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Steelers, fittingly, all but extinguish Browns' playoff hopes

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh finished it.

The game. And, likely, the Cleveland Browns' season.

Predictably, it was the Steelers who all but extinguished the Browns' already slim playoff hopes, rolling to the 20-13 victory on Sunday in a revenge game off the melee just 17 days ago in Cleveland.

Predictably, it was former Browns cornerback Joe Haden who came up with the game-clinching play, intercepting Baker Mayfield in the final minute of a potentially game-tying drive.

After a brief and chaotic reprieve, the Steelers restored balance to a rivalry that's been anything but balanced, while flexing their permanence as a franchise, against a flailing one defined mostly by its dysfunction this millennium.