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

St. Geezy said

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.

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I think this is the problem in a nutshell. Without prior cap hinderance, we wouldn't have been in the position to have to make that decision. It worked while Brees was here and kept us in "win-now, make the playoffs" mode. Once he retired and Payton stepped down, that should have been the impetus to make a change to cap strategy, but we went with "DA, status-quo, keep kicking" with most fans/sports pundits correctly predicting failure and our current situation. Now we're still top heavy, still have aging players on large contracts, have been ok, but not exceptional in drafting, and started a semi cap transition that still keeps us in a "low flexibility, float bad contract" mode. We need to make tough decisions and completely cut the cord.