NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- An upbeat Ken Whisenhunt put himself and the team's play calls in the middle of things worth questioning after the Titans' 14-13 loss to the Bills that dropped his team to 1-3.

The Titans had the ball at their 31-yard line with 1:41 on the clock when a field goal could have won the game.

But Marcus Mariota threw deep up the left side and Bills cornerback Stephon Gilmore peeled off of Justin Hunter and closed on intended target Kendall Wright for the game-sealing interception.

“Obviously, No. 1, it wasn’t a great call,” Whisenhunt said of the Titans' final play on offense. “It’s one of the ones you want to have back. You get feelings in a game where you think they are going to be successful. Obviously that didn’t play out.”

Hunter helped mess it up. He’s supposed to “take-to-post,” meaning he’s supposed to take the corner and the middle safety with him away from the boundary where Wright was and open it up.

The Titans got the look they expected, but Gilmore stumbled and was able to turn back and stop.

“When you don’t win, there are a lot of things you don’t do right,” Whisenhunt said. “What I’d say is, I took a shot there, and there was a lot of time left in the game. In thinking about it because it was a turnover, I wish that I would have done something a little bit more conservative and given us a chance to get moving.

“Sometimes as a play-caller, you’ve got to go with your gut. There is merit to being aggressive at times. ... But in that situation, especially after the week against Indianapolis when we went down the field with (Mariota for a late touchdown), you don’t anticipate an interception but maybe something a little bit more conservative and get it going.”

The big disappointment is that at the start of his fourth year, Hunter is still making mistakes like that. The Titans rank him as their fourth receiver and can’t get a reliable route from him at a crucial moment.

Whisenhunt also said while the same defense worked on an earlier third-and-long, the Titans could have played better on the crucial third-and-23 scamper by Buffalo quarterback Tyrod Taylor.

“Let’s not get away from the fact that it wasn’t a great call, and we’ll do better,” he said.