The Jaguars on Sunday will play the Los Angeles Chargers at EverBank Field in Jacksonville<\/a>. It’s a mid-November AFC game between above-.500 teams with legitimate playoff aspirations. So this game very definitely is about that.<\/p>\nIt’s also about the immediate past.<\/p>\n
Specifically, it’s about the Jaguars moving on from a 36-29 loss to the Houston Texans last Sunday \u2013 and while moving on from losses in professional football usually is not epically difficult, this loss wasn’t “usual.”<\/p>\n
The Jaguars lost a 19-point fourth-quarter lead in Houston, missing a chance to sweep the two-time defending AFC South champions and missing a chance to move three games above .500. It was the sort of game that can define a season, a loss difficult enough to alter a season’s trajectory.<\/p>\n
It’s up to the Jaguars to redirect that trajectory back to the one that enabled them to win five of their first eight games \u2013 and to still be in the seventh and final “playoff” position in the AFC entering Sunday.<\/p>\n
Winning a difficult matchup against a good team Sunday is the first step to realtering the trajectory. This isn’t a must-win game, but it feels important \u2013 really, really important \u2013 and not just because all November games are important for postseason contenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 This is about response, and that makes it important. Really, really important. The Jaguars on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[881,116,118,117,885,27783,9670,880,6315,884,883,9669],"class_list":["post-48064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-john-oehser","tag-los-angeles-chargers-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2025-reg-11","tag-news-10-things","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-week","tag-news-gameday","tag-news-jaguars-news","tag-sponsor-uf-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}