re: Per OTC, the Saints are $72.58M over the 2024 cap

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We will be fricked for half a decade at least.

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I just don't think people understand how long it will take to unwind this. It will take a full year of being committed to a rebuild just to get us in a situation where we can start the cap rebuild. That's 2 years, min, but likely more like 3 (or 4 to totally clear up our cap situation).

This is also assuming an outlier event doesn't cause the necessity to start when we don't expect it, which would be lighting a fuse...Ram's knee is that variable potentially. Our entire cap restructuring philosophy is based in extending he and Lattimore for the bulk of our cap relief, but if he has to retire after this season, then we have to eat all that cap we kicked down the road and we lose the flexibility. That would be official "hold onto your butts" season.

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We will be fricked for half a decade at least.

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We won’t be good again for another 15-20 years