Joel has won 3 straight in this series
Emmo leads this series 17–9 and has seen this movie enough times to know how it ends — except Joel has rewritten the last three chapters. That three-game winning streak doesn't erase the ledger, but it does mean Emmo walks into Week 5 knowing a loss here puts the series gap at its narrowest point in years. The 2020 matchup that ended 127.02–126.88 is the kind of result that lives in both managers' heads rent-free, and if this one stays close, you already know whose stomach drops first.