It isn't just ellerbe, but we were already like 3rd in the league, but his dead money should push us to #1

But like I said, cutting Ellerbe actually pushes us into the top half of the league in cap space. Why worry so much about the dead money? It isn't your money and it's not keeping us bereft of talent.

Because it is 65,000,000 dollars of wasted money which has led us to 7-9 and less talent. Stop pretending that 65,000,000 in two years hasn't hurt us.

I don't think it has. Injuries have been the cause. We still sign any player we really want unless there's a bidding war in which case you can't win 'em all.

Of course it has. It was why we couldnt sign a guard last year even though we needed one. It was why we lacked depth last year in our secondary. Injuries are going to happen this year too. Matter of fact we have already lost two starters and we haven't even put pads on. The only way to handle that is depth. We have better depth this year, I think, but of course it has handcuffed us. If not then why did we end up 7-9?

The Patriots played four games without their starting qb and had a better record than we did through four games. The lost the best tight end in the league as well and won the super bowl. Of course 65 mil is a problem

We could have had all the cap space in the world last year but when you have your top SIX CB's end on the IR you are likely going to have the league's worst pass defense. There wasn't anyone available that all the money in the world could get.

And you keep throwing out this $65 million figure. This isn't the past. Dead money is not an issue THIS year nor will it be an issue anytime in the future. The Saints had four major bad personnel situations that accounted for 90% of that dead cap. In the past. Deal with it. Move on. It is pointless to continue to dwell on something that is no longer an issue at all.

And if it weren't for dead money we could have had better depth at CB. Who knows, Had we the cap space we probably would have had different and better players there to begin with. Payton has said we need to get better at CB for years. ONE reason we haven't is dead money.

And if it weren't for dead money we could have had better depth at CB. Who knows, Had we the cap space we probably would have had different and better players there to begin with. Payton has said we need to get better at CB for years. ONE reason we haven't is dead money.