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

So we paid for a player we all wanted to keep while not having current money by using future money, the same option is available today.

It’s annoying to look at on the books, but more emphasis needs to be placed on the 5 year cap outlook and what’s always there and available to pull from on a constant rolling and replenishment basis, and as a bonus, you’re allowed to be over the limit in future years.

Looking at it as single years will drive you insane.
You have been a big defender of our cap strategy and that is obviously your prerogative. But I, and a whole lot of other people on here, simply won't ever agree with you on this. A certain amount of guaranteed money at signing is what it takes to get deals done in many cases. But this team has a really ugly habit of doling out even more guaranteed money into void years and they do it annually. This makes it far more difficult to move on from players that no longer perform or fit what you're trying to do. It also makes it hard to move on from players that aren't happy and causing problems. The 5 year cap outlook that you're talking about completely guts the year to year adjustments that sometimes need to be made. That's not a big deal when the team is good and everyone is healthy, excelling and happy. But it's a nightmare when the team is bad and injured with players not meeting expectations or unhappy because if you're set for 5 years and recognize something needs to be done 2 years in, it takes 3 more years to pivot. To me that's just bad management.