Now and later

[OldhamA]

10 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Remember talking about all that cap space we were gonna have next season?

Remember how it was mentioned that we said the same thing last season?

What we don't spend this year rolls over to next year, no?

[unicar15]

9 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Wtf is fitt doing?

The same thing everyone else is doing. Signing short term deals for replaceable players and extending the guys who aren’t. The Saints manipulated their cap by almost $100mil and could have signed the most expensive QB in the league. 

[OldhamA]

3 hours ago, stbugs said:

How are we getting 10-15 more players? We’ve got 1 pick before pick 137 this year. How many contributors do you think we’ll get this year? You know why so many of the 11 picks we had this year made the team? We were devoid of talent and depth. Sure, we could add 20 UDFAs, cut Shaq and Anderson and be absolutely fine cap wise.

No one in here is saying we can’t manage the cap but it’s delusional to think we’ll have a team to compete if we cut Shaq and add an UDFA.

We better hope our drafts starting knocking it out of the park. That’s the only way we can right this ship. We don’t have enough extra cap to really enhance this roster through FA with a bunch of 1 year deals. We aren’t the Rams or NO with Brees. We are a level or two below that. 

On the flip side, Thompson wasn't contributing until this new coaching staff came in.

[Mr. Scot]

15 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

What we don't spend this year rolls over to next year, no?

Once you factor in the draft pool and money set aside for the season, it's only about 9 or 10 million really available, and that number only counts the top 51.

We won't have anywhere near as much by years end.

[pantherj]

3 hours ago, panthers55 said:

Fitterer was in Seattle when they found Wilson. He did have some culpability with Darnold but I suspect it was largely Rhule who made that decision given Fitt was pretty new at that point.

I'm hoping that is the case.

[ECHornet]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

Once you factor in the draft pool and money set aside for the season, it's only about 9 or 10 million really available, and that number only counts the top 51.

We won't have anywhere near as much by years end.

Are you just ignoring all of the suggested moves in this thread that could save 10s of millions in cap space?

Edited March 31, 2022 by ECHornet

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, ECHornet said:

Are you just ignoring all of the suggested moves in this thread that could save add 10s of millions in cap space?

Until they happen, it's all theoretical.

[panthers55]

3 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Fitt, Rhule and Tepper don't understand how things fell apart, can't understand they are making it worse and can only dig the hole deeper as they flail about trying to make whatever it is they are doing work.

We can get rid of two of the guys at any time and restart. We can't, however, get rid of that horse's ass that bought the team.

A lot of folks have been like "Fitt's the man, he'll get this straightened out, he's not worse than Marty was." Guess what? He's not made things better, he's gotten us into cap space hell even faster than Hurney did and has no idea what he is doing.

And Dan Morgan? Sheesh, the guy was just the fourth best middle linebacker that ever played for the team, but I don't know where everyone thinks he's going to be the guy to save the franchise behind the scenes. 

What a frikkin' train wreck.

I think you may be a little extreme in your analysis. Fitterer had an excellent draft last year and got good players despite trading back for more picks. His free agent pickups last year were hit and miss with no real disasters other than Darnold.  I also think with no evidence to prove it that Rhule was the man last year personnel wise and Fitterer did whatever Rhule wanted. Then Fitterer brings in Morgan for his pro scouting ability to help with free agency and we got solid additions and starters this year. Fitterer is a first time GM and is learning on the fly. But he has good football sense and came from a successful program.

[The Natural]

Well, poo.... Guess we won't be winning the Capbowl next season.

[Luciu5]

Some of y'all aren't very good at even having an opinion. Either that, or some of y'all just like being angry at everything all the time? I don't get why do we as society have to find outrage in everything.

I bet it is the same people that said we would have no cap this offseason. Maybe some people just enjoy being wrong all the time? Idk. I don't get it.

[ichigo1057]

On 3/30/2022 at 10:55 AM, BurnNChinn said:

I agree and I don’t even care about cap space anymore look at Saints. If u want to do something the team will make it happen

Yeah, seriously, if we did nothing then people would have whined, cried, and bitched that "We did nothing this offseason to improve. Wtf is are they doing. Fire (insert name)" and now that we actually do something in FA........ people are still bitching and complaining.