This is the year to rebuild

The way I see it, we won't know the overall plan until we know the plan at QB. A lot hinges on that decision. If we play it back with Carr, we're probably going to try and win now. If we cut-bait with Carr and go with Rattler or a draft pick, I think it's fair to say we'd be using 2025 as a reset year for the roster and cap strategy.
That's probably simplifying it a little too much, but that's how I'm looking at it.

Lots of questions... Carr is a good QB and gives us our best chance to win games, but do you really want to try and re-build the team with him as the center-piece?
If we keep him, is it because the cap hit forced us to? If we let him go, is THAT because the cap hit forced us to? If we go with Rattler, is it because he's all we could afford and didn't get our guy in the draft? Or... if we go with Rattler, is it because KM really believes he could be our franchise QB?

And regardless of what we do, it's all gonna be wrapped up in coach speak. Whoever the QB is, Moore is going to talk them up as being THE guy, whether that's the case or not. We fans will debate this all year regardless what we do.

If I'm KM, I either draft a guy or go with Rattler and do a lot of the painful things we need to do to eventually get out from under the heavy dead cap and big "end of career" cap hits. I acquire as many draft picks in the first 4 rounds as I can and hope we pick winners. 2026 can be phase 2 where we add the pieces to make this a complete roster and we can start judging the new staff with W's and L's at that point. If we go 4-13 in 2025, I will not look at that as a reflection of KM. As long as there's an obvious and real effort ongoing to right the ship.