by Mario Mergola | Jan 17, 2018
It is always interesting how one season spills into the next. Last year, the chalk in any given fractal had success. The favorite – both for the playoffs and the game, itself – won the Super Bowl. The ‘easy’ teams to pick covered nearly every...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 11, 2018
The National Football League certainly has its share of surprises on a given week. For the opening round of the 2017 playoffs, it was not that Tennessee erased an 18-point deficit at halftime and won in Kansas City. Nor was it the perennial losers from Jacksonville...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 4, 2018
As I started writing my picks article for the Wild Card Round, I found myself pointing to long-term goals for each team; mainly because one of the eight in action, this weekend, can win the Super Bowl. With that, I stepped away from the column, worked on this...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 4, 2018
If sports have shown us anything over-the-years, it is that the playoffs – in which an entire season is on-the-line – rarely disappoint. Even when the matchups appear to be one-sided, we are almost always treated to a show at one point-or-another. This is...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 27, 2017
There is a fairly common belief that Week 1 of any given season is the most difficult to predict. Wrong. While it is true that we don’t entirely know what to expect from a team before we have seen it in meaningful action we do, at least, know the intention. We...
