The AFC South-leading Jaguars (10-4) on Sunday will play the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos (12-2) at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Col<\/a>. It’s a game with significant playoff implications \u2013 and one of the AFC’s biggest games of the season.<\/p>\nIt’s a matchup of two of the NFL’s hottest and best teams, with the Broncos entering Sunday with an 11-game winning streak that has them within a victory of a division title and the Jaguars on a 5-game winning streak that has them a game ahead of the Houston Texans in the South.<\/p>\n
It’s an opportunity for a Jaguars team that has spoken recently of recognition and respect to earn those things, a chance to show again what they have shown all season \u2013 that they are a strong team capable of a postseason run.<\/p>\n
It’s also something of a high-wire game for the Jaguars, who can move to within a game of the top seed in the AFC with a victory \u2013 and who could be in second place in their division with a loss.<\/p>\n
This is what meaningful football in December means. The Jaguars are back there after a 1-season absence, and they can reach their longest single-season regular-season winning streak since 1999 with a victory. Winning also would put them in position for 1 of the best regular seasons in franchise history.<\/p>\n
This is yet another big game for team that’s playing in a lot of those these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 Another December week, another Jaguars game that matters. And this one matters a lot. The AFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[881,116,118,46609,117,885,9670,880,6315,884,9669],"class_list":["post-89651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-at-denver-broncos-2025-reg-16","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-john-oehser","tag-news-10-things","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-week","tag-news-gameday","tag-sponsor-uf-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89651","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=89651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}