You're demonstrating my point. The Chargers decided they needed to do those things rather than kick the can down the road (unless you assume Ekeler and Allen weren't worth keeping.
Possibly the Saints are doing things my way rather than yours hahaha. It that "purging" thing that I'm referring to as the stupid way to go.
Dolphins: can't keep them by restructuring? or deciding not to?
The Bears are another form of a bad example - not pushing the cap and thus being losers, although arguably they would be losers anyway because they just naturally still suck hahahaha.
True about not paying not good talent, but the converse is the point: if you're smart, you DO pay good talent - you find a way, cap be damned.