{"id":98015,"date":"2025-12-28T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98015\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T21:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T21:08:40","slug":"one-team-who-can-help-jacksonville-jaguars-playoff-seeding-in-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98015\/","title":{"rendered":"One team who can help Jacksonville Jaguars playoff seeding in Week 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jacksonville Jaguars <\/a>have clinched a playoff spot, however, they still have a lot more to play for in these final two games.<\/p>\n

So what other teams should you be rooting for in Week 17<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Jaguars<\/a> can no longer clinch the division title<\/a> this week with Houston’s win over LA. That will have to wait until next week.<\/p>\n

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But the Jaguars do remain in the mix for the AFC’s No. 1 playoff seed at 11-4. They trail the 13-3 Broncos<\/a> and the 12-3 Patriots in the standings.<\/p>\n

In order to claim the conference’s top spot, the Jaguars have to win out, and they also need Denver to lose their Week 18 game against the Chargers. The Patriots have to lose one of their final two games as well.<\/p>\n

Jaguars Week 17 NFL playoff rooting guide<\/p>\n

So with Houston and Denver having already played this week, there is really only one game of significance to the Jaguars this week, and that is the Patriots at the Jets.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars will want the Jets to win.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: NFL playoff standings: One team in Week 17 who can help Jaguars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars have clinched a playoff spot, however, they still have a lot more to play for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9788,9790,20345,23680,116,118,121,117,12004,50849,51764],"class_list":["post-98015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-broncos","tag-chargers","tag-denver","tag-houston","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-patriots","tag-playoff-spot","tag-the-patriots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98015","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=98015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}