re: 2024 Saint and beyond (Cap and contractors)

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Unfortunately this is the way for the next several years even if their intent was simply to fix the contracts and get in a more manageable cap situation. As you point out, they are 70M+ over the cap next year (includes a $20M cap increase over 2023) and they only have 42 players under contract. So not only do they need to shave the $70M to get under, they also need to figure out how to add another 11 active players and 6-10 PS guys.

Plus, they are already starting 2025 $35M+ over the cap, and that roster only has 37 players.

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This is my point.

Is there a way to bite the bullet and play out these contract or (Because they are so deep in the cap hell) do they have to continue to restructure not good contracts into terrible contracts that further this nightmare.

Can they trade valuable assets and kick in picks to get teams to eat some of this dead money? Seems to me they are caught in a whirlpool and its may eventually drag the whole team under.

Has a team ever fail to get under the cap? I( mean financially there was not way to cut, trade or restructure their way out of it?