Cool story bro... like I said, fans don't understand football finances or team building.
Mahomes didn't sign his contract until 2020. Guess what the Chiefs did? The first two years of that contract (2020, 2021) they pushed the majority of his cap debt down the road. It doesn't mean that money disappears, it means it accrues.
What did the Chiefs do in 2022 when Mahomes first big cap hit was due, oh yeah, they traded Tyreek Hill and signed cheaper offensive linemen.
Here's Mahome's cap hits on his new contract and how they increase:
2020: 5.3M
2021: 7.4M
2022: 35.8M
2023: 37.1M
2024: 57.4M
2025: 60.9M
And it keeps going up and up... this entire time Mahomes has been one of the highest paid players in the league, his cap hit wasn't.
Cap debt doesn't disappear. You can move it around, pay it off in interesting and inventive ways, but there is no tax shelter for cap debt.
Yeah, the 2020 Patriots could have signed Brady or anyone they wanted, all they had to do was keep borrowing... which is how they ended up with the 3rd most dead cap in the NFL entering the 2020 offseason... and oh yeah, the team around Brady would have sucked royally.
You think 43 year old Brady wanted to suck for a season and get the snot kicked out of him so the team could pay off their debts and rebuild?
Just absurd... learn how the cap works and you learn how teams are built.