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

SaintRob said
This is the key takeaway from this season. Cap flexibility limited the depth on the team, particularly at offensive line, wide receiver, and defensive line.

In a perfect world with little to no injuries, we have a pretty good team. When we have to extend aging players on large contracts to get under the cap each year, it limits what we can do with free agents if we don't kill it with draft picks.

Beyond hiring a new head coach, fixing the cap should be our top priority. "Kick the can" without a superstar franchise QB is not a path to success.

I would say our cap flexibility wasn’t necessarily compromised last year, but rather we made an organizational decision not to go full-throttle. We certainly had the capacity to do more, but determined the value of doing so was no longer present for this iteration of the team and figured this was the best time to scale things back to a certain mean level.