Tom Pelissero:Rams Give Matthew Stafford Permission to Speak with Other Teams
We do have players that would cost more to cut than keep, which is every single player with their number in the red on the following chart. Notice that Derek Carr is not in red.
I hate that this keeps getting repeated because it's not remotely true. He costs $40m to keep and $10m to cut. What you're talking about it his cap hit which is from prior years payments that we kicked the can on. Even then, we save $1.3m to cut him outright this year. If we keep his $40m in new money we'll kick that again and have to pay for it next year or the following year. So it's NOT cheaper and continues the pattern of kicking the can to "compete" following the worst Saints season since 2005, twenty years ago.
We do have players that would cost more to cut than keep, which is every single player with their number in the red on the following chart. Notice that Derek Carr is not in red.