Dead caps the past 10 years - here's the manifesto

The missing context is that the dead money stems from pushing back cap hits of a HOF QB and a large number of Pro Bowl/All-Pro players (originally drafted by the Saints) to maintain a competitive team. Dead money totals appears to be high when restructuring a multitude of productive veterans on the team, in different age and guaranteed money ranges.

Dead money and the initial over the cap total isn’t stopping the Saints and NFL teams from adding talent.

Bad coaching, inconsistent QB play/lack of QB draft priority post-Brees, and a few missed 1st round DE picks looks to be the primary sources of the Saints’ losing seasons.

Saints have used most of their salary cap on extending productive-star draft picks. Outside of Drew and Demario, the team’s core talent during playoff runs and winning seasons were never originally-acquired with salary cap space. Available or unavailable cap space isn’t solving the Saints’ worst problems at HC, QB and core talent.