**JACKSONVILLE** – This is about response, and that makes it important.
Really, really important.
[The Jaguars on Sunday will play the Los Angeles Chargers at EverBank Field in Jacksonville](https://www.jaguars.com/game-day/2025/reg-week11/chargers-at-jaguars/). It's a mid-November AFC game between above-.500 teams with legitimate playoff aspirations. So this game very definitely is about that.
It's also about the immediate past.
Specifically, it's about the Jaguars moving on from a 36-29 loss to the Houston Texans last Sunday – and while moving on from losses in professional football usually is not epically difficult, this loss wasn't "usual."
The Jaguars lost a 19-point fourth-quarter lead in Houston, missing a chance to sweep the two-time defending AFC South champions and missing a chance to move three games above .500. It was the sort of game that can define a season, a loss difficult enough to alter a season's trajectory.
It's up to the Jaguars to redirect that trajectory back to the one that enabled them to win five of their first eight games – and to still be in the seventh and final "playoff" position in the AFC entering Sunday.
Winning a difficult matchup against a good team Sunday is the first step to realtering the trajectory. This isn't a must-win game, but it feels important – really, really important – and not just because all November games are important for postseason contenders.