We made it! The playoffs are five days away …
• April combine, anyone? The NFL recently released at least a chunk of the hotel blocks it had set for Indianapolis in late February, which is setting up as a potential precursor for the event to be pushed back. Further complicating matters is that the NCAA is bubbling its men’s basketball tournament in and around Indianapolis, which takes most of March off the table as an option. If the NFL does move the combine back into April, there’s been some discussion (though the league, I’m told, has been resistant as of now) of moving the draft back to accommodate the pre-draft run-up.