Third Downs Continue to Plague Defense

SUMMARY: The Titans have struggled making stops on third down. After allowing the Bengals to convert 14 of 18 chances a few weeks ago, the Chiefs converted 11 of 17 chances yesterday. "Terrible," Keith Bulluck said. "If we were talking about 65 percent in a loss it might be a little tougher. We won and it's so late in the season you can throw stats out the window and just play." Kansas City's offense, which was ranked 30th on third down with a 32.4 percent conversion rate, gained 114 of its 327 yards on third down, including both of Croyle's touchdown passes. "That's something we've got to get better at," Kyle Vanden Bosch said. "We were on the field too long at times and it was our own fault. It's something we've got to fix."

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