by Mario Mergola | Oct 1, 2025
You’ll see the same comment later in this article, but I cannot believe we are already through the first-quarter of the regular season. This is normally the time when we start to watch teams find their identities and play their preferred types of games....
by Mario Mergola | Sep 24, 2025
It wasn’t the full recovery I would have liked to see, but it was nice to have the ‘traps’ work where they should have last week. This, after arguably the most disappointing second week of a season I can remember. As I wrote in my previous column,...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 17, 2025
I knew it. I wrote it in last week’s introduction, but this year’s infamous Week 2 just felt different than the rest. It was less about overreaction — the key to a good Week 2 set of picks — and more about… close losses. That’s...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 10, 2025
I never shy away from how much I love the second week of every National Football League season. It’s the time when I will write the word “overreaction” a ridiculous amount of times and basically use that one approach to project every outcome. The...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 3, 2025
I often question if I should start my Week 1 picks article before my season-long predictions columns. That’s because so much of what I write for one translates to the other. In the end, I never take that thought too seriously because so many conflicts are...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 31, 2025
One of the biggest reasons why I love this preseason prediction articles is because it forces me to think in the mindset of turnover. The National Football League is designed for widespread reversals within divisions, and we see it on an annual basis. I lead with this...
