salary cap hell!

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.
If you are of the opinion we should gut the team and all our player contracts are bad I can't see eye-to-eye with that argument. You have to look at it over the life of the contract, not in the instance of 1 year. The older player's contracts will eventually ballon but that is when Olave or someone else's new contract is only accounting for like 1% of the cap, because they push that one back too. Over the life of those contracts, they have less impact on the cap by pushing them back.