JACKSONVILLE Brian Burns Jersey , Fla. (AP) — Jaguars coach Doug Marrone has no plans to rest starters in the regular-season finale even though Jacksonville is locked into its playoff seeding.“We are 100 percent all in on winning this football game,” Marrone said Tuesday.Jacksonville (10-5) exhausted any chance of getting a first-round bye by losing 44-33 at San Francisco on Sunday. Coupled with wins by New England and Pittsburgh, the Jaguars secured the No. 3 seed in the AFC and will host their first playoff game since the 1999 season.More Jacksonville Jaguars newsJaguars expect DE Yannick Ngakoue’s holdout to be short-livedJaguars rookie safety Zedrick Woods submits retirement paperworkJalen Ramsey says Jaguars don’t plan to give him contract extension this seasonJaguars sign former UCF running back Taj McGowan for added depthJaguars QB Nick Foles to miss OTAs for undisclosed ‘personal reason’That would lead some coaches to rest starters in a game with little, if anything, at stake.Marrone said there’s no chance he takes that route at division rival Tennessee (8-7).“Make no mistake about it, just so there is not a lot of talk during the week, when the players come in (Wednesday), we are talking about how we are going to play to win and do everything we possibly can to win this game. Period,” Marrone said. “I am not even thinking about what happens beyond that, and that is the way we are going to go about our business this week.”Marrone added that it was an easy decision.“I think that is what we have been about all year,” he said. “That is what this team has been about. For me, I don’t think it is a problem at all.”The game has plenty of postseason repercussions, including for two of Jacksonville’s previous coaches http://www.carolinapanthersteamonline.com/greg-little-jersey , Gus Bradley and Mike Mularkey.The Titans and head coach Mularkey would clinch a playoff berth with a victory against Jacksonville. The Chargers and current defensive coordinator Bradley need the Jags to win to have a shot at securing the No. 6 seed.“When we go over the games and everything, I said, `We are going to bounce back and we are going to work our (butts) off this week and we are going to go out and win this game and win this quarter,'” Marrone said. “That was pretty much the conversation and there wasn’t, `Are you sure?’“There wasn’t any wavering from anyone of what we want to do and what we want to accomplish this week.”The Jaguars need to erase any lingering hangovers from the team’s worst performance since a Week 2 loss to Tennessee. Jimmy Garoppolo shredded Jacksonville’s vaunted secondary. Matt Breida and Carlos Hyde gouged the Jags on the ground. And San Francisco intercepted three passes by Blake Bortles, who delivered his worst outing in a month.Still, Jacksonville clinched its first AFC South title in franchise history in the first quarter when the Titans lost to the Los Angeles Rams.“Anytime we’re kind of winding down the season, you lose a game like this and you got one more opportunity before going into the playoffs, you want to make sure you’re kind of clicking on all cylinders going into the playoffs,” Bortles said. “I think it’s exciting. It’s an opportunity to kind of get back on track and get rolling going into January.”NOTES: Marrone said left tackle Cam Robinson (abdominal strain) and receiver Allen Hurns (ankle) are “trending in the right direction.” Robinson left last week’s game in the first half and did not return. Hurns missed his sixth consecutive game.131<button class="view-gallery">View Gallery</button> Gallery:Jacksonville Jaguars cheerleadersReinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports | Reinhold Matay The final touchdown of the NFL regular season put an end to the longest playoff drought in U.S. pro sports. The touchdown belonged to the Cincinnati Bengals, the drought no longer belongs to the Buffalo Bills and somewhere in the midst of all that, the Baltimore Ravens found themselves staring at a very long offseason. Andy Dalton drove the Bengals 90 yards and capped it with a 49-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Boyd on fourth-and-12 with 44 seconds left in the last game going Sunday evening. Cincinnati won 31-27 to knock the Ravens out of the playoffs and put Buffalo in. The last-minute loss at home to a team with nothing to play for (Cincinnati finished 7-9) was a brutal way for Baltimore to end its season. The Ravens only needed to win to get in. Buffalo, meanwhile Will Grier Jersey , had wrapped up a 22-16 victory at Miami only moments before the late-game drama in Baltimore. Safe to say, the Bills – to say nothing of the folks in charge of their Twitter account – were watching every moment in the locker room. Their 17-year playoff absence had been the longest in American pro sports. Now burdened with that distinction are baseball’s Seattle Mariners, who haven’t reached the playoffs since 2001. Buffalo’s last trip to the playoffs ended badly – with the Music City Miracle . Also sewing up playoff spots Sunday were Tennessee and Atlanta. The playoffs start next Saturday when the Titans visit the Chiefs and the Falcons visit the Rams. On Sunday, it’s Buffalo at Jacksonville and Carolina at New Orleans. New England, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Minnesota all have first-round byes and will start the playoffs the weekend of Jan. 13-14. In case you missed it, here are the other top topics after the NFL season’s 17th and final regular-season Sunday: OH-FER: All you can really say is that it was Oh-So-Browns. Cleveland’s final chance to avoid a winless season came to an end on fourth-and-2 from the Pittsburgh 27 when Browns quarterback DeShone Kizer stepped up and fired a strike directly at receiver Corey Coleman’s hands. It went right through them and cemented Cleveland’s 28-24 loss to the Steelers. The Browns joined the 2008 Detroit Lions as only the second team to go 0-16 in a season. That comes a year after their 1-15 campaign, though Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said coach Hue Jackson would not lose his job. COACHES GONE: Colts coach Chuck Pagano gave an emotional post-game talk to his team after a 22-13 win over Houston – one that sounded as if he knew he wouldn’t be working there much longer. And he was right. Moments later, the Colts fired Pagano, who had just completed his third straight season without a playoff appearance. He wasn’t the only one let go Sunday. The Raiders fired Jack Del Rio shortly after their 30-10 loss to the Chargers closed out a 6-10 season. ESPN has been reporting the Raiders are trying hard to bring Jon Gruden back to the sideline. John Fox (Bears), Jim Caldwell (Lions), Vance Joseph (Broncos), Bruce Arians (Cardinals) and Marvin Lewis (Bengals) are among those who could be out http://www.carolinapanthersteamonline.com/christian-miller-jersey , either voluntarily or involuntarily, come Monday. HARRISON SHINES: Released by the Steelers after not getting the playing time he wanted, 39-year-old linebacker James Harrison signed with the Patriots this week and responded with two sacks against the Jets in New England’s 26-6 win. The victory secured home-field advantage through the playoffs for the Patriots. Before his ugly exit from Pittsburgh, Harrison had a grand total of three tackles and one sack in five games in 2017. Against the Jets, he finished with five tackles and two QB hits in addition to the two sacks. OUT BUT NOT DOWN: Nobody would want to face the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs. Nobody will have to. But watch out in 2018. Sparked by the arrival of former Patriots backup Jimmy Garoppolo, the Niners (6-10) finished the season on a five-game winning streak, closing with a 34-13 victory over the Rams, who rested many of their starters while looking toward next week’s playoffs. WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR: Though the Browns had wrapped up the top pick in the 2018 draft a week earlier, they got another win of sorts when the Texans lost. Cleveland owns Houston’s top pick next year, and by losing, the Texans finished 4-12 and in the fourth draft position. The second pick goes to the Giants and the third selection goes to the Colts. Denver and the Jets helped themselves by losing. Each finished 5-11; the Broncos will pick fifth and the Jets sixth. —
