NASHVILLE -- Now that they have the No. 1 seed for the AFC playoffs, the question becomes what do the Tennessee Titans do with it.

The Titans finish the regular season at Indianapolis in a game that is all but meaningless except to tally the final standings. The Colts have the No. 5 seed in the AFC, and neither team can move up or down in playoff seeding with a win or loss Suday.

But the Titans are now in a position to walk a fine line between resting starters and trying to maintain the momentum created by their 31-14 blasting of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"I think we keep it consistent. I think we continue to do the same things that have brought us this far 15 or 16 weeks into the season," nickelback Vincent Fuller said. "We just have to go on the field and try to get better and see where we made mistakes at and try to correct those, so that they don't happen again. And when we go out there on the Football field, just play Football."

The playoffs are often a tricky thing in the NFL, as being a No. 1 seed has proven to be more curse than blessing this decade. Since 2000, only one top seed -- the 2003 New England Patriots -- managed to win the Super Bowl. Several others made it to the championship game only to lose.

Others, including the Titans in 2000, didn't even got that far. They were humbled by the Baltimore Ravens 24-10 in the divisional playoffs that year.

In fact, teams that played in the first round of the playoffs have won the Super Bowl the past three seasons. Fuller, however, isn't concerned about any history lessons.

"History is what it is, but this is the 2008 playoffs, and we have to focus on that," Fuller said.

Where's Hochuli?

SAN DIEGO -- Looking for Ed Hochuli to work another Denver-San Diego game, this one with the AFC West title on the line?

Forget it. Hochuli, whose blunder helped decide the first game between the Broncos and Chargers -- in favor of Denver -- will be a couple thousand miles east in Green Bay on Sunday for the Lions-Packers game, where Detroit will be trying to avoid the first 0-16 season in NFL history. The Broncos and Chargers play at night in the AFC West showdown that concludes the regular-season schedule.

Hochuli and his crew will be officiating in Green Bay because the schedule is drawn up before the season.

Giants RBs go for 1,000 yards

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- In the history of the NFL, three teams have had two running backs rush for 1,000 yards in the same season.

Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris did it for the undefeated Miami Dolphins in 1972. Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier each hit the K-mark for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1976, and Earnest Byner and Kevin Mack each ran for 1,000 yards for Cleveland in 1985.

The New York Giants are on the verge of joining the club heading into the regular-season finale against the Minnesota Vikings with Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward -- two players who will be free agents at the end of the season.

Jacobs, who has battled a sore left knee most of the season, already has 1,089 yards. Ward is 52 from reaching 1,000 yards after gaining a career-best 215 yards in Sunday night's 34-28 overtime victory over the Carolina Panthers.

"It would mean a lot to us," Jacobs said Tuesday before the Giants held a jog-through workout. "Derrick works hard and he deserves it. He has been under the radar a lot, so if he can get this done and get these 52 yards and make that happen I'd be very, very, very happy. To be honest with you, that is a very special thing to share with someone like him and as close as we are."

The Atlanta Falcons also had a pair of 1,000-yard rushers in 2006 with halfback Warrick Dunn and quarterback Michael Vick.

Jacobs went over the 1,000-yard mark on Dec. 7 against the Eagles, a game in which he aggravated his knee injury and had to leave. He missed the following week against Dallas and returned this past weekend, rushing for 87 yards and three touchdowns to help the Giants wrap up the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

Jacobs, who also rushed for 1,000 yards last season, said he didn't think Ward had a chance for 1,000 after Dallas limited him to 64 yards on Dec. 14. Ward then had that career day against Carolina, averaging 14.3 yards on his 15 carries.

"I want him to get it. I really do," Jacobs said. "I want him to get out there and run as hard as he can to get those 52 yards. Do whatever it takes to get it. He has a tough defense ahead of him, ahead of us, this weekend in Minnesota, so it's going to be great challenge for us both."

The Giants can make it easy for Ward. They could decide to give Jacobs an extra week off to rest his knee and give Ward the majority of carries.

Don't expect that.

Coach Tom Coughlin plans on playing to win. So if Jacobs is given the OK by the doctors, he'll be in the lineup.

"Whatever they decide to do is up to them," said Jacobs, whose pounding style usually sets up things for the quicker Ward later in the game. "I'm here, I feel good and whatever coach goes with, I'll be ready for."

Ward loves working with Jacobs.

"You have Brandon softening up the defense for me and then I will get in and do what I do and we will rotate it back and forth and it will leave defenses off-balance," he said. "They won't know what to defend, so it works out well for me."

Jacobs and Ward had a long talk about the subject Monday night, spending 25 minutes on the telephone.

"And we are not phone guys at all, so I just talked to him and told him to work hard and continue to do whatever it is he is doing," Jacobs said. "It's going to be hard, but it's not something that he can't get done. It's very, very, very possible for him to get it done, so like I said, I'll be there the whole way with him standing behind him."

Ward, who was named the NFC offensive player of the week on Tuesday, gave much of the credit to the offensive line.

"I think it would mean more to the offensive line that they blocked for two 1,000-yard rushers than for me," Ward said after practice Tuesday. "Granted, I would love to have 1,000 yards rushing in the NFL, but I think it would be more of a celebration for my offensive linemen."

Whether both will be in the same locker room next season remains to be seen. It will be hard for the Giants to keep two 1,000-yard rushers under contract.

"That's definitely going to hurt," Jacobs said. "I talked to him about that as well, and every time over the past two years I've been asking him what kind of money he is looking for, and it's going up every day. So, it's funny and I laugh at him every time he tells me.

"He deserves it. He works hard and he does just as much as I do. ... It's going to be tough as an organization having to make a decision on us, but it's going to be tough to part if that's what we have to do."