What should the Saints’ plan be to upgrade at QB?

BakoSaint · 03-04-2023, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido

Any free agent we get, QB or other position, isn't going to be much of a cap hit in 2023. Loomis can easily structure the deals so that the 2023 hits are minimal.

But what happens in 2024? What happens if that QB is a bust and has tons of guaranteed money and even their non-guaranteed money is effectively guaranteed because 'it's cheaper to keep them than cut them' because the 2024 cap hit will be $35 million but the dead money to cut will be $70 million.

We need to get younger. We need to fix the cap. The problem with the cap is not that we can't add one player we really need to add. The problem with the cap is that we are more than one player away, and we can't subtract cancers and dead weight that we really need to cut, because we can't afford to double the cap hit with a cut when we rely on halving it ever season with a restructure that makes the cap hit and dead money even bigger the next season.

My take is that Carr is a good but not great QB. Good but not great QBs often don't maintain their performance in the second half of their careers like many great QBs recently have. Carr to me is a Bledsoe, Brooks, Delhomme, Goff, Dalton, Hasselbeck, Jones, Wentz, Foles, Garappalo, Cousins, Smith, etc. Most of those guys made pro bowls. But many declined in the second half of their careers. At best I feel like Carr is a Matt Ryan, Cam Newton, Philip Rivers type.

03-04-2023, 01:36 PM	#11
BakoSaint 1000 Posts + Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,391	Re: What should the Saints’ plan be to upgrade at QB? Originally Posted by AsylumGuido Any free agent we get, QB or other position, isn't going to be much of a cap hit in 2023. Loomis can easily structure the deals so that the 2023 hits are minimal. But what happens in 2024? What happens if that QB is a bust and has tons of guaranteed money and even their non-guaranteed money is effectively guaranteed because 'it's cheaper to keep them than cut them' because the 2024 cap hit will be $35 million but the dead money to cut will be $70 million. We need to get younger. We need to fix the cap. The problem with the cap is not that we can't add one player we really need to add. The problem with the cap is that we are more than one player away, and we can't subtract cancers and dead weight that we really need to cut, because we can't afford to double the cap hit with a cut when we rely on halving it ever season with a restructure that makes the cap hit and dead money even bigger the next season. My take is that Carr is a good but not great QB. Good but not great QBs often don't maintain their performance in the second half of their careers like many great QBs recently have. Carr to me is a Bledsoe, Brooks, Delhomme, Goff, Dalton, Hasselbeck, Jones, Wentz, Foles, Garappalo, Cousins, Smith, etc. Most of those guys made pro bowls. But many declined in the second half of their careers. At best I feel like Carr is a Matt Ryan, Cam Newton, Philip Rivers type.
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