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

St. Widge said
I think cutting or trading Carr fits into the above. In fact, if Moore wants to move on from Carr, then it fits into the above better than keeping him.

But, I will say that it's been 3 years since we signed a lot of mid-tier free agents when we signed Mathieu, Jarvis Landry, Sunders, Marcus Maye, and Nathan Shepherd. Since then we've only really signed Carr and a mid-tier deal for Chase Young. And the Young deal was only a one year deal. The rest of the free agents we signed wre low priced guys. There has been clear evidence of belt tightening from Loomis.

So we signed a lot of guys in 2022, signed the highest paid free agent in 2023 and a handful of role players (Williams and Saunders to name a couple), and in 2024 we declared we wanted to dial it back some prior to that offseason.

I don’t understand how you can say this belt-tightening has been more than a one year thing, which coincided with Loomis’ 2024 declaration.