JACKSONVILLE – Let's get to it …

Motler from C-Ville, VA

Tough game. We're 4-2 with a chance to be 5-2 going into the bye week. I don't think you can question the effort the players gave in all aspects of the game. Looking forward to seeing how they respond to this loss. Luckily, we control a lot of the things that need to be fixed. I believe they can clean it up and get a win in London.

The Jaguars indeed are 4-2 following a 20-12 loss to the Seattle Seahawks at EverBank Stadium Sunday. They would rather be 6-0 or 5-1 as they head to London to play the Los Angeles Rams at Wembley Stadium Sunday, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with a 4-2 start in the NFL. If you had told me before the season the Jaguars would be 4-2, I would have told you they were better than I believed they would be before the season. If the team continues playing as it has over the course of the first six games, I believe it will be a playoff team. You usually don't go 14-3 or 13-4 in the NFL unless you're a great team and I don't think the Jaguars are a great team. I think they are a good, improving team that it if continues play as it has played so far can win 10 or 11 games. Maybe more. Maybe fewer. Stay tuned.

JT from Palm Coast, FL

Offensively, we deserved to lose this game. The defense cannot keep carrying us. It is still way too sloppy. Naturally, you would think it should improve week-to-week, but so far, it has looked ugly more often than not.

The bad news is you're kind of sort of right. The good news is the Jaguars are exactly 4-2 – and when you're 4-2, you can work to get things fixed and still be playing interesting games. A 4-2 record in the NFL is not ugly. It's actually sort of beautiful.

Stephen from Hilton Head, SC

John. Every now and then, you lose to a better team.

This is important to remember – and equally difficult for fans to remember when their teams lose. The Seahawks are good. They have a particularly good defensive line and that defensive line won the matchup against the Jaguars. They didn't blow out the Jaguars. The Jaguars' defense didn't collapse or look overmatched. The team as a whole was a little off and when you're a little off in the NFL, you can easily lose. The Jaguars had a chance to tie three times in the fourth quarter and didn't take advantage of those opportunities. The Jaguars looked like a 4-2 team that lost to a good 4-2 team.

Mike G from Mandarin

The worst O-line play so far this season.

Well, yeah.

Johnny from jville

This is the Jags I remember.

The Jaguars are 4-2. They played a sloppy game Sunday in which both lines were out-played and they still had a chance to tie a good team three times in the fourth quarter. The NFL is hard. An improving team in a new regime isn't going to be dominant immediately. This is not the "Jaguars you remember" or the "Same Old Jaguars." I understand the scars of the past. But this isn't that.

Jay from So-Cal

Back to the same old Jags with quarterback Trevor Lawrence at the helm. The O-line didn't hold up well – and I get that at times it won't hold up against some defenses. The thing that gets me is the inconsistencies of Lawrence with his ball placement and not throwing the ball away, while taking a sack that kills offensive possessions. Easy throws not thrown well and the stupid penalties like illegal formation and offsides that kill any play before it started. Beyond coaches, the Jaguars need a football "mentalist" or "hypnotist" that can get the Jags out of defeating themselves.

RIP, Bob.

Anita from Springfield

Losses are never good, and I way prefer how I feel after wins, but between his press conferences and the postgame speech we got to watch, my faith in Coach Coen couldn't be higher. We're gonna be fine.

Jaguars Head Coach Liam Coen has shown during his time with the organization to be not only a high-end offensive mind but a high-end leader and communicator. The high-end offensive-mind stuff matters. The high-end-leader-and-offensive-mind stuff matter just as much if not more when it comes to being a head coach. These traits, as you mention, are evident when he speaks to the team and the media. I agree that the Jaguars will be fine moving forward. Coen is a major reason.

Chris from Tampa, FL

Hope we don't face another defensive line like that again. All those mistakes we make every single game became compounded Sunday. I felt bad for the defense. They made the needed stops at the end to give the offense a chance.

True that.

Jim from Middleburg, FL

Hi, John. Nobody has a good day when the offensive line has a bad day. Seems obvious but…

The Jaguars' offensive line for the most part had good-to-very games for the first five games of the season. The group didn't have a good day Sunday. It wasn't alone among Jaguars units in this regard, and a very good Seattle defensive front having a very good day contributed to the Jaguars' offensive line having a bad day. Either way, the result was the same.

Ryan from Bremerton

Is this pass defense ever going to stop giving up big plays in the passing game?

The Jaguars allowed two keys 61-yard passes Sunday – one for a second-quarter touchdown to wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba to give the Seahawks the lead and one to tight end A.J. Barner in the fourth quarter for a key field-flipping gain that allowed the Seahawks to kneel out the clock. Big plays in the passing game before Sunday have not defined this defense this season, but they have happened the last two weeks. They need to be a blip and not a trend.

Chuck from Ponte Vedra Beach

Tom Brady would never accept being sacked 7 times before lighting a fire under those that needed to be motivated.

I wondered how long it would take before someone blamed Lawrence for being sacked seven times in an obscure way I hadn't considered. The answer was less than a day.

Kevin from Jacksonville Beach, Fl

Hi, John. Sunday was a tough dose of reality. Penalties hurt. Our offense is missing at elementary football (lining up properly). How can we beat another team when we keep beating ourselves? This needs to be corrected, and soon.

It sounds as if you and Coen are in lockstep on this issue. The sloppiness must get fixed. It's Priority No. 1 this week.

Bradley from Death Valley, California

I haven't read or seen much discourse on the fairly predictable loss to the Seahawks, but it seems like the biggest thing was the Jags couldn't run the ball. Running the ball for this team makes everything else so much easier. I know the Jags went down 14 but was still early third quarter, but do you feel the Jags gave up on the run too early?

I don't know that the Jaguars' loss to the Seahawks was all that predictable. This was two good teams, with the main difference in the outcome being that the Seahawks pressured the quarterback better and hit two big pass plays. Neither team ran particularly well. Could the Jaguars have stuck with the run better? Perhaps. But from this view Coen's DNA is to stick with the run even when it's not working. He understands that defenses must respect it to allow other aspects of the offense to function. He said Monday he could have stuck with it a bit more on Sunday, but sticking with the run when you're trailing in the second half against a team with a defensive front is very difficult. The thought from this view is that Coen did this Sunday about as well as could be expected given the circumstance and the opponent.

James from Socorro, NM

Other teams are allowed to be good, and the Seahawks defensive line played well enough to win them the game.

And then some.

Josh from Somewhere in the middle

Does not having our starting center make that big a difference? Trevor has been pretty clean all year. But I don't think many quarterbacks can be successful with the amount of pressure he had yesterday

Not having center Robert Hainsey on Sunday mattered. If it didn't matter, he wouldn't be starting. Not having tight end Brenton Strange also mattered. It shouldn't be the difference in allowing six sacks in five games and seven in one game, but those absences mattered.

Chris from Mandarin

The Jaguars for the second week in a row have not been able to run the football. Their defensive turnovers have also come to a grinding halt. It makes their early season success look a little bit house of cards-ish rather than something sustainable.

Clark, those little lights … they aren't twinkling.