SELECTED BY: TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS Numbers game – Nothing in the NFL ever seems to be easy. Even an innocuous adjustment like the rule change implemented last week that now allows certain players to don a wider variety of numbers. Kansas City brought the proposal forward because fewer numbers were available to certain positions where some teams have fewer to offer due to number retirements and increasing practice squad sizes. So, the NFL now will allow linebackers to wear Nos. 1-59 and 90-99 while defensive backs now can don anything from 1-49. Running backs and wide receivers will also be able to don single digits. Evidently this tweak has threatened to upset the competitive balance of the game – at least based on the response from Tom Brady and perhaps Bill Belichick as well.