A chronicle of the season · Anno 2026
“One Yard Short”
One yard. Again — this realm has two houses undone by the same distance.
February 2000: this house, in its only appearance on the final field, was tackled one yard short as time expired. One yard from forcing overtime for the championship of the world. It has never been back.
They also left Houston to get here, which means their founding act was somebody else’s grief.
Cam Ward, in his second season, first overall pick, on a house that won three games last year. He is being asked to rebuild something with no help and no cover, which is what the first pick actually purchases.
They spent — Robinson, Simmons, John Franklin-Myers — which is unusual for a house at three wins. Tennessee did not tear it down. They tried to give the young lord something to work with.
Double-digit losses again, and nobody in Nashville pretending otherwise.
Both houses won three games last season. New York's answer was a thirty-six-year-old it had discarded eleven years ago over a six-hundred-dollar plane ticket.
The line you say tomorrow“Geno Smith made his first start for the Jets in ten years and beat the coach they threw out.”