How are you feeling about the Carr Restructure
That's what I'm saying. I think our ceiling is SLIGHTLY better than the Bucs, if everything goes right. The idea of pushing all of your chips in the middle again just to MAYBE meet that ceiling is absolutely wild.
How is this pushing all your chips in the middle? They tried to get him to take a pay cut or a better restructure and he wouldn't. So they did the simple restructure. I wanted to cut Carr, but this is not going all in unless they also restructure a bunch of other guys to create huge cap space to use in free agency this year.
It slows the process of the rebuild down a little bit, but in the end they just have to draft better and not waste draft picks trading up. You can do that whether Carr is on your roster or not. And, there is a good chance Carr ends up getting hurt again this year so Rattler might still get significant snaps to show if he has it or not.
I'm not happy with the move, but I think there are a lot of overreaction going on here. This was always what was going to happen this year going back to when Carr signed the contract in the first place. And we knew this during the Combine. This is just an old wound being opened again.
There was glimmer of hope that maybe he would take a pay cut or that Moore disliked Carr so much he would be willing to risk his coaching career on Rattler, another vet, or a rookie, but that too was highly unlikely to happen. Fans say they will be patient with Moore, but if he cut Carr and Rattler turned out not to be it which resulted in a 5 win season, or worse, then the fans would turn on him quickly. So, I get why a first time HC would want a mid-level veteran starter even if it meant a bit less cap space in future years. Especially when it would give him a little cap space this year to fill some glaring holes for the long term.