re: Congrats Loomis

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Trading Lattimore for a draft pick is an excellent way to start that process

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We're trading him because of his attitude and I'll be shocked if we get more than a 3rd. That's not a rebuild move.

I was fine with using Latt as a long-term ATM for the most part. Same with Ram. And theoretically, if we have to get rid of both, 2025 would be incredibly terrible but we would, again theoretically, have lots of positive movement on our cap.

The problem is that 2025's dead cap looks so terrible that we will have to do unthinkable things like extend Carr, Hill, Mathieu, etc. Older players we need to be shedding.

An efficient, intelligent cap rebuild would have targeted these older, overpriced assets first in order to keep the Latt and Rams. However, due to our strategy, we may have to do the opposite. I understand Latt and Ram possibly having to be moved isn't due to cap issues, but I specifically brought up this scenario when we signed Carr.