SEATTLE – Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Myles Jack called it humiliating and embarrassing.

Outside linebacker Josh Allen said it was depressing.

Head coach Urban Meyer said the Jaguars went backwards.

Jack and Allen described Sunday’s 31-7 loss at the Seattle Seahawks pretty accurately, but what Meyer said is the most concerning. The Jaguars had made progress since an embarrassing Week 1 loss to the Houston Texans, but to come off their by week and play as poorly as they did against the Seahawks, wipes out any positive momentum they had grabbed after snapping their 20-game losing streak with a 23-20 Week 6 win in London over the Miami Dolphins.

“I felt like every week we’ve made great strides,” Meyer said. “The team got better and better and better, and today was a step back. We tried to build on the momentum of the win [over Miami] because we played pretty decent in London and Trevor [Lawrence] had one of his better games. Offensively, we played better and defensively we played better [against Miami], and we just went backwards.”

Sunday wasn’t as ugly as it was in the Week 1 loss to the Texans, but it was close – and their upcoming schedule will make it hard to regain the momentum they lost any time soon. The Jaguars play host to the Buffalo Bills at TIAA Bank Field (1 p.m. ET, CBS) Sunday, then travel to face the Indianapolis Colts, where they’ve lost seven of their past eight trips, before a home game against the San Francisco 49ers.

The Jaguars gave up a season-low 229 yards to the Seahawks. So, statistically, the defense seemed to play okay, but it was a sloppy first half. Seattle totaled 166 yards, and quarterback Geno Smith had only one incompletion in 15 attempts, as he threw for 137 yards and one TD, and rushed for another TD. The Jaguars also had penalties for roughing the passer and illegal participation for 12 men on the field -- plus they had to take a timeout to avoid the same penalty on the next snap.

Offensively, the Jaguars had just 99 yards in the first half. Running back James Robinson left the game with a bruised heel and did not return, and the offense didn’t handle losing its best player well. Lawrence and receivers Tavon Austin and Jamal Agnew were not on the same page on a couple throws, one of which was intercepted.

The total tally of dreadfulness for the Jaguars in the loss: 12 penalties for 93 yards, an onside kick returned for a touchdown, an interception thrown, seven points scored, three dropped passes, and the opposing quarterback had only four incompletions.

That ruined all the positive feelings around the franchise after it had beaten Miami in London on Oct. 17. In that game, the defense gave up 431 yards but held Miami to just seven second-half points and Lawrence drove the Jaguars into position for kicker Matthew Wright to make a pair of field goals in the final 3:40 to give the franchise its first victory since the 2020 season opener.

Now, the criticism on Meyer ramps back up – and it should, considering how unprepared the team looked – and the spotlight again shines on the lack of playmakers on both sides of the ball.

Though Jack and Meyer both insist they do have those guys in the locker room, the 1-6 record and fact that the offense had trouble finding a rhythm without Robinson indicate otherwise.

“If we’ve got all this talent, we’ve got all these super players, we have to do it,” Jack said. “We’ve got to go out there and make plays. I’m always going to put this on the players. That’s on us.

"We’ll get better, trust me, because this is humiliating. It’s embarrassing, and it’s not something that anybody wants to be a part of as far as going out there and putting that product on the field. We have to be better, and we’ll get it right. We got 10 weeks. It’s simple fixes we have to make. We just have to do it and the time is now.”

Lawrence admittedly didn’t play well and got battered around pretty hard, even though the Seahawks had just one sack, but he said as disappointing as this loss was, he doesn’t see it as a setback. While it's concerning that they played so poorly after the bye week, it doesn’t mean the progress they’ve made over the past seven weeks has been wasted.

“I think it just goes to show if you don’t come out ready to play and you don’t play well, this can happen to anybody on any week,” Lawrence said. “It doesn’t matter who you’re playing, you just have to play well, and we didn’t. It’s not concerning; for me it’s not. Because I’m in that locker room, I’m with all those guys and see how hard they work, how they prepare.

“I know probably from the outside looking in, it might be. But it’s not concerning, it’s just we played like crap today. That’s going to happen every now and then, but we can’t let this happen again, for sure.”