3 & Out - Bill Belichick’s Disconnect, QB Redemption Stories, and Joe Flacco to the Bengals
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iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 3 & Out with John Middlekauff, John dives into Bill Belichick’s lack of connection with his players and their families, and how that might be impacting the UNC culture. He also breaks down how several quarterbacks are finding a second life in the NFL and making the most of their careers. Plus, John reacts to Joe Flacco being traded to the Bengals and what that means for Cincinnati’s offense. Later, he explains why kickers are now playing a bigger role than ever in determining the outcome of games.
Finally, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | The volume. |
| 0:19.6 | What is going on, everybody, John Midd Middlecoff, three and out podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | How are we doing? |
| 0:24.7 | Hopefully everyone's doing great. |
| 0:26.4 | Got a big show today. |
| 0:27.6 | I do want to start. |
| 0:28.9 | I talked about this a little bit yesterday on the Monday Night Football Reaction podcast at the end, |
| 0:34.1 | but I want to dive deeper into it. |
| 0:36.5 | And listen, I was wrong about something, and I want to address it, and it'll be in, |
| 0:42.6 | revolving around Bill Belichick and the failure and the disaster that is currently North |
| 0:47.7 | Carolina football. |
| 0:49.2 | We will definitely talk some quarterbacks, Daniel Jones, Mac Jones, you know, kind of have a Baker |
| 0:56.5 | Mayfield, Sam, Donald. We've just seen a lot of resurrections around the league these last several |
| 1:01.6 | years, and I don't necessarily think it's a coincidence. And then we will also discuss the |
| 1:07.6 | kickoffs and the field goal kickers have dramatically changed the sport. |
| 1:15.2 | Like what we're witnessing now on a weekly basis is a much different game because of |
| 1:20.5 | the new kickoff rule and these guys' ability to kick long field goals than football |
| 1:24.3 | was like three years ago. |
| 1:25.8 | And then of course the mailbag at John Middlecoff, at John Middlecoff is the Instagram |
| 1:28.9 | firing those DMs, get your questions answered here on the show. And we will have a long mailbag today as well. But that will be the game plan today. So make sure you subscribe. If you listen on Collins feed, make sure you subscribe with three and out. Appreciate everyone that subscribes and listens. and if you want to watch, |
| 1:43.6 | we obviously got a YouTube channel. |
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