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

Man, explaining that is pointless. If all they wanted to do was restructure Carr it's already written into his contract that they can do so.

However, in Mickey's scouting combine interview he hinted that they had to do "Something about his contract" There's literally no need to say that if the inteded plan was ever to just do a standard restructure.

It's pretty apparent they appraoched him about doing something "other" than a standard restructure and they just settled on that. If people can't come to that conclusion on their own w/ the data provided it's because they don't want to.
Yep. They could have worked something out that would have lowered his cap numbers over the next couple years but maximized his guaranteed money. A win win for everyone. Carr isn't about that though and apparently just wanted out, so we just went with our only option to be able to free up enough money to compete, the built in restructure.