Time for NFL to be proactive before it’s too late

INDIANAPOLIS — Members of the NFL’s competition committee spent the past three days at the scouting combine conducting long meetings at a downtown Indianapolis hotel, focused in part on trying to figure out whether there’s a way for the league to solve the mini-crisis that has engulfed the sport

As the NFC playoff tree comes into shape, there’s a theory making the rounds that perhaps the team on track for the No. 3 seed would prefer to drop a spot. The Rams, if they win on Sunday against the 49ers or if the Saints lose to the Buccaneers, will be the No. 3 seed. [ more]