3 & Out - Falcons bench Cousins, Is Penix the answer, Coach vs. Ownership
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
John opens the podcast reacting to the news of the day that saw the Falcons bench Kirk Cousins and are turning to Michael Penix as their new starter. John talks about what might be next for Cousins and why the Falcons decided to make the move now. Next, John talks about the relationship between coaches and ownership, and the importance of coaches having freedom to make decisions.
Lastly, John answers your questions in this episode's mailbag segment.
5:30 - Falcons bench Cousin
32:48 - News and Notes around the league
18:31 - Coaches/GMs and owners
36:31 - Mailbag
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| 0:33.1 | Music What is going on everybody? How are we doing? |
| 0:49.9 | Probably better than the Atlanta Falcons, who just benched their $90 million quarterback Kirk |
| 0:57.6 | cousins and are going to the lefty, Michael Penix. |
| 1:01.7 | So the story broke on Tuesday night. |
| 1:04.1 | We had already recorded all the stuff with Jackson for Kauff on campus. |
| 1:08.2 | So I thought, you know, it's not, say the Cowboys or the Packers, |
| 1:12.0 | we can wait a day. And I'll give some thoughts on this situation. We have a Charger Denver game |
| 1:18.4 | on Thursday Night Football, one of the last Thursday Night Football games of the year. |
| 1:22.9 | A lot of buzz on the big guy Mike Vrabel, who is a hot commodity out there, according to the |
| 1:31.2 | internet, which makes sense, right? Belichick off the market, Mike Vrable, the number one |
| 1:36.4 | coaching candidate, him and Ben Johnson. Would he choose, what rookie quarterback, if he could |
| 1:42.3 | choose would he want. |
| 1:50.9 | Not on this upcoming class, but between Drake May and Caleb Williams, assuming New England comes open, which looks more and more possible. |
| 1:54.2 | And we will do a little Middlecough mailbag at John Middlecough, at John Middlecough is the |
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| 2:08.3 | And we will have reactions coming up to the Thursday night game, to the Notre Dame game, to all the Saturday games. |
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