Indeed, the defaults of “no cap space” or “no way to get him on the field” ring hollow when we lose good players. If a team wants to keep a player, there is almost always a way to accomplish that. The fact is in too many cases over the last few years (even dating back to Payton), we resigned the wrong guys or kept playing declining players and let younger, more able players walk out the door. This ultimately falls on Loomis.