Brees renegotiates

[Waldo]

I'm kind of surprised we are not trying to trade for him. Half kidding. 

I swear it's like NO cheats with their cap. Maybe he just keeps unretiring and pushing some dead cap back every year. Or they make him a minimum player every year and just don't activate him. 

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, Mr. Scot said:

Here's how I understand the logic behind it...

Brees knows he's not going to get paid either way because he's retiring, so his salary being on the books only affects the Saints negatively with no benefit..

To fix this, he reduces his salary to league minimum. The Saints can't get entirely away from his contract, but this does a lot to lessen the impact of it.

And the Saints can definitely use the cap relief.

This^

[SizzleBuzz]

24 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

 

Cut, paste...rinse, repeat.  LOL.

[SmokinwithWilly]

Hey Teddy...

[NJPanthers89]

Brees is getting paid the same money he’s owed, the Saints are just spreading out the cap hit so they can get more space this year. This basically confirms retirement.. the question now is will they have enough cap room to sign Winston if another team gets involved, or will Taysom be the guy.  For our sake I hope they pay Jameis lol 

[musicman]

why couldn't we have done that with Luke in his base salary?

[ForJimmy]

Brees isn’t coming back. If he does, he would actually be their weakness at this stage in his career.

[Jon Snow]

1 hour ago, musicman said:

why couldn't we have done that with Luke in his base salary?

Marty.

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, musicman said:

why couldn't we have done that with Luke in his base salary?

Because it's just eternally kicking the can down the road. 

[jbland]

12 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Here's how I understand the logic behind it...

Brees knows he's not going to get paid either way because he's retiring, so his salary being on the books only affects the Saints negatively with no benefit..

To fix this, he reduces his salary to league minimum. The Saints can't get entirely away from his contract, but this does a lot to lessen the impact of it.

It's a "team player" sort of thing, and the Saints can definitely use the cap relief.

Well said. 

[PhillyB]

12 hours ago, Waldo said:

I'm kind of surprised we are not trying to trade for him. Half kidding. 

I swear it's like NO cheats with their cap. Maybe he just keeps unretiring and pushing some dead cap back every year. Or they make him a minimum player every year and just don't activate him. 

i think they just don't have marty hurney running their books

[SmokinwithWilly]

I think in order to renegotiate a contract and have that salary cap figure count, a player should have to be on the active roster the following season. 

[Snake]

Why the fug didn't Luke do that. Hurndog gonna hurney I guess. 

[Scott12345]

We scream about the Saints cap all the time and they seem to get around it all the time

maybe since we actually have a GM that knows what he is doing, we can do that