by Mario Mergola | Sep 14, 2016
The first two weeks of any National Football League season follow a surprisingly consistent trend. The year opens with question marks strewn throughout each game and franchise and, after sixty minutes of football are completed, immediate answers are given. The answers...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 7, 2016
We just couldn’t get there any faster. With all the research that went into our season long predictions for the AFC and NFC, Opening Week’s picks article could not get here fast enough. Thankfully, we would not have wanted to rush it. After what felt like...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 6, 2016
Carolina Panthers (-3) at Denver Broncos (+3) It is usually scary to lead a column with a confidence pick, as any unfortunate circumstance that produces a loser is highlighted and featured until the rest of the week’s games are played days later. It is even more...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 6, 2016
In a stark contrast to our expectations for the NFC, the AFC is filled with turnover. Only one division winner is projected to make the playoffs, while our predicted Super Bowl champion spent last postseason as outsiders, looking in. The churning of the conference...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 5, 2016
Like a handful of other teams, the Cleveland Browns are not only perpetual losers, but losers that can realistically be expected to continue producing the same result. It is easy to pencil in a sub-.500 winning percentage year-after-year and find the team rarely...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 5, 2016
The NFC was completely dominated by two teams in 2015 – Arizona and Carolina – yet, surprisingly, only two teams in the conference finished with fewer than six wins. The script is reversed in 2016, as the NFC appears to feature some of the worst squads. Of...
