Brees#1
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Most of this post seems to be addressing things I never even mentioned. I'm not talking about the Saints players, I'm talking about their salary cap mess. So maybe Brees restructures, and that saves you a little space right now, but then you're only pushing your problems further down the road. Frankly they'd probably be better off cutting Brees which would save them $20 million against the cap.
Browner has a cap hit next year of $6.3 million, but if you release him he's got a dead cap hit of $5.35 million, so releasing him doesn't even save the Saints $1 million.
The Saints are going to have to do some serious chopping just to have enough cap room to sign their draft picks. That could mean guys like Colston ($3.2 million savings), Unger ($4.5 million savings), and Hawthorne ($2.25 million savings) are going to either have to renegotiate or get cut (those are the highest paid guys with only one year left, excluding Brees).
Like I said, their best move is probably just moving on from Brees and starting the rebuild, but I doubt they do that.
Of course they aren't gonna do that. The minute Payton stayed was the minute Brees stayed. And if we lost Brees we would take a long time to get back to what we were. Brees can take a pay cut if he has to. He's already said he would be open to it. Pushing problems down the road yes, because without Brees we will be screwed anyway for a couple years so yes they are pushing the inevitable because we are wanting one last run with Brees. There's also Byrd who has done nothing who could go. And Colston might also end up going. Most players unless studs are not even paid a million. Someone like Curry, Barron(complimentary players) will not cost much. And you probably did not know that Kikhaha did not play many snaps under Allen to limit game film awareness. Those rookie defenders will be even better next season.