NFL Week 17 Reaction: Coach Of The Year Debate, Playoff Predictions & Momentum Vs. Analytics Talk

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Bussin' with the Boys

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Bussin’ With The Boys, Will Compton, Taylor Lewan, and Greg Olsenrecap Week 17 of the NFL season and dive into the biggest storylines heading into the final week of the regular season.

The boys debate who should win Coach of the Year between Kyle Shanahan and Mike Vrabel, then revisit the momentum vs. analytics conversation, specifically breaking down whether the Buffalo Bills should have kicked the field goal or gone for two in a pivotal moment. From there, they look ahead to key Week 18 matchups, including Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Carolina Panthers, with Taylor Lewan going on record saying he likes the Panthers in that one.

The conversation also takes a turn when the guys make the talk about arguably the best team in the NFL, the New England Patriots. The conversation ends again with the momentum vs. analytics debate plus plenty more reactions, arguments, and laughs along the way.

Full NFL breakdowns, hot takes, and classic Bussin’ energy, enjoy.

Timestamp Chapters:

0:00 Open

1:40 Michigan Has A Coach

11:00 Miami v Ohio State

22:15 Eagles v Bills

28:00 Texans v Chargers

40:55 Myles Garrett Sack Record

58:35 Panthers v Bucs – Win And In

1:01:00 Playoff Picture / Coach Of The Year

1:18:35 The Importance Of Momentum

1:42:15 New Years Resolution

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome into the NFL football recap. We will talk a little bit about Michigan football. Obviously, a lot of things happened over the weekend. Very exciting on my part. Cautiously optimistic. If you are watching or listening to the show, please do us a favor. Subscribe. Leave a comment if you're watching on YouTube, but subscribing helps our show so much so much it doesn't hurt you at all and it just keeps you up to date on everything that's going on with Bust with the Boys this show Bust with the Boys is presented by the one the only fan dual sportsbook and I got four words for you guys it's not over yet we've got a whole week of regular season football to get through, plus a few weeks of postseason play.
0:54.5	And of course, we're capping off week 17 with tonight's Rams versus Falcons game. One thing we want to let you guys know about, if you haven't seen it already, fan duels, drive, same game parley. Picture this. I want you to close your eyes unless you're on the road right now. We're going to use, we're going to envision all of it. you see my hand going down over my face. That's what we're envisioning. Picture this. You see the Rams. They have a little bit of momentum, right? Stafford. He's slinking it. Pooka Nakua. He catches everything. You think to yourself, hey, I got a thought. There's no way they don't score a touchdown on this drive. You crack open the Fandau Sportswick app, you can cook up a parlay that breaks down the drive exactly as you see it, because why?
1:13.2	We're manifesting right now.
1:14.4	We're manifesting. touch on this drive. You crack open the Fandall Sportswick app. You can cook up a parlay that breaks down the drive exactly as you see it.
1:12.7	Because why?
1:25.4	We're manifesting right now. We're manifesting. Stafford's passing yards. Pooka's receiving yards and the Rams to score. And Fandall's giving all customers a live profit boost token. By the way, you can stop. You can open your eyes now. You can open your eyes now. I apologize.
1:30.9	Fando's giving all customers live profit boost token to use on the game so you can boost the payout and make the winnings even bigger.
1:33.1	Just head to fandel.com slash bussen to get started.
1:36.8	Fandle, play your game.
1:39.6	Hey, Michigan's got a football coach.
1:42.4	We got a ball coach, huh?
1:44.7	Got ourselves a ball coach.
1:46.8	Kyle Whittingham, 21 seasons at Utah,
1:49.7	over three decades at Utah.
1:52.0	Honestly, spent most of his life in Utah.
1:54.0	He played football at BYU,
1:55.2	did a little bit over there,
1:56.4	was under Urban Meyer
1:58.5	and then took the head coaching job
2:00.6	on Urban Meyer, Meyer i believe went to
2:01.7	florida correct is that my correct in saying that so a lot of success there comes over hat in hand
2:08.8	does his press conference he has one statement that just absolutely fires me up really did you
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