Why does this team lack creativity?

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(03-11-2017, 09:14 AM)Gamma Ray Tan Wrote: The Bengals have not cut Jones, Maualuga, or Peko.......Any competent organization would have cut them Day 1. to free up money to get better. Bengals keep these losers around because they are cheap and are nice guys....Performance be damned. This season will be bad. We will witness the return of the BUNGLES. Time for the fans to act, yet again, to garner some resemblance of change from Mike Brown. No money  from me this year.

The reason the Bengals have not cut Pat Sims, Jones, or Maualuga yet is because they are averse to risk.
I think Sims, Maualuga, and/or Jones will follow the same path that BJGE and Tate did. They will stay on the roster more as insurance in case of injury or lack of performance from others.
If no big injuries happen and the others show enough, there is a decent chance these players could get cut.

The problem with this is it occupies the available cap space since a team must stay under the cap throughout the entire offseason. And by staying under the cap, I mean the top 53 contracts must not exceed the cap.

If the Bengals would cut a declining player like Maualuga or troubled (and declining?) player like Jones, it would have freed up cap space to likely be able to retain Whitworth.
But instead, we have to sit through an entire offseason hoping that everyone stays healthy enough that these players can be cut. That money will then be used toward extensions of upcoming FAs and/or rolled over at the end of the season.

TL;DR - Aversion to risk is why this team lacks creativity.