Teams
Seven teams, one standard. Each page carries every piece written about that team, newest first, with the sources attached.
One Super Bowl appearance, and it came after the 1999 season. The last playoff win was the 2019 season and the two years since have each ended 3-14. Every Titans piece here works the same question. What would have to be true for this roster to play in February, who has to close that gap, and over what horizon.
Tennessee last won a football national championship in 1998. The fans have already done their part and the figures are checkable, 27 consecutive Neyland sellouts and an interest list 29,414 names long. What gets measured on this page is the other side of that.
Ranked regular seasons have not turned into a deep March. These pieces measure the distance between a team that wins its league and a team that survives two weekends in a row, and they name what would have to change.
One Final, in 2017, and no Cup. Nashville has iced good teams for most of a decade and the postseason has kept ending early. The work here is figuring out which part of that is roster and which part is variance.
No Finals, and one conference finals appearance, in 2013. Memphis has built around young cores twice now. These pieces measure where the current one actually sits against the teams that get to June.
The 2021 World Series is the most recent title in the whole portfolio, which makes Atlanta the control group. When a roster here is measured and found short, this is the team that shows what the standard looks like when it is met.
The youngest club in the portfolio and the one with the least history to measure against. These pieces build the baseline first and say plainly where the sample is too thin to carry a conclusion.