Exactly. This is a USATODAY article. We have better cap analysis on this board.
They chose "20 players" to fit a headline. Does anyone care that we're paying 160k to DaMarcus Fields? Or 120k to Lucas Krull? That's part of the regular churn of the bottom of the roster.
As you said, this article is really about carrying 12m in dead money for Armstead, 12m for Brees, and 3m apiece for Jenkins and Winston. Which is a justifiable course of events and not out of line with the rest of the league.