Cap Implications of Keeping and Cutting Derek Carr
No, I'm not saying commit to Carr...
Carr can be released next June & not be as nearly of a salary cap hit as this year...
That's fine... and it may happen that way. In fact, I actually believe that we would win more games
with Carr as our starter than without him. But to me this seems to be an issue of
'when will the rebuild really/actually/finally begin'. Perhaps Moore feels that Carr can run his style offense better than any of the guys waiting in the wings. If that's true, by all means keep him around. I really don't see Carr as being our biggest issue to winning football games. However, if the Saints are keeping him solely with the idea that it's less expensive to put off the rebuild for another year or two, it sort of feels like we are back to square one if we're not planning to keep Carr long term.
The Saints coaches are soon going to learn a lot about what is salvageable from our squad before the season starts. They will almost certainly have a game plan as to how they want to move on from the post-Allen talent & regime. But the elephant in the room is how to make this
Moore's team as quickly as possible (with an aging roster and no cap money available) without having to kick these bloated contracts farther down the road into the future. If we are able to make some deals that can get us a little cap relief now and/or some additional draft picks for the future without adding a lot more dead money to our payroll, I'm all for it! I don't need to win now.