Raiders “Al” in to Prove Experts Dumb

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Published: April 26, 2009

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... strategizing, all NFL teams selections are at best, best guesses on the future.

The NFL and ESPN convert the entertainment value of professional football and this spring rite frenzy for new blood into big dollars.

To justify their expensive productions of a glorified job fair, the NFL and ESPN enlist "experts" to market players, evaluate and comment on picks the only way they can, subjectively. 

In all forms of gambling, the NFL draft included, the main elements are risk and payoff.  The NFL draft is televised for the same reasons poker is, and on the same channel. For NFL owners and GMs the gamble involves real money and real consequences, but network experts only have their marginal reputations at stake. 

After all, if Charlie Casserly, Michael Lombardi and Mike Mayock were actually so good at evaluating talent for NFL teams, they'd still have real jobs, instead of peddling their "knowledge" as sales hacks for th...

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