Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season”

guillermo said

I don't assume players over 26 can't live up to their cap number.

What I am saying is that if are focusing mid and long term, we should concentrate on players around 26 years old.

I would not be signing or extending players that will not justify their salary by their play. We all love Cam and Taysom and Demario but their current salary reflect more what they have done than what they will do on the future.

I have different priorities than Loomis right now.

We may be close to win the division, but we are not even close to compete for a Super Bowl.

My main focus should be latter, and in order to do so, I would rejuvenate the team, thinking on having a players reaching their prime at the time we will be able to compete for a championship, and that won't happen in 2025 or 2026.

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I mean they signed Reid who just turned 28 and Young who is about to be 26. I guess Johnson is a little older than I would like, but they didn't have many other options at TE. It's not like they went out and signed a bunch of 33 and 34 year-old players.

And they didn't extend Cam, Taysom, Mathieu, or Demario. Only Demario got the standard restructure which did not extend his deal. And not only did Cam, Taysom, and Mathieu not get extensions, but two of them took pay cuts and Hill is likely to as well.

And again, winning the division is just the first step toward becoming a great team and eventually winning the Super Bowl again. You can't just skip the steps in the middle unless you get lucky and get a franchise QB. And even then, the Bengals and Joe Burrow are the ever gold example of tearing it down and tanking working, but the one year they got to the Super Bowl, they went 10-7 in the regular season which is only one win better than they have had the last two years when they didn't even make the playoffs.