re: tAthletic Early Power Rankings: Saints come in at #28

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I agree. This is at least in part due to our cap situation.

Restructuring Carr is bad, but I fear we're going to have to do a Cam-style restructure/extension with at least one of Mathieu/Maye/Davis. The only one still productive is Davis, and it's unlikely he can keep it up much longer. Being forced to keep them beyond their expiration date (like we are with Cam) is just terrible. Prevents improvement.

There are plenty of talent issues, though.

Somehow, after years of investing top-3 round picks, our OL and DL need a lot of talent injections.

We're possibly losing our 2 best players, and #3 is a RB who will be 29 when the season starts.

We have a QB with intelligence issues who has shown a history of taking a long time to learn new playbooks, about to learn a new playbook that's supposed to be one of the more complex ones in the NFL. The last time he had to do this (last year in LV), it was such a disaster the team shut down their QB1.