Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Zach Jackson and Friends podcast.

We have almost made it.

It's week 18 of the most miserable brown season than anyone.

Can remember.

It's New Year's Eve morning as I record this.

So happy 2025 to those who celebrate, I guess you don't have much choice. You do have a

choice in football teams. Remember that? You do have a choice in podcasts. So I appreciate you coming on.

We launched this back in August. Frankly, the team's thinking didn't help and we're figuring out a lot of

things. But a lot of you, probably more than I expected, have jumped on. And if you're new here, my simple ask is that you subscribe, download, review, share, all of those things. And as we get into 2025 and start to move past this miserable season, we're going to grow this, launch some new things.

And frankly, we're going to have a high draft pick to talk about.

And that should be good for business.

It should be good for discussion.

It becomes exhausting while this all does, right?

Why has this season been so bad because expectations were

high because payroll was high because pressure was high and the browns have failed in every single

um aspect of that you know it's really been over since september when they lost to the raiders it

really was over in august when you just tried to watch Deshaun Watson and realized he couldn't play.

And you watched this organization with all of its arrogance and then therefore ignorance, not make any changes.

You know, we've been over the 12 stages of grief from this Brown season.

We've probably been over them twice, right?

And then Dustin Hopkins missed the PAT after

about five of those 12 stages. But here we are, week 18, a Saturday game in Baltimore. The NFL

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