Are you accounting for the free agents the Saints will sign this year and next? If the Saints' goal is to get as far below the salary cap as they can, this sounds accurate, but that's not the Saints' goal is it?
This has been my question to the people on that side for awhile now. What exactly is the financial goal that’s trying to be accomplished? Only so much cap space is actually needed. We can operate this year as normal and still have more than adequate space to aim for in 2026-2027.
Now if it’s cosmetics we are worried about, or there is some $120 million goal for a specific year, it makes sense. But I don’t think the team wants that.
You don’t actually NEED $100 million in cap space or some crazy number in a given year to be able to reshape the roster.
You want cap space so you can re-sign players you have drafted with success, not to go on a wild spending spree on other team’s expensive players. We have never really operated that way outside of once every blue moon signing a big ticket guy.