Derek Carr won’t take a pay cut for 2025 but willing to restructure to help the cap

[Domeination]

If it keeps him here longer then please no. Nothing against him but he’s not taking us to the promised land and he isn’t the future imo.

But but but he's put it on tape, for goodness sake!

 

[SWJJ]

Not arguing that. But how many more games do you think you'd win with Carr at $30M vs. one of those others at say $10M?

If the answer is "not enough to make the playoffs" (which would be a fair projection based off Carr's history), then why not save some money and get in better position to acquire a difference maker at the position in 2026?

Minshew went 2-7 as a starter threw 9 TDs and 10 Interceptions with the raiders this year
Carr is 14-13 as a starter with 40TDs and 13 Ints as a Saint


Cutting Carr to sign Minshew is about the dumbest thing a GM could do and would merit getting himself fired.

 

[WNSaints]

The Broncos set the new bar when they released Russell Wilson after two seasons. They absorbed a massive dead cap number.

Will the Saints do something similar with Carr?

Was Carr healthy enough to play the final two games but the Saints sat him to protect themselves against his 30mil roster bonus that’s due in March?

 

[Stalwart385]

There are ways to cut Carr outright and still get under but it would painful to a degree. You'd have to restructure nearly everyone on a 2nd contract, convince some older players to take pay cuts to stay, and cut some under performers. And you get some of that cap space back once Carr signs with another team because of offsets so theoretically you could convert salary to option bonuses for most of your restructures that don't kick in until the beginning of the season. By that time Carr would have signed with another team giving some room for the options.

Which defeats the whole purpose of rebuilding. You do that if your only purpose is getting rid of Carr. Everything else is fine but him. It's not realistic.

 

[Jd101]

He's kind of in the position to stand his ground as the Saints aren't in the position to cut him.

Yeah. But I would address everything but ol and make him earn every penny

 

[SaintsMan209]

I'd role with Spencer Rattler. Can you imagine another year of Derek Carr press conferences?

 

[SuperSaint]

The future QB of this franchise, isnt on the roster. Most of the future of this franchise isnt on the roster. But theres a whole lotta past on the roster. So it makes no sense to restructure and kick more of the past into the future. Let him play in 25, then send him packing.

I sense though, Loomis is going to do just that. He wont be able to resist the restructure. Mash his head, and the future of the franchise against the wall over and over again until he gets a different result. But the results, just keep getting worse. We are in a terrible position as a franchise with Loomis as the GM.



Misleading. He lost against the Rams, the only team with a winning record he played with Carr. He beat 3 teams that finished a combined 14-37.

That is the same old story. 3 straight years we beat some terrible teams late and it provides some misleading excuses.

We still didnt beat anyone we shouldnt have. There was no difference between Rizzi and Allen, outside of the yelling. We still beat bad teams, and lost to decent teams. No change. And interims rarely (3 times) get the full time job. You definitely dont give a guy who was 3-5 the permanent HC position.

I agree Rizzi won't get the job unless everybody else turns them down, and the only thing that was accomplished by firing DA was to torpedo the defense.

 

[Jd101]

Kicking the can further down the road. No. No. No.

Agree.

 

[ASaintFerLife]

I say let him play this year and cut in 26/27. his cap savings post June 1st are massive, 50 million. If we cut him what do we have to lure a good HC to the Saints?

 

[Jd101]

I'd role with Spencer Rattler. Can you imagine another year of Derek Carr press conferences?

Make Carr 2nd string, start Rattler.

 

[St. Widge]

Not arguing that. But how many more games do you think you'd win with Carr at $30M vs. one of those others at say $10M?

If the answer is "not enough to make the playoffs" (which would be a fair projection based off Carr's history), then why not save some money and get in better position to acquire a difference maker at the position in 2026?

This is more or less where I am. Carr is getting paid around his level, but that's a lot of money to pay when you aren't a playoff team and need to rebuild most of your roster. I'd rather wish on a cheap young guy with potential than stick with Carr who is a solid top 15 QB when healthy, but isn't likely to be able to get this team into the playoffs. He likely could get several other teams to the playoffs and might be worth it to them, but IMO he isn't worth it to this team that needs to rebuild and needs to be looking for the QB of the future.

 

[RaisingTheBar]

I sometimes wonder where we would be today if we kept Dalton one year longer and brought in Kubiak one year sooner.

We’d probably only have had 1 down year instead of 2-3

 

[Judge_Smails]

We’d probably only have had 1 down year instead of 2-3

At a minimum you’d have a more flexible cap situation for the new HC.

 

[RaisingTheBar]

At a minimum you’d have a more flexible cap situation for the new HC.

Exactly. I still don’t think we’re in cap hell and the sky is falling like everyone is saying. But we’re looking at an offseason exactly like last year where we lose some people either cuts or retires and we sign minimum or low cost level players. And then the year after we will have a little bit of dead cap from our contracts we added voided years too then we should be through the worst of it. Loomis must remain steadfast and commit to getting the cap in order and that’s doing the same thing he did last offseason. Which is a big reason why signing someone like Justin Simmons was likely not the right choice for us last year.