by Mario Mergola | Oct 30, 2024
What a weird week. I won’t call it “bad,” but it wasn’t necessarily good either. It was, in a word, weird. Of course, the main story of last week’s set of games was the wild Hail Mary that not only gave Washington the win, but cost us a...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 23, 2024
I feel like I am writing the same opening paragraphs at the same time of year one season after another. It’s amazing how the script is followed so closely. We are the point of the season where favorites and teams that are perceived to be ‘better’ are...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 16, 2024
I wrote about it in last week’s introduction, and I hate that it came to fruition. Still, it is the nature of the beast. We are at the point of the season where teams break away from their trends. In doing so, some simply make it too easy for people to pick them...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 9, 2024
Every year, we go through certain trends together. In the beginning, we can lean on underdogs and outdated perceptions carried over from the prior year. Then, we shift into what we are actually seeing in front of us but with an understanding that we still have teams...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 2, 2024
I specifically mention this in one of the picks in this column, but I should be fair to my love of overreaction and when we can find it. The answer is: always. There’s always a time for someone to overreact to what we watched in the National Football league,...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 25, 2024
It was only natural. I led last week’s column praising how wonderful Week 2 is on a yearly basis, and it turned into Week 3 being on the losing side. Barely. And that’s obviously a good thing. I write about regression all the time, and the key is to let it...
