re: Saints are embracing a "soft reset"

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It's become clear to me that a hard rest or traditional "tanking" rarely works.

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In the context of how it gets used on this board, the purpose of the tank wouldn't necessarily be to get high draft picks to "quickly" build to a SB. The tank is to dump these overextended contracts, so the cap is more manageable. The high draft picks would be a byproduct.

Saints are roughly $70M over next year's cap. 6% of the cap is already designated to MT & Winston. If they trade Latt, you can probably count on your dead cap being 13% of the cap. What if Ram retires? Carr, AK & Cam are expected to count for 36% of the 2025 contract. A reset needs to happen, and it has to be a soft one that drags for a few years because of how bad these contracts are.