NFL Week 6 Picks Against the Spread
Something strange is happening in the early part of the 2015 season: teams are playing to their expected level of production. Considering each National Football League season contains only sixteen games, the sample size for a particular franchise is relatively small. Hot and cold streaks could tip the scales of what would otherwise be a balanced process. Because of this, […]
NFL Week 5 Picks Against the Spread
The first four weeks of any season operate like the first quarter of a football game — teams are trying to establish their position and opponents are getting a feel for one another. The same is true for the perception of a given franchise. Entering a new season, it is nearly impossible to separate a […]
NFL Week 4 Picks Against the Spread
It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. The National Football League is built for parity and turnover. With the exception of a handful of teams that seemingly always remain at the top or bottom of the league, the nature of the sport allows for a constantly shifting tide. This is the foundation of the belief that […]
NFL Week 3 Picks Against the Spread
The same statistic gets thrown around every year around this time. It has become almost common knowledge that an 0-2 start lessens a team’s chances to make the playoffs to roughly twelve percent. What often gets overlooked in this number is that teams starting 0-2 might simply be bad. Week 2 featured the expected combination of […]
NFL Week 2 Picks Against The Spread
Mario Mergola makes his NFL week 2 picks against the spread and predicts the Kansas City drought against Denever will end.
NFL: Week 1 Picks Against The Spread
Mario Mergola makes his award-winning picks against the spread for week one of the 2015 NFL Season and predicts a Green Bay Packers upset.