Mularkey relies on guys he knows in first game as interim coach

“Marcus Mariota reminded everyone why the Titans spent the second pick in the 2015 Draft to bring him to Nashville”.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) passes in the first half of an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans, Sunday, November 8, 2015.

“I’m still shaking”, Mularkey said. Never once did they ever flinch. We did just enough of those things to keep us from winning.

Byrd said there was no one to blame for the defensive gaffe, adding that the play was not comparable to a pop-fly in baseball in which fielders can communicate without concern for proximity of opposing players.

The special teams didn’t execute the potential game-winning field goal at the end. Wright has a sprained MCL in his left knee and Wreh-Wilson has a hamstring injury. The last 10 quarters and overtime the Saints have allowed 104 points. 104!

Of course, the fact it was the first of his four touchdowns was a factor too, with the last one in overtime helping the Titans to an overtime road win at the Superdome. Ironically, Drew Brees also threw for 28 for 39 yards for 3 touchdowns.

The inability to run the ball and the inconsistent pass protection as quarterback Drew Brees was sacked four times. “When you have a chance to put a team away you have to in this league, because everybody’s good and everybody can come back”.

NOTES: Titans K Ryan Succop had made 15 consecutive field goals until he missed the 55-yard in the fourth quarter…. Kai Forbath did as good of a job as he could trying to kick the ball, but the 46-yard field goal attempt was partially blocked.

The Packers, meanwhile, are looking to get back on track after their first loss of the season, 29-10 in Denver. 500 after that 1-4 start.

Mularkey gave the players off on Monday after the team snapped a six-game losing streak.

“When players’ backs are against the wall, we come out and perform — a lot of times to the best of our ability”, Watson said.

“Some of it was with his (quick) release time, but there are others where we’d get out of our rush lanes and lose containment”, Payton said.

Tennessee had to overcome its own lack of discipline. “There’s times, within the framework of what you do and the ways it’s being officiated now, you’re going to have a call or two”.

After Brees hit tight end Michael Hoomanawanui for a 1-yard score, the Saints led 28-20 with 11:32 left.

But the Titans responded with Mariota’s 8-yard touchdown pass to Justin Hunter, followed by a 2-point conversion to Delanie Walker, who also caught a pair of touchdown passes and finished with seven receptions for 95 yards.

BATTERED BREES: Brees passed for 387 yards and three touchdowns, including a 38-yard score to Brandin Cooks, but he also got hit a lot and rushed into a few mistakes. In the last two games the Saints defense has allowed 899 yards of total offense on 132 plays, 83 points scored, 53 first downs with an average of 6.8 yards per play surrendered.

Then after the Saints went up 14-3, the Titans got a huge break when Mariota’s deep sideline pass for tight end Delanie Walker, which should have been intercepted, bounced off the hands of cornerback Keenan Lewis and into Walker’s hands. Somehow, the ball ricocheted off of two Saints defenders before Walker was able to haul it in and run it all the way in from 61 yards out in one of the craziest catches this season.