Mike Florio bringing the proper perspective to our organization: “Saints are a solid long-term destination for a new coach“
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Saving nfl media journalism with this perfectly reasonable take.
Nonsense, Florio was talking like he hadn't even looked at the numbers and was basing everything off of prior years. The other guy had looked at them and recognized the problems with our aging players that have big cap numbers that can't be cut without making the cap worse. We actually gain a tiny bit of cap space cutting Carr, but we'd go around $10m deeper if we cut Jordan, Davis and Mathieu.
And on top of that, they never actually talked about the team getting any better, just getting compliant with the cap. So no, Florio isn't providing a reasonable take, he's talking like a typical national media guy who doesn't know the details.
EDIT: Seems I just watched the video. More after I read the article. Should be fun.
EDIT 2: Nope, nothing really to add. Gayle is a fine owner and certainly doesn't meddle, but like he said most don't. He gives some credit to Mickey on building good teams in the past that most believe belongs to Payton. And you can't have it both ways. If Payton left us with a bad cap in 2021 then he gets credit for the teams he built too. If it was Loomis that built the teams, then he's responsibly for the cap from day 1.