by Mario Mergola | Nov 25, 2020
I sat at the table. Alone. The lights were off. There was only the glow of the laptop screen. I didn’t want to move. I’ve had nights like this before. The lyric from the song “Some Nights” by fun. comes to mind, where it begins, “Some...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 18, 2020
Isn’t it amazing? This entire season has been an uphill battle in which we get small bursts of consistency, only to be shuffled around with bouts of randomness. Indeed, that’s part of the game normally, but it’s the lack of trends that’s most...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 10, 2020
And there it is. As soon as it looked like we were getting some momentum, it hit a speedbump. Not an all-out collapse, but break in the upward move. The real shame — and the part that actually annoys me — is that it happened on a week in which we trusted...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 4, 2020
Now we’re getting somewhere. All season, I’ve continued to write about varying our approaches to games based on their situations. Last week, we saw this come to fruition beautifully. In the past, I’ve written about ‘sets of games.’ We...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 28, 2020
As long as it keeps happening, I’ll keep writing about it. The good news is that, this time, “it” was on our side. The “it” to which I am referring is the all-famous ‘obvious outcome.’ Sure, the Bills were a rather obvious...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 21, 2020
There are no words. I started to write a different introduction and then erased it. Tried again. Erased again. These are times in which picking games against the spread is frustrating. Not bad, just frustrating. In this particular case, it’s even more...
