Rebuilding strategy, forty-niners or saints?

ELLIASJWILLIAMS said

I think it depends on your core. Because our core was mostly veterans over the age of 30, selling to them wasted years on careers that have already extended past normal shelf lives is borderline disrespectful. Focusing on winning because of the core of that lockeroom is important.

W/ that being said....the Saints are also in a corner due to how they handled the cap so they almost have to do it as well because it doesn't make fiscal sense to still have to pay players while they are on another team. Might as well keep them.

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I agree with all of this.

The Niners, at their core, are a year removed from a Super Bowl appearance - so conventional wisdom implies that they are in a much better position to rebound from a significant rebuild.

The Saints are definitely overpaying for some aging player providing diminished returns, but they were on the hook for most of them anyway, so why not just shift the burden created by the convoluted cap management system and see what you get from them as you try and retool via the draft and mid-tier free agency?