SmashMouth

voodooido

With 3 qb’s within 3 years of being drafted, I would assume this means Carr is a post June 1st cut. I’m not sure if this is correct, but I’ve see it would save roughly 2 million against the cap. If he is sitting anyway, we might as well cut and roll with the young bucks

BakoSaint

Cutting Carr would save nothing. His 2025 salary was fully restructured meaning everything but the vet minimum $1.25m was cut as a check to him in March and can’t be clawed back unless he quits. And that $1.25m wouldnt really be saved unless we went through the season with a 52 man roster because another player making minimum salary would replace him. Instead, cutting Carr would represent an 8 figure massive financial windfall to Carr who could sign with another team for between $10-25 million and keep all but $1.25m of his Saints salary. This model of rewarding holdouts who feign mysterious aches and pains with restructures that guarantee their contract and them a cut that lets them double up signing elsewhere would lead to other Saints doing the same to double their salaries and play for rivals. The best thing to do with Carr is to hold him on the roster until late August 2026, possibly on IR, and lock him out of the building. He has no new non-minimal salary or guaranteed until week 1 2026 so if we hold him until late august 2026 he cant cash in elsewhere and his actions will have consequences. Even the threat of doing this could force Carr to come to the negotiating table. For example, wanting to a find a new team in March 2026 or sooner, he could agree to a trade with favorable terms for the Saints like agreeing to reduce his 2026 salary for a trade partner or he could agree to reduce his 2026 salary to the vet minimum in return for the Saints declaring him a post-june-1 cut in march 2026, which will improve the immediate cap savings for the saints compared to if they declared him a post-june-1 cut in march 2026 with his $50m salary on the books in which case it would not come off the books until june.

AsylumGuido

Rugby Saint II

I lost my love for Derek Carr. The Raiders apparently knew what they were doing when they benched him. I'm done and ready to move on. Go Shough!

SmashMouth

If he no shows for Saints mandatories, fine his balls off.