by Mario Mergola | Jul 28, 2021
Each answer to each question only strengthened my argument. I watched some talking heads discuss the Dallas Cowboys’ upcoming season. It was the same rhetoric I’d heard and seen countless times before with countless teams on countless programs. The feeling...
by Mario Mergola | Feb 6, 2021
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! You know the tune. Sing along, won’t you? I might have typed those words last year around this time. And the year before that. And the September before that. That’s because the most wonderful times of the...
by Mario Mergola | Feb 1, 2021
I wrote about it prior to the Conference Championship Games, and it became increasingly clearer by the later hours of the day. That is, we were moving closer to an epic battle no matter which team came out of its respective conference. The fact that Tom Brady of the...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 21, 2021
Even though there are three games left to be played before we officially close out this NFL season, it feels like the end. That’s probably because of the amount of hurdles over which we have had to leap in the last few months, as well as the field of teams that...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 13, 2021
Despite splitting the overall weekend at 3-3 against-the-spread, the two confidence picks both won in the Wild Card Round. This is the beauty of the postseason’s early games. In Week 1 of a given year, I will write about using the preseason and prior...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 7, 2021
We certainly have a unique situation with this year’s playoffs in that we will be dealing with a seven-team field and only one bye week per conference. It’s the first time we’ve had this setup, so obviously history won’t be overly helpful. This...