re: Saints are embracing a "soft reset"

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Derek Carr comes out playing really well

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Has a history of starting slow with new offenses, then really starts picking up steam in the backend of the season. Only possibility of this happening is if Kubiak tailors his offense, play calling to something similar to what we ran last year.

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and we can trade him off

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For starters, no trade clause
Then, there is the pesky cap implications. You would be looking at jumping his 2024 cap hit from $12.7M to $22.7M, and your 2025 cap hit drops from $51.5M to $50M. And for that $1.5M in savings, you don't have the chance to adjust the cap hit to get the team under the cap (could be viewed as a good or bad thing)
Finally, who do we roll out for the rest of the year? Peterman, Haener, Mond, Rattler?

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Signing him to a 4 year deal was a disaster, IMO.

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Bringing in Carr for 4 years "could: have been a great move. The issue is the way the contract was structured basically holds the team hostage through 2026, maybe even longer depending on future restructures/extensions to manipulate the cap.