I know you and I disagree a lot on cap gymnastics but I just don’t see the need for a total tear down. We have $58m in 2026 to pull from and a whopping $219m to pull from in 2027, and you know how easily we tend to stretch dollars.
It seems like most of the cap issues will naturally take care of themselves over the next couple of seasons whether we tear it all down or not.
It feels like we would be tearing things down just for the sake of it with no real benefit other than maybe landing higher draft picks.
In your work, what happens if we go business as usual, restructure guys, keep Carr, sign a small handful of free agents?
From my perspective, we’d simply have less cap room to work with in 2026, for which we can reconcile with 2027’s large surplus.
I understand your goal here; I’m just not sure it’s worth intentionally sacrificing seasons to meet it. The benefit margin isn’t enough.
Now, if you are absolutely dead set on getting rid of Carr, that’s a different story (I personally believe we should keep him around while drafting his replacement in round 2 with a guy like Dart or Milroe and/or sign a guy to compete with him like Justin Fields). The work and sacrifice to get rid of Carr’s contract just doesn’t seem worth it.
I feel like this exercise sacrifices seasons to create as much cap space as possible without regard to how much new cap space is actually necessary.