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re: Saints are embracing a "soft reset"
Posted on 5/2/24 at 5:54 pm to Handsome Pete
Posted on 5/2/24 at 5:54 pm to Handsome Pete
It's become clear to me that a hard rest or traditional "tanking" rarely works. The teams with the best Superbowl odds next season are the 49ers, Chiefs, Ravens, Bengals, Lions, Bills, Cowboys, and Eagles. Only the Bengals got there by tanking. Have to draft well. Need good coaching (though I'm side-eying Dallas and Philly). But you should always be trying to win, even if you'll never get a top 10 pick. Heck, the Rams spit on your 1st round picks. If your team is ready, you can always trade down for a QB like Buffalo and KC did. Or get one later like the Ravens, Eagles, or Dallas. Main thing is to have a legit team around him to maximize his potential early (and take advantage of the cap savings).
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Posted on 5/9/24 at 9:34 am to David Bowman
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It's become clear to me that a hard rest or traditional "tanking" rarely works.
In the context of how it gets used on this board, the purpose of the tank wouldn't necessarily be to get high draft picks to "quickly" build to a SB. The tank is to dump these overextended contracts, so the cap is more manageable. The high draft picks would be a byproduct.
Saints are roughly $70M over next year's cap. 6% of the cap is already designated to MT & Winston. If they trade Latt, you can probably count on your dead cap being 13% of the cap. What if Ram retires? Carr, AK & Cam are expected to count for 36% of the 2025 contract. A reset needs to happen, and it has to be a soft one that drags for a few years because of how bad these contracts are.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 12:06 pm to David Bowman
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The teams with the best Superbowl odds next season are the 49ers, Chiefs, Ravens, Bengals, Lions, Bills, Cowboys, and Eagles. Only the Bengals got there by tanking.
Lions finished last four years in a row from 2018-2021. Never won more than 6 games. That feels like tanking.
Chiefs, ravens, bengals, cowboys, eagles, bills, 49ers all drafted their QB, and lions traded theirs away to a team going all in to win a SB
That seems to be the lesson to me. You need to draft your QB solution, or go get a QB if you have a true win now roster (see rams with Stafford and what Vikings tried with Cousins). Finding a QB any other way is very rare and difficult. We simply struck lighting with acquiring Brees how we did.
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