Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback explains defensive struggles against Chicago Bears

The Jacksonville Jaguars defense ranked among the NFL’s worst entering Week 6, but the hope was that a matchup with a rookie quarterback overseas would give them a week to return to their preseason expectations.

Four Caleb Williams touchdown passes later, and it’s clear the Jaguars defense is who its record and production say they are: one of the worst in the league.

The Jaguars allowed just seven yards in the first quarter, but Williams proceeded to tear the Jaguars apart on the ground and threw through the air. He rushed for 56 yards, avoided sacks, completed nearly 80 percent of his passes and simply never looked uncomfortable as he marched up and down the field in defense of the Jaguars.

There was even a sequence when the game was only 21-10 in which the Jaguars stopped the Bears on two separate third downs before three different penalties (two on Ronald Darby, one on 12 men on the field) the Bears a chance to stay. in the field

What exactly went wrong this time for the Jaguars defense? Their captain and best player, Josh Hines-Allen, spoke after the game.

“Penalties, not leaving the field. Things we’ve been struggling with all year,” Hines-Allen said. “After the penalties we kept them on the field for a game with three penalties and we finally ended up scoring. So we have to beat ourselves up too, we have to correct it.”

The Jaguars have struggled on third downs as a defense all year, and Sunday was the result of nothing but self-inflicted mistakes. In a week when the Jaguars needed their defense to step it up, the only thing they stepped on was their own feet.

“I mean, I think, again, outside of penalties, if you look at the play, we were going off the field. So we did a better job of getting to the quarterback, getting him out of his spot. All of that, it was just the penalties,” Hines-Allen said.

“I can’t really talk about what put them in that position to feel like they needed to be there, but at the end of the day we still had to respond and still get off the field, and we didn’t do anything right. the job today.”

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