Bills Scouts See Reward For Road Work

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http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/columns/bobdicesare/story/329872.html

They’ve been all over the Midwest and the South, evaluating players at not only the big schools, the football schools, but also places like Newberry, Catawba and Mars Hill College, tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, N. C. They’ve gathered information that astounds and it’s all top of mind, not only the heights and weights and times in the 40, but arm length and hand size and presumably caloric intake and rate of burn.

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The planning began last July, at training camp, when the Buffalo Bills scouts huddled to plot their travel strategies. Then in August, player evaluators like Doug Majeski and Tom Roth hit the road, touching home base infrequently right through January. Meetings at One Bills Drive were next, the sharing and assessment of voluminous files chock-full of the mundane and the obscure.

“It’s the best job in the world,” said Roth, a 31-year-old Charlotte, N. C., resident too absorbed with his professional passion to be anything but single. Whereas most Bills scouts spend 10 or 11 straight days on the road, then two at home, Roth went five straight weeks without seeing Charlotte. So much for cultivating a relationship.