re: Bradycap freindly deal, Peyton takes 4 million pay cut, Drew.........

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Saints should be doing it this year actually. We don't save anything but the saints decided not to

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I'm going to take a stab at this without knowing all the details of his contract.


First, the organization decided not to restructure his deal this year, not Brees. So the OP is a bit off by blaming DB. The reason for them doing this? I think it's due to their ability to get well below the cap with the deals they are restructuring currently. If they do Brees now, that will help even more so; however, where will that leave us next year? Most likely we won't have many restructuring options at that time, and we will have some big free agent decisions to be made. They will need Brees' contract to be restructured next year in order to get below next year's cap. Doing it this year will give us no flexibility in '16.

I could be wrong on all of this, but again I don't know all the contracts of the players and their details. This is the most logical reason based on my current knowledge.