't be the only one.

By overextending in the future to maximize the present, Mickey also relinquish the possibility of spending in free agents, and is not able to retain ascending players that are in our roster.

I understand the logic, the benefits of the current management, but I don't like it. And I didn't like it even when the saints were competitive.