Saints could get to $14.61 million under the cap without restructuring Derek Carr, after Saints salary cap potentially increases by $5M
I wish someone would have asked him that as well, but he wasn't answering those kinds of questions in his one media availability so far. I do know that it's been reported around the league that other teams have liked what Rattler has put on tape despite the late game failed heroics and the losses he was part of last year.
Does Spencer Rattler present as a QB that can be developed by Moore and his staff? I say yes. He has enough pedigree, accuracy, and mobility to be developed. He showed his upside in some halves of football under tough circumstances last year. Do you think you know his ceiling? I don't yet. Give him the game reps.
If he does not show dev, then draft a new QB next year to compete.
The last vets to win the Super Bowl the past 10 years were Stafford, Brady, Manning. Those dudes have more talent in their stool than DC4.
Carr's all bent and might not waive his NTC. He is not a culture fit. Gayle, do that thing you did with Dennis.
And what if Carr has a career year with the Saints next year and they win 9 games? You gonna pay him $50M for 2026 when the comments in this thread demonstrated, for all the momentary 'cap got raised, ignore the dead money' euphoria, that the 26' cap will have a ton of dead money. And '27 is unknown.
Take the cap raised money and pay a monster dead cap in 2025'. It's the only way to get back to fiscal sanity quicker.