Week 14 scouting report: Vikings at Jacksonville

Sunday: Noon at EverBank Field (Ch. 9, 100.3-FM, 1130-AM)

• The Jaguars (2-10) are guaranteed a sixth consecutive season of 10-plus losses.

• They're propped up by a talented defense, including top-five overall draft picks CB Jalen Ramsey and DE Dante Fowler, ranking in the NFL's top five in yards per play and yards per game.

• Rookie third-round pick DE Yannick Ngakoue leads the Jaguars with six sacks.

• QB Blake Bortles has seen a dip in his production during a third NFL season as he's on pace for a career-worst 20 interceptions.

• Jacksonville changed offensive coordinators midseason, promoting QBs coach Nathaniel Hackett in October to replace fired Greg Olsen.

• The defense hasn't been able to generate many takeaways, so Jacksonville has the league's worst turnover margin (minus-18).

• Bortles, the third overall draft pick in 2014, leads the league with 15 interceptions while throwing as much as any quarterback (40.2 attempts per game, ranking fourth).

• Bortles' 50 interceptions are the most in the NFL since he was drafted.

• On his third season: "Not the results we've wanted, not the personal play I've wanted, but we're headed in the right direction. We have the right people in the right places."

• On changing coordinators: "I think Hackett has done a really good job of putting a plan together and he does a really good job of installing. What he does really well is making sure the offense understands the objective of each play."

• On his turnovers: "There's been some of everything. It's figuring out how do you eliminate that stuff. The tipped balls and stuff, that's going to happen, but how do you eliminate the boneheaded turnovers?"

• The Zumbrota, Minn., native, North Dakota State graduate and former Seahawks defensive coordinator has improved the Jaguars' yards allowed in each of his four seasons — all losing campaigns.

• On taking stock of his fourth season as coach: "Obviously this year is disappointing. ... I think we all had higher expectations, but we kind of created this. There are no excuses."

• On Bortles' third season at the helm: "We think so highly of him, and it's almost hurtful some of the things you're seeing him go through, whether it's he's pressing, trying to make a play happen."

• On Vikings CB Xavier Rhodes: "We had a chance to spend a lot of time with him coming out of Florida State. He's everything we looked for. It's not surprising he's doing very well."