If there’s anything the NFL has learned over the past month, it’s that technology is only as perfect as the people who are in charge of it. That probably explains why the Cincinnati Bengals might have been a tad touchy about Monday’s reported “practice draft” malfunction, which left some of the league’s decision-makers sitting in silent frustration when a technology snafu triggered a nearly three-minute delay at the start of the league’s first virtual test run.
“It wasn’t [a Bengals] problem,” a source told Yahoo Sports on Monday. “That should be clear. It was on [the league’s] end.