NFL 2025 Week 18 Preview & Playoff Scenarios!
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler are joined by Conor Orr to preview ALL the games on the final regular season weekend of NFL football, it's the Week 18 preview! We start with the three games that matter most in terms of determining who makes the playoffs and secures the first-round bye, Saturday matchups and Sunday Night Football. Then we build our final Quad Box of the 2025 season, hit the one late game that could be fun, roll through the rest of the slate in The Other Ones, and finally, sign off with our Blind Locks for Week 18!
0:00 NFL Week 18 Preview & Playoff Scenarios
8:25 Saturday Games
8:38 Panthers at Buccaneers Preview
15:58 Seahawks at 49ers Preview
25:46 SNF: Ravens at Steelers Preview
35:37 QUAD BOX
38:44 Browns at Bengals Preview
43:03 Packers at Vikings Preview
51:18 Colts at Texans Preview
54:47 Cowboys at Giants Preview
1:00:30 Late Window: Lions at Bears Preview
1:04:22 The Other Ones
1:04:34 Saints at Falcons Preview
1:05:57 Titans at Jaguars Preview
1:07:42 Chargers at Broncos Preview
1:09:31 Chiefs at Raiders Preview
1:12:31 Commanders at Eagles Preview
1:13:20 Jets at Bills Preview
1:17:45 Dolphins at Patriots Preview
1:21:12 Cardinals at Rams Preview
1:22:56 Blind Locks for Week 18
1:29:26 Wrap Up
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Sessu, we made at the end of the regular season, |
| 0:02.5 | and it's time for our final preview show of the regular season. |
| 0:06.1 | We're going to talk about all the playoff situations. |
| 0:08.6 | What's at stake? |
| 0:09.8 | Who's going home? |
| 0:10.9 | Who might be getting fired? |
| 0:12.4 | Who, there's a lot to break down. |
| 0:13.9 | New year, new problems, but we stick around. |
| 0:17.1 | Time to heed the call. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello, welcome to heed the call in NFL podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:38.5 | Taping this on New Year's Eve. |
| 0:45.7 | It's like when I was growing up, I grew up right on the border, literally of New York and New Jersey. |
| 0:46.1 | And my old boyhood chum, Colin Lowney, his property actually had the dividing line so you could stand half in New York and half in New Jersey. |
| 0:57.7 | And I'll tell you what, in 1991, that was the height of feeling alive, baby. |
| 1:03.9 | That's what you did on New Year's, Eupac? |
| 1:06.1 | Dan Hans is here with Mark Sessler, Connor, or Justin Graver on the ones and twos. |
| 1:12.0 | Yes, happy New Year to you boys. |
| 1:13.7 | Happy New Year to Colin Lowney. |
| 1:15.1 | And everyone listening and watching right now, Heideness Unite in 26. |
| 1:20.7 | I know that you probably believe that when I was young, New Year's Eve hadn't been invented yet. |
| 1:25.6 | But I also... |
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