The best way to win it all is to spend all your present money, a bunch of future money, and maybe some rolled over past money all once to to field a team that would cost $50 million over the cap on present money alone, all timed to when your draft talent and QB are peaking. You cannot do this if you don't roll over any money from the past and you don't have all your present money because you are already spending it years ahead even when you are not that close to a championship. We almost snuck into the playoffs but we would have quickly been shown the door if we did. We had no receivers and big questions at QB and are losing half of our top free agents and gaining nobody of consequence. Cap management is cyclic. Unless you have a HOF QB you do probably have to borrow against future salary caps with deferred money to win, but you can't borrow every year, or else you are not really able to outspend competitors, you are just borrowing to pay your own debts and not being able to get a competitive advantage. We need to bite the bullet now and take some cap hits so that in the future, when we have more of the pieces to contend as a two dimensional team not a good defense that lacks QB, receivers, TE, etc, we can go on a true spending spree then. We should take the cap space we have now and use it to cut Andrus Peat or trade him to the Atlanta Falcons. Brees last season was the end of our window. We can mortgage the future to remain about 9-8 and hope to sneak into the playoffs, or we can clean up our salary cap so that when we do have another window we can actually add a lot of key players not just have to to make 15 restructuring moved to tread water and only lose 2 starters.