Hey, everybody. Thanks for coming to the Zach Jackson and Friends podcast. I'm Zach Jackson. If you're new here, I cover the Browns for The Athletic. We launched this version of the podcast back in August to start of a highly anticipated brown season. How's that going? Well, it's not going that well. Thanks for asking. We're in winter now. If it's Wednesday, November 20th, I think it is, I could keep that in front of me. It seems like a lot of work. Anyway, I was outside about noon today, and it was beautiful out, and then I was outside about 6 o'clock tonight, and it felt like winter. The forecast for Brown Steelers on Thursday night is for cold, for maybe a little bit of rain, even some snow.

The main thing in that stadium, which if you are in northeast Ohio, and you probably know this, the wind gets nasty there.

It swirls.

It picks up, and it gets ugly.

And, you know, gusts over 20 can affect the game. Forecasts. It picks up and it gets ugly. And, you know, Gus over 20 can affect the game.

Forecasts says Gus are going to be almost 40, you know, consistently maybe in the teens.

So the Browns have a struggling kicker.

The Steelers have an awesome kicker.

The weather can be the great equalizer.

It can be a great frustrating point.

You know, I don't think the Browns want to come out against the Steelers anyway and throw it 50 times the way they've been doing.

We'll see.

Maybe they'll have to.

The grand question, do the Browns want to win the game?

Is a fair one, and we'll see.

And if they continue to slide, you know, it's too early, right?

This is week 12 of the NFL.

You know, Jacksonville and Tennessee still play each other twice, right?

I don't know if the Giants are going to win.

Somehow the Panthers and the Patriots have more wins than the Browns.

University of Akron right now has more wins than the Browns.

So we know how that's gone.

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