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Bengals RB Mixon will start when cleared to play

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor made the team’s running back hierarchy explicitly clear Wednesday.

Even though Samaje Perine has done well the past few weeks, the starting spot still belongs to Joe Mixon.

“Joe Mixon’s our starting running back,” Taylor said. “The last game he played, he had five touchdowns. Tremendous effort. And Samaje’s done a really good job filling in.”

Perine has started the last two games while Mixon has been out recovering from a concussion he sustained in the team’s Week 11 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Since that game, Perine has rushed for 194 yards, one touchdown and 10 first downs. Perine also has 136 receiving yards during that span, the fourth-highest of any running back according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

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Cincinnati’s rushing attack sputtered early in the season before the team shifted its rushing philosophy from a zone-heavy scheme to a gap scheme. Mixon’s rushing numbers, which were among the worst in the NFL at one point, showed improvement in the middle of the season. In Week 9 against the

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Titans' Ryan Tannehill doesn't see Bengals matchup as a revenge game from playoff loss

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    • Covered Eagles for USA Today
    • Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times
    • Played college football at Cheyney University

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The look on the faces of quarterback Ryan Tannehill and other Tennessee Titans players said it all as they walked off the field after a crushing home loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in the divisional round of the playoffs last season.

Having finished the regular season with the top seed in the AFC and earning a first-round bye, the Titans had a golden opportunity to do something special, but it was swept from under their feet.

With three interceptions in the 19-16 loss, Tannehill bore the bulk of the criticism. He called the loss “brutal,” saying it would take a long time to get over it.

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Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill threw three interceptions in Tennessee’s Divisional Round playoff loss last season. The Titans are set to play the Bengals on Sunday. Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

“That was last year, and half this team wasn’t even here,” Tannehill said about the matchup. “This is a new team facing another new team. Obviously, it’s a game that we want to win. But it has nothing to do with last year.”

Tannehill is right. The Titans only returned 29 players from last season.

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Tannehill threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns in last week’s 27-17 win over the Green Bay Packers. It was his most passing yards in a game since Week 2 of last season when he threw for 347 yards against the Seattle Seahawks.

Rookie receiver Treylon Burks came alive in the Packers game, posting seven receptions for 111 yards. Burks went through his share of trials and tribulations during minicamp when he faced questions about his conditioning and asthma which kept him from participating.

Through it all, Tannehill was a steadying force for Burks and showed confidence in the rookie from the start.

“He has been really encouraging,” Burks said. “He’s always making sure that I’m in the right spots. He just has always had confidence in me.”

Burks obviously didn’t play in last season’s postseason game, but his presence the last two games after missing the previous four with a turf toe injury has maybe sparked two of Tannehill’s best two performances of the season.

That’s the confidence they hope to build on against the Bengals, whether it’s a redemption game or not.

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Belichick calls for challenges under 2 minutes

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick, the league’s longest-tenured head coach, repeated his stance Monday that coaches should be allowed to challenge plays under two minutes.

Belichick did so after being asked about a key play in the Minnesota Vikings’ thrilling 33-30 overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills, in which Buffalo receiver Gabe Davis’ 20-yard catch with 17 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter wasn’t reviewed by officials.

NFL senior vice president of officiating Walt Anderson later said the play — which was critical in setting up a tying field goal to send the game into overtime — should have been reviewed and ruled incomplete.

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The NFL doesn’t allow coaches to challenge plays in the final two minutes before halftime or the end of regulation, in part so they aren’t allowed to manipulate challenges strategically to stop the clock.

“Provided the team has a challenge, they should have the opportunity to challenge really any play. I’m on record on that,” Belichick said in his Monday videoconference.

In a Monday interview on sports radio WEEI, Belichick added: “There have been other examples of that, plays that have occurred in situations where teams couldn’t challenge because the rules prohibited [it].

“I get forward progress, and things like that, that you can’t challenge. I’m not talking about that. I’m saying not having the ability to challenge a play that could impact the outcome of the game — even calls like holding and pass interference and things like that — I don’t see why those plays can’t be reviewed [by a coach’s challenge].”

Belichick is in his 48th season coaching in the NFL, his 28th as a head coach, making him one of the more influential voices on league matters.

First-year Minnesota head coach Kevin O’Connell, who was drafted by Belichick in 2008 as a quarterback, said of Davis’ reception Sunday: “It was right in front of me. I didn’t think that was a catch. In that mode, that needs to be something that either is from up top [in the press box with the replay official], or possibly New York [at the replay center]. We didn’t get any clarification on that. I did ask.”

As for Belichick, whose team was off over the weekend, he often prefers to keep his comments on NFL rules private among coaches at the league’s annual meeting.

After sharing his thoughts on the Davis play Monday, he added: “The rules are the rules. The competition committee and the league votes on those rules. Whatever they are, that’s what they are.”

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Cardinals list QB Murray, S Baker as questionable

TEMPE, Ariz. — After starting the week with a 0% chance of playing this weekend, Arizona Cardinals safety Budda Baker returned to practice Friday and was later listed as questionable for the Sunday game against the Los Angeles Rams.

Coach Kliff Kingsbury said Friday that he was told Baker, who injured his right ankle more in last weekend’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks, didn’t have a chance to play early in the week. Baker didn’t practice this week until Friday.

“We’ll see how he progresses the next couple days,” Kingsbury said. “But, I mean, he’s a special human and wanted to be out there today.”

Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray also was listed as questionable against the Rams and will be a game-time decision, Kingsbury said. Murray injured a hamstring against the Seahawks and was limited the past two days.

“We want to see how he is moving around and make sure he’s able to do what he can do if we’re going to put him out there,” Kingsbury said.

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Murray has been able to throw and go through his drops during practice, Kingsbury said, but the coach will want to see if Murray can take off and run without issue. If Murray has to stay in the pocket, he can do that, Kingsbury said.

“If he has to run around, he has that ability obviously, but he can get it done a bunch of different ways,” Kingsbury said.

“We don’t want him to feel any sort of pressure to not run or not play his game to an extent and so we’ll make sure that he feels fully comfortable if we’re going to put him out there on Sunday and we won’t know until we get out there and run him around game day.”

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