by Mario Mergola | Sep 5, 2016
Like a handful of other teams, the Cleveland Browns are not only perpetual losers, but losers that can realistically be expected to continue producing the same result. It is easy to pencil in a sub-.500 winning percentage year-after-year and find the team rarely...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 5, 2016
The NFC was completely dominated by two teams in 2015 – Arizona and Carolina – yet, surprisingly, only two teams in the conference finished with fewer than six wins. The script is reversed in 2016, as the NFC appears to feature some of the worst squads. Of...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 30, 2016
The cat is out of the bag. Prior to the 2015 season, there were legitimate concerns that Tom Brady would be suspended for some part in the scandal involving deflated footballs. Panic set in. Would the Patriots need to play one-quarter of their season without arguably...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 27, 2016
“They are a complete wild card. They can be anything from 5-11 to 11-5. It all depends on health.” Of course, it depends on health. In a sport where a collective group of grown men share a singular objective of bringing another man to the ground, health is...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 1, 2016
Ben Roethlisberger wants the Steelers to attempt more two-point conversions. Do we? Initially, we shouldn’t. The final score is the singular item that matters to the spread, and breaking the tried-and-true patterns of teams scoring – generally – in...
by Mario Mergola | Feb 4, 2016
Originally Posted at XNSports If the National Football League proves anything year in and year out, it is that one team will almost certainly break every trend. In 2015, said team was clearly the Carolina Panthers. A proverbial thorn in the side of this column week...
