SmashMouth

The New Orleans Saints are still over a week away from potentially filling their head coach spot, and we expect that will come together quickly following the Super Bowl. It looks like Kellen Moore is the favorite, but nothing is obviously set in stone.

Whoever the team ultimately hires has their work cut out for them, while most of the decisions will be made in the front office by GM Mickey Loomis and company.

While it’s become a common yearly tradition of getting under the salary cap for New Orleans, it hasn’t produced any winning results for the Saints. That’s where the criticism is valid for the front office, because what good is all of the restructuring when all you can muster up is no playoffs and then turn in 5 wins?

There’s many decisions the Saints are going to have to make on their biggest players, and we’re looking at the Top 10 salary cap hits that are facing New Orleans right now.

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saintsfan1976

I am less and less concerned about the cap.

We're not contending in 2025. Let the bad contracts expire.

In '26 we're $20M under and in '27 we're $220M under.

Kinda feels like we could even sign Miles Garrett if we really wanted to

BakoSaint

Its highly misleading to claim we are under or ever will be under the 2026 or 2027 caps without explaining first how we will get under the 2025 cap. Typically Mickey Loomis gets under the current cap by restructuring contracts to kick the can to future caps, so it would not at all be surprising if we are $50-100 million over the 2026 cap by the start of preseason. We have to change our ways to ever not be over a cap and to put the post-brees nightmare behind us.