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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
Can you explain how the Saints can sign someone in the 30-35 million a year range when they are like 60 million over the cap? It seems like the Saints are always grossly over the cap, but they still seem to sign big ticket FA every year.
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From what I gather, mostly through Nick Underhill, the Saints are just very heavy into (a) backloading contracts with big no-guaranteed base salary numbers, that eventually serve to make a future year look terrifying cap-wise, but then (b) renegotiating away a lot of the non-guaranteed numbers into more workable but guaranteed numbers as the contracts progress.
But yes they seem to start in cap hell every year and rarely look like they are suffering from it.