We now have the definitive answer to the question posed in the "Anywhere but There" thread.
I’m a little surprised front office guys can be hired during their team’s season. Not that they have a major impact on the team’s game day performance.
I've got to think Daboll goes someplace with a good young QB--that's where he'd be more valuable. If I'm Daboll I might even wait a year rather than take a job where there isn't a good QB,
Yup... This seems almost like an onion article
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/john-mcclain/article/McClain-Why-the-Texans-are-considering-Josh-16794270.php
I actually agree. That’s why I’ve thought Chicago or Jax (but for Baalke) made the most sense. But the NYG should have the opportunity to pick up one of the best QBs in the draft. Willis is probably the closest analogue to Allen.
This interview with Saints owner Gayle Benson makes me thing this may have legs (ie Sean Payton not returning)
If Josh leaves, I’ve been assuming that BoB would be a candidate to come back and run the offense. Already knows the culture, just spent a year with Saban and has a relationship with Mac. Seems like a good fit but haven’t heard or read much about BoB as a possibility.
Reiss said the same in his latest article, but said it wasn't clear if BOB wanted to leave Alabama.
It's definitely in the conversation. The only thing I'd argue is their GM and ownership have pretty good track records of success, and if they're patient that's better than some of the places with slightly better rosters but that are broken organizationally.
The mind boggles that they gave Winston only 1 year while giving Hill all those years/dollars. He's by far the best of the four. Will be interesting to see if/when he's healthy and where he ends up and if he follows Payton in 2023, even if as a backup at least at first. I don't think the retirement is permanent. maybe McCarthy gets one more year to hang himself and he takes over in 2023.
With such a bleak future, the easiest course of action would be to skip the search altogether. Promote either the DC or OC from within. Give him a short money (3 year) deal and let the GM blow the thing up. Lose a lot of games for 2 years, pick up as many 2023-24 draft picks as he can along the way while getting the cap under control. Put Bortles at QB and Hill back at WR which saves $55 million on Hill's contract.
The sad thing is, the Saints can't even hard reset. They're so far over the cap, and the best way to clear space is not to get rid of players but to restructure, again pushing the cap hits into the future and keeping the messy cap for future seasons. They have only one player on the roster they save more than $5 MM cutting per OTC.
They can do it as long as the structure of the individual contracts lets them do it, and they have to do it as long as they're over the cap and the cap situation of the individual contracts dictates they clear more cap space by restructuring than cutting / trading.
They literally cannot. They are $75 MM over the cap. They cannot get under it without restructuring. Go on OTC, go through their contracts, on almost every single one they will get the 2022 cap hit lower by restructuring than they can by cutting.
I think it's a 2 year reset, but they can cut a lot of salary by trading good players for very cheap.
If I am reading OTC correctly, the secret for them getting out of cap hell will be trades, not cuts. But I easily could be misreading that site.
You are reading it correctly, I think.
It’s crazy they have 4 players who make up about 50% of the cap number ($100m) and not one of them is a QB.
Counterpoint. Every year in SF Peter King would have a lot of detailed inside the warroom stories the day after the draft about how Baalke had bamboozled the other teams and had the bestest draft every
