by Mario Mergola | Jan 6, 2021
We need to pause and take a moment before officially turning the page from the regular season to the postseason. Never before did we even have to question the possibility that we would get playoff games, let alone get them on time and with the overall integrity of the...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 31, 2020
I take my time with Week 17. It is the only week of the regular season where we need news in order to draw conclusions, as well as the only time I will even consider making a late swap with one of my picks. Before we dive into anything, it’s best to frame Week...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 24, 2020
Well… that was disappointing. It happens every year. Usually, the key is in limiting it to only one time, but the reality is that we will never have a season without a bad week. This one just hurts more because of when it happened. We were climbing steadily....
by Mario Mergola | Dec 16, 2020
Recently, I wrote about one of the craziest weeks in recent memory. And then Week 14 arrived. From start-to-finish, we couldn’t help but be entertained. What’s most amazing is that it really was from start-to-finish. Sunday afternoon opened with an insane...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 9, 2020
We’ve reached the home stretch. Even with movement in the schedule that left us with four Primetime games in Week 13 — the more football, the better! — we’re finally and officially caught up with the original plan. Every team has played exactly...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 3, 2020
If Week 12 of the 2020 season wasn’t one of the craziest in recent memory, then I must be forgetting legitimate insanity. In addition to having a Thanksgiving game moved to Tuesday night — which is no longer a completely impossible-to-expect outcome...