by Mario Mergola | Nov 29, 2017
It had to end somewhere. The streak of non-losing weeks had reached mid-November but, alas, in Weeks 11 and 12, the numbers finally caught up. Not just to us, however. And therein lies the value. For starters, the back-to-back losing weeks only cost us seven games in...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 22, 2017
Time tends to move a bit faster when things are going well. For the past eleven weeks, I had been so consumed with working toward the goal of getting these picks to their level of success from 2014 and 2015 that the season, itself, has blown right past my eyes. It...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 15, 2017
What a difference a year makes. It’s not just the standings – although it is nice to be back atop the leaderboards over at NFLPickwatch for the third time in four years – but the overall flow of the season, itself. A team rises suddenly, plays well,...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 6, 2017
Sometimes I actively seek a given theme for a week. Other times, it finds me. The undeniable common thread that presents itself throughout Week 10 is the redirection of a team’s path. Simply put, is it more likely to continue sinking – or rising – or...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 1, 2017
We did it! We have reached the midpoint of the 2017 NFL season. But, more specifically for this column, we have reached the midpoint of our ‘Rebound Season.’ At the time of this writing, these picks sit atop the leaderboard at NFLPickwatch.com –...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 25, 2017
What has made the 2017 season one of the best in terms of picking games is not necessarily the adherence to trends that were so blatantly ignored last year, but the storylines that appear on a weekly basis. For each set of games, we can find an accurate, common theme....
