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Connie Carberg's Experience With Jets Underscores Massive Pressures of NFL Scouting

Imagine scouting all the players in this year's draft.

Now imagine doing it without computers.

The NFL draft is a cottage industry these days, but back when the NFL draft wasn't even televised, former New York Jets scout Connie Carberg was watching reel-to-reel film of college prospects

Go to DraftBreakdown and search for video of any draft prospect you desire; there's a good chance you'll be able to find entire games to watch what that player can do on the field.

Carberg wasn't so lucky.

"They hadn't even gotten the computers into the college scouting department by the time I left in 1981," she told Boston.