This is straight from Jerry's mouth and is exactly what some of us have been saying the last few weeks. They're basically sacrificing 2024 to try to set themselves up with a better cap situation from 2025 onward:
“What we doing here can hit the next five years because it can impact us that far,” Jones said. “So you’ve got some real, real decisions. We have huge amounts of money that hit our cap for dollars we’ve spent on players for either a period of time when they played or the player himself that won’t be here in the future. We won’t be getting an ounce out of them in 2024.”