by Mario Mergola | Oct 15, 2025
I now find myself, on a weekly basis, shaking my head with muted surprise. Nothing we have seen is shocking in the sense that we cannot accept it. But nothing is defined, either. We are six full weeks into the year already and it feels like nothing has actually begun....
by Mario Mergola | Oct 8, 2025
It seems like I have walked away from each week of this season with the same feeling. That is, it’s been fine overall, but it hasn’t established a direction or trend. There are some teams that are still struggling to do the same, but we normally have an...
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...
