by Mario Mergola | Feb 7, 2025
I cracked my knuckles, pulled up an absurd amount of tabs on an already-packed browser, and starting researching. Looking for numbers, trend, anything that could help. In the end, I was able to pull together various fragments of information to form one coherent...
by Mario Mergola | Feb 3, 2025
I always write about the football-watching world and how it collectively views a set of games — or, in this case, a single game — because that can serve as a baseline. Heading into the Conference Championships, the general feeling about the pair of games...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 23, 2025
That was better. After a disappointing start to the postseason, everything turned around last week. It was a nice way to head into the home stretch, but we do have to acknowledge one situation: the spreads were eerily accurate last week. And they weren’t only...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 16, 2025
I always love the start of a new postseason. That doesn’t mean it will always love us. Unfortunately, we stumbled out of the gate. Unlike the teams, themselves, however, we aren’t done yet. We have the opportunity to recover and continue improving on a...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 9, 2025
The end of any given regular season always hits hard. I’m sure I’ve written about this in the past, but it’s because I spend so much time moving through games that, when the amount of matchups is cut in half — and then some — it’s...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 9, 2025
It’s always nice to have big weeks throughout the season, but it was a pleasant change-of-pace to avoid the big loss on a consistent basis. We slowly and steadily moved through the year and never really had a massive setback from which we needed to return. In...
