Week 17 Preview: Massive division title and playoff seeding stakes on the line
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
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Summary
Eleven of 14 playoff berths have already been claimed this season, and one that remains up for grabs—the final Wild Card in the AFC—all but belongs to the Texans. And yet, there is still a ton on the line in Week 17. The 1-seed and bye in both conferences hang in the balance. Seven of the eight divisions have yet to be clinched. We might know who's going to be in the playoffs this year, but the overall playoff picture remains cloudy. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman preview the Week 17 games with all the stakes on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Week 17 is here. Had a few Christmas games |
| 0:10.2 | yesterday that we are going to dig into with me, Dave, and Derek. And then we picked seven other |
| 0:15.7 | matchups from the week 17 slate, did one thing from those seven games before spending a little time on Sicko Street, |
| 0:22.9 | including a game that very likely will determine the number one pick in the NFL. |
| 0:28.6 | Excited to dig into it. |
| 0:29.8 | Let's get to it with me, Derek, and Dave right now. |
| 0:37.2 | It's the week 17 preview here on the athletic football show. |
| 0:42.1 | We got about seven games that we're going to hit one thing from just kind of doing, |
| 0:46.2 | it's like our holiday version of the preview shows, where we don't have games of the |
| 0:49.9 | week. |
| 0:50.1 | We're just going to hit one thing from a bunch of different games from the slate. |
| 0:52.8 | Got a couple things we wanted to hit on Sicko Street just because they can't be ignored. |
| 0:57.8 | Like they're the sickest of streets. We have to hit them on today's show. |
| 1:01.4 | So we're going to dig into a lot of games yet to happen on the Week 17 slate. |
| 1:04.6 | But let's start with just a quick recap of what happened during the Christmas Day games. |
| 1:10.8 | I had my thoughts about the Christmas Day slate and kind of how things unfolded yesterday. |
| 1:15.8 | Dave, just walk me through like your experience taking in those three games yesterday. |
| 1:21.5 | Oh man, do you really want my experience? |
| 1:24.4 | I'm just curious. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm just curious about it. |
| 1:27.2 | So I was at um christmas |
| 1:30.8 | with my with my family my fiance's family to be to be specific and it's such a weird feeling |
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