Eric Mangini's first season _ warts and all _ with Cleveland is in the books. He can only hope it was good enough to get him a second.

Jerome Harrison rushed for 127 yards and a touchdown and Josh Cribbs ran for a TD as the Browns beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 23-17 on Sunday, giving Cleveland its first four-game winning streak since 1994 to push Mangini into an uncertain offseason with momentum to fight for his job.

While the Browns (5-11) ended their season on a high, they ended Jacksonville's razor-thin AFC playoff hopes. The Jaguars (7-9), who had to win and needed four other teams to lose just to qualify, will have the months ahead to ponder what went wrong. They dropped their last four games.

Playing on a slippery, snow-covered field, the Florida visitors were mostly out of their element and lost for the first time in six visits to Cleveland.

Mangini, who was doused by orange Gatorade in the closing seconds, left the field not knowing if he'll walk on it again as Cleveland's coach.

Team president Mike Holmgren is scheduled to take over on Monday, and the former Green Bay and Seattle coach said last week that he intends to meet with Mangini soon after his arrival. Holmgren said he would only need a "little while" to decide whether to bring back Mangini, whose Belichikian personality irritated some Cleveland fans and whose discipline _ long practices, pop quizzes, fines _ had some of the Browns in an uproar.

If Mangini is indeed through, he went out with the longest winning streak for a Cleveland coach since Bill Belichick.

And, if Holmgren has not yet made up his mind, Mangini gave him more to consider as he weighs whether to gut the Browns.

Cleveland's four-game winning streak _ the club's longest since its expansion rebirth _ was bookended with victories over Pittsburgh and Jacksonville, two quality teams that add credence to the Browns' late-season surge under Mangini, the former New York Jets coach who is trying to avoid joining Ray Rhodes (Philadelphia, 1998; Green Bay, 1999) as the only head coaches to get fired in consecutive full seasons by two different teams.

Harrison's emergence was one of many surprises for the Browns down the stretch. He made the most of his opportunity after Jamal Lewis sustained a season-ending injury and capped his three-week breakout by rushing for 561 yards on 106 carries.

His 6-yard TD run on 4th-and-1 with 4:03 left in the third quarter put the Browns ahead 20-3.