by Mario Mergola | Nov 19, 2015
Originally Posted on XNSports It’s hard to ignore it anymore. After weeks of preparing for the imminent swing in action, Week 10 struck suddenly. It wasn’t enough that an unprecedented eleven underdogs beat their respective spreads, but ten won outright. [Enter the...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 12, 2015
Originally Posted on XNSports “Don’t close your eyes, again.” Not only should this be the slogan for the teams that fell hardest in the beautifully laid traps of Week 9, but it should be the single-most prevalent thought entering the encore. For weeks, this column has...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 5, 2015
Originally Posted on XNSports One week following a relatively widespread massacre, the National Football League took some time off. Week 8 featured a relatively balanced mix of outcomes across the board, from favorites and underdogs to ‘obvious’ and ‘trap’ games, and...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 29, 2015
Originally Posted on XNSports The National Football League is in the middle of a reversal. The early part of 2015 featured an odd, but distinct set of outcomes. As a whole, favorites were cruising to victories at an unsustainable rate. Games that would normally be...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 22, 2015
Originally Posted on XNSports It was only a matter of time before the league pulled the rug from under the collective feet of the football-watching world. As detailed in last week’s column, favorites — and, more accurately, ‘popular’ picks — were enjoying an...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 15, 2015
Originally Posted on XNSports Something strange is happening in the early part of the 2015 season: teams are playing to their expected level of production. Considering each National Football League season contains only sixteen games, the sample size for a particular...
