How to prevent NFL teams from tanking in the last weeks of the season

[rams80]

BBTV's point is this: More often than not, the division leader usually has less than a 3-game lead entering Week 15.

In those last three games against divisional opponents, the possibility of the division leader losing their lead goes up, as they'll be playing their direct competition for the division championship. Keep in mind...when you're playing divisional games, you're playing the teams that are the most familiar with your game-planning and schemes. All it takes is a loss to a team you should have beaten, and a loss to the team chasing you....and suddenly Week 17 means your season.

Assuming, of course, that you lose to the second place team or the second place team doesn't screw the pooch once in said 3 week time span. Maybe Week 17 could be interdivision, but I really don't like closing out with 3 consecutive division games.*

*It certainly doesn't help to me that the 3 consecutive division games means the Rams will be zipping across half the country every week in the middle of the holiday travel season.