voodooido

Trade the entire team and hit the reset button.

AsylumGuido

That reset button could easily cause the Saints' system to take a couple of decades to reboot. I for one am not ready to return to the days of a chance for a playoff berth being farfetched before the first game is played.

voodooido

I lived through the 80’s, 90’s and the early 2000’s. I’d do it again to get out of this cap mess.

AsylumGuido

The cap is a matter of perspective. I personally have no issue with the way Loomis and Khai Harley manage it. It's all founded on sound cost management principles. More and more franchises are beginning to adopt many of those same principles to maximize their assets, as well.

saintfan

Many of what principles? This post doesn't make sense. In fact it looks like you just needed to drop in your .02 but you don't really have anything meaningful to say.

Everything is a matter of perspective. In other words, everything is relative. Keep trying. Who knows? In a few years you might actually have a thought you didn't steal.

By the way, nothing is relative about the speed of light, and nothing is relative about a hard cap number either. Dummy.

C'mon Man...

AsylumGuido

I have a bit more time to explain, voodooido. First of all, the excellent interview below with Khai Harley covers several of the philosophies of cap management that the Saints utilize. He points out how they take advantage of GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) to maximize the cap. He also covers the misconception of "kicking the can down the road".

Secondly, I'll try to give a simple example of that part of their strategy. This utilizes the cost accounting principle of current value versus future value, or the "kicking of the can" referred to above.

In year one we're working with a $100 million dollar cap. Let's assume a 10% annual increase in the cap. In year one a $20M asset counts as (20/100=.20) 20% of the cap.

In year two the cap becomes $110M. That same $20M becomes 20/110=.1818 or 18.18% of the cap.

In year three the cap becomes $121M. That same $20M becomes 20/121=.165 or 16.5% of the cap.

In year four the cap becomes $133.1M. That same $20M becomes 20/133.1=.15 or 15% of the cap.

The cash paid in year one is better accounted for in subsequent periods when it becomes a smaller percentage of the cap. This frees up cap for other assets in all periods. This is the maximization of assets. However, the selling off or trading of assets in a current period negates all of the savings by forcing all future accounting for the costs of those assets into the current period.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

MatthewT

In my younger days, I had a few close encounters in bars. Fortunately, I was usually able to talk my way out of stuff, and if necessary make a run for it out the side door. Thankfully, I identified that nothing good happens in these type of places, and drinking was best done at home. With all the bad examples of issues that have been clearly demonstrated throughout the years, I have no clue why these athletes continue to put themselves in harms way.

mapcow

And the crumble continues.... way to go Alvin. FN idiot. hero to zero.

Budsdrinker

I'll wait to hear any evidence in this case before I comment on Kamara.
The only thing I can say now, is with all Kamara has done for the city and
from what I can see about his character, if he did beat up somebody, that person must have really done something stupid to piss off Kamara enough to fight.

Boston Saint

Just got to wait and see what happens when all the facts are in. Maybe multiple other people were involved. Glad that nobody died and (so far) no guns were found. Wouldn’t be the first NFL guy to have a legal scrape and move on.