{"id":96535,"date":"2025-12-26T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:28:12","slug":"10-things-jaguars-must-do-to-beat-colts-in-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96535\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things Jaguars Must Do To Beat Colts in Week 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The next game is the biggest game. Again.<\/p>\n

This has been the Jaguars’ weekly mantra while navigating their way through multiple big late-season games, and it remains a theme as they prepare to play the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind., Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars have big goals within reach. They must keep winning to reach them.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars (11-4), winners of six consecutive games and seven of the last eight, can clinch their third AFC South title in nine seasons with a victory Sunday if the Houston Texans (10-5) lose to the Los Angeles Chargers (11-4) Saturday. They also enter the weekend seeded No. 3 in the AFC, a game and a half behind the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos (13-3) and a game behind the AFC East-leading New England Patriots (12-3).<\/p>\n

They can still earn the No. 1 seed if they tie the Broncos and\/or Patriots for best record in the AFC.<\/p>\n

Those are lofty goals. And the Jaguars enter Sunday looking like a team capable of reaching them, with the offense and quarterback Trevor Lawrence<\/a> playing as well as any team in the NFL and a turnover-centric, tough defense complementing the offense in a big way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The next game is the biggest game. Again. This has been the Jaguars’ weekly mantra while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[881,116,118,41033,117,885,9670,880,6315,884,9669],"class_list":["post-96535","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-indianapolis-colts-2025-reg-17","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\/96535","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=96535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}