12/23 — Score at the start of the quarter remains:

Titans 10, Jets 6

The Jets let the Titans get further out of that hole that Justin McCareins (!) created with his downed punt at the TT-2 when Vince Young zips a pass over the middle to Roydell Williams for 19 yards on third-and-12.

Then just as quickly RT David Stewart is caught and called for clipping away from Young's scramble to his left. First-and-25. Then a false start. Second-and-26. Then a short pass to Justin Gage and it's third-and-long again, specifically third-and-21. This time they don't get away as David Bowens closes on Young and takes him down as he starts to scramble.

But Craig Hentrich gets a great roll on a short punt that Leon Washington can't get to, so the Jets, with 10:01 left, will need an 81-yard TD drive to take the lead at LP Field.

Chris Baker makes another of his spectacular catches with a reaching-back one-handed grab for 18 yards to rescue the Jets from first-and-15 at their 14.

But the Green & White need rescuing again when Kyle Vanden Bosch, having a stellar game, rips past LT D'Brickashaw Ferguson to execute a blindside strip-sack on Chad Pennington — KVB's third sack of the game. Ferguson recovers the loose ball, but it's third-and-10 at the Jets 32. They call their first timeout with 8:12 left in the game.

Pennington gets off a fine third-down pass but Brad Smith drops it downfield. Another opportunity lost, time running out.

CBS analyst Randy Cross has just said this game is a microcosm of the Jets' year. "It's been a season of almosts," said Cross.

But the defense slows Tennessee's offense down, another Hentrich punt rolls dead inside the Jets 20 and now the visitors have 4:37 left to go 84 yards for a possible game-winning TD.

Pennington goes 5-for-5 on short passes as the Jets move to the Tennessee 45 to get to the two-minute warning.

This time Baker can't make a big third-down catch, so it's play-of-the-game time, Jets fourth-and-4 at the 45, 1:56 to go. And it ends as DT Tony Brown loops around on a stunt, comes through the Jets' left side of the line (Robert Turner is at LG, Brick at LT) and sacks Pennington. With one timeout left, 3-12 beckons.

The Jets call that timeout, then LenDale White barges up the middle for 7 yards on third-and-6. Vince Young kneels, and CBS' Dick Enberg sums it up: "For the seventh time this year, the Jets have lost a game by a touchdown or less."

I'll post my locker room Radar entry as soon as I can, which may not be until we get back to JFK from Nashville.