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

WhoDat6278 said
What do you think Underhill means when he says there was some effort to work different things out with Carr?

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said
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.

There are a lot of things they could have wanted to change about the contract besides just a pay cut. They could have wanted to change the length, they could have wanted to remove the no trade clause, they could have wanted to add or remove guaranteed income or bonuses, they could have wanted to add or remove incentives.

People are mistakenly assuming the only thing the Saints could have wanted was a paycut. They could have wanted several other things. Maybe they did want him to take a paycut, but we don't know that. People have just assumed that's what it was.