Justin Fields kept it honest with reporters after the Jets' first win of the season ... saying the past seven days have "been a lot for me" -- and at one point, he found himself crying on the ground in the closet.

Fields laid it all out when meeting with the media ... days after team owner Woody Johnson called him out for the team's rough season. Getty

Fields explained it wasn't being winless that had him overcome with emotion, but rather his faith in God as he desperately prayed for a victory.

"I'm going to get pretty vulnerable right here," Fields said. "This week, I found myself in my closet, crying on the ground, laying down. Not because of the hardships, not because of the troubles, I felt like I was built to handle that and put in place to handle this situation."

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