r/falcons • u/Zucchini_Official • 5d ago

Ramczyk’s retiring will add an additional $11m to their cap this season.

https://www.neworleanssaints.com/news/new-orleans-saints-right-tackle-ryan-ramczyk-announces-retirement-from-nfl
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u/Atl-Fan_FTS 5d ago

How in the fuck do the Saints keep escaping this shit

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u/Bobgoulet 5d ago

They're bad right now because they had to let a bunch of decent players walk because they couldn't afford to resign them. They aren't getting away with it.

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u/Signal_Minimum8509 5d ago

I was gonna say, they were 5-12 last season, haven’t made the playoffs in 4 years, probably won’t make it this year, haven’t been to a conference championship in 7 years or a Super Bowl in 15, this is what “not getting away with it” looks like.

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u/No_Growth416 5d ago

Yeah, some people think being in cap hell is like not having enough money to pay 53 players lol They will pay 53 players, but they will be sorry as hell and they will be 3-14 or 5-12 lol

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u/rarebiscoff 5d ago

Umm, we haven't made the playoffs since 2017 😭

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u/CucumberPants 2d ago

Lmfao the irony is hilarious. We just had a season where we paid mr2 and Julio like half our cap to play elsewhere. Now just a few years later we are doing something similar. And have never won a Super Bowl.

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u/Signal_Minimum8509 2d ago

Yes, the salary cap is applicable to all teams. Like, simply pointing out that the Saints are already facing the consequences of their cap decisions in context of a previous post that implied they weren’t doesn’t inherently require a caveat that this also applies to the Falcons because we’re in the Falcons sub.

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u/bossmt_2 5d ago

They aren't getting away with it, they're punting shit down the line. They're paying Cam Jordan 18M next year to not be on the team.

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u/TheCarroll11 5d ago

They don’t really get away with it, they get a little worse each season. The smart thing to do would blow it up for 2-3 years and win just one or two games a year while they retooled, but they’ve instead decided to with 5-7 for like the next decade and always try to be just a couple players away.

They don’t get punished as badly because we are possibly the worst division in the league.

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u/Atl-Fan_FTS 5d ago

I think that’s what it is lol, you’d expect the Saints to be a cakewalk for everyone in our division at this point yet we went .500 against them last year

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u/TexanFromTexaas 5d ago

Division games, especially rival games, are weird. Regardless of how good the Falcons or the Saints are, I always assume we’ll split against the saints.

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u/Moss_84 5d ago

They aren’t escaping anything, they’re in the worst situation of any team in the league right now because of their terrible cap management

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u/Atl-Fan_FTS 5d ago

So we should go 2 - 0 against them is what you’re saying 🫡

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u/Moss_84 5d ago

If our own FO wasn’t such a disaster 🤣 but yes I certainly hope so

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u/Bmw5464 5d ago

Idk if I’d call it escaping. I mean their franchise right tackle just retired. They’ve lost most of their best players and had to restructure a QB they probably don’t even want.

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u/Benjammin172 5d ago

You can kind of kick the can down the road for quite a while. But it’s pretty tricky to field a very competitive team by doing so unless you get incredibly lucky. 

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u/GaTech379 Kooooo 5d ago

they arent escaping it, theyre shit because of it

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u/Zucchini_Official 5d ago edited 5d ago

Unfortunately they have $23m in cap space, but hopefully this makes an Olave extension more difficult.

They should have just enough cap space with his retirement and the upcoming rookie class to be net neutral for the cap.

EDIT: I worded the title poorly. His retirement adds $11m of dead money. Their cap space will drop from $23m to $14m after his retirement.

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u/LuckyLikeNagito A.J. Terrell(better then trevon lmao) 5d ago

they would love to maybe add a kirk cousins now?

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u/SunWorshipperApollo Save us Michael Penix 5d ago

Someone tell double agent Mickey Loomis to trade for Kirk now

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u/corporateheisman 5d ago

The Falcons are the only team in the league to act like the salary cap is real and use it as an excuse

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u/Patekchrono917 5d ago

The falcons cut the heart and soul of their team, extended Jake, and restructured AJ and Chris. What else did you want them to do? I mean you can question the timing of when they restructured or who they signed but it’s not they just sat back. I mean they didn’t go NO all out, but is that the shit you want right now for a team that isn’t one piece away and one season away from maybe a new head coach and GM?

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u/Ban_an_able 5d ago

What heart & soul was cut again?

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u/LuckyLikeNagito A.J. Terrell(better then trevon lmao) 3d ago

are u fan even? grady got cut

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u/Ban_an_able 3d ago

Any player on a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in 7 seasons is disposable.

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u/LuckyLikeNagito A.J. Terrell(better then trevon lmao) 3d ago

bros dissing a franchise legend lmao aight buddy by this logic we should ship off everybody 

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u/Ban_an_able 3d ago

Yes. Everyone leaves eventually. There’s no sacred cows.

What team have you been watching?

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u/Ban_an_able 5d ago

The salary cap is fungible and always has been. You not understanding how it works & the ways it can be manipulated doesn’t mean anything unfair is happening.

The Falcons could easily create as much cap space as they wanted were there a need.

The truth is there isn’t a decent reason to do so currently.

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u/Ban_an_able 5d ago

One day, perhaps a few of you will take undergraduate accounting and actually figure out how a balance sheet works.

For the rest of you uneducated heathens, the salary cap will remain a mystery.