Yesterday, I wrote an article about various NFL execs’ and insiders’ responses to the Bengals’ draft. In summation, the consensus was that the Bengals could have, and should have, done more to move in front of Detroit in the draft and nab Arkansas center Frank Ragnow. Instead of going for the “consensus No. 1 center,” as an insider put it, the Bengals settled for Billy Price. According to the insider, the Bengals’ failure to trade up ahead of the Lions was “an error from a philosophical standpoint”
That phrase caught my eye as I was going over the article, but I didn’t think much of it at the time.