Nick Underhill explains how we can clear 80 Million cap space with no casualties

he also literally says that its not that we are not in cap hell.

The casualties will be those free agents the Saints will be underable to resign and/or sign.

Just watched the video & these are all the transactions that he mentioned

Base Salaries converted to Singing Bonus

-Lattimore - 9.1 mil - saves 7.3 mil

-Ramczyk - 10.5 mil - saves 8.4 mil

-Mike Thomas - 15.35 mil - saves 10.2 mil

-Cam Jordan - 13.6 mil - saves 9.1 mil

-Demario Davis - 7.5 mil - saves 5 mil

-Onyemata - 7.5 mil - saves 3.8 mil

-Andrus Peat - 10.85 mil - saves 7.2 mil

-Bradley Roby - 9.5 mil - saves 7.1 mil

Roster Bonus converted to Singing Bonus

-Lattimore - 15 mil - saves 12 mil

-Ramczyk - 8.5 mil - saves 6.8 mil

-Kamara - 6 mil - saves 4.5 mil

-Taysom Hill - 9 mil - saves 7.2 mil

Three more cap #'s that might also need to be lowered

-Davenport - Playing on his 5th year extension. Has a base salary of 9.553 mil

-Malcolm Jenkins - Has 2 years left on his contract & he's already 34. I think the smart thing is to assume that 2022 will be his last year of legit play, & probably going to be cut in 2023.

Converting his 6.75 mil base salary into a signing bonus would save us about 3 mil, but it would also raise the dead money for 2023. That would make cutting him in 2023 harder to do. Hopefully the FO makes the right decision.

-Lutz - Converting his 3.4 mil base salary into a signing bonus would save us around 1.5 mil, I think

3 possible cuts to save some cap space

-Bradley Roby - Has a cap # of 10.081 mil, with a dead money hit of $0. Cutting him saves 10.081 mil

-Mark Ingram - Has a cap # of 2.211 mil, with a dead money hit of $0. Cutting him saves 2.211 mil. Wouldn't do it unless he loses it next year

-Kpassagnon - Has a cap # of 3.1 mil, with a dead money hit of 400 k. Cutting him saves 2.7 mil. I wouldn't do this though