by Mario Mergola | Oct 26, 2022
Every offseason, I look through the teams to find the ones that have shown consistency. The general assumption is that consistency is a good thing and, thus, we should reward those who have followed their plans for so long. Sometimes, those plans are misleading. As we...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 19, 2022
It may not seem like it, but we are definitely starting to get a better feel for the state of the National Football League in 2022. Some have commented that the quality of football is worse than it has been in recent years and others are pointing out that we have had...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 12, 2022
As I wrote about each game of Week 6, I found myself constantly discounting what the outcome would mean for a team in the future. Of course, every game matters — it is one-seventeenth of the entire schedule — and some have tie-breaking implications, but...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 5, 2022
The change to seventeen regular-season games obviously throws off the math, but we are now approximately one-quarter through the season. In the past, that was a key cutoff point, as we started to see clear trends forming, whether it was for a given team, player, or...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 28, 2022
In a moment of complete honesty, I will admit that I was nervous about last week. It wasn’t likely that the picks would crumble, but there was the element of ‘too much and still not enough.’ I felt as if there were decent setups everywhere, but only...
