THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Though Jags are awful, Seahawks aren't giving this one back

Did Jacksonville actually win a game this season?

The answer is yes, they beat Miami — but watching the hapless Jags take a fearful beating from Seattle on Sunday afternoon, um …

You could be excused for doubting that Jacksonville could compete with anybody.

Hate to take a cheap shot at Jags coach Urban Meyer (well, OK, I really DO enjoy this), but perhaps Urban — who got in so much trouble for cavorting in his own Ohio restaurant — should just stay in Columbus and run the pub.

Meyer’s employees couldn’t possibly be more disorganized serving cocktails than the awful football team we saw running helter-skelter at Lumen Field.

The Jags often looked like they not only hadn’t practiced together, but perhaps they hadn’t even met.

However …

Forgive Pete Carroll if he has no sympathy for Meyer and his messy outfit.

Pete needed any kind of win …

And got one.

The Seahawks posted a routine 31-7 victory, meaning that playoff hopes remain alive — although perhaps still in critical condition at 3-5 in the rugged NFC.

IT’S HARD to pick a stat or a play to sum up this Seahawks walk in the park, but …

Here are a couple that kind of tell you what the day was all about.

Jacksonville was penalized 12 times for 93 yards — almost the length of the field – while trying to protect rookie QB Trevor Lawrence, and on the other side of the ball, prevent Geno Smith from playing catch with Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf.

Lockett caught 12 throws for 143 yards, and Metcalf added six for 43 and a couple of touchdowns — one on a spectacular twirling, mid-air move that would have looked routine in the Bolshoi Ballet.

Smith, who has walked off brokenhearted after last-second losses the past two weeks, barely got his uniform dirty this time.

Geno completed 20 of 24 tosses for 195 yards without a pick, a pretty easy day’s work.

Right, those are a few stats that give you an idea of how ridiculously simple this assignment really was, but we promised you a play that would likewise sum things up.

Here’s my favorite …

Jacksonville hasn’t been shut out since 2009 (no, seriously), but needed a 9-yard TD pass from Lawrence to Jamal Agnew inside the two-minute mark to keep that streak alive.

PROVING that they’ll always play to win (or give that appearance), the Jags went for an onside kick after the TD — then watched as Travis Homer scooped it up and dashed 43 yards for Seattle’s last score.

And there you have this mismatch in a nutshell.

It’s hard to know exactly what the desperately needed — but totally expected — victory means for Seattle.

The Hawks now enjoy a bye week, which means that the surgically repaired finger on Russell Wilson’s throwing hand has another several days to heal.

Russ being Russ, we should assume he’ll be ready to get back in the trenches the next time the Seahawks tee it up.

The bad news, at least in theory, is that Wilson would be returning for a game against the Packers at Lambeau Field, followed by a duel at Lumen with the one-loss Cardinals.

IN OTHER words, the schedule isn’t kind — especially with so many solid teams gunning for wild-card spots in the NFC.

Barring some calamity …

Dallas, Green Bay, Tampa Bay (or New Orleans) and either the Rams or Arizona in the West have division titles in hand.

Los Angeles or the Cardinals presumably would breeze to one of the wild-card spots.

Ditto for the Bucs and Saints, who have two losses each in the South.

You’re looking at a scenario with just a single wild-card position available unless there are some upsets.

Even worse for Carroll’s troops, the Seahawks would lose tiebreakers to a couple of potential wild-card contenders who beat them, Minnesota and New Orleans.

It will likely take a 10-7 record to qualify with those tiebreakers hanging over them, so the Seahawks will need to finish 7-2 from here.

And sadly …

They’re done playing Jacksonville.

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Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

He also writes Zags Tracker, a commentary on Gonzaga basketball which is published weekly during the season.