Saints Execs love Spencer Rattler per ESPN’s Matt Miller

StudioSaint said
No kidding. You don't intentionally get worse to get better when you're evaluated on "what have you done for me lately."

The Saints may have told Moore that he wouldn't be fired after the first season, but I highly doubt they told him he could intentionally make the team worse than it has to be.

Some people are starting with their desired outcome and working backwards to rationalize why their desired outcome is the best possible outcome. That's why it seems reasonable to them to make things worse for the team than it has to be. They want Rattler as the starter and Rattler has very little chance of starting over Carr, so Carr has to go to clear the way for Rattler to start.

By their own admission, Rattler starting matters to them more than winning games. They'd be okay with 0-17 as long as Rattler is the starter. They'd be furious if Carr starts and the team goes 0-17.

Not at all what I think anyone has said, but by all means, continue beating that straw man to death. If you got that from what I said, I'm assuming you're an angel investor for Tom Smykowski's Jump To Conclusions Mat. I'm honestly not sure what anyone thinks Carr brings to the table at this point. Not good enough to make the playoffs, but just good enough to have us picking after the top talent is off the board.

I suppose we should content ourselves with not making the playoffs and picking between 16 and 18 every year and having a $60 million cap hit for the privilege of doing so. We should clearly just keep doing what we're doing as it's worked out swimmingly since Payton decided he'd had enough.