Andrew: Hello and welcome to Scramble for the Ball, where the regular-season finish line is in sight. With the traditional holiday season comes the traditional portion of our season: our weekly article topics are generally similar from year to year, with what goes where dictated largely by our (well, Bryan's) travel arrangements.
Bryan: I'm in enough hot soup for ducking out to watch at least six windows of games over the holidays! Besides, there's too much to talk about in December and not enough time to talk about it all, anyway. It's a good thing for us that the playoff picture crystalized as much as it did this last weekend, allowing us to do our usual look at playoff teams' needs and weaknesses with two weeks left to go.