Watson moving to Vegas should set off about a 100 neighborhood crime watch apps.
MilkmanDanimal wrote:Paleocon wrote:I wonder how far away the Great New Orleans Fire Sale is considering their current situation. They aren't going anywhere and they really are looking at cap Armageddon in 2025.
They've been in constantly progressing Cap Hell for years, and it gets worse every year. Armageddon happens when Mickey Loomis is tired of being GM; if they blow the team up, the owners might actually realize all the damage he's done. The Saints will keep kicking the can down the road until he's gone.
They are nearly $88M over the cap in 2025 and that is with a whole lot of void year magic already.
Those void years are what makes it hard for the Saints to fire sale, because trading triggers the void years and accelerates them to the current/next cap. There's a couple players they could sell - like Marshon Lattimore - but a lot of options would be tough.
Like, they're in a position where there's a bunch of guys where they technically could afford to trade them (ie. the cap space gained would exceed the cap space lost from accelerated bonus money), but the problem is that the cap savings from that in 2025 would be substantially less than restructuring the same player would be.
For example: if they traded Ryan Ramczyk, they'd free up about $6 million on the 2025 cap. But they could free up more like $16 million from restructuring his 2025 base salary instead. The latter option of course means they're still paying that $16 million, just on future caps, whereas they would get it off the books if they traded. But $16m > $6m, and they have to clear $81m of space in 2025, so choosing the smaller number is often not going to be an option, even if it would be much cap-healthier in the long term.
They're in so deep that the only way out is to push things out even further and just gradually cap inflate their way out.
Ramczyk has a degenerative knee condition and will likely never play again, and he restructured this offseason. If he retired he'd destroy their cap with the accelerated hit, so he did the team a favor and restructured to push his salary to future years. He's a perfect example of why their cap is so screwed.
Well, him and Taysom.
I think they are holding out for a player strike and an uncapped year to dump all the player salaries into. Lol
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