Saints Cap Moves: Derek Carr restructured, Erik McCoy restructured; J. Williams released; cap space is at -$8,543,537 (58 Viewers)

[TonyV]

Gonna a be a busy weekend at saints HQ

I'm waiting, gotta wonder if they gonna be sleeping in the HQ lol excited for some more news!

 

[Chuck McGill Esq.]

I concur and yet if the Titanic has hit the iceberg and it's going down (7 game losing streak) removing the captain of the ship is an unnecessary gut punch. You should allow the captain the dignity to go down w/ the ship, not remove him so another person can come in and make everyone feel comfortable about a still sinking ship. Or in Rizzi's case...just slow down the sinking. He was never going to surmount the injuries anymore than Allen would have.

I know everyone absolutely wanted and needed something to happen in that moment but Allen would have been fired end of season regardless.

Still think it was an emotional decision spearheaded by Mrs B that ultimately did nothing in the grand scheme of things except satisfy the blood lust people had for Allen in that moment.

I disagree. It was a chance to give Rizzi a look at head coach and we actually had a chance at the playoffs in our crappy division. The players were fed up and done with DA. Firing him showed them that their owner cared about their input. And if Loomis was left to his own devices I believe he keeps DA another year using injuries as the excuse and citing the first two games as an example of how great DA was without the injuries.

I also don’t think DA earned the “dignity” of going down with the ship as he brushed off any personal accountability for his failures. He showed little dignity or honor in his leadership. Captains are relieved of command quite commonly for failures. Many times in some of the worst moments for the ship.

 

[Chuck McGill Esq.]

Mickey always has/had a plan. Cant see how people don’t understand this. It may not fall in line with how they perceive business should be done, but this is Mickey’s wheelhouse. He just hasn’t shown us that he can flip the script for this next era

Is a bad plan better than no plan?

 

[SweetT]

Is a bad plan better than no plan?

It is actually when it comes to numbers and salary.

 

[Geldo]

Negative, Ghost Rider. Just because he had an outlier 2023 doesn't mean he was one of the best RBs in the league. He scored more TDs that year than he has the rest of his career. He was a career 4.0 ypc RB when he got to NOLA, which makes him below average. One year doesn't make him one of the best backs in the league when the five previous seasons told us a very different story.

Not sure the 4.0 ypc avg is a totally accurate measure of a short yardage specialist ‘s ability to be honest. Pierre Thomas’ greatest ever run for us was a one yarder for instance.
It didn’t work out for Williams but as usual he was another guy whose skill set we didn’t fully utilise.

 

[SonOfNOLA]

 

[Merl]

Not surprised at all

 

[soggymoss84]

Geno Smith contract likely killed any hope of him taking a paycut

 

[TruSaint]

Can someone explain this to me like my IQ is 90ish?

 

[soggymoss84]

Can someone explain this to me like my IQ is 90ish?

Other teams are starting to pay mid QB’s 50 million a year so Carr thinks he’s worth the 40 million and refused to take a paycut. It was easier to restructure him and take the hit next season than to cut him this season.

 

[RaisingTheBar]

Where’s everyone that was giving me bc I said he wasn’t taking a pay cut lol

 

[MRIGuy]

Can someone explain this to me like my IQ is 90ish?

We kicked the can to the next Parish

 

[RaginSaint93]

 

[St. Geezy]

Can someone explain this to me like my IQ is 90ish?

Sounds like they wanted to do something more complex but ultimately settled on just the standard max restructure.

Maybe they thought they made leeway on a paycut or something incentive laden, but in the end whatever it was fell through.

 

[Darth Deuce]

Where’s everyone that was giving me bc I said he wasn’t taking a pay cut lol