2026 NFL Week 1 Preview: Return of the Draft
episode
Heed the Call NFL Podcast with Dan Hanzus & Marc Sessler
1h 44m
6 speakers
8 chapters
transcribed 6 days ago
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What is the overall focus of the NFL Week 1 preview episode?
We sit here at the beginning of it all dreams of the National Football League. It feels fresh right now. Everyone shaved their privates in a hot shower with the concept of my team is about to thrive. The NFL exists to tell you, you're gonna get fed. The team that wins it all won't be yours. It'll be your ex-girlfriends. She vaguely roots for an enemy squad with her new 6'9 boyfriend. Or some born on third base boy toy at your office, always carried on a cloud. Now a little baby talks to his mother
How do Dan, Marc, and Connor bring back the draft format for this season?
Mother about the Steelers. Mama, I'm just a little baby. Why are we pairing Zaddy and Arod like now Steve Martin and Martin Short Sucker 87? Come on, fat mommy, tell me a bedtime story. Put my fat baby body into bed. Other option, you're one of these people
Which early‑season matchups are highlighted first (Bills vs Texans, Commanders vs Eagles)?
Playing with your parts every night over the idea of Jesse Minter, Connor Orr, and a pack of nerds. Down in Hotlanta, the Falcons appear more like a theatrical high school spring bazaar than a football team. So what does football mean? It means you volunteered for bloodshed. You root for a team, maybe your dad did too, nobody evolves. You get your ass kicked verbally at the bar by giggling brunettes who don't respect you. Because you support a shitty team getting its butthole kicked in as you waltz around in NFL adjacent gear that makes you look like an elf made love with a shaven emo named Barley Girl the Ninth. Here at Heat the Call, we love you. We're not emo, Justin to an extent, but we're okay with your assie football team.
Are you assie? We accept you. Our teams blow chunks. I'd rather have served in Iraq one or two, even if the second was simply a Dick Cheney oil maneuver. This is your Dick Cheney oil maneuver.
What are the key insights on the mid‑week games (Cardinals vs Chargers, Ravens vs Colts)?
As one hero said, high above the Pennsylvania landscape, let's roll. You're gonna find out who you are. Football is here.
Let's roll indeed. Football is here. Week one of the NFL season. Dan hands us, Mark Sessler, Connor or Justin Graver on the ones and twos. And as you heard, you heard from a A baby that grew up in uh deep in Cajun country. Uh yes, you may be You may not have any right to be hopeful this time of year, Mark Sessler. You might be deranged to think that your team can be the team that is standing on the riser on February 14th at Super Bowl 61. But as we talked about last week, SESI, the odds of the Seahawks doing that at this moment, last year exactly, were almost insurmountable.
How do the hosts evaluate the late‑week contests (Packers vs Vikings, Jets vs Titans)?
In terms of the desert, and that happened. The Patriots making the Super Bowl last year. Nobody said that. That happened. This year, the only thing that could be promised. So both the favorites and the underdogs alike is that we cannot predict how any of this will go. So I guess you just gotta buckle up and enjoy the ride.
It's I mean, I went a little cynical um in the video there, but as is
your way, but never change, Susie.
I won't change, but from a hopeful angle, because I can see it too, is like um you are taking that hot shower right now. You are thinking, look at it has the the hurt has not occurred yet. Anything could happen and the You got your
special little razor. You got the you got a different razor and you're in the hot shower.
Which prime‑time and marquee games receive special attention (Buccaneers vs Bengals, Saints vs Lions, Dolphins vs Raiders)?
Yes, it's a different um well, you know, this kind of razor didn't exist fifteen, twenty years ago, but now it does. It's wonderful. It's w it's painless. Um you know, but listen, you um Like I I I don't want to take away from the people that feel like we're a fringe team and we could surprise people. That can happen. That's happened. That's what's great about Pro football, even better than other sports, where it's like teams come out of nowhere. So you're gonna have those highs and those lows, but you're probably gonna get your ass kicked in the end. And someone that you dislike will be rooting for a team that thrives. And that's a that's to me one of the more annoying factors about sports is when someone you dislike is enjoying it more than you are.
Right. And that's it. I'm just gonna say that.
So
That's yes, that is that is uh the take of a Browns fans that suffered a lot. Um as a Jets fan, Connor, like I've suffered a great deal as well.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the overall focus of the NFL Week 1 preview episode?
0:02–0:36
2
How do Dan, Marc, and Connor bring back the draft format for this season?
0:36–0:53
3
Which early‑season matchups are highlighted first (Bills vs Texans, Commanders vs Eagles)?
0:53–1:48
4
What are the key insights on the mid‑week games (Cardinals vs Chargers, Ravens vs Colts)?
1:48–2:57
5
How do the hosts evaluate the late‑week contests (Packers vs Vikings, Jets vs Titans)?
2:57–3:37
6
Which prime‑time and marquee games receive special attention (Buccaneers vs Bengals, Saints vs Lions, Dolphins vs Raiders)?
3:37–5:49
7
What are the Blind Locks predictions and how are they determined?
5:49–6:08
8
How do the hosts wrap up the episode and preview the next show?
6:08–1:44:25