NFL Week 16 Power Rankings: The Final Stretch!
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
4.9 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler are back to recap the final game of Week 15 with the Pittsburgh Steelers hosting the Miami Dolphins! Then, we react to news, including an update on Patrick Mahomes' ACL, the Jets dismissing a head coach, and is Pete Carroll on the hot seat? Finally, we hit the Official Week 16 Power Rankings of Record, with the return of Tier Names!
0:00 Week 16 Power Rankings & MNF Recap
3:59 MNF Recap: Dolphins at Steelers
18:42 NFL News Catch-Up
21:45 Patrick Mahomes underwent surgery
24:19 Jets fire DC Steve Wilks
31:06 Pete Carroll hot seat?
36:02 Brandon Aiyuk is MIA
39:18 Remembering Rob Reiner
46:36 Week 16 Power Rankings
1:06:09 Wrap Up
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| 0:30.0 | Hey, Sessie, it turns out the Steelers are still alive. Wait, were they ever really dead? |
| 0:34.5 | Not when you face a dead fish. Ah, good point. Also, we bring back the power rankings where we have successfully deduced there are only |
| 0:41.8 | 14 good teams in the NFL. |
| 0:44.1 | Find out if your favorite team is one of them. |
| 0:46.8 | It is time to heed the call. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, oh, welcome to heed the Call, an NFL podcast. |
| 1:01.9 | Monday night show. |
| 1:03.4 | Only a couple of these left. |
| 1:05.9 | That's the regular season. |
| 1:08.0 | Wines down, can you believe it? |
| 1:10.1 | Hot damn. |
| 1:12.2 | Feels like week one was just yesterday. |
| 1:20.7 | And now week 15 is in the books following a 28 to 15 victory for the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Fugasey-assie-ass-Miamy Dolphins. |
| 1:24.0 | Stan hands us here with Mark Sessler, Justin Graver on the ones and twos. |
| 1:28.6 | We're going to dig into this final game of the week, Mark, and we're going to then hit some news, |
| 1:35.2 | and then we're going to end as we customarily do with the power rankings. |
| 1:39.6 | So it's going to be another fun hour with the boys. |
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