Elvis' 2025 cap and roster cleanup proposal

Eagles cap in 2021? Not relevant! They won the SB in 2017 and they just won it again. Their GM paid the bill in 2021. They then drafted a top rookie quarterback. You want to compare Howie Roseman to Mickey Loomis? Mickey didn't pay the bill 11 years after our Super Bowl, or after Drew and Sean finished. He still hasn't paid the bill. Mickey rolled with retreads Winston, Dalton, and Carr. As long as Mr. Irrelevant took his team to the Super Bowl last year, they have no excuses for not drafting a QB from the moment the phrase 'air yards' showed up. Anyone who wants to compare Howie's body of work to Lazyboy Loomis since 2010 when Howie started, let's go. Start with Baun and CJ, Super Bowl champions. Disgusting. And the Eagles won the 2017 Super Bowl with a backup! (who went to Drew Brees' high school).

In 2018 - while we were screwed- we put out on the field that fatefuLday the crap like Tommy Lee Lewis and that easy GW TD dropper UFDA Dan Arnold. In 2020, we lost because of a journeyman tight end. Ben Watson was last decent tight end the Saints had, and he was old!! If Mickey deferred roster decisions to head coach, then what choice did Sean have? They both put low budget crap on the field and that killed everything Drew and the other legit NFL players did. KILLED IT!

The cap is a 5 year accounting exercise? NO! Not when you dead cap at 15% or greater EVERY SEASON while your roster can't handle a 17 game season, or even 3 games, when 2023 and 2024 seasons indirectly ended.

Not when - and people do not understand this incompetence - there is no more cap savings by dead capping players. Where do you want Mickey's contract with Derek Carr to screw us? On the cap, or on the dead cap? NFL contracts are typically set up so a cap hit is way more than a dead cap for cutting him. Mickey got so desperate and addicted he crossed this line. NFL contracts are typically set up so that the cap savings of cutting a player is far more than their dead cap. Not with Magic Cap Mickey.

IT IS NOT NORMAL OR ACCEPTABLE TO SAY: THE CAP WILL BE CLEAN BY 2027! That's two or three more seasons of this crap for season ticket holders, who have been treated to bad to mediocre football the past 4 years! Some of ya'll like to say to unhappy season ticket holders to bolt if they are not happy, That's ridiculous. Giving up an incredibly valuable personal asset such as season tickets should not have to be an option for those folks. Do your job for your customers Loomis, not for your ego.

So, we have Studio Saint and others saying the Saints are going for it in 2025.
Lovely, nothing learned.
Oh, but the Saints have a good roster? Sure, that's why everyone is saying the Saints have massive roster holes at every position. Where's the 5 year cap plan from 2021 for every position group? SHAKING MY H-H-H-H-HEAD!! The money lost in dead caps is why we have crap in the middle and bottom of the roster. Add up the dead caps and then calculate what additional legit NFL players and salary we could've used while we were underscoring, losing, and finishing low in the WURRSTTEST DIVORSION IN FOOTTTBALL.

Studio Saint, cover your eyes for this next line:

The best thing Mickey Loomis can do for Kellen Moore is clean up the cap as fast as possible. Why? Because maybe following the Saints cap ya'll haven't seen how expensive top 2nd contract players are now. GM 101 is cutting your vets before it's too late, so you free up that salary for the current era, not the last era we're still dinosaured in.

I'm very happy we hired Kellen Moore, a young offensive coach. Can he evaluate and develop talent? We'll find out. If he can, we're going to turnover the roster and have new young guys to cheer for. Watching a "Baby Saints" team get newly built, watching any college or pro team get built from baby to legit contender to me is the 2nd best big picture joy in football. Mickey will do what he does, but no way am I going to give him a pass for letting the Saints cap and roster become type 1 diabetic with an A1C of 11.

Lastly, I'm tired of people saying they don't want a perfect cap and dead cap, and $90M of cap space. Why? Because nobody is saying that! We need a competitive roster, a new quarterback (or Rattler if he can improve), and a dead cap at no more than 5%. Probably balanced to normally enter a season with enough cap space (without being that guy who balloons all the future dead caps) and having what, $30-$40M of space to sign your own desired free agents and a couple no-discount starter free agents.