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

This is your opinion as a jaded fan and it just isn’t the way the club is going to think IMO.

But it is the way the club has been acting for the the last 3 years. They have spent little in free agency outside of Carr and they have not created all the cap space they could have using restructures and void years. They did a little bit of it with Chase Young because they essentially had zero edge rushers, but that's about it.

Otherwise they have done the minimum necessary to be cap compliant, sign their draft picks, and sign some low prices FAs that they think could be bargains. I mean, they traded their best CB when the other starter was injured. That's not the action of a team that is all in on winning now.