Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton, center, is sacked by Tennessee Titans’ Colin McCarthy, left, and Karl Klug, right, during the third quarter of an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. / AP PHOTO / CHUCK BURTON

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Munchak selling 2nd half as fresh start

By TERESA M. WALKER/AP Sports Writer

NASHVILLE ” Mike Munchak has no explanation for exactly why the Tennessee Titans have won 13 of their past 14 games against the NFC.

Luckily for Tennessee, Atlanta and Tampa Bay are up next.

The Titans (5-4) have won two of three overall after a 30-3 rout of Carolina on Sunday to stay 1 1/2 games behind the Houston Texans (7-3) in the division.

Their defense smothered Cam Newton and the rest of the Panthers’ offense, while Chris Johnson ran for a season-high 130 yards. They even got a touchdown on a punt return.

“I hope it continues,” Munchak said Monday of the Titans’ success against the NFC. “We’d like to see that happen. It’s hard to figure out why that is, but I hope the pattern stays the same. – Going to Atlanta’s going to be a great challenge.”

With the win in Carolina, the Titans are 27-10 against the NFC since realignment in 2002, and that’s the second-best interconference winning rate in the NFL in that time at 73 percent behind only New England (33-5, 86.8 percent) with Pittsburgh at 72.4 percent (27-10-1).

Munchak has been preaching that the stretch run offers a fresh start for a team still set on winning the AFC South. The Titans are a win away from matching the six victories of last season, and this team won only once in the final nine games in a finish that led to the decision to cut Vince Young and part ways with coach Jeff Fisher.

The new coach said he never set a number for wins in his first season except enough to win the division.

“That’s our goal, that’s been our goal,” Munchak said. “I don’t know how many that’s going to take. Obviously, it’s going to take a lot more than we have right now. We’re in position to be able to do that so we just got to look at it that way that there’s no number. Just whatever number gets us into the playoffs.”

Munchak has encouraged his Titans to forget about the stats and rankings built up through the first eight games. The Titans seem to have seized upon this idea that they can start fresh despite being last in the NFL in rushing and other struggles.

“The biggest thing is we do have seven more, and we have to take them one at a time,” receiver Damian Williams said.

“I’ve told a couple people that before I don’t remember too many 12-4 teams not making the playoffs. If we go one at a time and keep doing what we’re doing and play our best football at the end of the season, I think we’ll have a good shot.”

The Titans spoke while Texans coach Gary Kubiak announced a significant foot injury to his starting quarterback Matt Schaub.

But the Titans can be encouraged by their own play in Carolina. Johnson had 177 yards from scrimmage as the offense finally looked to be in synch running the ball with the offensive line opening big holes for him.

“You watch the tape, yeah that’s us,” Munchak said. “That’s how we block. That’s how we play.”

Williams had 107 yards receiving off five catches to give Tennessee a 100-yard receiver and 100-yard rusher for the first time this season.

Matt Hasselbeck threw a touchdown pass in his ninth straight game, his longest such streak to start a season in his career.

The defense had a season-high five sacks and held the Panthers to 279 yards, looking more like the unit that was the NFL’s stingiest in points allowed early in October while starting 3-1. The Titans did it despite starting three rookies on defense with a fourth, tackle Karl Klug, getting plenty of work as well.

Marc Mariani, a Pro Bowl returner as a rookie, also pitched in with his first touchdown this season off a 79-yard punt return.

The Titans had nine penalties for 92 yards, but Munchak noted they didn’t have any offsides, false starts, illegal motions. He used video of the penalties they were flagged for as teaching moments trying to clean up those mistakes.

“You get a chance to run the ball, it’s good for everybody,” Munchak said.

Atlanta’s Smith still accepting blame for OT loss: Everyone seems to be playing Monday Morning Quarterback with Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith.

By sending Michael Turner up the middle for no gain, Smith might have doomed the Falcons to an overtime loss to New Orleans, but the fourth-year coach wasn’t surprised by the public’s response.

“I’ll say this, OK? We have passionate football fans here in Atlanta, OK?” Smith said with a smile. “Regardless of what the outcome is, someone has an opinion, and that’s great for your fan base. That’s what you want to have happen, and I’ll just leave it at that.”

Though the move backfired, Smith repeated his postgame stance from Sunday night ” that he would do it again given the circumstances and the Falcons’ spotty history of defending Saints quarterback Drew Brees in the late stages of a game.

Smith knows Atlanta (5-4) must correct its mistakes before Tennessee (5-4) visits the Georgia Dome on Sunday.

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By TERESA M. WALKER
AP Sports Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Mike Munchak and the Tennessee Titans are choosing to be optimistic midway through the season, seeing the eight remaining games as a chance to go streaking toward the playoffs.

First, they better figure out how to stop the rollercoaster ride of the first eight games.

The Titans (4-4) have lost 3 of 4, wasting a 3-game homestand with a 24-17 loss to Cincinnati in which they blew a 10-point halftime lead. Now it only gets tougher with 5 of their final games on the road starting Sunday with a visit to Carolina (2-6).

Munchak said Monday this loss hurts because they had been in position to win and didn’t at home.

“There were still a lot of good things in that game. We have eight football games to play. A lot can happen in this league,” Munchak said.

The Titans started the season 3-1, and Munchak said they’re sitting here miserable at 4-4.

“We don’t by any means feel sorry for ourselves. We know we’ve got to play better. We see what we’re capable of in flashes, but it’s just not consistent. And that’s what’s happening now. We’re not consistently doing things that we can to put us in winning position,” Munchak said.

It helps that the AFC’s best teams are 6-2, and Houston is 6-3 in the AFC South.

“Nobody is out of reach,” right guard Jake Scott said. “There’s nobody running away with it. On the other side, there’s not that many teams out of it completely. It’s going to be very interesting in the AFC going down the next two months.”

Before the Titans can make a run at even another winning streak, they need to string together consecutive drives, quarters and halves. They blew a 17-7 halftime lead by being held to only 95 yards total offense by Cincinnati in the final 30 minutes Sunday.

On the plus side, the Titans showed signs of life in the running game really for the first time all season. Chris Johnson had 55 yards on nine carries for an average of 6.1 yards per carry with a long of 20 where the 3-time Pro Bowler flashed some of his trademark speed. He also had two catches for 22 yards in the first half.

Munchak said Johnson probably was excited seeing bigger holes.

But Johnson got his hands on the ball only seven more times in the second half and had just 9 more yards rushing on five carries. He never had a carry in the fourth quarter even though the Titans trailed only 21-17 when they got the ball back with 10:52 left.

Munchak credited the Bengals with keeping eight players at the line to stop Johnson, and the Titans couldn’t take advantage of the stack near the line through the air. Matt Hasselbeck finished with 272 yards passing, but only 106 in the second half.

It only got worse inside the final 2 minutes with tight end Jared Cook having a sore knee. Nate Washington caught a pass and went down with a bruised hip, forcing a 10-second runoff since Tennessee had no timeouts. Lavelle Hawkins returned after having an open dislocated finger, but couldn’t lateral the ball to keep the final play alive.

“It’s frustrating when you don’t continue to make plays,” Munchak said. “We have to put ourselves in position.”

The defense had its own struggles. The Titans held Cincinnati to 139 yards in the first half, then couldn’t get off the field in the second half. One play summed up Tennessee’s struggles when safety Michael Griffin and cornerback Jason McCourty crashed into each other trying to defend a pass to A.J. Green, knocking them to the ground for a few minutes.

The challenge gets tougher. After Carolina, the Titans visit Atlanta with a home game against Tampa Bay squeezed between another road game at Buffalo.

Dropping two home games puts the pressure on them to make those up on the road, according to Scott.

“I think we’re a good enough team to do that,” Scott said. “We just have to do that.”

Notes: Munchak said S Chris Hope will practice Wednesday for the first time since breaking his left forearm Oct. 2 at Cleveland. Munchak also said Cook (bruised knee), Washington and Hawkins may be limited a bit Wednesday.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The confident Cincinnati Bengals keep building momentum with every win. The Tennessee Titans have been so up and down with Chris Johnson and their running game that they’re just trying to find their way forward.

Something will give Sunday.

The Bengals (5-2) can win a fifth straight game for their longest streak since 1988 when they went to their second Super Bowl with coach Sam Wyche. This is the franchise that has been 6-2 only twice since then in 2005 and 2009, when they won the AFC North both times for their only two winning records in the past 20 years.

“We knew we were going to be a good team,” Cincinnati centre Kyle Cook said. “If we could come together as a team and have good second halves and not make the same mistakes we had last year, we kind of knew we could be in this position or even better.”

Cincinnati is tied with Baltimore a half-game behind Pittsburgh in the AFC North thanks to winning four straight, including last week’s 34-12 victory at Seattle. But the Bengals beat teams in that streak currently with a combined 9-21 record, and the schedule only gets tougher after Sunday with games against Pittsburgh, at Baltimore, Cleveland, at Pittsburgh and Houston.

“We can’t be satisfied with where we are, and we know that,” said Bengals rookie quarterback Andy Dalton. “The last game we played wasn’t perfect. There’s a lot of room for improvement and a lot of room to get better. It’s about taking the mistakes that we made in the last game and getting better from it.”

The game also features the return of Adam “Pacman” Jones to Tennessee to play the team that drafted him sixth overall in 2005. But Jones hurt a hamstring returning a punt in Seattle, so he may only stand on the sideline.

The Titans (4-3) wrap up a three-game homestand and are coming off a 27-10 win over Indianapolis.

They also have a big win over Baltimore. Being outscored 79-24 in consecutive losses before beating the Colts has them still tweaking their defence against the run and looking to run for more than 68.9 yards per game — if only to stop all the questions about why Johnson can’t run anymore.

“The inconsistency is probably the part that we are most frustrated with, and we hope that part is behind us and that we come out and play a game,” Titans coach Mike Munchak said. “It’s going to be a big game for us. Last week, we thought was a huge game for us because we couldn’t afford to lose that game, and this one is even bigger because one to show that we can take the next step up now, and we can win a game against a team that is a very good football team.”

Running won’t be easy against Cincinnati. The Bengals rank second in the NFL, giving up 85.4 yards rushing per game. They also are allowing only 17.6 points per game, fourth-stingiest in the league.

“We know that, which makes it fun,” Munchak said. “It makes it exciting, and we will be ready for the challenge. We will see on Sunday how we do and we are looking forward to obviously, playing a lot better than we have.”

The Bengals have been winning even with a rookie quarterback passing to rookie top target A.J. Green. There’s also the running of Cedric Benson, who returns from his one-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan has been impressed with Dalton, who is completing 64.4 per cent of his passes for 760 yards with seven touchdowns and three interceptions away from Cincinnati.

“He’s excellent at what he does. He gets the ball out fast,” Finnegan said. “He’s three-stepping, he can put the ball on a dime on the deep ball. A.J. Green’s dynamic. They’ve got a really good football team.”

Cincinnati is protecting Dalton well, too, allowing one sack in the past two games and 12 this season.

“I think a lot of people expect us to be a run-only type team with having a young quarterback and young receivers,” Cincinnati left tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “I think teams are doing a great job of crowding the box and making it tough to run the ball, but we can still do it and we just have to do it more effectively and more efficiently. But we’re on our way.”

The Bengals did give up a season-high 350 yards passing to Seattle, and Matt Hasselbeck is playing pretty well for Tennessee with an 89.2 passer rating. The Titans are 4-1 when Hasselbeck has a passer rating of 90 or higher, and he has thrown six TDs in his two previous games against Cincinnati.

“Matt has really solidified that position for them,” Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis said. “They’ve played very, very efficiently and well offensively in all of their wins.”

___

AP Sports Writer Joe Kay in Cincinnati contributed to this report.

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