I have to blame the accounting people. I had no problem with Carr's contract as it was written when he signed it. It was 4 years $150mil with $60 mil fully guaranteed at signing. But they knew they were going to have to restructure and guarantee him more money the following year. The accountants added the guaranteed $ in void years, not the football people. If we couldn't afford him without doing that, we shouldn't have done it and that falls at the feet of the GM.
And to be clear, I'm not calling for the cap to be completely "healthy" as you say. I just don't want to be sitting at 32nd every year with more than double the amount to shed than the 31st team. If we were cruising around the bottom 10 all the time, fine. But we are 32nd by a large margin every single year.
And I hear you on the football judgement thing. But DA was stuck with Paytons players and the next coach will be stuck with DA's players. That's not the way to run a team.