AFC Winless, woebegone Bengals fall short to Tennessee, 30-24

It wasn't pretty, but the Titans won their third game of the season.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Corey Dillon saw the huge hole and headed for it, cradling the ball tightly in his left arm so no one could strip it away.
He saw no one in position to stop him from running the final yard and scoring a game-winning touchdown. Just a few more strides and he would be celebrating in the end zone.
Dillon got blind-sided by what happened next.
Pulling guard Matt O'Dwyer accidentally tripped Dillon short of the goal line on fourth-and-goal, allowing the Tennessee Titans to hold on for a 30-24 victory Sunday that kept the Cincinnati Bengals winless and woebegone.
"What are you going to do?" said Dillon, who ran for 138 yards. "Stuff happens."
Especially to the Bengals (0-7), who keep their distinction as the NFL's only winless team for at least one more week.
Not pretty
It looked like they'd finally met their match Sunday in the Titans (3-4), who played just as poorly. Tennessee helped the Bengals with silly penalties and a fumble by Eddie George.
The Bengals pulled ahead 14-0 -- only their second lead all season -- and briefly won the fans over, getting them to remove the brown bags from their heads and cheer instead of jeer.
"I'm not proud of the way we played on defense. No way," Titans safety Lance Schulters said. "It's bittersweet -- we got the win, but we played horrible on defense."
Steve McNair threw three second-half touchdown passes to put the Titans ahead, but the game wouldn't be decided until Cincinnati ran its final play with 68 seconds to go.
The Bengals drove to a first-and-goal from the 9, and two runs by Dillon and Jon Kitna's scramble put the tip of the ball on the 1-yard line.
Key play
On fourth down, Cincinnati decided to run Dillon to the right behind a pulling guard. When the ball was snapped, O'Dwyer popped out of his stance and headed down the line, accidentally getting tangled with Kitna as he turned to hand off.
O'Dwyer stumbled into Dillon's path, tripping him just as he headed for a big hole. Dillon fell forward, landed short of the goal line and tried to stretch the ball into the end zone before three Titans hit him.
The officials ruled he didn't make it.
"He landed on the ground and tried to bounce forward," Schulters said. "I was on top of him by then, so the referee made the right call."
The Bengals held their arms up in the touchdown signal as the play was reviewed, hoping to influence the decision. None of the replays was conclusive, so the call stood.
"That's just our luck," Dillon said. "You don't want to leave it up to the officials. For some reason, they're not likely to give us calls in our favor, but it shouldn't have come down to that."