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from the moment he arrived in Tennessee.A month into the season Womens Jason Peters Jersey , the Titans are doing just.At 3-1, the Titans are off to their best start since 2013 under their first-year head coach, having won three straight — each by three points.Now Vrabel has a team that just got a big confidence boost from a 26-23 overtime win over the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles."We're trying to build our reputation as a team and a player on what we're doing and what we will do as opposed to what we've done," Vrabel said.Vrabel already has made it clear he'll gamble on his Titans, going for it on fourth down more than anyone in the NFL. The Titans have executed, converting five of seven attempts. Three of those came on their game-winning drive in overtime .The Titans converted a fourth-and-15 with Marcus Mariota completing a 19-yard pass. They picked up first down on fourth-and-4 on defensive pass interference. Facing fourth-and-2 with Ryan Succop lining up for a 50-yard field goal attempt and a tie, Vrabel put the offense back out, and Mariota hit Dion Lewis for a 17-yard completion. Three plays later Youth Alshon Jeffery Jersey , Mariota found Corey Davis for the game-winning touchdown."It's great moment, and it's also building great chemistry," linebacker Will Compton said. "Guys are believing and leaning on each other and playing complimentary football. The coach believing in us like that, going for it and not kicking the field goal, putting the offense back out there believing in them. It's a lot of momentum and chemistry for our football team."Vrabel rewarded the Titans with a day off Monday and game balls all around.The last time the Titans started 3-1, they finished 7-9 and Mike Munchak was fired for not making changes on his coaching staff.Vrabel is the Titans' third different coach since that season, and they visit Buffalo (1-3) on Sunday sitting atop the AFC South with a tiebreaker in hand over Jacksonville. This starts a challenging stretch with five of the next seven games on the road, not that rookie coach is too worried about keeping the Titans focused."It's easy to explain to these guys and show them if you don't play well in this league — I don't care where you play Womens Brandon Brooks Jersey , I don't care who you play, you lose," Vrabel said. "That's the NFL."The Titans have areas to improve. The run game has been nonexistent except for Mariota facing the likes of Houston, Jacksonville and now Philadelphia. The defense can harass and sack quarterbacks, but they rank 25th against the run giving up 118 yards a game. Safety Kenny Vaccaro will miss "a few weeks" with an injured right elbow, a position where Tennessee already lost starter Johnathan Cyprien to a torn left ACL in August.But against the Eagles, Mariota just started and finished his first game this year after being knocked out of the season opener with an injury to his right elbow. He missed a start and came off the bench in Jacksonville for a 9-6 win.He threw for 344 yards and two touchdowns against Philadelphia, while running for a team-high 46 yards and another score. In the second half and overtime Youth Nate Gerry Jersey , Mariota was 19 of 25 for 198 yards with two TDs, no interceptions and a 125.1 passer rating."When you can execute in the most critical situations," Vrabel said, "you have a chance."Follow Teresa M. Walker at teresamwalker We’re about halfway through the 2018 season and with it we can say with certainty that the NFC East is back. Back to its glorious and horrendous ways where everyone stinks. It’s beautiful. The good times were killing me.Washington Redskins (4-2)Best loss of the season: 21-9 to the Colts. Indianapolis has given up 30+ points four times this season, and 35+ three times. The Redskins managed nine (9). The Derek Anderson led Bills (Colin Kaepernick should win his collusion case with ease) scored as many touchdowns against the Colts as the Redskins did. Oh yeah this was a home game for the Redskins.Worst win of the season: 20-17 over the Cowboys. Dak Prescott, who is apparently trying to average less than 200 yards a game this year, had a season high in passing yards with 273. Alex Smith couldn’t hit a 200, he finished with 178. They should have lost Youth Sidney Jones Jersey , but Jason Garrett played for overtime and then L.P. Ladouceur was so excited for Red Dead Redemption 2 that he played Five Finger Fillet with the football.Goal for the rest of the season: Win the division for the third time in Dan Snyder’s 20 years of ownership, then lose in the first round to Matthew Stafford or Mitchell Trubisky, who will then lose by 20+ the next week.Philadelphia Eagles (3-4)Best loss of the season: 26-23 to the Titans in OT. Sure, the Panthers meltdown was terrible, but the Panthers aren’t a bad team. Following the Eagles game the Titans went ten quarters without scoring a touchdown, and in the seven quarters prior to the Eagles game, they hadn’t scored a touchdown. Worst win of the season: 34-13 over the Giants. The Eagles beat perhaps the worst team in the league and in the wake of it boasted about how they got their swagger back. It looked something like this:Goal for the rest of the season: Refocus after the bye, win at least four the five remaining games against the division to squeak into the playoffs only to lose to a late game Torrey Smith bomb or Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers throwing a last second TD to some third string tight end that you’ve never heard of.Dallas Cowboys (3-4)Best loss of the season: 20-17 to the Redskins. We could talk about all the mistakes but the cherry on top is that in the wake of the game they decided to relive the Roy Williams trade. Worst win of the season: 40-7 over the Jaguars. Everything clicked in that game Youth Cameron Johnston Jersey , and it was fool’s gold. Prescott threw for just 183 yards and Cole Beasley had the second 100 yard receiving game of his career.Goal for the rest of the season: Go 8-8 and have Jason Garrett keep his job, then run back the same team next season and expect different results.New York Giants (1-6)Best loss of the season: Hiring Pat Shurmur.Worst win of the season: Drafting Saquon Barkley over a quarterback. Barkley’s been fantastic and it hasn’t mattered one bit. They have the worst record in the league because Eli Manning is done and needs to be replaced. Of course they’ll be in a position to draft one high again, but with John Mara saying that Eli has years left, they’ll probably wind up taking an offensive lineman to once again reconfigure their line. Maybe it’s for the better, because Pat Shurmur’s track record of QB development is Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy and Brandon Weeden.Goal for the rest of the season: Keep playing Eli and lock up the #1 pick.