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...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 13, 2023
I get excited every time I start writing about Week 2 of a given year. That’s because we always have the same setup, and it never fails to give value. It is, of course, overreaction. It’s the trend that appears on command and can be found everywhere. In...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 6, 2023
I am a sentimental person by nature. I wear my emotions on my sleeve, and this mindset is one of the main reasons why I became a writer. In writing, as well as many walks of life, it’s often better to spill your feelings than bottle them up. The subtext can do...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 31, 2023
I’ll make this one short and sweet. Football is back! For no particular reason other than my preferred writing schedule, I am posting this annual “Welcome Back, football” article after I already wrote and published the season-long prediction articles...
