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It's not often that a quarterback finishes 19 consecutive passes to open a match and still loses. But this is exactly the kind of unusual evening that Marcus Mariota had in Monday's 34-17 loss to the Houston Texans.
Mariota completed 22 of 23 passes for 303 yards and two touchdowns. He also completed 19 consecutive passes before allowing the Titans' final possession to fail a little over a minute from the end.
"The statistics are statistics," Titans coach Mike Vrabel said at the end of the match, following a quiz about Mariota's series of achievements. "The loss is really what I'm going to try to focus on, we have to stop the race, we can not have the second and the 25th places, and the third and the 20th, there are a lot of things other than individual statistics that we are trying to focus on. "
Vrabel had good reason not to be too struck by Mariota's statistical performance. Tennessee gave Mariota six bags and the Titans only collected three discs. In addition, of these 19 consecutive finals, only three have exceeded 10 meters in the air.
Still, Mariota's performance was steady and encouraging given that he was dealing with a stinger around his neck at the beginning of the week, which initially threatened him with the match. Although the sequence of completion has been impressive, the Titans (5-6) will have to tie several wins to have a chance to win a playoff spot.
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