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albionmoonlight · 02-28-2022, 08:25 AM

The Saints at the end of Brees' career are a good parallel. You can push cap problems into the future. The Saints had an aging HOF QB. They did the right thing by paying him and keeping a core around him by pushing the cap hits into the future with extensions and bonuses.

The Packers should totally do the same.

It didn't "work "for the Saints in that they did not win a Super Bowl. But it did "work" in that they were a top seed during the end of Brees' window. A few random bounces here and there, and they could have won a Super Bowl. And, yeah, I expect the next few years for the Saints to be painful. But it was still worth taking that chance.

In a diluted NFC, the Packers would be stupid (IMO) to not go YOLO and (1) pay Rogers, (2) keep the core around him, and (3) plan a bottom-out reset where they eat an NFL-record in dead money in, like, 2025 or something.

02-28-2022, 08:25 AM	#333
albionmoonlight Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: North Carolina	The Saints at the end of Brees' career are a good parallel. You can push cap problems into the future. The Saints had an aging HOF QB. They did the right thing by paying him and keeping a core around him by pushing the cap hits into the future with extensions and bonuses. The Packers should totally do the same. It didn't "work "for the Saints in that they did not win a Super Bowl. But it did "work" in that they were a top seed during the end of Brees' window. A few random bounces here and there, and they could have won a Super Bowl. And, yeah, I expect the next few years for the Saints to be painful. But it was still worth taking that chance. In a diluted NFC, the Packers would be stupid (IMO) to not go YOLO and (1) pay Rogers, (2) keep the core around him, and (3) plan a bottom-out reset where they eat an NFL-record in dead money in, like, 2025 or something. Last edited by albionmoonlight : 02-28-2022 at 08:26 AM.