AFC Bungling Bengals fall to Jacksonville

The team tied a franchise record with 13 losses.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The coaches can't count. The team can't win. The quarterback can't stand it anymore.
Things can't get much worse for the NFL's worst team, can they?
Of course they can. The Cincinnati Bengals have two more chances to make the annals of all-time greatest failures, and they're giving themselves every opportunity to get there.
Mark Brunell threw a season-high three touchdown passes Sunday, the last of them set up by the Bengals' inability to count, as the Jacksonville Jaguars rolled to a 29-15 victory Sunday. The smallest crowd in Paul Brown Stadium's three years alternately yawned and booed as Cincinnati (1-13) tied the franchise record for losses in a season.
Later, quarterback Jon Kitna called for changes at the top of the league's worst franchise over the last 12 years.
"I'm saying that, as an organization, we don't expect to win," Kitna said. "And if you don't expect to win, you're not going to win very often. Until you expect to win and do the things that are necessary to win -- until you give your players reason for optimism -- you're going to have a tough time."
Struggling
On Sunday, the Bengals had a tough time counting to 11.
They had to call a timeout in the first half when they realized they only had 10 players on the field for one of Neil Rackers' three field goals.
Math came into play again in the third quarter, with the Jaguars (6-8) trailing by a point. On fourth-and-6 from the Bengals' 43, Jacksonville punted and the ball rolled into the end zone.
Touchback? No, trouble.
Cincinnati had 12 players on the field this time. Twelve players equals a 5-yard penalty, and the Jaguars figured that the numbers now were on their side. They sent the offense back out on the field and went for it.
"Just instinct and guts," coach Tom Coughlin said. "That's all it was."
On the other side, it was unexplainable. "That was a major error," Bengals coach Dick LeBeau said. "We've got coaches counting, we've got players counting, and we still can't count to 11."
Stacey Mack ran 8 yards for a first down, and the Jaguars faced a fourth-and-6 a few moments later. They went for it again, and Brunell threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Smith, who beat Jeff Burris in man-to-man coverage down the sideline.
At that point, the Bengals were broken.
"Fourth-and-long and they go for it? That shows a lot of disrespect," safety Cory Hall said. "They felt like they could do whatever they wanted."