Saints Cap Moves: Derek Carr restructured, Erik McCoy restructured; J. Williams released; cap space is at -$8,543,537

BlackNGoldblood said

You make a good point about who the Saints would have to restructure to field a team this year. And I’m not well-versed on the financials of those particular players. Still, I didn’t want it to go down this way. Certainly, we would have made do this year without Carr, and not have to kick the can on too many players we don’t value.

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Yes, we most certainly would have, and that would have been just to merely achieve cap compliance.

Without this move, you’re basically sitting out free agency and are kicking the can with every other restructurable contract on the roster just to field a team and have a rookie draft pool.

Maybe you can swap out a few bottom of the roster guys with minimum salary free agents, but that’s about it.

This move was effectively a must.