re: Saints are 23.2 million over the cap for 2015

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Yes, Loomis has used loopholes to circumvent these issues in years past but he's done so by pushing off the inevitable to future years. Well, now the future is starting to knock at the door. To continue to brush this off like no big deal reminds me of the government.

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loopholes? you make it sound so illegal.
In reality, 2017 is the year that it might actually do something to bite us.

Lets just say we restructure lofton, graham, galette, and byrd. Saints would be at 139.7mil for 2015, 150.9mil for 2016. Free agents in 2016 that mean something: Cameron Jordan, Akiem Hicks, Nick Toon, Khiry Robinson, Josh Hill, Glenn Foster, Tim Lelito, and Austin Johnson.

That is still with players that are aging that are hitting the cap hard.
Marques Colston (10.5mil cap: 2.7mil dead, 7.8mil savings)
Ben Grubbs (10.3mil cap: 3.0mil dead, 7.3mil savings)
Jahri Evans (10.2mil cap: 1.5mil dead, 8.7mil savings)
Brodrick Bunkley (6.112mil cap: 1.612mil dead, 4.5mil savings)
David Hawthorne (5.51mil cap: 1.51mil dead, 4.0mil savings)

Give it til 2017 and we'll be in bigger trouble.