House Titans
“One Yard Short”
- Lands
- Tennessee
- Seat
- Nissan Stadium
- Sigil
- A flaming sword and three stars
- Allegiance
- AFC South
- Standing
- Fallen · 3-14 last season
The Wound
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.
The Lord
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.
The Knights
- Wan’Dale Robinson — seventy-eight million, thirty-eight guaranteed, to give the young lord anyone at all.
- Jeffery Simmons — on the Watch, extended at a hundred and five million. The one genuinely elite thing this house owns.
Ancient Grudges
- House Texans. Houston watched this house leave and then built a replacement. Neither city has been gracious about it.
- House Jaguars, House Colts. Divisional business.
What Changed This Spring
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.
Prophecy
Double-digit losses again, and nobody in Nashville pretending otherwise.
Dispatches — House Titans
No dispatches yet for this house.