Bears beat Jaguars so badly that players admitted to quitting mid-game

Jacksonville is down BAD.
Jacksonville Jaguars v Chicago Bears
Jacksonville Jaguars v Chicago Bears / Harry Murphy/GettyImages
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Week 6 went well for the Bears. You saw it, I saw it, lots of Europeans wearing random, mismatched NFL gear saw it. Heading into their bye, there's going to be plenty of talk over the next two weeks about how good the Bears' start has gone. Caleb Williams looks like a franchise quarterback, the defense is playing as well as expected, Tory Taylor is a star, etc. Every Bears fan on the internet is going to spend the rest of October talking about how The Bears Are Officially Back, so this blog is dedicated to something a little different.

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Specifically, this blog is dedicated to the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are apparently one of the worst teams in football? And embarrassingly so? That was very much not a team just having a slow start to the season. When teams fire their coach in the middle of the season, it's because they play games like that. It was so bad, in fact, that players had no problem openly calling out their effort after the game.


Jaguars' safety says team showed 'a lot of quit' in Week 6 loss to Bears

"Yeah, it was really bad," Cisco said. "I just felt like there was – how should I say this – a lot of quit ... In a situation like that, you can feel when we're playing as one, and when we're not. And it felt, very early in the game, maybe out of halftime, that we weren't playing as one ... We're laying our bodies on the line. Guys got to understand that when you're going out there, you're really playing for your brother. You're putting guys in vulnerable positions, whether that's physically or just from a career aspect. Take care of each other when we're out there, at the least. Even if things start to get bad."

That sure is a quote. Cisco's been in the league for four years now – all with the Jaguars – so you know it's bad when guys who were around for the Urban Meyer season are talking about how miserable this one is. And all of this because they played the Bears? Being smug winners is going to take some getting used to, but I imagine that Bears fans are up to the task.

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