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Looks like the first kinda windy, wintery game of the season.
Both teams will hope to get the ground game going. Another test for Kizer other than the Jags D.

From weather.com

Occasional snow showers. Quite windy. High 39F. Winds WNW at 25 to 35 mph. Chance of snow 70%. Snow accumulations less than one inch.

Kizer ripping a ball through the wind is the last of my concerns. He's got plenty of arm juice to toss the ball around, heck, maybe he'll become more accurate because he wants to put his muscle into throws as-is anyway.

Leonard Fournette not practicing Friday, not looking forward to cold Sunday

Posted by Josh Alper on November 17, 2017, 11:38 AM EST

Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette grew up in Louisiana, stayed there to go to LSU and then landed in Jacksonville, so he doesn’t have much experience with playing in cold weather.

He’s set for a taste of it in Cleveland this weekend. The forecast calls for a temperature in the 30s with a chance of snow showers and Fournette’s head is not filled with dreams of frolicking in a winter wonderland.

“I hate the cold period,” Fournette said, via the Florida Times-Union. “I sleep in the heat. That’s just how I grew up. Mentally I’m just trying to get my mind ready — that’s all. … That’s not really my thing. Mentally, I’m trying to get my mind ready. It’s the little things, you take a little hit and it hurts. I wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t cold.”

The cold isn’t the only problem Fournette is dealing with this week. The ankle injury that forced him to miss a game a few weeks ago is still an issue and Fournette is not practicing on Friday after limited sessions earlier this week. There’s been no indication that he’s at risk of missing the game, but the injury, the weather and a solid Browns run defense could combine to make for a tough Sunday.

Leonard Fournette not practicing Friday, not looking forward to cold Sunday

Posted by Josh Alper on November 17, 2017, 11:38 AM EST

Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette grew up in Louisiana, stayed there to go to LSU and then landed in Jacksonville, so he doesn’t have much experience with playing in cold weather.

He’s set for a taste of it in Cleveland this weekend. The forecast calls for a temperature in the 30s with a chance of snow showers and Fournette’s head is not filled with dreams of frolicking in a winter wonderland.

“I hate the cold period,” Fournette said, via the Florida Times-Union. “I sleep in the heat. That’s just how I grew up. Mentally I’m just trying to get my mind ready — that’s all. … That’s not really my thing. Mentally, I’m trying to get my mind ready. It’s the little things, you take a little hit and it hurts. I wouldn’t mind if it wasn’t cold.”

The cold isn’t the only problem Fournette is dealing with this week. The ankle injury that forced him to miss a game a few weeks ago is still an issue and Fournette is not practicing on Friday after limited sessions earlier this week. There’s been no indication that he’s at risk of missing the game, but the injury, the weather and a solid Browns run defense could combine to make for a tough Sunday.

Here's hoping that he overcompensates in dressing for the weather and puts on too many layers making for soft padding against his body that makes it easier to pop the ball loose as well as overheat him

lol. Somebody ought to troll him and tell him we wear wetsuits under our uniforms up here.

He should probably wear mittens.

There's nothing like the cold. 30 degrees isn't too bad to spend an afternoon outside. Windy, ya that helps, or hurts depends how you look at it.

Always makes me think of football to be out in that kind of weather, the "very first" real cold day of the year, first snowflakes that don't stick.

Your feet get noticeably cold in your shoes. Your ears and nose get cold but you don't notice it, feels good.

If you hit anything it hurts different because all your blood vessels in you skin are tensed up from the cold.
Your fingers and hands can't move as fast or grip as well in the cold because the blood is colder in your extremities.

See your breath, and you always have the urge to go pee more often because of the cold.
you can get warm for a minute but not really, on the sidelines, but you just have to endure it until halftime.

Need extra socks because they get wet no matter what.

There's nothing like the indoor trot to the locker room at halftime where every part that has gotten "slightly" frostbit warms up for about 10 minutes, aches and throbs in the heat, only to go out and do it again.

Hot chocolate and Hot coffee will sell more than beer.

There's nothing like the cold, it's wonderful. Much like the rain, everything is a little less about quick cuts and every action has to be a little more deliberate, less turns, accelerate more slowly, and hit more squarely.

Sports in the cold is different, it's better down to a degree.

Behold the Cold.

That probably means Gonzalez may miss a couple.

If it is a defensive game, does that favor us at all? I just don't see us with any edge in this one. If weather helps us, great!

Anybody seen them in a mud game at all? Windy stuff?