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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

Week 17 Recap: Purdy-Caleb Magic, Maye MVP Hype, Classic Steelers L, Playoff Murderers, and Fish Brosmer

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

The guys recap all the NFL Week 17 action, from the Bears–Niners shootout and Caleb Williams’ breakout to Brock Purdy’s sneaky dominance. They also cover Jacksonville’s rise, the Giants’ self-sabotage, the Steelers’ meltdown, Derrick Henry obliterating fantasy matchups, and the general madness of this season. (00:00) Intro (03:20) ‘Sunday Night Football’: Bears-49ers (19:54) Jaguars-Colts (29:36) Steelers-Browns (38:17) Oppenheimer Award (01:01:22) Fart or Shart? (01:15:34) Intrusive Thoughts (01:36:48) Play of the Day (01:40:07) Lucille Bluthe Award (01:40:36) Emails (01:45:21) Burn Book Discord link: https://discord.gg/Ge8bbYHrau 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

0:22.1

My name is Dana Hyphenson.

0:23.0

I'm joined by Danny, Kelly, and Craig Burlebecker.

0:24.7

We are going for all the games from week 17,

0:27.4

a.k. the fantasy football finals.

0:29.6

We have a lot going on.

0:30.9

We have an awesome Bears, 49ers game.

0:33.4

We have, you know, the Giants kind of blew it again.

0:36.2

And then D.K. is never going to forgive Derek Henry, literally ever, will you, D.K. I will not ever again. No, actually, I will never forgive the Packers defense in particular. Holt. Ruined your Christmas. I hate the Packers. Fantasy coal in your stocking. Playoff scenarios, the teams making the playoffs, the spots are actually mostly filled. So we have the divisions here the eagles won the nfc east i think they're the first repeat winner for the nf seasons 20 years the bears have won the nfc north all these clinch all these division clinches happened from other teams winning was kind of interclimactic for the divisions themselves so the nfc west because the niner's beat the bears the seahawks niner's game next week is kind of just like a division title game which is pretty cool for the NFC West, because the Niners beat the Bears, the Seahawks Niners game next week is kind of just like a division title game, which is pretty cool for the NFC West. One seat is involved there too. And then the NFC South, Panthers Bucks, kind of mostly is for the division depending on how the Falcons Rams game goes. AFC, Patriots won the AFC East, the Broncos won the AFC West.

1:28.6

AFC South is Jackson, the Jaguars are probably going to win unless the Jaguars lose and the Texans win, in which case the Texans win.

1:35.1

And then there's the AFC North where, you know, Craig, Steelers Ravens for the division, Week 18, wouldn't have it any other way.

1:44.1

That's right.

1:44.6

I knew it was going to come down to this.

1:46.0

I've been predicting this all season. I didn't know it was going to be this way we got there, but that's what's fun about the Steelers. They keep things interesting. I feel like I'm in a horror film and I... Final destination. I think I finally thought I was safe and that was naive of me. And I realized that I closed the door and the,

2:01.4

the slasher was standing right behind me the whole time.

2:04.5

And it was the Cleveland Browns. We're back. Adhore. Ain't hard to find. Okay. We're going to go over all those games and more. But first, we're going to take a quick break. And then there's going to be like Fish Brosmer.

2:36.0

Fish the band is here. Yep. We don't really know what they do or what their deal is or how long they'll play. You don't know what the vibe is, really. Yeah. So stick around, all right? We've got a great show. Fish Brosmer on the trumpet coming up. This episode is presented by Chime. Bank Sm smarter this season. Fantasy football is all about strategy.

2:38.0

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2:40.6

Trade banking fees for fee-free banking,

2:44.3

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2:46.5

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2:48.2

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