“In scouting you’re seeing the future of a team right in front of you,” [Dennis Abraham, a Bills’ scouting assistant who dreams of one day becoming a full-fledged scout] says. “You get to see the future stars of the NFL, and you’re going to hit or miss on them, that’s the challenge. Everybody can scout the big superstars. But it’s a big challenge to find the Phil Hansens, the House Ballards. That’s how Buffalo really set itself in the early ’90s and late ’80s. It really set itself on that. We have the best scouting staff in the NFL, bar none.”