All it took for the Jaguars to clinch a playoff spot Saturday was, essentially, the karmic reversal of the Myles Jack wasn’t down play from the 2017 AFC championship game. This time, Josh Allen’s scoop-and-score was the deciding play in a 20–16 win over the Titans to claim the AFC South in prime time. It was a game that lived up to its dour billing, with all the flare of a fireworks show for pets with sensitive hearing.
There were two offensive touchdowns. No quarterback had a rating over 100. Derrick Henry averaged fewer than four yards a carry, but still ran the ball 30 times anyway. Travis Etienne averaged 2.4 yards a carry and vanished like a political tweet someone made in college.
For these reasons, one might feel content in erasing this one from memory and choosing to mentally simulate wild-card weekend, which will see the Jaguars hosting a playoff game despite being 3–7 not terribly long ago.
