Observations from the Saints win vs FailClowns

BakoSaint · 01-10-2022, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by WW_Who_Dat

What drove our 9-8 season was suspensions displacement COVID and injuries to every unit of this team … not gutting and pushing money down the road. We made some hard choices but we did not gut this team last offseason. Nor did pushing money down the road. Kinda like many companies that work and budget on projects cash flow. Let be realistic and acknowledge that it would have been very hard for any team to have played any better than the Saints did this year with the extent of injury to starters and rotational players.

So being the most over the cap, 62 million, when the next to closest teams and 40 and 13 million over and won their divisions despite themselves having many covid and injury issues, positions us well to improve against teams that have more resources and are already better? And we didnt gut the roster? So our depth at receiver is great? Injuries are not luck, they are made, and our tendency to extend injured players in order to push cap hits down the road and create an excuse not to cut them (we cant because we just signed a deal that makes cutting them cost 50 million) just means we guarantee more ‘bad luck’ in the future.

My top move this offseason would be to cut Michael Thomas post-june-1 and save $16 million. My dream would be to see him on the sideline in a falcons uniform next year fighting calvin ridley and posting cryptic tweets.

01-10-2022, 02:18 PM	#18
BakoSaint 1000 Posts + Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,408	Re: Observations from the Saints win vs FailClowns Originally Posted by WW_Who_Dat What drove our 9-8 season was suspensions displacement COVID and injuries to every unit of this team … not gutting and pushing money down the road. We made some hard choices but we did not gut this team last offseason. Nor did pushing money down the road. Kinda like many companies that work and budget on projects cash flow. Let be realistic and acknowledge that it would have been very hard for any team to have played any better than the Saints did this year with the extent of injury to starters and rotational players. So being the most over the cap, 62 million, when the next to closest teams and 40 and 13 million over and won their divisions despite themselves having many covid and injury issues, positions us well to improve against teams that have more resources and are already better? And we didnt gut the roster? So our depth at receiver is great? Injuries are not luck, they are made, and our tendency to extend injured players in order to push cap hits down the road and create an excuse not to cut them (we cant because we just signed a deal that makes cutting them cost 50 million) just means we guarantee more ‘bad luck’ in the future. My top move this offseason would be to cut Michael Thomas post-june-1 and save $16 million. My dream would be to see him on the sideline in a falcons uniform next year fighting calvin ridley and posting cryptic tweets.
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