REALTY CHECK ROGERS COLUMN How dare you say Uncomfortable our baby’s ugly but necessary Homeowners often see their Our reckoning with racism houses like overbearing parents is never going to be pleasant. see their kids: Perfection. We have to see it for what it is. P3 P3 July 30-August 5, 2021 Vol. 47 | Issue 31 NASHVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com The power of information. LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • RUTHERFORD • CHEATHAM WILSON SUMNER• ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 How many coaches does it take to change a defense? The Titans are loaded with experienced NFL defensive schemers. Can they reverse the woes of 2020? Coverage by Terry McCormick begins on page 2 Photographs via AP (Jim Schwartz, Jim Haslett images) and courtesy of the Tennessee Titans (Mike Vrabel, Shane Bowen images) ern Express, Inc, BEHIND THE WHEEL Hampshire Insurance Company, Western Express, Inc, Def Atty(s): John W Barringer, 08/30/2010, 10C3341 October 8 - 14, 2010 Patricia McClarren vs Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Law & GovernmentPltf(s): James T Collins, Def(s): Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Def But my wife PublicAtty(s): David John Deming, 08/30/2010, 10C3343 Pltf(s): James A Richard Dicaire vs Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark Investment LLC, Records Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel refuses to get in 08/26/2010, 10C3303 Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark James T Collins vs Rogers Group Inc, Investment LLC, Def Atty(s): Stephen B Morton, 08/26/2010, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Rogers Group Inc, Def Atty(s): Heather E Hardt, 08/26/2010,inside 10C3308 & online James A Wells vs Jenco Construction Inc, So you bought the wrong Wells, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): JencoTNLedger.com Construction Inc,Pltf(s): Def Atty(s): Judy R Lawson, Jennifer S White, 08/25/2010, 10C3282 Jessica Grimwood vs Intrepid USA Healthcare Services, car and you now want to RealtyPltf(s): JessicaCheck Grimwood,............................................... Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Intrepid USA 3 CommunityHealthcare Services, Calendar Def Atty(s): Clifford ............................... Wilson, 08/27/2010, 4 return it. Get ready for an Judy R Lawson vs Nursing & Oneida, NewsmakersPltf Atty(s): David .............................................. Harold Dunaway, Def(s): Nursing & Oneida, Def 17 Public Records .....................................6-13 uphill battle. Jordan Sanders vs Dillons Welding Inc and Employers, P35 Public NoticesPltf(s): Jordan Sanders,and Pltf Atty(s): Donald D Zuccarello, Def(s): Foreclosures ........................... 14, 15, 22-33 Marketplace ..............................................35 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com JULY 30 – AUGUST 5, 2021 George Walker IV/The Tennessean via AP, Pool, File The Tennessee Titans have handed the defensive coordinator role to Shane Bowen, who came from Texas to the team with Mike Vrabel when Vrabel was named head coach in 2018. Bowen and Vrabel shared leadership of the defensive unit last season following the departure of defensive coordinator Dean Pees. Can veteran coaches, fresh faces alter the course? Titans try to shake 2020 image of all offense, no defense By Terry McCormick he optimism that surrounds the Tennessee Titans as training camp 2021 opens is no doubt centered on the addition of wide receiver Julio Jones to what was one of the TNFL’s most prolific offenses in 2020. In putting up an 11-5 mark and winning their first AFC South Division crown in 12 years, the Titans relied primarily on the rushing of 2,000-yard back Derrick Henry and balanced it with the passing of Ryan Tannehill and the playmaking of receivers like A.J. Brown. It added up to plenty of success, and Jones could be instrumental in making that offense even more dynamic this season. That prolific 2020 offense also helped mask a deficient defense that suffered from the departure of Photograph by Donald Page | Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Dean Pees, and never really Safety Kevin Byard, 31, a Pro Bowl selection in 2017 and still considered the Titans’ top defensive player, will be the only found any consistency in rushing the passer or starter returning to the team’s defensive backfield. stopping opponents on third downs. linebackers coach and de facto defensive coordinator agent prize Jadeveon Clowney to walk away after an The Titans mustered only 19 sacks all season and of last year’s underachieving unit, promoted to the injury-filled zero sack season. They replaced him with allowed the opposition a ridiculous 51.8% conversion defensive coordinator job for 2021. Bud Dupree, who comes in from Pittsburgh, but is rate on third downs. As for the personnel on defense, the Titans pretty dealing with a knee injury of his own, having torn an General manager Jon Robinson and head coach much blew up the secondary, with safety Kevin Byard ACL in December. Mike Vrabel viewed it as more of a personnel problem the only returning starter from a year ago. The defensive line didn’t escape the purge, either, than a coaching or scheme issue. The Titans also made changes on the edge at And so we have Shane Bowen, who was the outside outside linebacker, allowing last year’s supposed free DEFENSE >> PAGE 18 JULY 30 – AUGUST 5, 2021 www.TNLedger.com Page 3 Wait, what’s that smell ‘Free pass’ costly Brat house: Sellers see Nothing is black nothing but perfection and white when Houses are often like spoiled children, discussing race the product of loving parents who feel their Two opposite schools of thought offspring can do no compete when it comes to the topic wrong. Houses are of race in America. One holds that we RICHARD COURTNEY often viewed with should talk about it a lot because of REALTY the same affection by the corrosive and continuing impact of CHECK their owners. They are racism in our society. absolutely wonderful. 317 Greenway JOE ROGERS The other contends that we shouldn’t Flawless. If you do talk about it at all because it’s divisive. Alworth and had speed that rivaled Bob Ledger MY TAKE not believe the owner, read the property I find myself somewhere in between condition disclosure. Hayes. Wayne was the perfect house. A brick the two views, drifting slightly at times in one direction or In the disclosure, the buyer will learn The power of the other. important tendencies of the home. It house. Some parents with talentless, uncoordinated children thought their information. The current animating factor in the discussion is a never leaks, except when it rains. There concept known by the vague term “critical race theory.” are no screens because that is better, no child was as good as Wayne. These are Published weekly by Westview Newspaper, LLC You’ve perhaps read that Tennessee legislators went to matter what the buyers think, and they the same people who cannot understand why their houses do not sell. And they do great, last-minute efforts to ban the teaching of it in public should keep their windows closed because 222 Second Ave. N. 1 schools here. that is better. nothing about it. Nothing to make the Nashville, TN 37201 house better because it already is better. (615) 254-5522 Tennessee isn’t alone. At least five other states have No one opens their windows these days. FAX: (615) 254-5525 It must be lack of marketing, also taken similar actions, with some 20 others considering it. The knob marked “cold” actually turns Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m known as skunk syndrome. You’d think that critical race theory is the gravest threat on the hot water, and it only takes three facing our society. to four minutes for it to get there because At least my parents sent me to Roy President & Chairman Peter Schutt “Racially motivated propaganda,” Marsha Blackburn it is a tankless water heater and they are Skinner’s basketball camp in hopes of making me the next Wayne Stacy. But Publisher & CEO has called it. Our senior senator is not given to better. Eric Barnes entertaining points of view at variance with her own. Their houses are better than other there already was a perfectly good Wayne Associate Publisher Stacy. & Executive Editor Tennessee legislators didn’t ban it by name, but by houses just like their children are better Lyle Graves implied description. The measure they passed threatens Regardless of all of the drills I practiced [email protected] than any other children in the world. So to withhold state funding from schools that teach, among what if Junior refuses to remove a semi- or weights I lifted, I was not going to be Planning Editor Wayne Stacy. Cindy Smith other things: nude Britney Spears poster in his room. [email protected] That’s the problem with houses in a • That one “race or sex is inherently superior to another” Britney’s father must have said it is all Contributors • That race or sex determines “moral character” right. Now there is one dad who doesn’t competitive market. Like it or not the Chip Cirillo Stacyian home will sell before Courtneyan Sheila Burke • That some people should be discriminated against think his kid is perfect. Kathy Carlson based on race or sex, or that Tennessee or the U.S. “is Then there are pets. Pets, of course, are version every time. Hollie Deese All houses should be all that they Tim Ghianni fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.” often even more beloved than children, Joe Morris For good measure, funding would also be withheld from often replacements for offspring. Pets and can be and hope Stacy stays out of the Rhiannon Potkey neighborhood.