by Mario Mergola | Nov 13, 2024
Not great. That was not a great way to follow-up a solid week and, what’s worse about it is that underdogs performed quite well and we did not. But, as always, we know this is a long season, and we have to keep moving forward through it. If, nothing else, we...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 6, 2024
Isn’t that amazing? As soon as we move into a new month, we start to get new results. Of course, we can’t take any victory laps, but we are now past the midpoint of the season and hope to be heading in the right direction. Our attention now shifts to teams...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 30, 2024
What a weird week. I won’t call it “bad,” but it wasn’t necessarily good either. It was, in a word, weird. Of course, the main story of last week’s set of games was the wild Hail Mary that not only gave Washington the win, but cost us a...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 23, 2024
I feel like I am writing the same opening paragraphs at the same time of year one season after another. It’s amazing how the script is followed so closely. We are the point of the season where favorites and teams that are perceived to be ‘better’ are...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 16, 2024
I wrote about it in last week’s introduction, and I hate that it came to fruition. Still, it is the nature of the beast. We are at the point of the season where teams break away from their trends. In doing so, some simply make it too easy for people to pick them...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 9, 2024
Every year, we go through certain trends together. In the beginning, we can lean on underdogs and outdated perceptions carried over from the prior year. Then, we shift into what we are actually seeing in front of us but with an understanding that we still have teams...
