“We still have unfinished business…”

JACKSONVILLE – Much has been accomplished.

Doug Pederson acknowledged that Friday, a day after the Jaguars won a third consecutive game to stay in control of their postseason fate. The Jaguars’ head coach made this much clear, too:

“We still have unfinished business,” Pederson said Friday, a day after the Jaguars’ 19-3 victory over the New York Jets (7-8) at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. “I think the guys sense that, and the guys feel that, and the guys believe that. That’s just where we are.”

The Jaguars (7-8) won their third consecutive game to move to within a half game of first place in the AFC South behind division-leading Tennessee (7-7). The Jaguars have multiple playoff scenarios, including wild-card possibilities, but the clearest is this:

If they win their final two games, they win the AFC South.

“I like where we’re at,” Pederson said. “I like where we’re at as football team. I like the head space of the guys, where we are. We’re just got to focus on these next three or four days or so here, getting healthy and getting recharged here a little bit, and making a nice good push here at the end of the season.”

The Jaguars will visit the Houston Texans (1-12-1) in Week 17 and will play host to the Titans in the Week 18 regular-season finale. The Titans play host to Houston Sunday and the Dallas Cowboys (10-4) in Week 17. The Jaguars will win the South if the Titans/Jaguars finish tied for first and the Jaguars win the season finale because that would mean they would have swept the Titans.

The first NFL division tiebreaker is head-to-head record.

“I think the guys are really starting to grow up as the season moves along,” Pederson said. “The thing that I appreciate with this group is how we’ve hung together, how we fought through adversity in the middle part of our season.”