Week 15 Hangover: The Ravens stay alive, and the 49ers notch their 10th win
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
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Summary
We all realize that the 49ers have 10 wins and are a near-lock for the playoffs, right? Has a double-digit-win season ever gone more overlooked? And how dangerous might the Niners be, assuming they do get into the playoffs? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen discuss that on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also dig into Ravens-Bengals and Vikings-Cowboys from Week 15, and take a couple of sad voicemails from the fans.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:35 Ravens-Bengals recap
24:57 Vikings-Cowboys recap
47:06 Titans-49ers recap
1:02:57 Voicemail from a sad Cowboys fan
1:09:34 Voicemail from a sad Packers fan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.4 | Week 15 hangover for you guys today. |
| 0:09.2 | We hit three games. |
| 0:10.3 | I think it's been a while since we've done three games to this level. |
| 0:13.6 | And we really dug into all three of those games. |
| 0:15.7 | Start off with Ravens Bengals. |
| 0:17.2 | Shouted a little Vikings Cowboys. |
| 0:19.2 | Rounded things out with the Niners beating the Titans |
| 0:21.9 | before taking a couple calls from sad Packers and Cowboys fans. Really enjoyed this one. Hope |
| 0:28.5 | you guys do as well. Let's get to it with me and Derek Klesson right now. |
| 0:36.9 | It's the week 15 hangover here on the athletic football show. |
| 0:41.3 | When you have as good a week as we did in week 15 in the NFL, the hangover also feels particularly juicy. |
| 0:47.9 | Like there's a lot of stuff for us to dig into today. |
| 0:50.8 | Sometimes we're just left with the morsel steric. |
| 0:53.0 | But this week in particular, I feel like there's a lot for us to discuss with these three games that we're going to hit. Yeah, we had Ravens team still fighting for their playoff lives and for the AFC North. We had a Niners team that, honestly, like, I thought the Titans were kind of a weird and bad matchup for them. So I thought it was interesting for them to have to run up and play that game. |
| 1:11.3 | And then obviously we had the Sunday nighter that we didn't really get to talk about it on |
| 1:14.5 | the show obviously because we're going to do it for the hangover. The Cowboys are like out of the playoffs now. Whereas like they had like a 10 to 12% chance going into this game and they lose it and they're gone. We're going to have three games today, like Derek mentioned, Ravens, Bengals, Vikings, Cowboys, Niners, Titans. |
| 1:29.3 | We're going to start with the Ravens and the Bengals. The Ravens blank, the Cincinnati Bengals, 24 to nothing. The Ravens now go to 7 and 7. As of right now, we're recording this. It's 3.11 p.m. Central time on Monday. The Steelers will play the Dolphins tonight. That will have huge implications |
| 1:45.2 | on what's going to happen in the AFC North. As of this recording, the athletics numbers have |
| 1:49.8 | the Ravens with a 44% chance to win the division. That might seem low, considering the fact that |
| 1:56.1 | they play the Steelers again. The reason for that is that the Ravens schedule after this is heinous. |
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