With the 9th Pick in the 2025 draft, who should the Saints select? (merged) (4 Viewers)

[St. Geezy]

We need to get to (depending upon which website you ask) $52-59MM in cuts just to break even. Which means we'll have to clear out even more, if we want to make any moves.

And if we get to that point, we'll have some significant roster holes to fill, since we'll have had to make some difficult cuts.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's a monumental task. And the situation Loomis has put us in certainly points more to our not being in Win Now than it does to making some roster moves to make it happen.

I’m not guessing. I’ve done the exercise, many have. These are facts I am stating to you.

Whether or not the team elects to do it is another story, but from a pure math standpoint, the statement I made is accurate….we can clear the $50m deficit AND add approximately $40m in cap space if we so choose.

It’s not a “monumental task.” People act like the team hasn’t been aware of exactly where its cap is this whole time or like they’re going to be scrambling to figure out how to get under. These things are all planned out in advance, we just need to turn in the paperwork as to what our intentions are.

Maybe we slow play it like last year and only open up the space we need as we need it, but who knows. The capacity is there though.

 

[AARPSaint]

I agree it makes zero sense to draft a QB with the lackluster prospects of this draft, but I'll add that even if we ARE in win now mode, it still makes no sense because none of the ones in this class could help us do that.
Every one of them is a prospect at best, and IMHO, almost all, if not all, of them will have short starting stints and within a couple of years either be backups or out of the league.

And therefore use this draft to build the pieces around which Carr and his successor can achieve some success. We want to avoid repeating his brother’s fate where he wasn’t provided the tools to succeed (as I understand it). I might be in the minority in believing that Carr can serve for a year or two until we can find a younger replacement. He’s not Heath Shuler.

 

[JackDiesel]

And therefore use this draft to build the pieces around which Carr and his successor can achieve some success. We want to avoid repeating his brother’s fate where he wasn’t provided the tools to succeed (as I understand it). I might be in the minority in believing that Carr can serve for a year or two until we can find a younger replacement. He’s not Heath Shuler.

Judging from the statements Loomis has made this is the path I anticipate him to take.

 

[Painkiller]

I’m not guessing. I’ve done the exercise, many have. These are facts I am stating to you.

Whether or not the team elects to do it is another story, but from a pure math standpoint, the statement I made is accurate….we can clear the $50m deficit AND add approximately $40m in cap space if we so choose.

It’s not a “monumental task.” People act like the team hasn’t been aware of exactly where its cap is this whole time or like they’re going to be scrambling to figure out how to get under. These things are all planned out in advance, we just need to turn in the paperwork as to what our intentions are.

Maybe we slow play it like last year and only open up the space we need as we need it, but who knows. The capacity is there though.

I would need to see the simulated moves you referenced before making any judgement, but I remain skeptical that we can a) make moves which will clear out that $52-59MM cap space; and b) clear out another $40MM in cap space, while c) keeping enough of a competitive core intact so that we can add players via the draft and via FA which would make us contenders (and, hence, put us in Win Now mode).

It sounds like you've seen some of these proposals elsewhere. Mind pointing me to a few of them?

 

[St. Geezy]

I would need to see the simulated moves you referenced before making any judgement, but I remain skeptical that we can a) make moves which will clear out that $52-59MM cap space; and b) clear out another $40MM in cap space, while c) keeping enough of a competitive core intact so that we can add players via the draft and via FA which would make us contenders (and, hence, put us in Win Now mode).

It sounds like you've seen some of these proposals elsewhere. Mind pointing me to a few of them?

I don’t have access to my computer at the moment to where I can break it all down for you, but I’d suggest giving the OTC calculator a try.

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