{"id":97798,"date":"2025-12-28T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97798\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:02:08","slug":"jaguars-playoff-picture-how-week-17-vs-colts-impacts-afc-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97798\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars playoff picture: How Week 17 vs. Colts impacts AFC standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The regular season is nearing its end and every game matters for the Jacksonville Jaguars right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Heading into Week 17 vs. the Colts, with the Texans on Jacksonville\u2019s heels after Houston punched their ticket to the postseason thanks to a win over the Chargers on Saturday, the Jags have to win to hold onto the AFC South lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Colts currently hold a five-game losing streak, which led to their playoff elimination after a very hot start, but they\u2019ve shown a little more fight in their losses since signing 44-year-old grandfather Philip Rivers to take over at quarterback. The Jags have the Titans, one of the worst teams in the league in Week 18 \u2014 another winnable game, but as you know, it\u2019s any given Sunday in the NFL, especially when it comes to division rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s where everything stands heading into Sunday\u2019s games, including the Jags\u2019 matchup with the Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Updated AFC South standings<\/p>\n<p>Updated AFC playoff picture<\/p>\n<p>Eliminated from AFC playoff contention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The regular season is nearing its end and every game matters for the Jacksonville Jaguars right now. Heading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,40614,117],"class_list":["post-97798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-playoffs","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97798","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=97798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}