Buffalo Bills Week 14: Buffalo (10-2) at LA Rams (6-6), 12/8, 4:25 PM, Fox

[Reddawg]

I decided to not accept the offer and went to college and played hockey. It's a tough life. Even the on-the-road scouts have it tough. Sure, they get paid to watch football games. But it's up early traveling, checking backgrounds, watching practices, etc from July to January. Then they are at the Senior Bowl, Combine, and working to prepare draft boards. And as soon as the draft is over, they are off to spring practices. They get some downtime between the spring practices and the start of summer football camps for colleges. But they have meetings in July to set the prospect lists, etc.

Lots of traveling, lots of hotels. It's a grind.

Yeah, you’d have to love it. Kind of like working at PF Chang’s, if you’re not into lettuce wraps it probably wouldn’t be for you.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[K8fool]

This LA game will be our first true test more than Detroit, after the division win.

cocky , focused , many young kids in LA etc coming off a win , our win , that refocused LA on winning the division or being out .

if they lose to us they play the 49ers in 4 days and could be out behind cards and Seattle

 

[K8fool]

This LA game will be our first true test more than Detroit, after the division win.

cocky , focused , many young kids in LA etc coming off a win , our win , that refocused LA on winning the division or being out .

if they lose to us they play the 49ers in 4 days and could be out behind cards and Seattle

another playoff game milano and Von really played well in the last game so it will be attrition to rebirth to ? for both .


w Josh , liked his presser so should be very interesting

 

[NotABadPeriod]

This is the league that gave Gronkowski what, 2 games for body slamming Tre White? And we expected something severe for this?

 

[buffa dud]

3 game suspension! Too much, too little, or just right?

3 games lost to suspension is a 17% paycut right around the holidays. I probably would have hit him harder, but I'm sure the CBA might have something to say about it.

 

[Djp]

It's a real thing. When I interned in the Bills scouting department, I was offered to come on as a paid scout. But the hours of the paid scouts who worked in the building were 5am to 8pm, and they all lived in a small apartment. Two in bunk beds in one room, two in beds in another, and the 5th on a pull-out couch. They had pizza every night for dinner. And they rarely had a day off, working almost every weekend and some holidays.

We see the top people (head coach, GM, coordinators, etc) and think that life is grand. But there's an army of scouts and coaches behind them. The Bills had five younger scouts in their at-home scouting department in 1994-95 who did nothing but prepare the sent in reports, adjust boards, review compatibility rankings, run mock drafts, compile prospect mean-median-range stats, etc. Those guys were looking at a decade of grinding before the Bills would put them on the road as scout.

Coaching was not much different. Same type of hours and same type of grind.

Hyde being a known players might have an easier path to coaching than others who would bypass steps in path to coaching

How many of the Bill's scouts were based err elsewhere outside of buffalo? Somr scouts just work a few states in the SE thus they are based at a central poin zdx?

 

[Der Jaeger]

Hyde being a known players might have an easier path to coaching than others who would bypass steps in path to coaching

How many of the Bill's scouts were based err elsewhere outside of buffalo? Somr scouts just work a few states in the SE thus they are based at a central poin zdx?

There were about 12-15 traveling scouts plus the national scout. The did have areas, but most lived in Buffalo as their home.

 

[ValJamesDuex]

The Fitz scream on Cook's long TD was great!