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

St. Geezy said
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.
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Well, that’s your opinion, but others, like Mike Triplett, view this as a clear sign the Saints are keeping their foot on the gas pedal, as opposed to rebuilding. So who’s correct? We shall see. I’m interested to read what Nick Underhill writes about all this.