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

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said

I don't find so much fault in them because it boils down to a missed evaluation on Carr.

For instance, lets say their assessment of Carr is right. Lets say he ends up navigaing Carmichael/Paytons system w/ Gusto. 4000 yards and 30 TD's in year one and we make the playoffs. That restructure that they know is going to take place in a year does, but nobody cares because we're winning. They got it wrong on Carr and getting it wrong shines a very bright flashlight.

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And I think the Carr deal too goes back to failures in the draft. They had chances to draft QBs like Jackson, Love, Hurts, and even Mahomes if Payton had kept his mouth shut but either they made bad evaluations or chose to take other positions because they were thinking too short term in the draft.

You make mistakes like Carr when you don't have a good young player on your roster to step up when an aging vet retires or gets too old to live up to his contract. And you end up having to game the cap to sign that guy because you don't have any other options. That's true at every position including QB. It's also the reason we signed Chase Young to a deal with 4 void years. We had nothing at DE other than a solid Granderson due to Cam's age and missing on Foskey, Davenport, and Turner. So, we had to spend future money and add void years in order to sign Young to a contract.