Singing that same old wrong

THE ONE thing we can admire most about Mike

Francesa is his indefatigable, self-delusional megalomania. He never tires of being authoritatively yet colossally wrong while pretending — as if we don’t know better — that he is always right.

Naturally, he knows more, from the inside to the out, about the NFL draft than any mere mortal.

This year he provided expert analysis on the red-flagged urine analysis of star Michigan defensive back Jabrill Pep- pers. Francesa, of course, had no idea what he was puffing about, again presenting bad guesswork as fact.

He also had Florida State’s Dalvin Cook as a first-five pick and the first running back selected. Later, he slightly backed off that tout when he “learned” Cook is considered a behavioral risk.

Of course, Francesa, Mr. Inside Expert, was the last to “learn” this. It is an old story. Cook became a risk when he was first arrested at age 14.

Cook, Thursday night, was not even chosen in the first round.

Still, Francesa pretends to know that you don’t know.

He reported that his sources told him Teddy

Bridgewater was the “sleeper” quarterback of the 2013 draft — when Bridgewater, after his freshman year at Louis- ville, wasn’t even eligible for that draft.

But Francesa’s inside sources often seem fictional, fabricated — or lifted from newspapers and the Internet.

Following the 2010 arrest of Lawrence Taylor for soliciting sex with a 16-year-old in Ramapo, N.Y., Francesa, who thought Ramapo was in New Jersey, claimed to be in touch with the case’s New Jersey police investi- gators in the New Jersey police department. That’s right, he had non-existent inside sources. Again.

Before the 2015 draft, he said, with great authority, that he knows Titans’ coach Ken Whisenhunt so well that there is no way he will draft Oregon QB Marcus Mariota — Whisenhunt, said Francesa, won’t draft “a short” QB.

The Titans chose Mariota, who is 6-foot-4.