14 days and three hours ago, the Jacksonville Jaguars were putting the finishing touches on a home finale rout of the Houston Texans. One more win (or one Tennessee Titans loss) and we’d be AFC South champions for the first time, well, ever.
They were locked into the playoffs with two weeks to go.
Everything was trending upwards. Everything.
And then the last two weeks came.
The cross-country Upside Down game against the San Francisco 49ers was easily dismissed — after all, we’d locked up the division in the first quarter and we weren’t moving any higher or lower than the No.