Saints could get to $14.61 million under the cap without restructuring Derek Carr, after Saints salary cap potentially increases by $5M

St. Geezy said

It’s tanking in the sense of it is restricting your ability to obtain significant enough cap space to add talent to the team, a key piece or two…

When I say tanking there I mean “tanking the off-season,” not maximizing your available assets. Not tanking as in “Trying to go 3-14.”

And for the record, I think Carr is a much better QB than Rattler and believe people are just enamored with the newness of him. He’s worth seeing if he can develop but isn’t someone to bank on…JMO.

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But you already said that free agency isn't the way to add talent to the team, which I agree with, so what would be the point in creating cap space this year anyway?

And, again, we haven't "maximized our available assets" for a few years now and aren't likely to do it again until we have a franchise QB.

Finally, Carr is better than Rattler, but Rattler will likely greatly improve with an offseason where as Carr is likely to stay the same or regress. And, frankly, the offense last year after all the other injuries didn't really look much better, if better at all, with Carr starting. Just look at the Giants game. The offense looked a lot like it did when Rattler took over due to the Carr injury. And it might not even be Rattler. Maybe they take a shot at Fields or Daniel Jones. Or maybe they draft a young QB that Moore likes.