Seeding Sabotage: How the Browns Just Ruined the Steelers' Winter

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Steelers pulled a Browns. Josh Allen missed an open receiver for the win. And the Sann Francisco 49ers are one step closer to finishing the season with home games only. Geoff Schwartz drops in to chat the future of Lamar Jackson. And Dave Dameshek, lists the NFL town who had the worst year in all of sports. Plus, we're already hyped about the "win-and-in" division battles. The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks will battle for the No. 1 seed, while the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers battle to become the king of the AFC North. It's on Football America! (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP) Rundown: -Geoff Schwartz on Holidays -Lamar Jackson -Jackson or Burrow -Worst Sports Town AUDIO Football America! is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/football-america/id1831757512 Follow us: Dave Dameshek: https://x.com/dameshek Geoff Schwartz: https://x.com/geoffschwartz Host: Dave Dameshek Guests: Geoff Schwartz Team: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Director: Danny Benitez Senior Producers: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Executive Producer: Bradley Campbell Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi and hello and ongoing, happy holidays, my fellow football Americans.
0:27.6	I hope the holidays are treating you well, or at least better than they've been treating me,
0:32.6	as you may be able to detect from the sound of my voice, which is even worse than it usually is, and that's
0:37.5	no treat to begin with. I'm sick. And this time, I'm not just physically ill. I'm emotionally
0:44.0	low after the events, the unspeakable events in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday to just about wrap up
0:52.0	the calendar year for this sports fan, dire stuff.
0:57.8	I guess not a complete surprise.
1:00.1	And yet, I cannot believe that the Steelers put up six points in a game
1:05.9	in which the division was on the line.
1:08.4	They could have wrapped it up, put their feet up in week 18.
1:11.7	Instead, they get a death match against the archer rival Baltimore Ravens to wrap up the regular season of 2025, even though it'll be the first weekend in 2026.
1:22.6	Let's talk about that.
1:23.9	Let's talk about all of it.
1:25.3	A few juicy games to look back on in week 17. We also
1:28.3	going to get you right for the college football playoff. Round two, which I submit, once again,
1:35.0	is very much like the dog catching the car. I think college football, if they could undo it all
1:40.4	and go back to a better version, they would than what is going on right now because
1:45.2	I hear very little buzz about this college football playoff right now.
1:49.5	Meantime, number 38 is the episode number.
1:52.4	We honor the player who wore it best in sports history, football specifically, though.
1:57.0	George Rogers, the Heisman Trophy winner in 1980, the Gamecock then went on and had some good years with the Saints and then with the Washington football team. Kurt Schilling, you heard of him with the bloody sock and all that.
2:11.8	Anyhow, that's a very short list, 38, not terribly juicy in sports history. A reminder a reminder subscribe tell your pals wrap up 2025
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