3 and Out - NFL Can Avoid MLB COVID Debacle; Rough Year For Rooks; TE Market Crushing Kittle; Pederson Catches COVID; Headlines; Mailbag
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this episode, John explains why the NFL can avoid the outside the bubble outbreaks that have plagued the early part of MLB's restart, why 2020 is going to be a brutal for late round rookies and undrafted free agents breaking into the league, and why an unjust tight end pay scale will prevent George Kittle from getting paid his true value. He also looks at Eagles HC Doug Pederson testing positive for COVID, other top headlines. and answers listener questions in the Middlekauff Mailbag. Follow John on twitter @JohnMiddlekauff and go to theherdnow.com to find the latest content. Subscribe now!
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| 0:27.8 | What is going on everybody? John Middlcop, 3-in-out podcast. |
| 0:47.2 | Officially in August, football officially back all the veterans have checked in, |
| 0:53.9 | and we're off in Rowland. I'm a happy camper. I got tiger woods in the Bay Area. We got a |
| 1:00.1 | golf major. We got football starting. Baseball holding on by thread. Basketball's Rowland sports |
| 1:07.3 | are back. You know, sports are back. You know, there was, it kind of went viral on Twitter, Kyle |
| 1:12.8 | Brandt of the NFL Network. Tweeted that many, you know, sports reporters that didn't want sports to |
| 1:19.7 | come back because they were rooting for Corona. And of course, all the sports reporters got offended |
| 1:24.8 | by it. Like listen, it is a complicated subject. I'm just glad they're back. I don't have a |
| 1:31.7 | medical degree. I'm just rooting for sports. I'm rooting for those of you that listen to be able |
| 1:37.0 | to go to work and have a business. And I also want everyone to be safe. But I'd be lying. If I'm |
| 1:42.8 | pro sports, I was rooting for sports to come back and I'm glad they're back. I'll dive into what |
| 1:48.3 | the major difference though in is baseball has had some issues. And really, I mean, the Miami |
| 1:54.2 | Marlins are a joke franchise. Derek Geter gave like some explanation why I mean, he didn't take any |
| 1:59.3 | blames like bro, you're the CEO. Their team was going out strip clubs or something and had a bunch |
| 2:05.5 | of infections. And obviously then they played despite not knowing some of the results. So a lot of |
| 2:11.3 | the problems were created by the Marlins. And I know St. Louis had some too. There also been some rumors |
| 2:16.6 | that they went out and about like, you got to follow some protocols here, fellas. So I mean, |
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