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

I am talking about adding a key piece or two and replacing some role players, not to go on some wild $100 million spending spree.

A Mekhi Becton, a good big WR and/or tight end, a run stuffer, re-sign a Chase Young, an adequate safety is what I am talking about. Not signing a bunch of top rated free agents and then overspending on other guys just to meet minimum spend thresholds.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say we haven’t maximized. We literally just signed the league’s highest paid free agent two seasons ago (for better or for worse) at a time we had no money.

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And that can be done while also cutting Carr. Especially if the cap is $5 million or $10 million more than expected.

And you know that they didn't restructure some deals last year that they could have so they didn't maximize all the cap space they could have. And again, Loomis said that they want to get closer to cap compliance.

If you disagree because you think Carr is so good that we can make the playoffs with him and can't without him, I get it. I disagree, but I get it. There are disadvantages to parting ways with Carr this year, but that doesn't mean that there aren't some advantages to parting with Carr this year. I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages but you obviously disagree.