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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee coach Mike Mularkey is taking an optimistic view of the Titans latest loss, a game in which they trailed by 16 points.Mularkey said Monday hes encouraged by how the Titans fought back to take the lead. The veteran coach and former player said hes been around a lot of teams that didnt fight back, especially after making their would-be comeback tougher with three turnovers -- two returned for touchdowns.We dont want to be falling behind, Mularkey said. But we also have the ability to come back, and nobody flinched. Nobody panicked. Nobody quit, and thats the heart of this football team.Tennessee went to San Diego trying to climb above .500 and move within a half-game of Houston in the AFC South. Instead, the Titans trailed 16-0 less than 16 minutes after kickoff in the 43-35 loss to San Diego. The turnovers came from Marcus Mariota on two interceptions and a fumble, and Mularkey said having turnovers returned for touchdowns can devastate teams but not these Titans.Mariota threw for 313 yards with three touchdowns and also ran for a fourth. Mularkey said Mariota made some very nice throws, including threading an 8-yard pass to Delanie Walker in the fourth quarter that pulled Tennessee within 33-28. But Mariota now has lost four fumbles this season with eight interceptions.I guess we have to take some bad experiences to maybe emphasize it like weve had, Mularkey said. He knows more than anybody what hes got to do when he turns up, and hes got to do a good job of getting that thing high and tight and put it away.Tennessee (4-5) has some other issues to fix before hosting the Green Bay Packers (4-4) on Sunday. Thats the Titans lone home game this month before road trips to Indianapolis (4-5) and Chicago (2-6) before their bye.The defense, which had been ranked sixth allowing only 82.5 yards per game this season, allowed its first 100-yard game by a running back -- and then some.Melvin Gordon had 100 yards by halftime and just missed adding another in the second when he finished with a career-high 196 yards rushing. The Titans held Phillip Rivers to 99 yards in the second half but gave up 176 yards and two TD passes before halftime.Defensive lineman Jurrell Casey said the Chargers were running draws up the middle at him and teammate DaQuan Jones, and the Titans now need to tighten up their run defense quickly.Weve got to go back ... to try to figure out what were going to do to make sure we dont let this happen to us again, Casey said.Mularkey wasnt happy with the officiating of referee Brad Allens crew either. He cited three penalty calls immediately after the game, and Mularkey said Monday that he sent 11 of 15 plays to the league office he thought couldve been officiated better, including a defensive holding penalty on safety DaNorris Searcy when the receiver fell wiping out a sack by Casey on third-and-1. San Diego scored the go-ahead TD a play later.Im not using that as an excuse for the loss ... by any means, Mularkey said.Game notesThe Titans played without Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry, who strained a calf muscle in pregame warmups. Mularkey said an MRI confirmed a strained calf and that Henrys pain tolerance will determine when the running back returns. But the Titans promoted RB David Fluellen from the practice squad and waived CB Cody Riggs a couple hours after the coach spoke to reporters. ... 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As soon as he left the crease and England were in to bat the pitch began to look like a minefield.The visitors were trailing by 49 runs at stumps and had only four wickets in hand to mount a challenge. Their plight - especially after scoring 400 in the first innings - was largely due to one man. And it was to see that man bat that people thronged to Wankhede stadium.Kohli broke a slew of records. The most runs by an Indian in a series against England - Rahul Dravid was left behind. The most runs in an innings by an India captain - MS Dhoni was left behind. In 2016, he has made 1200 runs at an average of 80 and a strike-rate of 60.Making the day sweeter for India was Jayant Yadav, who made 104 off 204 balls in a record stand of 241 for the eighth wicket. He had the highest score at No. 9 (211) and was part of the largest eighth-wicket partnership (392) in Indian first-class cricket. Having replaced the man with whom he put on that partnership - Haryanas Amit Mishra - he came to hold the corresponding records for India in Test cricket too.The spotlight wouldnt budge from Kohli, though. A crunching straight drive in the first over of the day converted his fourth successive hundred into a 150-plus score. In the 162nd, he only rolled his wrists on a straight delivery, but it skipped away to the backward square leg boundary. The timing was such that it beat Englands best fielder Ben Stokes, and the placement was such that it was well to the right of the man.Kohli batted for over eight hours. The concentration it must have taken, the mental and physical strain he must have felt to play an innings of such quality on a difficult pitch was finally on view as he walked off for lunch with a tired smile on his face. In the dressing room, everyone from the support staff to his team-mates patted him on the back. When he came out in the second session, he biffed Chris Woakes back over his head for a six and ran like mad for a single next ball.The shot the fans cared about most came a little earlier. A gentle little flick in the 165th over, all along the ground, to the left of midwicket. It raised Kohlis 200. Smart phones were out to record the moment. Anil Kumbles camera didnt miss it either. A little slice of history to put in the back pocket. In all of Test cricket, only five men have made three or more double-hundreds in a year: Don Bradman, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Brendon McCullum and now Kohli.Englands response to that innings came from Joe Root. If it hadnt been for his firebrand style of play England may never have reduced their deficit to 49 at stumps. Root made 77 off only 103 balls against two of the best spinners in the world on a surface that had become rank.Considering it had waited 312 overs to do so should make it immune to criticism. Besides, its pace was true. That meant batsmen picking length early and looking to score first and defend second would flourish. Root exemplified those characteristics well as he swept the spinners hard and stepped down the track often to take balls on the full and paste them through the covers. India were forced to pull the close catchers out and Root inside edged Ashwin to short leg when there was no one there. He fell lbw to Jayant in the last hour of play, deceived into going back to a full delivery because its pace was quicker and trajectory was flatter.These are the kinds of tricks that made India such a force in their own conditions. That and their accuracy, which separated them from Englands, especially where the scorecard was concerned.Anything on the fourthh day at Wankhede would turn.dddddddddddd A straight line drawn on it would come out a semi-circle. India turned to spin in the eighth over and Ravindra Jadeja got the ball to turn square thrice in a row. Close catchers buzzed around the batsman like mosquitoes, and puffs of dust erupted even off the undisturbed parts of the surface let alone the rough.Alastair Cook was the visitors best bet at playing time. Two overs before tea, however, he went back in an effort to flick a good length ball with the turn through square leg. But Jadeja, by virtue of being quicker through the air, had the England captain hurrying into his shot, losing his shape and out lbw. It was Jadejas 100th wicket in his 24th Test; equal fastest to the mark with Ryan Harris and Lance Gibbs and one match slower than Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Saqlain Mushtaq.Moeen Ali came out to bat with four men crowding him. He picked one of them out, extra bounce making his little nudge off the hip carry to M Vijays right at leg gully. In the five minutes to tea, England had lost two wickets to add to Keaton Jennings golden duck.Jonny Bairstow resisted with an unbeaten 50, producing some memorable moments. He tried to shoulder arms to a ball from R Ashwin pitching about four feet outside the line of off stump only to have it strike him on the stomach. He went to cut the same bowler and was beaten by the turn that was so sharp it went past the wicketkeepers left. His use of DRS was pristine as well. He was given out twice in the space of five overs but used the technology to save himself. Not everyone enjoyed Bairstows street-smarts though. Umpire Bruce Oxenford actually threw his head back in exasperation at the second review, which was asked for so quickly he possibly knew he had made a mistake and giving the batsman out caught at short leg.England were very nervy in the last 15-20 minutes minutes, into which India squeezed five overs. Indeed, Jadeja finished one in a minute or so to give Ashwin a go at the nightwatchman, Jake Ball, and did him with a topspinner to end the day. They had lost Ben Stokes prior to that, reverse sweeping the ball onto his boot for second slip to catch it on the rebound.It was a bit cruel all this happened to England on the same day they conceded 180 runs at 4.44 runs per over.Indias overnight lead was 51. They had got seven wickets and if the remaining three had fallen quickly, Cook and his men may have felt they still had a chance. In 34 overs on the fourth morning, there wasnt a single breakthrough. When India were finally all out after lunch, they had pulled ahead by 231 runs.Kohli was the ninth wicket to fall when his lofted drive carried to deep extra cover. Plenty of England players came to congratulate him, including Stokes and Bairstow. All at the Wankhede stadium were on their feet.His partner for much of the day, Jayant, had begun by scything a half-volley from Rashid through the covers and then the ensuing short ball was cut behind point. He was more than a match for an inswinging yorker from Ball in the 149th over and the good length delivery that followed was driven to the cover boundary with some style.Jayant seems to think like a top-order batsman. He spotted mid-on was up with Moeen bowling around the wicket in the 155th over, danced down the track and lofted the ball over the fielders head. Cook put a long-on in for the next ball and the batsman tapped a single to him. Jayant outscored Kohli in the first hour, 42 runs to 36, en route to sweeping records of his own.Having allowed the oppositions eighth wicket to post more than 200 runs for the first time since 1908, England were able to knock Indias No. 10 and 11 quickly enough. Small mercies. ' ' '