Gameday Newsletter: Week 2, Jaguars
All the information you need to enjoy the Browns trip to Jacksonville to face the Jaguars.
We’re on the positive train today, folks! The Browns are back on your TV screen and that means another chance to get us that Victory Monday we all deserve.
But, let’s always keep it real. It has been a Week 15 type of week, hasn’t it? The football week that feels like forever as you trudge through depressing injury updates, quarterback muck, and the general NFL world heaping negativity on your team.
Have I been the best on the positive scale the week? Plainly, no. Not sure how you could feel good about that Week 1 performance. I know I simply cannot. But we also recognize the NFL rewrites itself weekly in the new portions of the year and by the time the 4:25PM kickoffs happen around the league we could feel totally different about this team.
The stadium for today’s festivities is the newly-minted TrEver Bank Stadium, and despite the long distance you should still see plenty of white and brown Cleveland jerseys in the stands. Not many team’s fans travel as well as the Browns and I expect that trend to stay in place by the time kickoff happens at 1:00PM EDT.
Inside the weekly Gameday Newsletter you will get all the pieces of information paired with your Gameday Podcast to enhance your Sundays with this team.
As usual, I request that you sit back, pour your coffee, turn on the best pre-game Browns song known to man, and enjoy a fresh delivery of piping hot information from the BFB staff.
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It's a different forecast than last week in Cleveland, certainly. It will be hot in Jacksonville on Sunday, with temperatures into the 90s and plenty of humidity. There will be the chance of showers and the odd thunderstorm, but it's not a guarantee.
It might benefit the Browns if there was rain, as Trevor Lawrence struggles with ball security in wet weather but it is far from a guarantee any water will hit the field in this one.
The Browns and Jaguars have met a whopping 19 times in just 25 years of sharing the NFL. The two teams met for the first time as AFC Central Division foes in 1995 before the Browns were stolen away from us. They maintained their division crossovers from 1999-2001 including some memorable affairs (Bottlegate, anyone?).
Following the league’s divisional realignment which saw the Browns head to the AFC North and the Jaguars to the AFC South, the two still found each other a healthy amount. If you think about it both have been near the bottom of their new respective divisions enough that the standings-based crossover games make sense over the years.
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