2021 Cap

Over that cap has us at $247,000,000 with the projected cap at $175,000,000.

However I see a lot of ways to drop
Extend Brees one or two years to push his salary out (could save $25m+)
Resign Lattimore and Ram.
Resign Davis
A few cuts will be needed
Easton
Possibly Armstead if he plays less than 13 games this year

There are moves that can be made.

So let’s say we resign lattimore and ram. Ram is going to get 10-15. Let’s go on the low end and say 10. Lattimore is going to get 15-20. Let’s go on the low end again and say 15. That puts us 100 mill over the cap if we signed both to lower end contracts. There is no way to cut all that without completely destroying the team.

I personally think the nfl would make an exception if this was the chiefs or patriots in that spot. I’m not convinced they would make one for the saints. Hopefully a lot more teams end up in this position

Thanks bud

You so far off bro

I’ve posted this numerous times already. Brees is done and they need to eat that 22 mill so they can get to a better place in the future. The saints will restructure Thomas, Jordan, Peat and turning most of their salaries into signing bonuses. Easton will be cut, Janoris Jenkins may be extended and or cut, Armstead imo is gone (Imo Ram will be the LT Of the future). Then they will extend Lattimore and Ram lowering their cap hit. Those moves alone get us where we need to be.

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Extend Brees one or two years to push his salary out (could save $25m+)

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This requires him to not retire. I think that's at best about 50/50.

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Resign Lattimore and Ram.

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These would technically be extensions since they are already signed. They could go from costing us about $21 mil in cap to maybe around $4-8 mil depending on how creative Loomis gets with future years.

So that would shave at least $10 mil off the cap (but likely more), and despite the people crying over Kamara and not being able to keep both, it is actually imperative to extend both to save cap.

So the one's crying about Kamara and cap room have no idea how it actually works.

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Resign Davis

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Being that he'll be FA and not on the books next year, this will actually cost cap. So in addition to whatever we need to do just to get under the cap, we have to carve out at least $2-4 mil more for him.

Where we will save the most is converting a few base salaries into signing bonuses. I haven't looked at who saves what, but I imagine Jordan, Thomas, and Armstead will save us quite a bit.

And then some guys like Easton and PRob will be on the chopping block.

The bigger issue next year was never extending Ram and Latt (because as said this actually NEEDS to get done to SAVE cap), but whether we can or even want to resign Anzalone, Rankins, and/or Marcus Williams. All 3 are FAs and we'll need to carve out another $2-4 mil each if we want to keep them long term.

Loomis knows what he's doing otherwise he wouldn't have so much faith that it'll work