2025 salary cap expected to be 5-10 million higher than previous estimates (merged)

St. Geezy said
Or you can look behind door #2, and field mostly the same team with a new draft class that includes a number 1 pick, new coaches, legitimate competition at QB, health, and more than $40m we can create in cap space for this off-season without cutting anyone.

Push it to 2026, then in 2026, push it to where you have a ton of space parked parked in 2027, using June 1 cuts and void years to get rid of the handful of guys you no longer want.

Not saying we should do it, just saying it’s a feasible option that doesn’t involve much deviation from what’s already set to happen organically.

Like Nick and Trip said, we are totally in position to give it one last hurrah with this group without completely destroying our future accounting.

We do not need to compromise ourselves much other than potentially having either a slightly overpaid starting QB or a ridiculously overpaid backup QB, along with keeping older guys like Demario and Tyrann an extra year longer than ideal.

I don't think door #2 is going to happen. Loomis has said he wants to get the cap closer to even and he has been working on it for two years. He's not suddenly going YOLO with a mid-level starting QB and an aging roster. He's going to bet on this roster as a .500 roster this year and not create/spend $40 million in free agency to get us right back into the hole that we started in.

They could choose to do it, but it would go against what Loomis has said, what he has mostly done for the last two years, and the information that Moore was promised the team would be patient with him. If that's the case there is no reason to go YOLO this year. Especially when you can field likely just as competitive a team and get under the cap without doing it.

Before the cap was projected to go up $5 to $10 million, I was pretty convinced they would keep Carr for another year. But this cap increase makes moving on from Carr more feasible and might even make it make sense to do this year. And if we do move on from Carr this year, Demario, Cam, Hill, and Tyrann will more than likely be on the roster this year. If we keep Carr, they may not be.