Bill Barnwell with ESPN has released his NFL Offseason NFC Teams Superlatives and he listed the New Orleans Saints as the “Most likely to be dragged into the future.”

This feels hurtful but also somewhat true. Every year, we hear that the Saints are going to be in cap hell forever... that they’ve got negative cap space... they’re $547 million over the cap, they can’t do anything. Then, every year like clockwork, Mickey Loomis waves his magic wand over some contracts, everybody gets paid, all of a sudden, Saints have room under the cap. Now, I won’t pretend know how all salary cap magic goes. My knowledge extends to knowing that they usually push the money to future years and I’ve always been curious why other GMs don’t do this, because if you always push the money to the future, you n

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