Week 17 recap: With the playoffs around the corner, the Vikings make a statement
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Every serious Super Bowl contender picks up a signature win at some point of the regular season. The Vikings may have already had one, but they certainly got one on Sunday. That's where Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen begin the Week 17 recap episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also discuss the Commanders clinching a playoff berth, the Bengals (and Dolphins) staying alive in the AFC Wild Card race, the Colts falling out of the picture, the Jekyll and Hyde Rams, Saquon Barkley hitting the 2K mark, Brock Bowers breaking all the records, and more.
Rundown
- Vikings make a statement with win over Packers
- The fascinating Cincinnati Bengals
- The Commanders secure a playoff berth, and the Bucs take control of the NFC South
- The Jekyll and Hyde Rams
- Colts eliminated from playoff contention by Drew Lock and the Giants
- The Patriots move to the top of the 2025 draft board
- Saquon Barkley hits the 2,000-yard mark
- The Jets are the saddest team of 2024
- Brock Bowers headlines a great day for rookies
- The Chargers plan came together
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:07.1 | Great show for you guys on tap today. |
| 0:09.6 | A long week 17 in the NFL, but an action-packed week 17 in the NFL. |
| 0:15.5 | Kick things off with me and Derek Klass talking about a monster win for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 0:20.0 | and potentially a scope-altering win for the Minnesota Vikings and potentially a scope-altering |
| 0:23.9 | win for the Minnesota Vikings. You could talk me into some Sam Donald right now. You can talk |
| 0:28.8 | me into the way that the Vikings are playing and what their ceiling may look like this year. |
| 0:33.0 | Also chatted about a big win for the Bengals and just the narrative that's kind of risen up around this team and what they may look like moving forward. |
| 0:42.9 | Chatted about a big win for Washington in a phenomenal Sunday night football game against the Falcons. |
| 0:48.2 | Discussed some weird moments from the Rams and Colts in this week's edition of WTF and then hit a few more important things about |
| 0:56.5 | draft order, the playoff picture, and everything else from week 17. So let's dig into all of that |
| 1:02.4 | with Derek Klesson right now. Join to me tonight. |
| 1:11.5 | It's my co-host, Derek, Derek. How you doing, man? |
| 1:13.7 | Doing good. It was kind of a, like, a disorienting Sunday because we had so many of the games |
| 1:19.0 | taken away on Wednesday and Thursday. We had a triple header on Saturday. So it just felt like |
| 1:24.9 | a, just a bizarre, like the pacing of today just felt really off. There are a lot fewer games. So there were only six games in the earliest slate and only two games in the late slate. That was the weirdest part. Two games in the afternoon slate was weird. And one of them was a game that might as well have not happened. I mean, that Brown's Dolphins game, we will not be talking about that game. shocker, even though it does matter for the dolphins in the AFC playoff race, which I'm assuming will touch on in some capacity. It was a weird day because the noon slate was awful. I mean, there was just nothing of consequence really happening in that noon slate, except for a Giants game that we will discuss. Of consequence in ways, both good and bad for the two teams involved in that game. |
| 2:03.6 | But thankfully, in both the afternoon window and the late window, we got some games that are |
| 2:08.9 | very much worth discussing. |
| 2:10.3 | And then we're going to talk about some of the things that happened on Saturday as well, |
| 2:12.8 | because I don't think we'd be able to properly fill the show if we didn't hit on a |
| 2:16.8 | couple of the Saturday games. Let's start with what we had as the game of the week. It was really the only |
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