Speculation Pat Kirwan thinks Aaron Glenn will be next Saints head coach (3 Viewers)

[Rexman100]

We have been hearing that this is the end point for many years now. At some point people will realize that the future is infinite. It doesn’t matter, at least not to the degree people make it out to be.

A Derek Carr restructure, and a Cam and RR retirement with a June 1 designation puts us at the cap number…it’s that simple. We can create more than $100 million in cap space this off-season if we so choose. Stop freaking out about what a single upcoming accounting year looks like and focus on what the next several years looks like.

Now if you were to tell me we are projected to be $70 million-plus over the cap for the next five seasons, then at that point it would be time to freak out.

The cap is not a one year prism. It is a multi-year accounting project in which new years are constantly being added to the back end of it and can not only be extracted from, but you are allowed to be way over the cap in those future years, always.

It’s an endless loop with endless ways to extract from those future years whenever you need to. You do have to be responsible with it and plan with great foresight, and your team won’t get some sort of unheard of advantage from it…my point is you can accomplish the same things with how we do it that other teams do, and other teams are just as restricted as we are from making certain moves, just with different window dressing and optics because they are more focused on keeping their single year cap outlook healthy where as we are looking to keep our five year outlook healthy and easy to manipulate.

A Derek Carr restructure, which we will do, locks us into him as the starter for the next three years or so. He’s a decent QB, but is he that good? I think at this point, a team without a head coach, needs to be flexible at the Qb1 position. Otherwise, when we hire a new HC, are we going to say, you better like Carr, because he’s your QB. Is that even fair to the new head coach? But I know, we have no other restructure options besides Carr. How can we get under the cap without restructuring Carr?

 

[latechsaint26]

A Derek Carr restructure, which we will do, locks us into him as the starter for the next three years or so. He’s a decent QB, but is he that good? I think at this point, a team without a head coach, needs to be flexible at the Qb1 position. Otherwise, when we hire a new HC, are we going to say, you better like Carr, because he’s your QB. Is that even fair to the new head coach? But I know, we have no other restructure options besides Carr. How can we get under the cap without restructuring Carr?

Several ways to answer this:

1) Who else was and is available that is a proven quality starter? How much does he cost and what do better options cost? Is the difference that much?

2) He was the top rated QB in the league when he got hurt. He lost two games to Philly and ATL where he scored in final minute. He’s done a lot more good for this team than bad. He’s a very good fit in this offense with the deep ball play action. Do you remember before he got here and we didn’t have the ability to have a functional 2 minute offense?

3) If you want to tank. There’s an about a 20% chance or less we will hit on a star QB. There’s a lot bigger than that we will plummet into a decade of coaching carousels.

 

[Rexman100]

Several ways to answer this:

1) Who else was and is available that is a proven quality starter? How much does he cost and what do better options cost? Is the difference that much?

2) He was the top rated QB in the league when he got hurt. He lost two games to Philly and ATL where he scored in final minute. He’s done a lot more good for this team than bad. He’s a very good fit in this offense with the deep ball play action. Do you remember before he got here and we didn’t have the ability to have a functional 2 minute offense?

3) If you want to tank. There’s an about a 20% chance or less we will hit on a star QB. There’s a lot bigger than that we will plummet into a decade of coaching carousels.

I’m not talking about going back in time. I liked the Carr signing. But I don’t want a restructure QB1, because it pre-determines our future by handcuffing a new coach. If we had Drew Brees, restructuring him at this time would be a no brainer, because any potential new coach would be all for it.

 

[Judge_Smails]

Several ways to answer this:

1) Who else was and is available that is a proven quality starter? How much does he cost and what do better options cost? Is the difference that much?

2) He was the top rated QB in the league when he got hurt. He lost two games to Philly and ATL where he scored in final minute. He’s done a lot more good for this team than bad. He’s a very good fit in this offense with the deep ball play action. Do you remember before he got here and we didn’t have the ability to have a functional 2 minute offense?

3) If you want to tank. There’s an about a 20% chance or less we will hit on a star QB. There’s a lot bigger than that we will plummet into a decade of coaching carousels.

Strike 3, you’re out.

You still didn’t address the most basic premise of his post.