re: Saints restructure Cam and Demario

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On older players you will screw yourself into dead money on, yes it is.

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the cap is going to go up so much that either we won't need to cut guys for cap reasons (so dead money never comes up) or we can literally cut everyone and their dead money will be absorbed by the jump. then we'd have like $100M in cap room the next year or some crazy shite

this is the ideal time to kick as much cap equity down the road a few years because each cap dollar is worth a whole hell of a lot more today than it will be in 2022 and onward

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Williams they are going to try and lock up long term. Hendrickson is gone. Lattimore should be traded. I'll stand on that hill.

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100% agree.

Williams has gotten better every year.

Lattimore doesn't deserve top money for both his inconsistent play and also starting the season out of shape.

Hendrickson...he's earned it and I'm happy for him, but all the signs are pointing toward his being a free agent bust for some team.

I know you don’t want them to extend Lattimore but it’s very likely. They can extend him and push his cap hit, which I think is around $9mil? into later years and make him play at like $4mil this year.

I know he’s been inconsistent but he’s still by far the best corner we’ve had in years here. And considering how hard it’s been for us to develop and keep good defensive backs, Williams and Lattimore become important pieces whereas guys like Hendrickson become expendable because that’s a position, at least while Nielsen is here, we can develop consistently good players at.

I think both Latt and Ram get extended to lock them up and push their cap hits down the road.


ETA: the only player that worries me as far as kicking the cap can down the road is Jordan. I hope last year was an anomaly and he proves his worth again but man he looked rough a lot. Having him eating up so much dead money would make it hard to let him go even with the cap jump. Plus he’s going to be an important locker room piece for the new generation.

I'm hoping we can somehow keep Lattimore, Ramczyk, & re-sign Marcus Williams.

I think that's why we're trying to trade players like Emmanuel Sanders, Latavius Murray, & Malcom Brown. I love these 3 players, but when you're in cap hell...you have to get create space while keeping your younger players on the roster. They're in the future plans...not the old guys. They probably feel like Armstead, Cam Jordan, & Janoris Jenkins are the old guys to gamble on due to the fact that we can't easily replace them.

Emmanuel Sanders & Latavius Murray aren't in our future plans due to their age & position. They should be looked at as more of a luxury compared to the younger players. We also have capable backups at the WR & RB positions as well.

Malcom Brown is trade bait b/c he makes a decent amount of money for a run stuffing DT. We have Shy Tuttle under contract & you can usually find a run stuffing DT for pretty cheap in F.A. or mid rounds of the draft (we got Tyeler Davison in the 5th round).