The 2025 Fantasy Football Awards: MVP, LVP, Biggest Leap, Hottest Take, Best Quote, and What Aged the Worst

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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The guys hand out the 2025 Fantasy Football Awards, including Fantasy MVP, LVP, what aged the best, what aged the worst, and more as they recap the entire NFL and fantasy season. They debate McCaffrey vs. Puka, shout out Trey McBride, torch Lamar and Justin Jefferson, and revisit the takes, narratives, and chaos that defined 2025. (00:00) Intro (04:38) Fantasy MVP (23:36) Fantasy LVP (32:30) What Aged the Best? (41:38) What’s Aged the Worst (49:43) Dion Waiters Award - Best Waiver Wire Guy of the Year (53:47) Biggest Leap Award (59:13) It’s so Over of the Year (01:04:18) We’re so back of the Year (01:10:53) Smarter Moves (01:16:00) The Ruffalo-Hanna-Rubinek-Patridge Overacting Award (01:24:15) Quote of the Year (01:31:49) Best Announcer Moment of the Year (01:38:50) Cloyce Box Name of the Year (01:42:14) Ringer 107 (01:45:32) Deadest Dove Do Not Eat Award for the Most Glaringly Obvious Thing You Still Fell For (01:46:26) Most Rewatchable Play (01:48:07) Worst Coach Moment of the Year (01:49:19) Probably Unanswerable Questions (01:50:26) Kyle Pitts Death Valley Award (01:55:29) Stat of the Year (01:56:27) Email of the Year (01:57:42) Life Lesson of the Year (01:58:54) Who Won the Year (02:02:20) Who Lost the Year (02:03:31) Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award/Craziest thing anyone said on the show this year Discord link: / discord Check out the 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings: https://fantasyfootball.theringer.com/ Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com This episode is sponsored by Chime. Bank Smarter, Progress Farther The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Kai Grady, Carlos Chiriboga, and Cameron Dinwiddie “Arcade”: NSYBBH8ONNLKC7H4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The 2025 Fantasy Football Awards are brought to you by The Rwatchables. The podcast that inspired
0:14.3	this episode that we've done. I believe this is now the fifth year we're doing this.
0:18.6	The Rwatchables is a show I produced.
0:37.2	Hosted by Bill Simmons covers movies. The most rewatchable movies actually right now. I don't know if you guys have listened to this yet, but on Monday night Bill put up, we put up, Bill's 50 most rewatchable movies of the 21st century. Did you guys see that? I saw the Sicario clip. I saw the clip of Chris Ryan freaking out. Number 41. one, Chris put Sicario. Edging Chris.
0:37.5	I mean Bill put Sicario.
0:39.9	So funny. clip. I saw the clip of Chris Ryan freaking out. Number 41. I mean, Bill put Sicario.
0:39.6	So funny. Yeah, it's a great listen. Just like a really fun 90 minutes. I won't spoil what Bill's
0:46.8	top five movies are. But go check that out. Every year I kind of put together, I did this on the last episode.
0:55.3	I thought it was fun last year.
0:57.1	I put together my favorite movies of the year in the rewatchables.
0:59.5	We did 49 new movies this year.
1:01.4	I had not seen a large chunk of them.
1:03.7	I'm curious which ones you guys have seen.
1:05.9	So here are my favorite seven movies from this year on the rewatchables that I had not seen before.
1:12.5	The Sure Thing, Rob Reiner movie from 1985, loved that movie.
1:16.5	Working Girl from 1988 with Harrison Ford.
1:19.1	Shampoo, great.
1:20.4	We had Cameron Crow on that rewatchables.
1:22.2	Rollerball banged.
1:23.5	We did that with Brian Coppillman.
1:25.2	It's from 1975.
1:26.8	Before sunrise and sunset, both those. Richard Linklater movies. And then Blue Chips, 1990. Blue Chips. Yeah, fucking love. Nice. I will say, I thought I was going to go shut out there. I was 0 for the first six in terms of having watched them. Blue Chips is a classic though, man. Oh for seven, but I did always,
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