{"id":98308,"date":"2025-12-29T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:20:13","slug":"recapping-jacksonvilles-week-17-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/98308\/","title":{"rendered":"Recapping Jacksonville’s Week 17 performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 28, 2025, 5:04 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

In a hard-fought Week 17 AFC South showdown in Indianapolis, the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> climbed out of an early hole to defeat the Colts<\/a> 23\u201317, showcasing resilience on both sides of the ball and tightening their grip on the division race.<\/p>\n

Here’s how everything went down.<\/p>\n

The Colts drew first blood in the opening quarter as Blake Grupe connected on a 33-yard field goal<\/a> to cap an 8-play, 29-yard drive, putting Indianapolis up 3\u20130. Indianapolis extended that lead in the second quarter with a 15-play, 83-yard drive, highlighted by a 3-yard touchdown run by Jonathan Taylor, giving the Colts a 10\u20130 advantage and forcing Jacksonville into a comeback mode.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars<\/a> responded before halftime, methodically driving 12 plays for 69 yards and cutting into the deficit when Trevor Lawrence powered in a 4-yard touchdown run, bringing the score to 10\u20137 at intermission. Jacksonville carried momentum into the second half and seized the lead on a 6-yard Lawrence touchdown run, putting together another sustained drive that flipped the game\u2019s momentum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Late in the third quarter, Indianapolis answered back with a 5-yard touchdown pass from Philip Rivers to Mo Alie-Cox to make it 17\u201314, but the Jaguars\u2019 defense tightened thereafter.<\/p>\n

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In the fourth quarter, Jacksonville put together a decisive drive culminating in a field goal that extended the lead with 18 seconds remaining, and a late defensive stand preserved the win.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars\u2019 balanced offense and bend-but-don\u2019t-break defensive performance not only earned them the road victory but kept them atop the AFC South picture.<\/p>\n

Jaguars vs. Colts Week 17 highlights\"\"<\/a>Parker Washington switches field to move Jacksonville into striking distance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 28, 2025, 5:04 p.m. ET In a hard-fought Week 17 AFC South showdown in Indianapolis, the Jacksonville…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,31100,116,118,117,1254,9548,11232,298,43177,38919,4339,420,4341,51823,442,96,437,300,423,34],"class_list":["post-98308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessfree","tag-in","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagafc-south","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagblake-grupe","tag-tagindianapolis","tag-tagindianapolis-colts","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagjonathan-taylor","tag-tagmo-alie-cox","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagparker-washington","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98308","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=98308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}