salary cap hell!

When it's due, you push back the current young contracts. It can be done perpetually. There isn't an inevitable payday. It's actually more efficient to push the money back. There isn't an interest rate, and the cap goes up every year. It's smart money for managing the cap. They need to back off some so they have more flexibility year to year and they don't have to restructure the whole team. I think they will once some of those covid contracts clear. But it's not a doomed strategy overall, it's a good one.
It's a terrible strategy when you have an older, slightly above average roster with a mediocre non-franchise Qb. There's zero reason to keep doing it in our current situation.