by Mario Mergola | Oct 18, 2023
What a frustrating set of outcomes. I mentioned it last week — and I refuse to give excuses because this is the nature of the game — but we have seen too many games fall to within a single point of the final spreads. Unfortunately, we have also landed on...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 11, 2023
By this point of the season, we usually start to see some direction for the type of picks that win and lose. Instead, we continue to hover through the year, waiting for a sign. Given what I wrote over the past few weeks, this isn’t too surprising. The spreads...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 4, 2023
Every year around this time, I write the same thing: I can’t believe we are already one-quarter through the season. This is when we start to see teams separate themselves and establish how they want to win games. At least, that’s what we are told. It...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 27, 2023
It’s a shame that Week 3 undid the momentum from Week 2, but it’s also the nature of the numbers. We had two games that lost against-the-spread by a half-point — at least, in this column, where it might have won elsewhere. Such is the nature of...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 20, 2023
I really do wish that every week was Week 2 of the NFL season. Of course, we always want more. More wins. More opportunities for wins. More football. Still, we saw exactly how the carryover from just one week of action led to misplaced expectations. Now what? For...
