Jan. 10, 2026, 4:43 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> are set to kick off at home against the Buffalo Bills<\/a> at 1:00 p.m. Sunday for a wild-card matchup, their first playoff game in three years.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a look at how game-time weather conditions could affect the game.<\/p>\n According to weather forecasts, brief showers are possible around 9 a.m., several hours before kickoff, but rain is not expected during the game.<\/p>\n Skies will remain overcast, and temperatures will hover around 65 degrees. More significant, however, is the wind.<\/p>\n The forecast predicts sustained winds of 10 miles per hour out of the northwest, with gusts up to 21 miles per hour.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n With NFL experts predicting<\/a> a tight contest, the kicking game might play a critical role.<\/p>\n The Bills have had their struggles at the kicker position this season. Tyler Bass was placed on IR at the start of the season, prompting Buffalo to bring on 41-year-old Matt Prater to handle kicking duties.<\/p>\n Prater has also struggled with injury this season, missing the Bills\u2019 matchup with the Eagles<\/a> with a quadriceps injury. His replacement, Michael Badgley, missed a key extra point in the 13-12 loss.<\/p>\n Prater is expected to play Sunday against Jacksonville, but the Bills have brought on journeyman kicker Matthew Wright as insurance.<\/p>\n Wright served as the Jaguars<\/a>\u2019 kicker for part of the 2021 season.On the season, Prater is 18 for 20<\/a> on field goals and 46 for 49 on extra points.<\/p>\n For his part, Jaguars\u2019 kicker Cam Little finished the regular season on a heater. After starting 10 for 14 on field goals on the season, Little has been perfect on his last 20 attempts, including an NFL record 68 and 67-yarders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 10, 2026, 4:43 p.m. ET The Jacksonville Jaguars are set to kick off at home against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,116,118,117,1254,9548,298,10367,4732,420,22216,27069,57752,342,332,442,49,1756,300,57751,379,34],"class_list":["post-113890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessfree","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-tagcam-little","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagmatt-prater","tag-tagmatthew-wright","tag-tagmichael-badgley","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagphiladelphia-eagles","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtyler-bass","tag-tagweather","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}