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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 18 Motivations

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Week 18 is a always a mess for fantasy football, but you can get an edge if you know what each team has on the line. Jeff breaks it all down, going game by game and giving you the motivations for all 32 teams.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're at

0:01.1

You, what's up?

0:13.9

You, what's up?

0:17.6

It's Tuesday, December 30th week, 17, done.

0:22.8

Fantasy football season done for most people out there.

0:26.5

And I realize there are some folks who definitely listen to this podcast, who definitely may still have a week 18 championship.

0:32.9

You know how I feel about that.

0:34.7

But I am at least going to go through some scenarios today to help you out. I did do waivers over at FtnFantasy.com if you're interested in that. But I am at least going to go through some scenarios today to help you out.

0:38.5

I did do waivers over at Ftnfantasy.com if you're interested in that. Not talking about that

0:42.6

today on the podcast. Instead, I wanted to run through this schedule, which this can actually help

0:47.2

for DFS. Maybe betting. I'm not going to talk about bets. This isn't a betting podcast, but could

0:53.2

help you in a variety of ways because

0:55.0

each game, well, there's a variety of potential motivators here. And I'm not going through

0:59.9

individual incentive-based stuff. There are going to be some folks out there, whether it's

1:04.8

incentives for contract or they're incentivized by potentially setting a record, Miles Garrett,

1:10.4

or some others.

1:12.1

But today I really just want to look at what's on the line for each game for each team,

1:18.0

if there is anything on the line.

1:20.2

And that can help us out from a motivational standpoint.

1:23.0

See, this is one of the main reasons why I don't want to have a championship in week 18,

1:26.5

because there are some teams with zero motivation. And those include playoff teams like the

1:31.1

Green Bay Packers. But let's start, let's go in order here. We're going to start with the Carolina

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