JACKSONVILLE \u2013 This was a good sign, a good step.<\/p>\n
Head Coach Doug Pederson described the Jaguars’ latest victory that way, and said winning in Sunday’s regular-season finale could have the same feel.<\/p>\n
“It would mean we finished the season the right way; that would be something to really hang our hats on as we move forward,” he said Monday.<\/p>\n
Pederson, speaking a day after the Jaguars\u2019 20-13 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the 2024 regular-season home finale<\/a>, spoke extensively of the grit shown by the Jaguars in recent weeks as a disappointing 2024 season approaches an end.<\/p>\n “It’s a team that continues to compete,” he said. “It’s a team that continues to fight to the end.”<\/p>\n Pederson, too, cited Sunday as an example of a strong culture<\/a> despite a 4-12 record and losses in seven of the last nine games.<\/p>\n “Winning has a part in [culture],” he said. “I don’t think it’s everything, though. Take a look at our season. Not what we wanted. You would look at us and go, ‘They don’t play like a 4-12 team.’ They’re still fighting to the end.”<\/p>\n The Jaguars have lost nine games by a touchdown or less, winning two of four games \u2013 both by one score over the 3-13 Titans \u2013 after being eliminated from AFC South contention with five regular-season games remaining.<\/p>\n “Guys are still fighting, guys are still battling, they’re playing for one another, playing with a lot of pride,” Pederson said. “You saw that Sunday.”<\/p>\n The Jaguars on Sunday made big plays late, with quarterback Mac Jones<\/a>‘ 11-yard fourth-quarter touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr.<\/a> giving them a 20-10 lead and second-year safety Antonio Johnson<\/a> defensing Titans quarterback Mason Rudolph’s potential game-tying pass at the goal-line with :09 remaining.<\/p>\n Pederson called the game “a great example of everybody doing their jobs and executing.”<\/p>\n “Was it perfect? No, it wasn’t perfect,” he said. “At the same time, I thought both sides of the ball played well. That’s what you have to look at. That’s something we can lean on and teach from moving forward.”<\/p>\n The Jaguars, after back-to-back 9-8 seasons that included a 2022 AFC South title, started 2024 0-4 \u2013 with Pederson on Monday saying of the seasonal, “I’d be lying if I said it didn’t bother me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 This was a good sign, a good step. Head Coach Doug Pederson described the Jaguars’ latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[13284,7,130,17412,134,131,36924,133,6,38113,526,394,36831,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-172433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-doug-pederson","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-front-page-headline","11":"tag-game-day","12":"tag-john-oehser","13":"tag-news-front-page-headline","14":"tag-news-game-week","15":"tag-news-jaguars-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sponsor-nemours","18":"tag-tennessee","19":"tag-tennessee-titans","20":"tag-tennessee-titans-at-jacksonville-jaguars-2024-reg-17","21":"tag-tennesseetitans","22":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114776891960893432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}