Bill Tobin, working in his fifth decade as an NFL scout, has gone from watching film on bathroom walls to video cutups on iPads, from storing information in loose-leaf binders to iClouds, and from drafting players on weekdays in January to prime-time on the verge of a sweeps month.
“The technology is incredible. We should make (fewer) mistakes, but I’m not sure that we do,” says Tobin, the Bengals’ Midwest scout, in his conversation on the Hobson’s Choice Podcast in the run-up to the April 27-29 draft. “Its humans evaluating humans … there are a lot of variables there.