re: Examining disastrous depths of the Saints' irresponsible salary cap management

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Anyway you look at it, this team won't compete realistically for a playoff spot for at least another two years. That's based off of Drew still being able to perform at the same level he's performing now

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I'm trying to look at it from anyway possible and I just don't see it. This year is a realignment year, cut a whole bunch of fat leaving a desolate young team. We have a massive cap space off season coming up. 2017 will be the make or break year for the front office. If the upwards trend doesn't continue through 2017, I'll be right with you calling for heads. Stop being short sighted.

We were dominating game 1 until we lost the one player everyone was in consensus as the guy who "cant get hurt" other than drew in breaux bc we had nothing behind him. Game 2, the d gave up 0 td's and we lose bc of a block fg td return. The sky is not falling.

I'd say all things considered, if we are looking solely at the way the cap has been handled beyond the actual personnel decisions which loomis probably has 20-30% of control over; Loomis has done an unbelievable job, considering our hindsight list of wrong decisions is 10 pages long and we are STILL going into a massive purchasing offseason. I can't hate on the way the teams been run for the last year (The only decision I wasn't on board with before we saw how it panned out was probably cj, just didn't see need, but I still thought he'd be productive in this O); it was the 2 years before that where we dug a massive hole, and then gallettes dumbass exclamation pointed it.

I'd say that Carolina game in dec of '14 was the absolute low mark for this regime. The franchise is trending upwards now, it's kind of hard to make a u-turn in a season in this league.