Saints restructure Ramczyk to vet minimum per Jason Fitzgerald of Over The Cap (12 Viewers)

[SaintRob]

Saints Clear $16.7M in Cap Space | Over the Cap

Saints Clear $16.7M in Cap Space | Over the Cap

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Ramczyk agreed to eliminate his $18 million base salary for 2025 and reduce it to the minimum of $1.255 million. This frees up $16.745 million in cap room, allowing the Saints to carry him on the roster at a $12.33 million cap figure until June 2nd at which point he should likely retire. Prior to this the Saints would have had to carry his cap figure at a $29 million number if they wanted to use the June 1 cut.

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[St. Widge]

Retirement announcement incoming on June 2 or 3.

 

[Covington Saint]

These are the moves nobody predicts yet everyone loves to sky scream about the unsolvable cap issues we have.

 

[Wisco Steve]

Thank you Ram!

 

[St. Widge]

These are the moves nobody predicts yet everyone loves to sky scream about the unsolvable cap issues we have.

I mean, I agree about the over reactions, but most expected this exact move was coming. It's the same thing they did when Brees retired.

 

[Rouxble]

This was one of the more obvious moves that needed to happen, thanks to Ram for making one more contribution to the team on his way out.

 

[Goatman Saint]

Ram is one of those guys I wish had better health. Not only a tremendous player, but has always seemed to be a pretty good guy also.

 

[Madmarsha]

Saints Clear $16.7M in Cap Space | Over the Cap

Saints Clear $16.7M in Cap Space | Over the Cap

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"The New Orleans Saints have begun their annual cleaning of the salary cap ..." Pretty funny, Over the Cap.

 

[Rouxble]

I mean, I agree about the over reactions, but most expected this exact move was coming. It's the same thing they did when Brees retired.

This is the only move that was practically certain, hard to call it unexpected. The uncertainty is around what will be done with Carr’s contract, you could make a case to go either direction there, but that decision will have the biggest impact on how the rest of the veteran contracts are handled.

 

[B4YOU]

This was one of the more obvious moves that needed to happen, thanks to Ram for making one more contribution to the team on his way out.

Yeah. I thought Loomis would pay him 1.2M and PUP list him for 1 more year just to spread the signing bonus over 3 years, 25-27.

Instead it will be dead cap of 11M in 2025 and 12M in 2026.

 

[HouseCall]

These are the moves nobody predicts yet everyone loves to sky scream about the unsolvable cap issues we have.

While I agree with you that Loomis always seems to “work it out”, I have found that most of complaining of fans lately has been about the delicate house of cards nature of this type of cap management and not that he can/can’t get us under the cap.

It’s that the method is contingent on things that are out of his control (the salary cap going up every season) and we have very clear evidence that this method does not provide any sort of advantage and only puts the team at unnecessary risk.

Loomis has said over and over - (paraphrasing) that his plan was working perfectly until the Covid season locked the cap for a season.

So who’s to say that we don’t have some other issue that locks the cap?

Who’s to say that the league doesn’t eventually make a rule that limits voidable years on contracts or limits the percentage of a contract that can be restructured to future seasons?

If any of that happens, the house of cards falls.

And as it stands, we don’t have much talent or depth to show for this voodoo management.

 

[RaginSaint93]

Thank you Ruben Foster for hanging up on the Saints

 

[St.Dan]

The long goodbye for Ram's career begins now, I suppose. He's an easy insertion at RT for all-time Saints team's roster. Maybe not tops on that depth chart, but certainly on the chart.

 

[B4YOU]

This move take us to 50M over the cap. Still lots of work to do for Loomis.

 

[Covington Saint]

While I agree with you that Loomis always seems to “work it out”, I have found that most of complaining of fans lately has been about the delicate house of cards nature of this type of cap management and not that he can/can’t get us under the cap.

It’s that the method is contingent on things that are out of his control (the salary cap going up every season) and we have very clear evidence that this method does not provide any sort of advantage and only puts the team at unnecessary risk.

Loomis has said over and over - (paraphrasing) that his plan was working perfectly until the Covid season locked the cap for a season.

So who’s to say that we don’t have some other issue that locks the cap?

Who’s to say that the league doesn’t eventually make a rule that limits voidable years on contracts or limits the percentage of a contract that can be restructured to future seasons?

If any of that happens, the house of cards falls.

And as it stands, we don’t have much talent or depth to show for this voodoo management.

People take their anger out on the cap but the truth is that its been unforeseen injuries and player dropoffs that has did us in. Injuries will derail any team's plan every year no matter how green a cap looks.

Ramczyk great example.
Cam Jordan fell off the cliff at extension.
Mathieu to a bit of lesser extent.
Interior OL has had injury after injury over the past 3-4 years.