NFL Week 18 Power Rankings + MNF Recap!
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
4.9 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler are back to recap the final game of Week 17 with the surprising Monday night matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons and how that affects the NFL playoff picture. Then, we react to news, including the Week 18 status of a couple high-profile quarterbacks. After that, it's time for the Official Week 18 Power Rankings of Record, where we have a new number one, a new number three, and a mixed up top ten!
0:00 On today’s show…
1:34 MNF: Rams at Falcons Recap
15:19 Playoff Picture
21:16 NFL News Catch-Up
36:41 Week 18 Power Rankings
1:00:48 Wrap Up
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, sassy, the Los Angeles Rams, we think they might be the best team in football, but maybe they should stop losing. |
| 0:06.2 | This did not go the way we thought it would tonight. |
| 0:08.7 | Yes, we'll check in on the Rams and also the power rankings. |
| 0:12.4 | Get ready. It's time to heed the call. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, oh, welcome to Heath a call and NFL podcast. |
| 0:33.1 | I am Dan Hansus, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Mark Sessler. |
| 0:39.7 | There's also Justin Graver on the Ons and Twos on this cool Monday night. The end of the Monday night football regular season schedule. |
| 0:45.6 | And we're going to get into what happened in the game that was played tonight. |
| 0:49.9 | We're going to get into what happens because of that game in the NFC playoff picture. |
| 0:55.8 | We're going to do a little power rankings. |
| 0:58.1 | We'll get caught up on a little some news items. |
| 1:00.8 | You know the drill. |
| 1:01.8 | It's Monday night, baby. |
| 1:02.9 | How you doing, Sessie? |
| 1:04.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:04.7 | That is the drill. |
| 1:05.5 | Now it's we've reached these moments with each passing day in the NFL calendar where things are being taken away |
| 1:13.9 | from us a little bit. This is kind of our last real Monday night football show. And it was not |
| 1:19.5 | the result that I think we would have predicted. Don't forget about the super wildcard Monday night |
| 1:26.4 | affair. I would not forget about that. Two weeks from tonight, in fact, I believe that is. |
| 1:30.3 | So we will have another Monday night show in this season. |
| 1:34.0 | But yes, the curtain came down on the regular season edition of Monday night football with a surprising outcome. |
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