JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Sam Darnold was not seeing ghosts on Sunday, but the game was still a nightmare.

The Jets quarterback threw three interceptions, including a killer one in the fourth quarter, in a 29-15 loss to the Jaguars. The Jets are 1-6, their worst start since 2014.

The Jets did not play as poorly as they did a week ago in the Monday Night Massacre against the Patriots, but they still looked lost at times. If the panic button has not been pressed yet, it needs to be.

“Nobody’s pulling us out of this,” Jets first-year coach Adam Gase said. “We have to do it. We have to go back to practice. We have to go into our meetings. We have to make sure that we’re getting better every day. We have to do it. Nobody else is coming to save us.”

The Jets had a long list of problems Sunday. The offensive line was terrible, allowing eight sacks. The run game did not exist (Le’Veon Bell had 23 yards on nine rushes). The defense allowed plays of 66 and 70 yards.

But the biggest concern must be Darnold, the second-year quarterback the Jets are banking on to be their future. For the second straight week, he had terrible ball security and has now thrown seven interceptions ina span of six days. He was under siege behind what might be the worst offensive line in football, but there were still issues with his footwork, not knowing when to throw the ball away and forcing things into coverage.

“I’ve got to play better,” Darnold said. “I didn’t play nearly as good enough as I can or should.”

Darnold finished the game 21 of 30 for 218 yards with two touchdowns, the three interceptions and a 73.3 rating.

Even with as poorly as they played, the Jets were in the game in the fourth quarter after Darnold threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Griffin and then converted a two-point conversion with the same combination. It was 22-15 and suddenly the Jets had life after looking dead for most of the day.

The defense stopped the Jaguars and gave the offense the ball back at its own 8 with 10:10 left in the game. Any hope was extinguished when Darnold threw a brutal interception to A.J. Bouye. Darnold decided to throw deep to Vyncint Smith, overthrowing him and the ball landed in Bouye’s arms. Why challenge the Jaguars’ best cornerback with a long pass? It was a head-scratching decision.

Gase blamed himself for the play call, but it felt like the coach was just trying to protect his young quarterback.

“I’ve just got to be smarter,” Darnold said. “He was playing over the top, clearly, and I threw it up just to try to get the ball in play and give our guy a chance and it backfired.”

Gardner Minshew took it from there. The Jaguars rookie gave the Jets fits all day and he put the nail in the coffin with a pretty 8-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Chark on third-and-goal where he extended the play. Jacksonville improved to 4-4. Minshew ran for three third-down conversions and extended plays with his legs all day.

Darnold threw his third interception with 3:18 left and the game was iced with Tre Herndon picking him off for the second time in the game.

It was amazing that the Jets were even in the game in the fourth quarter.

The game could not have started off worse. The Jets gave up a 66-yard run to Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette on the second play of the game that put Jacksonville at the Jets’ 9-yard line. Minshew connected with Keelan Cole for a 5-yard touchdown two plays later and a 6-0 lead.

The Jets answered with their best drive of the season. Darnold looked like a different quarterback than the one who was embarrassed on national television last week. He marched the Jets 93 yards on 12 plays, going 7-for-7 for 88 yards on the drive. It was capped off by a 24-yard touchdown pass from Darnold to Griffin. The extra point gave the Jets a 7-6 lead.

The problem for the Jets was the offense then vanished until late in the third quarter.

Darnold was running for his life for most of the day. He threw an interception to Herndon on their second drive, when he avoided a sack but then forced a throw to Robby Anderson.

Two plays later, Minshew found Chris Conley for a 70-yard touchdown pass after Jamal Adams failed to bring Minshew down and linebacker James Burgess slowed up in his coverage. Jacksonville had a 13-7 lead after one quarter.

Field goals made the lead 22-7 by the end of the third quarter. The Jets offense woke up with a nine-play drive that finished with Griffin’s 3-yard score and two-point conversion to make it 22-15, giving the Jets hope. Then, Darnold’s interception ended that.

A dejected Jets team was left searching for answers.

“We’re 1-6,” said safety Jamal Adams, who is now 10-29 in his career as a Jet. “It’s been three years. It’s frustrating. I just want to win.”

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