Bengals can quietly open $45 million in cap space without cutting a single player

Jacksonville Jaguars v Cincinnati Bengals | Kara Durrette/GettyImagesTell me if you've heard some iteration of this take before. Ready? "The Cincinnati Bengals really need to get it together and spend more money on players in free agency!"

You, reader, are probably saying, "Tell me something I don't know!" Except what I do know is that Who Dey Heads know ball better than most fanbases across the NFL. That's what happens when you have a quarterback as all-knowing/ball-knowing as Joe Burrow.

As someone who spends way too much time crunching numbers for imagined scenarios that Duke Tobin and the Bengals' key leaders will never execute in a million years, though, I'd like to think the following…