The results of kicking the can down the road. Big backloaded contracts become dead money when those players are released. You are paying players and they are counting against the cap that are not on your roster. The Saints are going to have to release a few guys and will just have to eat the dead money. Unfortunately getting the Saints under the cap is going to take several seasons and this if Loomis doesn’t restructure/convert bonuses to salaries of a bunch of players to get under the cap this year. So the Saints only hope of improving is through the draft and signing UDFA’s. They will have little to no money to sign free agents.