NFL Week 18 schedule headlined by Titans-Jaguars on Saturday night
If we had told you back in September that the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars would be headlining the NFL Week 18 schedule, you would no longer take us seriously.
But that’s where we are right now. The NFL announced times for Week 18’s action to conclude the 2022 regular season on January 7 and 8. In said release, the league indicated that these two teams will kick off at 8:15 PM ET on Saturday. The game will be aired on both ABC and ESPN.
From a logical view, this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Jacksonville finds itself at 8-8 following its blowout win over the Houston Texans in Week 17.
The Tennessee Titans, losers of sixth consecutive games, sit at 7-9 on the season and one game behind Jacksonville. However, Mike Vrabel’s squad owns the tiebreaker. This makes their Week 18 matchup do-or-die, meaning the winner will come away with the AFC South title and earn a spot in the NFL Playoffs.
The NFL Week 18 schedule is always kept open until the week of. There’s an obvious reason for this. That is to say, capitalizing on do-or-die games as ratings bonanzas for nationally televised games.
The real ticket in this one is going to be Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars. They have now won four consecutive games with the sophomore signal caller playing at an elite clip. As for the Tennessee Titans, they’ll likely roll with Joshua Dobbs under center after he performed well in his first NFL start against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday.
