GLENDALE Dalton Risner Jersey , Ariz. (AP)Marcus Mariota’s answers were clipped, many one word. His facial expression changed minimally, a quick raise of the eyebrow or lip before giving an answer after his performance against the Arizona Cardinals. The Tennessee Titans lost a game they should have won and their quarterback shouldered most of the blame. ”Frustration is an understatement,” Mariota said following Tennessee’s 12-7 loss to the Cardinals on Sunday. ”Defense played lights out, special teams did their job, and I’ve been hurting our team. I’ve got to find ways to be better.” The Titans (8-5) entered tied with Jacksonville atop the AFC South after winning six of their previous seven games. All they had to do was beat the struggling Cardinals (6-7) to stay in the division lead, maybe move a game ahead if the Jaguars couldn’t get past Seattle. Tennessee couldn’t get it done. Jacksonville beat the Seahawks to boot. Not a great first trip to University of Phoenix Stadium. ”At the end of the day, we didn’t play very well,” Titans tight end Delanie Walker said. ”Our defense held them to field goals and if you can’t put points on the board, obviously you can’t win game.” Mariota starred as a redshirt freshman for Oregon at the 2013 Fiesta Bowl his last trip to Glendale Drew Lock Jersey , leading the Ducks to a 35-17 victory over Kansas State. He was mostly ineffective against Arizona’s defense, struggling with his aim and not nearly as mobile after tweaking his knee in the first quarter. Tennessee’s run game, which moved up to seventh in the NFL last week, was almost nonexistent, contributing 65 yards on 22 carries after a season-high 198 yards last week. The Titans finished with 204 total yards to fall a game back in the division. ”Defense played out of their mind the whole game,” Titans coach Mike Mularkey said. ”We had a chance to win the game because of our defense. Special teams wasn’t good enough, and neither was our offense.” After a punt-filled first quarter, the Titans put together a nine-play, 50-yard scoring drive, capped by Derrick Henry’s 6-yard TD run . Tennessee’s offense then went back to sputtering. The Titans took a gamble in the third quarter http://www.cardinalscheapstore.com/zach-allen-jersey-cheap , attempting a fake punt that appeared to work. Upon review, the officials changed the spot, leaving Tennessee short of a first down. Arizona took over at the Titans’ 35-yard line, setting up Phil Dawson’s second field goal, from 23 yards to cut Tennessee’s lead to 7-6. ”We should have got it and I thought we got it,” Mularkey said. ”I don’t know how it got overturned. With all those bodies, I don’t know how they saw it. I question that immensely, that overturn.” The Titans moved into Arizona’s end of the field on its second drive of the third quarter, but a miscommunication with receiver Rishard Matthews turned into an interception by Tramon Williams. Mariota’s second interception, with Tennessee trailing 9-7 Andy Isabella Jersey , was his fault. Trying to squeeze a pass into Walker, he didn’t see Josh Bynes drop back into underneath coverage. Bynes snared the ball and returned it 25 yards to Tennessee’s 15, setting up Dawson’s fourth field goal, a 35-yarder that put Arizona up 12-7. ”That’s on me. I didn’t see him under there,” said Mariota, who threw for 159 yards on 16 of 31 passing. The Titans got the ball back twice in the final 3:45, but were forced to punt once, and turned it over on downs. Defensively, the Titans were effective pressuring Blaine Gabbert, sacking him eight times Jamel Dean Jersey , even with outside linebacker Derrick Morgan injured. Tennessee was good in the red zone, holding the Cardinals to four field goals and a miss on another. It wasn’t good enough, thanks to the Titans’ wobbling offense. Now the Titans will remain in the desert to figure out what went wrong, practicing this week at Arizona State University to prepare for Sunday’s game against San Francisco. — DALLAS (AP)The Seattle Seahawks released quarterback Trevone Boykin on Tuesday shortly after his girlfriend alleged in a television interview that he physically assaulted her in Texas last week.The practice squad player was released from the team after WFAA-TV in Dallas posted an interview with Boykin’s girlfriend detailing an assault she alleges happened on March 20 in Mansfield, just southwest of Dallas. The woman said she refused to show Boykin a text message and an argument ensued, and that he broke her jaw and tried to strangle her.Boykin, 24, denied the allegations in a statement released Tuesday to NFL Media. He called the allegations false and said he wasn’t involved in a physical fight.”This woman has lied about me and it has cost me my job,” he wrote. ”I understand the Seahawks decision to release me. The story that was reported casts a bad light on the organization and on me.”Boykin’s agent, Drew Pittman D.K. Metcalf Jersey , also told WFAA that the allegations were false. A call to the agent’s cellphone by The Associated Press went unanswered Tuesday.Mansfield police spokesman Sgt. Michael Midkiff said the department is investigating the alleged assault. He said no charges had been filed as of Tuesday and that the investigation was in a very early stage.The assault allegation is the latest off-field issue for Boykin, who has spent his NFL career with Seattle.He was arrested in Dallas last year when a vehicle he was a passenger in hit several people on a sidewalk. He fled the scene on foot but was later arrested on misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and possession of marijuana.In 2015, Boykin was arrested for assaulting a police officer and public intoxication shortly before the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio during his senior season at TCU. Boykin, who was the team’s quarterback, was suspended for the bowl game.—Associated Press Sports Writer Tim Booth contributed to this report from Seattle.