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Do I? No. But then again, there are also other factors we need to take into account,such as injuries.
Either way, If he plays til he is 39 or not, if he is out the door by 40 or 41 then we are still taking on $6m in dead cap space each year, and that is what the article is talking about. We are in a never ending cycle of salary cap hell. The salary cap goes up, and thats great, but we are still not working with a full deck of cards as we are weighted down by contracts of players no longer on our team. This isn't new, kicking the can down the road is something we are familiar with, but when its the end of the line we are going to be in a bad spot (which is what the article is talking about).
Like I said, win, and this isn't talked about. Lose, and you are a HBS case study about what not to do in football management.
And it's ridiculously stupid for these writers to pretend like the Saints aren't doing something 31 other teams wouldn't do to keep Brees. Every player in the league who has a big contract is at risk of getting hurt and handing the team dead money. You can't just stop signing players to multi-year deals because of that.
We are not kicking the can down the road. We are making the only (and smart) possible financial decision to keep our best choice at QB, by far.
$6m-$12m in dead money 3-4 years from now is nothing (that assumes he only plays 3 more years). It's irrelevant to a team's success and it's a price every team would pay to get Drew Brees an additional 3 years.