INGLEWOOD — The Tennessee Titans (7-7) are on a four-game losing streak for the first time in coach Mike Vrabel's five-year tenure. It took a game-winning field goal drive with less than 30 seconds remaining in regulation, but Tennessee could not hang on in a 17-14 failure against the Los Angeles Chargers (8-6).

Copy, paste and repeat.

"Mistakes," said Vrabel postgame. "Obviously, the same stuff. Penalties. Critical penalties. I mean, its the same in all three phases. There was some good stuff and, obviously, some stuff that we have to correct. I don't think anybody can function, and certainly us right now, in those long-yardage situations offensively."

Copy, paste and repeat.

Titans corrections don't seem to matter

Whether Tennessee's messaging has gone stale or the team's record-setting injuries are too much to overcome, the results have stayed the same.

The difference on Sunday is that the Titans defense reemerged to try and keep Los Angeles at bay. Tennessee intercepted quarterback Justin Herbert twice to force their first turnovers in more than a month. Pressure returned as well, bringing down the Chargers quarterback three times.

It still was not enough.

"The division is still there but, personally, I could care less about that," said safety Kevin Byard. "Obviously, want to win the division and all that stuff, but I'm not really into 'get to the playoffs' and all that shit. It doesn't look like we're a team, right now, that's going to beat anybody."

Los Angeles scored on its opening possession, but was held in check by the Titans on its next seven drives. Tennessee's offense did them precious few favors. The league leaders in three-and-outs added three more of those to their year-long total and were not able to tie the game at 14 points until the 48 seconds of the game.

It was too much time for the Chargers, who went 57 yards in six plays to set up the game-winning field goal.

AFC South is still Tennessee's to lose

The Titans did not need the latest slip-up against Los Angeles to show that they're no longer their division's best team, however.

After falling to the Jacksonville Jaguars (6-8) in Week 14, Tennessee's inability to close out games dropped their once massive AFC South lead to only one game up. The Houston Texans (1-12-1) are the Titans next opponent, but still pose a legitimate threat. Jacksonville is heating up at the perfect time to overtake Tennessee, and a divisional title game is almost certainly in both team's future when the Titans travel to take on the Jaguars in the regular-season finale.

This team that keeps searching for answers just seems incapable of finding them.

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