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NFL draft as inexact as breaking down tenths of seconds

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Monday, April 28, 2008

This story has been corrected. Read below NFL coaches, scouts and front-office personnel invest months in preparing for the moment their draft selections are chosen -- more time and effort on a man-hours basis than is invested in assembling game plans -- while sports pundits yak for weeks nonstop about draft strategy. Yet in most cases teams might as well be pulling names from a hat. All the pseudo-science of draft preparation usually goes down the drain, while most public attention is wasted. ...

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