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John Madden on why NFL teams don’t know who they’re going to draft

In some ways, NFL teams themselves are no better than draftniks when it comes to correctly predicting which players they’ll take in the first round.

Just ask John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster who says the draft is a complex guessing game disguised as a numbers game.

“You don’t know who you’re gonna take,” the former Raiders coach said Monday morning on his KCBS-740 AM radio show with Steve Bitker and Stan Bunger.