2025 NFL Week 17 Recap: Let's Celebrate!
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
4.9 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler are joined by Conor Orr to recap EVERY NFL game from Week 17! We start with the epic Sunday night tilt between the Bears and 49ers - a contender for game of the year - before revealing the Week 17 Theme of the Week. After that, we hit the biggest games from Christmas, Saturday and Sunday as we roll through the rest of the slate. Some teams were knocked out, other teams clinched, but we all had fun.
0:00 NFL Week 17 Recap of Every Game
0:48 SNF: Bears at 49ers Recap
13:11 Theme of Week 18
15:50 Eagles at Bills Recap
28:06 Seahawks at Panthers Recap
36:04 Buccaneers at Dolphins Recap
42:00 Jaguars at Colts Recap
50:50 Texans at Chargers Recap
1:01:34 Ravens at Packers Recap
1:10:11 Steelers at Browns Recap
1:18:58 Lions at Vikings Recap
1:25:26 Broncos at Chiefs Recap
1:32:34 Patriots at Jets Recap
1:41:53 Giants at Raiders Recap
1:48:55 Saints at Titans Recap
1:54:32 Cardinals at Bengals Recap
1:57:43 Cowboys at Commanders Recap
2:01:45 Wrap Up
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, we needed a stop. They got it. |
| 0:02.0 | The boys just played their butts off, man. |
| 0:04.0 | So for us to be able to just have each other's back, offense, defense, special teams. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's go down on the wire like that. |
| 0:09.0 | At the end of the year, man, there's nothing better. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello! |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to heed the call, an NFL Hello. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome to Head the Call, an NFL podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | I am Dan Hansis, joined by Mark Sessler, Justin Graver on the ones and twos. |
| 0:35.1 | Connor Orr jumping on with us in just a bit. |
| 0:43.5 | And Sessie, we're going to get into all of the week 17 action on the flagship show, |
| 0:46.3 | often imitated, never duplicated. |
| 1:02.0 | And we will start with once again another game in the running for contest of the year, that being 49ers, 42, bears 38 at the big bell bottom. Whoa. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, I mean, this season is wild. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, we've covered probably what, 12, 13 seasons together. It's individual games, it's moments, it's teams, its new faces. |
| 1:14.6 | But I thought tonight this game was at the height of offensive strategy and creative exuberance, |
| 1:22.6 | just like the creation of offense and how to play against each other and how to go back and forth |
| 1:28.0 | between a team that we've known for a long time in the Niners and a team that is very new to us |
| 1:33.1 | with new faces and the Bears. It just was a wild watch. Yeah, I mean, I will, I'm going to say it. |
| 1:41.8 | I feel like the hire of Ben Johnson is the most consequential head coach hire we've had in multiple years, several years. |
| 1:52.8 | Man, if you want to make it nice and neat, since Kyle Shanahan got the job in San Francisco. |
| 1:59.1 | I mean, this, this guy has transformed the bears. |
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