It’s basically allowing you in the moment to spread the money out on a fake long term but it is a shorter deal. The player gets all their cash but the team eats dead cash at the end.
But as I get to why did you do nothing to replace pierce. You let a nt that had almost 10 sacks leave and didn’t look to get his replacement. You dumped more responsibility on mads and had no margin for error. Them starting was a self made problem.