Week 17 preview: Packers-Vikings the final, and best, gift of the holiday weekend
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
There may not be a ton of playoff intrigue as we head toward the end of the regular season, but what we do have is about as good as it could be. Take, for example, the Week 17 showdown in the NFC North between the Packers and Vikings. A Vikings win sets up a likely win-and-get-the-1-seed game between them and the Lions in Week 18. A Packers win doesn't carry quite that level of playoff implication, but it would further cement them as a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into that game, recap the Christmas Day games, and check in on the other playoff races on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Chiefs lock up the 1-seed in the AFC with win over Steelers
- Ravens move into first place in AFC North with convincing win over Texans
- Packers-Vikings preview
- Handicapping the remaining playoff races
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:42.2 | Week 17 is here. |
| 0:44.4 | We already had two games yesterday on Christmas Day. |
| 0:47.0 | We recapped both of those with Derek Classen and then a little bit of a truncated week 17 preview because we're doing this on a different timeline this week. |
| 0:55.3 | We really just broke down the Packers and Vikings game, which is a monster game in the NFC and potentially one of the best games of the entire year before digging into what the playoff scenarios look like for the spots that are still up for grab. |
| 1:07.8 | So that's what we got coming your way today in this post-Christmas episode. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's get to all of that with Derek right now. |
| 1:18.6 | All right, Derek. Let's stick into the, I don't know, the week 17 preview, as we're calling it, |
| 1:23.3 | which is really a mini preview and a couple of recaps. Let's start. Before we get into the Christmas Day games, how was your Christmas? |
| 1:29.2 | Did you guys have a nice day? |
| 1:24.9 | It was good. It was very nice. You know, Roger Giselle kind of gave us some cold. Those games where, you know, we're going to recap them. And we'll talk about why in a minute. But those games, I think we're not as exciting as I think we could hope for. but otherwise really good. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, it was just a nice relaxing day. |
| 1:45.3 | Young Thugs Slime Season 2 is on streaming. as I think we could hope for, but otherwise really good. Yeah, it was just a nice relaxing day. |
| 1:51.1 | Young Thugs Slime Season 2 is on streaming now, which is like a weird Christmas present for everybody. |
| 2:03.9 | So it was a good holiday. I'm glad to hear it. I'm glad to hear it. We had less young thug in my house and more my niece playing the Mickey Mouse musical train set that she has over and over and over again. But that was entertaining in its own right. So it was nice. |
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