by Mario Mergola | Aug 27, 2018
This quarterbacks column is multi-part preview with a new quarterback – or set of quarterbacks being released daily. To read the introduction, please visit the first post in the series. I wrote approximately 800 words on a single quarterback in my first writeup...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 26, 2018
This quarterbacks column is multi-part preview with a new quarterback – or set of quarterbacks being released daily. To read the introduction, please visit the first post in the series. I might have been wrong. I like to start there because I find nothing more...
by Mario Mergola | Aug 26, 2018
It’s a quarterback-driven league. I write it every year, and still I read commentary on the contrary. These contrarian points are exactly that. Outliers and exceptions that remain outliers and exceptions. And I’ll start with the biggest one. I often cite a...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 31, 2018
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The 2017 season was, as expected, vastly different from the outlier of 2016. Underdogs, once again, had the edge, erasing nearly all of the gains made by ‘easy favorites’ the year before. “Nearly...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 17, 2018
It is always interesting how one season spills into the next. Last year, the chalk in any given fractal had success. The favorite – both for the playoffs and the game, itself – won the Super Bowl. The ‘easy’ teams to pick covered nearly every...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 11, 2018
The National Football League certainly has its share of surprises on a given week. For the opening round of the 2017 playoffs, it was not that Tennessee erased an 18-point deficit at halftime and won in Kansas City. Nor was it the perennial losers from Jacksonville...
