JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- There was a side of Andrew Luck that we hadn't been seen for nearly two months on display standing behind the podium on Sunday at TIAA Bank Field.

The Indianapolis Colts quarterback mentioned at least three times during his postgame interview that he didn't hold up his "end of the bargain" in the team's 6-0 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Luck needed 52 pass attempts to throw for 248 yards in the defeat. But it was more than that for Luck.

It marked the first time Luck has been shut out in 82 games during his seven-year NFL career. His streak of at least three touchdown passes came to a screening halt at eight games, and his streak of competing at least 71 percent of his passes ended at five straight games after going 33-of-52 (63 percent) against the Jaguars.

"I didn't feel very sharp," Luck said. "I didn't feel like I was putting the ball in the places to really give guys a chance to catch them. And credit to their coverage, you know, it's a great team game. I think, too, in the locker room, everyone feels that way. You know, that we all didn't hold up [our] end of the bargain as players. ... I'm discouraged today, but I'm also in a sense encouraged to get back to work and work on these things and improve."

Luck was expected to have some hiccups during his redemption season after missing 2017 with his shoulder injury. It looked like he got those out of the way early in the season before he went on a tear that had him mentioned with Houston’s J.J. Watt as the two front-runners for the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

That same kind of domination was nowhere to be found by Luck -- or the offense -- Sunday.

Luck's longest completion was for only 20 yards, and he spent most of the afternoon trying to avoid Jacksonville defenders. There were more underneath passes than shots down the field. Last week, Luck's streak of five games without being sacked ended when the Dolphins got to him once. On Sunday, he was hit nine times and sacked three.

The Colts (6-6) had an opportunity to put the pressure on Jacksonville early on when they forced a turnover in Jaguars' territory, but Luck threw his third interception in two games on an attempt to tight end Eric Ebron. That was a sign of things to come for the quarterback.

"I didn't quite hold up my end of the bargain as this sort of orchestrator of the offense out there on the field," Luck said. "I didn't get the ball to the open guy enough. I didn't do the simple things enough, but as far as the shots go, you can't force it. You can't force shots in this league. It doesn't work like that. But when [opportunities] presented themselves, we were just a little off. Just a little off. We would have loved for that one pass to have counted, but that's the way this game works."

A touchdown would have been good enough for the Colts to win the game, and it would have had had them still right in the thick of things in the AFC playoff race. But now Luck will have to get the offense back on track and likely run the table the rest of the season while also getting some help from other teams to make the playoffs.

"We are all in a sense discouraged, in a micro-sense about this game, but I think that guys will get back," Luck said. "We'll recover, we'll regroup, and that we'll be positive back in the building. That has been our calling card. The simple things improving. We have to do that. I think all of us understand the reality of the picture, but we're not going to worry about it. We'll worry about the next step, and for us, that is recovering and trying to go on the road against a division opponent [at Houston] and try to get a win."