BakoSaint

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profoo...y-cut-for-2025

Apparently Derek Carr has preemptively refused to take a pay cut. Apparently in his delusional mind he is worth the same salary as Aaron Judge in 2025 and LeBron James in 2026, and his family could not survive on only $25-30 million a year so if its not $40-50 million he will take nothing. He is ever so generously willing to restructure, which will would kick the can down the road and make him more expensive to cut in 2026, likely garnering him $50 million then too, and which is especially generous considering the ability to restructure is typically written in to NFL contracts, results in him getting the same money earlier with more protection, and likely does not require his permission.

I think the Saints should cut Carr no matter what it takes. We can restructure many others, have no additions, and make room to take the cap hit. It is impossible to win in the NFL with a mediocre player refusing to play for anything less than elite money as the leader of the team, putting his bank account before accountability. It is also spitting in the face of all the higher performing veterans on the team who did agree to take pay cuts in the past like Davis, Mathieu, Ram, and Kamara.

The fact is that there is no precedent for a QB who hasn't won a single playoff game by the age of 34 going on to win a ring. Sometimes Carr can be an average NFL QB in the regular season, maybe sometimes even slightly above average, his best games typically coming against the worst teams like the Panthers and Cowboys this year, but even if we had the team to bring him to the playoffs, which we clearly don't, all he would be in the playoffs is basically the 40 year old virgin. We are better off going to the playoffs with a young inexperienced QB who doesn't have the 500lb Gorilla on their back of the ghosts of past failure. And in the long run it would save the team a lot of money to move on from Carr now and stop kicking the can on the salary cap.