hagan714

Byrd injury history is a solid reason not to redo this contract and back load it any further. We need room in the tub for other players. He is hang out and snapping towels with his team mates for way too long now.

dead vs cap
2016 $10,900,000 $17,400,000 We be stuck

Now cutting Byrd gives us cap relief
2017 $11,700,000 $8,000,000
2018 $12,200,000 $4,600,000
2019 $10,200,000 $1,200,000

With his history why in the world would not look at this as his option year?

I watched him a ton in the northeast and warned all the people going gaga over him that the Pats always wanted him locked into coverage and not allowed to roam free. That was the game plan to neutralize him.

Byrd needs a SS with coverage skills to free him up to roam. In order to free up a SS to maximize Byrds skill set you need CB that can cover one on one. The saints still have not added a SS to help the guy out back there. The Kenny and Byrd marriage was a match doomed to fail before the ink dried on the deal.

Also Byrd came from the AFC East. Every team in the AFC East has a revolving door at the QBs locker, except the Pats. So INT came easy and often with such bad QB play year in and year out in the division.

So this is why I hated the contract and all the media hype surrounding him. Then to watch Rob do little or nothing to make this signing work as best as he could simple amazed me to the point of making me physically sick.

So once again I am beating the draft drum for FS/SS/CB in the draft. Ones with coverage skill of an above average CB with bad hips and yet have tackling skill of a LB but just not the build. Jalen Ramsey is a dream pick to solve the issues with Byrd but so was Deone Bucannon at 27 in 2014. I still would take Deon over Cook to this day. Which was my pick at 27 for the saints.

So my only hope is in Dennis Allen to correct this glaring level of personnel stupidity that ranks up there with some of the saints greatest bone head moves in history. It is a good year for FS/SS/CB types this year so there is hope. The talent level is so good and deep it flows over into UDFA. Unless it turns into a record year for the number of FS/SS/CB taken in a draft. The first 3 rounds have enough talent to get a player with a solid chance of starting at SS and/or replacing Bryd at FS all together. anyways...

Till the saints do something to plug this crippling cap situation they created and have done absolutely nothing to make it work, I can not see a valid reason to paint yourself any further into a hole with him by redoing his contract.

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins