NFL Week 3 Power Rankings + MNF Double-Header Recap
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler are back to recap the final games of Week 2 with the Monday night double-header, starting with the thriller in Houston between the Buccaneers and Texans before covering the late-night showdown in Las Vegas between the Raiders and Chargers. Then, we run through the major quarterback injuries coming out of the weekend and finally finish up with our Week 3 consensus power rankings!
0:00 Show Start
3:03 MNF Recap: Buccaneers at Texans
14:56 MNF Recap: Chargers at Raiders
33:42 Final MNF thoughts
40:32 Joe Burrow needs surgery
45:26 J.J. McCarthy not expected to play in Week 3
50:25 Justin Fields in concussion protocol
51:05 Jayden Daniels has a sprained knee
53:24 Week 3 Power Rankings
1:01:47 Wrap Up
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| 0:00.0 | Mark, I know we're just coming off the Sunday night show where we did 13 games, but guess what? |
| 0:03.9 | I got two more games, four more teams for us to dive into for the Monday night show. |
| 0:08.4 | You're doubly generous, and I thank you. |
| 0:10.8 | God bless the NFL, and guess what? |
| 0:12.7 | The power rankings are back. |
| 0:14.2 | Stay right there. |
| 0:37.2 | Hey-oh. Heyo. Welcome to Heed the Call, an NFL podcast on a Monday night here in Los Angeles, Dan Hansis, with Mark Sessler, Justin Graver on the ones and twos. |
| 0:43.0 | We got two NFL games to get to. |
| 0:48.2 | It's one of these weird doubleheader Mondays that, Mark, I know, lights up your Christmas tree. |
| 0:50.4 | I know that historically I've complained about such a thing, I think a lot of a lot of people have mixed feelings |
| 0:57.0 | I have moved into a place |
| 0:59.0 | philosophically where it's like look either you sign up for it or you don't because you're not going to change anything |
| 1:05.0 | it's not going to change so it's like do I want to sit around like scolding everyone and like |
| 1:10.0 | screaming at the wind it's like just roll with it there sit around, like, scolding everyone and, like, screaming at the wind? |
| 1:11.3 | It's like, just roll with it. |
| 1:12.4 | There's two of them. |
| 1:13.4 | We've been there before. |
| 1:14.7 | I like that attitude because I feel similarly to you, you know, the Sunday lift of doing what we do for a living. |
| 1:22.2 | It's a long day. |
| 1:23.5 | And then when you stack these two Monday games back to back, you know, there's a little bit of an attrition in terms of the passion for watching pigskin. |
| 1:33.1 | But at the same time, we're very fortunate to do what we do and get paid for it. |
| 1:37.7 | So we're going to dive into the two Monday night affairs. |
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