JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The season is less than a month old, but for many Jacksonville Jaguars fans it feels like it’s finished.

Quarterback Blake Bortles understands that – heck, he even agrees he’s a big reason why – but he’s still optimistic the Jaguars can overcome their 0-3 start. It will take some serious gut checking and soul searching, and it has to happen before the Jaguars head to London for Sunday’s game against Indianapolis.

"I think you get to find out what kind of people are in the locker room, what kind of people are in the building, when you go 0-3," Bortles said after the Jaguars’ 19-17 loss to Baltimore in front of 60,127 at EverBank Field. "There was a lot of hype before the season, and that’s all completely gone. We know that and we see that, so I think you get to kind of find out the character of this team, the character of this coaching staff, and what we’re going to do about it because we’ve still got 13 games to play.

"It’s a long season. There’s a lot of ball left, and we’re not where we wanted to be by any means, but we’re still excited to have 13 opportunities to go play and win."

But if the Jaguars keep playing the way they’ve played, that’s going to be hard. Bortles threw three interceptions Sunday and the offense managed just 3 yards on three possessions that began inside the Baltimore 40-yard line. They got 8 yards after recovering a muffed punt and kicked a field goal to take a 17-16 lead, but then on one drive they gained 0 yards and threw an interception and on another lost 5 yards and had a field goal blocked.

That helped result in the team’s sixth consecutive loss and dropped the Jaguars to 1-13 in games played in September under coach Gus Bradley. They’re 0-3 for the third time in the last four years.

"There's a lot of ball left, and we're not where we wanted to be by any means, but we're still excited to have 13 opportunities to go play and win," Blake Bortles said Sunday. Logan Bowles/USA TODAY Sports

"We ain’t out of the damn playoffs," defensive tackle Sen’Derrick Marks said. "Nobody’s out of the playoffs right now. Plenty more football left to play. We have to continue to get better as a team and try to push and put multiple games back to back."

However, calls from fans for Bradley to be fired grow louder each week. He is 12-39 in three-plus seasons, and owner Shad Khan said earlier this year that a winning record in 2016 is “everybody’s reasonable expectation.” That means the Jaguars would have to go 9-4 from here out, and they have games against Kansas City, Denver, Minnesota and Houston (twice) remaining.

Players aren’t concentrating on Bradley’s situation. They want wins, which would naturally take the heat off Bradley.

"That’s nothing that I can control," Marks said. "I don’t know how that works. I come to work and do my job just like he tries to come to work and do his, and I think that’s all that we can do as men. If it’s somebody’s job to tell him he’s got to go, then I guess that’s what they got to do."

Said tight end Marcedes Lewis: "He wouldn’t want us to be [worried], but our relationship with him is real. I don’t want to talk about that right now. We just have to go out there and find a way to get one next week and protect the culture."