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

Dome50 said

So this was a bad decision, no? But Loomis was "forced" to restructure Ram due to the messy cap situation the team was already in, a situation of his creation. Basically, I'm done letting Loomis off the hook (not that anyone here is doing that). I'm no cap expert but I feel like Loomis has not taken enough heat for his cap negligence. Would love for some ex-GM cap expert to do a story about the current Saints cap situation (by far the worst in the league) and contract decisions of the last few years because as it stands, it is hard for me, a cap novice, to understand just how bad things have been.

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Loomis has taken plenty of heat for what he has done with the cap here and all over the internet. Practically every thread on this board has at least one post about firing Loomis regardless of the topic.

He deserves most if not all of it. But, he does appear to be working on getting it back to normal by the end of the 2026 season. It's going to take some time to fix it and because of the way it was done, it will require some restructures to get cap compliant for the next couple years. You can't just stop doing it all of a sudden. It takes time to change the way you do things.

That being said, the biggest issue for this team is not drafting well enough since 2017, bad coaching since 2021, and bad evaluation of which players to keep and which to let go, i.e. Hendrickson vs. Williams, Baun and Ellis vs. Werner. If they drafted better and kept the right players, the cap situation wouldn't be as big of a deal. You can't buy a championship with cap space, but you can win one by drafting well and coaching well.