Name: Jacksonville Steps Up As AFC Contenders After Big Win
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Description: The Jacksonville Jaguars' victory on Sunday over the Denver Broncos positions them as AFC favorites, with a solid lineup showcasing their strong potential.

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All right, so yesterday, Joe, we talked about this just a little bit. Jacksonville gets this big win in Denver. I wanna start. Let me start with this. Do you think Jacksonville has a case? To be conference favorites today. I think they clearly have a, I think they have a case to be the best team favorites though, you think so? I do. I do. I like their weapons. I like the rushing attack again. They, they, their offensive line to me. Uh, can run the football. Uh, you know, and we've seen it against, you know, Kansas City. We've seen it, uh, against multiple teams in the conference. I, I feel confident in them. I like the identity that Liam Cohen has now. He looks like a confident signal caller and play caller. This team now, he's confident with the players. He, he understands how to utilize the talent. He creates one on one mismatches. And, and again, Brian Thomas still hasn't emerged, right? So ETN, they made the, I mean, think about the move that they, they shipped Hank Bigsby to Philly, who's now a pedestrian running back when, uh, with Doug Peterson, he was the pure number one and Travis ETN looks like he's back in Death Valley pounding the rock, catching the football out of the backfield. Strange now as a security blanket and above average tight end. Parker Washington is great. I mean. I like the talent and defensively that secondary is good. I like them. So I, so, yeah, I would bet again I wanted to see this game yesterday and I said that I liked them with the 3.5. If they could go in, I thought it was an emotional letdown spot. They're winning 6 straight. They knocked off a team that had won 11 straight. I mean, what better, what more can you ask for? So this is why for me, I think they have a very real argument as the best team in the AFC. I really believe that. I don't think I can get to them being booked as favorites in the conference, because despite the fact the path is there, I do not think they're going to grab the one seed. I think it'll still either end up being Denver or New England. That, that, that's what I anticipate. Um. It doesn't mean that they can't win it. And I think what you have right now in this conference, Joe, is a group. You look at the AFC championship odds, we're booking, we're, we're, we're flashing 9 teams. I could sit here with my eyes closed and tell you why all 9 aren't gonna win it. The trick is actually getting it, getting to a team. The problem though is how much of this seeding stuff is up for grabs. So your favorite today is the Denver Broncos. And if the Denver Broncos are the number one seed, I think they belong then as favorites. They don't have to, they don't have to play in, in the opening round, could be messy. They're gonna have a home game off by where we have seen Sean Payton be very, very good just throughout his career, but, but perfect sense coming back to Denver. And then it would be at home in a conference championship game if they're there. But all of a sudden now, if this team loses to the Chargers in week 18, Chargers are gonna have to beat the Houston Texans next week. Easier said than done, but booked as favorites. The Broncos are gonna go from the one seed. To the 5 or the 6. And then here's reality for Denver. Good luck. Good luck finding a soul to pick the Denver Broncos to win a game, much less the AFC if they're a wild card team. No, Nobody is gonna pick them in that spot. No, very difficult. And again, if they have to play down the road against Josh Allen, are you giving Bo Nix and Denver the, the matchup, or, or. The, the, the advantage in that type of situation, no. But, you know, I, I will say this about LA. That's a rematch of last year's playoff game with Houston. They got smashed in the second half of that game. You know, you would think that Houston does have the defensive advantage by the, in, in that matchup, the way they contained Justin Herbert, and held them to 4 interceptions or forced 4 interceptions in that playoff win last year. I can't get, here's the thing when we're talking #1 seeds right now, week 6, you know, week 16 ending week 17 on the horizon. I would say Jacksonville to me is the team that I feel most confident about. I don't feel confident in Houston. That's Houston to me, again, you look at that game, uh, uh, Ryan, you said it. You said it. You saw it a mile away, but, but with that, that's a mile you play that in a playoff game, you're gonna get clipped. I know you have that mental. Reality where my defense is better than anybody and they could carry us when your defense doesn't step up in a playoff game and you're gonna need to rely on your offense, you're treading water in rough, rough seas. Well, I can't wait to watch that game next week between the Chargers and the Texans though, because here's the thing all of a sudden if you're LA, so, so this team started the year 3-0, 3-0 in division, and then all of a sudden they felt left for dead when he at least came to the, the division, right? They, they were gonna miss the playoffs kind of situation. Um, You control your destiny if you're the Chargers, right? You control your destiny. It's right there in front of you. And I know, hey, win out, right? Uh, it's much easier said than done, you know, be a team goes from 14 and 3 to 13-4, but it's right there for the Los Angeles Chargers because they're another one of these teams. It. Anything I'm betting Justin Herbert to win his first playoff game on the road. That's my point. But that's my point. Out of all the quarterbacks, Nick, Herbert, Lawrence, who are you betting on? And, and, and look, so often that that is what it comes down to. But I think it's also about feeling better about the guys around, uh, these guys there and those Chargers guys, everyone stepped up in Dallas, both sides of the football. I did think that was impressive.

Jacksonville Steps Up As AFC Contenders After Big Win

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